The Bracket Maker widget offers a versatile range of bracket options that you can create on our website. Let's dive into the bracket types available and understand how to access them.
Accessing Different Bracket Types:
On your bracket editor, navigate to the Settings tab, under the Bracket Type option, choose the desired bracket type from the drop-down menu.
1. Single Elimination
A single-elimination, also known as knockout, or sudden death tournament, is an elimination tournament where the team is out of the competition after losing just one match to their opponent. There are no second chances. Winners progress to face each other in subsequent rounds until the quarterfinals, semi-finals, and the final, where the ultimate champion (winner) is declared.
An example of an Elimination Tournament - where participants face off, and only one qualifies to play against the winner from another game until the champion is crowned.
Single Elimination - Voting
Voting is a sub-bracket of the Single Elimination tournament which allows users to vote for their favorite participants. It allows you to add participants and lets your users vote on their favorite teams. Once users keep voting, the brackets will then, based on the calculated amount of votes, and the Automatic winners feature, move winners of each game to the next round until there is a final winner or a champion.
Want to learn more about how to enable and manage a voting bracket? Check the following link:
How to Create and Manage a Voting Bracket?
Single Elimination - Predictions (Pick'em)
Similar to voting, users can submit predictions and create their own brackets based on their choices. Predictions allow your users to predict which teams will win each game, and users with the most accurate predictions could be qualified for some prizes using the Automatic Prediction Ranking Calculator feature.
Want to learn more about how to enable and manage a prediction bracket? Check the following link:
How To Create and Manage a Prediction Bracket?
2. Double Elimination
In a double-elimination tournament, teams have two chances. Even after losing one match, they can proceed as long as they don't lose another. If they lose both matches, they are eliminated from the tournament.
At times, the double-elimination tournament has some benefits over the single-elimination format, where the 3rd and 4th places can be determined without matches of 2 teams that have already been eliminated from the tournament.
This example displays what a double-elimination tournament with 8 participants looks like. The participants who lost one game also have a chance to stay in the tournament as they will get two chances to prove themselves. All losers play against each other and proceed to the finals with the winners.
Double Elimination - Voting
Similar to the single-elimination voting bracket.
Detailed article about voting bracket can be found HERE
Double Elimination - Predictions
Similar to the single-elimination voting bracket.
Detailed article about Predictions Bracket can be found HERE
3. March Madness / 2-Sided Bracket
A March Madness is a type of tournament with a history dating back to the NCAA. Since the tournament was started in March and continued till April, it is called March Madness. Usually, 68 teams are playing on three weekends.
With the Common Ninja March Madness widget, you can have a March Madness with minimum participants of just 8 teams. A March Madness tournament example can be seen as follows:
To understand how a March Madness tournament works and its features, we have a dedicated tutorial for it:
How to create and manage a March Madness Tournament
March Madness - Voting
Detailed article about voting bracket can be found HERE
March Madness - Predictions
Detailed article about Predictions Bracket can be found HERE
4. Round Robin
In a Round Robin tournament, each participant plays against all others, and the winner is the one with the most wins throughout the competition.
A round-robin tournament would look like this:
5. Group Stage
The Group Stage option makes it possible to create group stage brackets.
The group stage type of tournament involves dividing participants into groups where additional rules can apply, like in the case of the FIFA World Cup, a type of round-robin tournament within each group to determine who moves to the single-elimination round.
6. Custom Bracket
For ultimate flexibility, create your Custom Brackets using the Brackets & Tournaments app.
Full information about managing custom brackets in the following article: