What Is Single Elimination? How the Most Common Tournament Format Works
One match. One chance. Lose and go home.
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One match. One chance. Lose and go home.
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Every team plays every other team. The best record wins. No bracket luck. No early exits over one bad match.
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Your best team just lost in round one. In single elimination, they’re done — packing up, heading home, spending the rest of the day bitter about a bad call. In double elimination, they drop to the losers bracket, rip through four straight matches, and meet the team that beat them in the grand final. That’s the magic of the format.
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You’ve got 12 teams, a Saturday afternoon, and a vague plan to “run a tournament.” So you Google “tournament bracket template,” download a PDF, and start writing names in boxes with a Sharpie.
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Your best team lost their opening match because their star player was stuck in traffic. In single elimination, their tournament is over. In round robin, it’s a bad start — not a death sentence.
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Picture this: you randomize an 8-team bracket and the draw puts the reigning champion against last year’s runner-up in the very first round. One of the two best teams goes home immediately. The rest of the bracket is a cakewalk for whichever of them survives.
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A cornhole tournament sounds simple. Boards, bags, brackets. How hard can it be?
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We’re building a bracket maker, so take this comparison with whatever grain of salt you think is appropriate. But we’ve spent months studying every tool in this space, and we’d rather be honest about the competition than pretend it doesn’t exist.
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