Single Elimination
The classic bracket. Win and advance, lose and you're out — the fastest path to a champion.
- 2–128 participants
- Bracket-only result view
- Byes and seeding are automatic — top seeds can't meet until later rounds
Round Robin
No brackets or eliminations — every participant plays every other participant once, ranked by overall record.
- 3–32 participants
- List-only result view
- Optional double round robin ("home and away") after generating
Group Stage + Knockout
Groups play round-robin pool play, then the top finishers (2 per group by default) advance into a single-elimination knockout bracket.
- 8–128 participants
- Hybrid result view — group standings, then a bracket
- Group count and advance-per-group are configurable
Regional Bracket
The March Madness format. Participants split into named regions, each playing down to a regional champion — then the champions meet in a Final Stage bracket.
- 4–128 participants
- Bracket-only result view, spanning every region plus the final stage
- Exactly the region winner advances — not a configurable count
Page Playoff
Also called the IPL Playoff or Double Chance Playoff. A round-robin league stage, then the top 4 enter a fixed ladder — seeds 1-2 get a second chance if they lose their first playoff match, seeds 3-4 face a straight knockout.
- 4–32 participants
- Hybrid result view — league standings, then the playoff ladder
- Always exactly 4 qualifiers
Dual Meet / Series
Ryder Cup / Davis Cup style. Participants are split into two sides, and every entry on one side plays every entry on the other — never a teammate on its own side. This is the natural fit when you have two separate groups competing against each other rather than everyone in one bracket — for example, a group of friends in one city or country forming a team against a group of friends somewhere else, playing as two sides. Turn on "Matches per pairing" after generating for a multi-match series between the same two sides (e.g. a best-of-3).
- 2–64 participants, as 4-player team rosters
- List-only result view
- Any match between two full rosters can expand into an MLP-style 5-game slate (4 doubles games + a singles Dreambreaker) via the Tie Format toggle
Compass Draw
Like Single Elimination, but nobody goes home after one loss — round losers drop into direction-named consolation brackets (West, North, South, East...) instead of being eliminated.
- 4–128 participants
- Bracket-only result view, laid out as a compass grid
- Which directions appear depends entirely on participant count — derived automatically
Ladder
Participants split into courts of 4, each playing round robin. Afterward the top 2 of each court move up a court and the bottom 2 move down — Court 1 is always the top tier.
- 8–64 participants (a multiple of 4), singles/doubles only
- List-only result view
- Only Round 1 is generated ahead of time — later rounds depend on real results and are managed live