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Free tournament tools that actually run the event.
Every generator below runs in your browser: paste a team list and see the real shape of your event — match counts, rounds, byes, standings — then type scores and watch it resolve. Nothing is saved and nothing is emailed. When you want the same format to stay live for everyone else, it runs on Tournamyx Scores.
Free for up to 8 players · $9 per event beyond that · Nothing to install
By format
Start here if you know the shape.
The format decides everything else — how many matches you play, how many games each team is guaranteed, and whether you finish before the venue closes. Each page shows the real numbers for your team count before you commit to anything.
- 01Bracket generatorAny format, seeded or random, scored live from any phone.
- 02Round robin generatorEvery team plays every team — fixtures, standings, live scores.
- 03Group + knockout generatorWorld Cup format: groups that feed a bracket automatically.
- 04Schedule makerMatch times laid out across your real courts.
- 05Single elimination bracketStraight knockout — byes placed, winners advance live.
- 06Swiss generatorPairs teams on equal records each round — nobody eliminated, Buchholz included.
- 07Double eliminationTwo lives per team, losers bracket included — free in your browser, and live in Tournamyx Scores.
By team count
Start here if you know the number.
Team count changes more than it looks. Eight and sixteen fill a bracket exactly; twelve needs four byes and twenty-four needs eight, and where those byes land decides whether the draw is fair. An odd field in a round robin sits somebody out every round. Each page opens with that many teams already loaded and its own arithmetic worked out.
Single elimination
One defeat and you are out. The fastest way to a winner, and the format where byes decide whether the draw is fair.
- 4 team bracketThree matches, two rounds — and a round robin is probably better.
- 6 team bracketFive matches, two byes — plus the 6 team round robin schedule in full.
- 8 team bracketThree rounds, seven matches, no byes — the cleanest draw there is.
- 10 team bracketNine matches, six byes — the most lopsided draw of any size.
- 12 team bracketEleven matches, four byes — placed on the top seeds automatically.
- 16 team bracketFifteen matches, four rounds, no byes — the classic full draw.
- 20 team bracketNineteen matches, twelve byes — four groups of five is usually better.
- 24 team bracketTwenty-three matches, eight byes, five rounds — plan the courts first.
- 32 team bracketThirty-one matches, five rounds, no byes — court count is everything.
- 64 team bracketSixty-three matches, six rounds — a logistics problem, not a bracket one.
Round robin
Everyone plays everyone. The longest format and the only one that guarantees every entrant a full card of games.
- 4 team round robin6 matches, 3 rounds — every team plays all 3 others.
- 5 team round robin10 matches, 5 rounds — every team plays all 4 others.
- 6 team round robin15 matches, 5 rounds — every team plays all 5 others.
- 7 team round robin21 matches, 7 rounds — every team plays all 6 others.
- 8 team round robin28 matches, 7 rounds — every team plays all 7 others.
- 9 team round robin36 matches, 9 rounds — every team plays all 8 others.
- 10 team round robin45 matches, 9 rounds — every team plays all 9 others.
- 12 team round robin66 matches, 11 rounds — every team plays all 11 others.
- 16 team round robin120 matches, 15 rounds — every team plays all 15 others.
- 20 team round robin190 matches, 19 rounds — every team plays all 19 others.
- 24 team round robin276 matches, 23 rounds — every team plays all 23 others.
Double elimination
Two lives each. Roughly twice the matches of a knockout, and nobody drives home after losing once.
Before and after the draw
The two jobs either side of a bracket.
Splitting a group chat into teams comes before you pick a format, and something always has to be printed for the registration desk afterwards. Neither is a tournament shape, and both are the step people actually get stuck on.
By sport
Or start from what you actually run.
Slot lengths are what make a format work or fail, and they are entirely sport-specific — a fixture list that fits a pickleball morning needs three days of football pitches. These pages do the arithmetic with the right numbers.
The honest bit
What these tools don’t do.
Nothing on these pages is saved. Close the tab and the bracket is gone — there is no account, no database, and no link to send anyone. That is deliberate: it means you can try a format with your real team list without signing up for anything or handing over an email address.
What it also means is that these are planning tools, not event tools. The moment the first result comes in, a bracket that only exists in your browser stops being useful — you end up screenshotting it into a group chat, and then re-screenshotting it after every match.
That handover is the whole point of Tournamyx Scores: the same formats, but the draw, the schedule, the scoring and one public link are a single system. Events up to 8 teams are free, and the same engine has run a 406-team, 755-match event.
If you are weighing this up against something else, the comparison checklist lists the questions worth asking of any tournament tool — including this one.
Kickoff
Plan it free. Then run it live.
Free for up to 8 players · $9 per event beyond that · Nothing to install