Tournament bracket

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What a tournament bracket is

“A bracket or tournament bracket is a tree-like diagram that represents the series of games played during a knockout tournament. Different knockout tournament formats have different brackets; the simplest and most common is that of the single-elimination tournament.”
From Wikipedia — Bracket (tournament) — CC BY-SA 4.0

Types of tournament bracket

When to use a tournament bracket

  • Sports

    Follow a competition round by round, from the quarter-finals to the final.

  • Comparing

    See at a glance who beat whom on the way to the trophy.

  • With kids

    Kids can fill in the winners as the matches are played.

How to make a tournament bracket

  1. 1The winner
  2. 2The final
  3. 3Every round

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Questions

Why is it called a bracket?
The name "bracket" is American English, derived from the resemblance of the links in the tree diagram to the bracket punctuation symbol ] or [ (called a "square bracket" in British English).From Wikipedia — Bracket (tournament) — CC BY-SA 4.0
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