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20-player single elimination bracket

A 20-player single elimination bracket has 19 matches over 5 rounds. One loss and a player is out. The same bracket works for 20 teams.

Players
20
Places in the bracket
32
Byes
12
Matches
19
Rounds
5
Most matches one player can play
5
The sheet prints on its own, without the rest of this page.

Bracket

  1. Round 1

    M1
    Seed 16
    Seed 17

    Winner to M5 · Loser is out

    M2
    Seed 13
    Seed 20

    Winner to M7 · Loser is out

    M3
    Seed 15
    Seed 18

    Winner to M9 · Loser is out

    M4
    Seed 14
    Seed 19

    Winner to M11 · Loser is out

  2. Round 2

    M5
    Seed 1
    Winner of M1

    Winner to M13 · Loser is out

    M6
    Seed 8
    Seed 9

    Winner to M13 · Loser is out

    M7
    Seed 4
    Winner of M2

    Winner to M14 · Loser is out

    M8
    Seed 5
    Seed 12

    Winner to M14 · Loser is out

    M9
    Seed 2
    Winner of M3

    Winner to M15 · Loser is out

    M10
    Seed 7
    Seed 10

    Winner to M15 · Loser is out

    M11
    Seed 3
    Winner of M4

    Winner to M16 · Loser is out

    M12
    Seed 6
    Seed 11

    Winner to M16 · Loser is out

  3. Quarter-finals

    M13
    Winner of M5
    Winner of M6

    Winner to M17 · Loser is out

    M14
    Winner of M7
    Winner of M8

    Winner to M17 · Loser is out

    M15
    Winner of M9
    Winner of M10

    Winner to M18 · Loser is out

    M16
    Winner of M11
    Winner of M12

    Winner to M18 · Loser is out

  4. Semi-finals

    M17
    Winner of M13
    Winner of M14

    Winner to M19 · Loser is out

    M18
    Winner of M15
    Winner of M16

    Winner to M19 · Loser is out

  5. Final

    M19
    Winner of M17
    Winner of M18

    Winner takes the title · Loser is out

How to read the sheet

Matches are numbered in a playing order. Each slot says who plays there: a seed, or the winner or loser of an earlier match. Under each match, the sheet says where its winner and its loser go next. Write the names beside the seeds and the scores in the boxes.

Byes

20 players fill a bracket of 32 places, so 12 places are byes. Byes go to the top seeds: seeds 1 to 12 start in round 2. A bye is not a match and not a loss.

How many matches

Every match puts one player out, and every player except the champion goes out, so 20 players need 20 − 1 = 19 matches.

Run this bracket live

The Bida Nào organizer console draws this same bracket, and any field from 2 to 128 players, with byes to the top seeds. Players score their matches from the table in the app, and the bracket updates itself. Running a tournament is free at any size. You can also add a match for third place.

Run it free in the organizer console →