Free printable 8 team double elimination bracket. Type names on the lines or print it blank — no sign-up, nothing stored.
Single or double elimination, or a round robin schedule — from 4 to 32 teams. Byes are placed for you.
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Eight teams is the classic fighting-game shape: fifteen games at most, a winners side that looks like a normal bracket, and a losers side where legends are made.
The format is exactly what the name says: a team is eliminated only after its second loss. Everyone starts in the winners bracket, which advances exactly like a single elimination tree. Lose there and you drop into the losers bracket, where every game is sudden death — one more loss and the tournament is over. The losers bracket alternates two kinds of rounds: survivors playing each other, then survivors facing the teams that just dropped down from the winners side.
8 is a power of two, so there are no byes anywhere: all 8 teams open in the winners bracket, and the losers bracket starts filling only after round one.
The grand finals pit the winners-bracket champion — undefeated — against the losers-bracket champion, who has already lost once. That is why the sheet carries a second finals slot marked If necessary (bracket reset): if the losers-side champion wins the first final, both teams now have one loss, and a true deciding game is played. The winners champion needs one win; the losers champion needs two.
Total games land between 14 and 15: 7 in the winners bracket, 6 in the losers bracket, and one or two grand finals depending on whether the reset game is needed. This sheet shows the full configuration — every slot drawn, every reset labeled — so the schedule is honest before the first game starts.
Seeding works exactly like single elimination: seed 1 opens against the lowest seed, seed 2 against the second-lowest, and the pairings nest so the top two teams cannot meet before the winners-bracket final. Type the names in seed order and every matchup falls into place — or ignore seeding entirely, pull names from a hat, and type them in draw order for a true blind draw.
Every undecided line on the sheet names its source — "Winner of W3", "Loser of W5" — in the same numbering announcers and scorekeepers use. That makes the bracket self-explanatory on the wall: anyone can trace where a team goes next, win or lose, without asking the organizer.
This is the format of EVO side tournaments, Smash locals, and every "run it back" culture in competitive gaming — but it works just as well for darts, cornhole, or a company ping pong championship. Everyone gets two losses before elimination, so the winner is almost never a fluke.
The losers bracket runs in alternating waves: first the survivors of the losers side play each other, then they face the teams that just dropped from the winners bracket. Every line on the sheet says exactly which game feeds it, so a scorekeeper who has never run the format can still keep it accurate.
Fill the names in now or print the sheet blank for a blind draw — nothing you type ever leaves your browser. The page prints as a single landscape sheet with the winners, losers and grand finals regions laid out separately, so the whole tournament structure reads at a glance.
Between 14 and 15. The winners bracket always takes 7 games, the losers bracket 6, and the grand finals take one game — or two, when the losers-bracket champion wins the first final and forces a bracket reset.
The winners-bracket finalist is undefeated; the losers-bracket finalist has one loss. If the losers-side champion wins the first grand final, both teams stand at one loss — so the bracket "resets" and a second, deciding final is played. On this sheet that game is GF2, marked "If necessary".
No — 8 is a power of two, so all 8 teams play in winners-bracket round one and the losers bracket fills purely from real losses.
Yes — that is the point of the format. The team drops into the losers bracket, wins every sudden-death game there, then must beat the winners-bracket champion twice in the grand finals: once to force the reset, once more for the title.