8 team single elimination bracket
8 teams, 8 matches, 3 rounds: Quarter-finals, then Semi-finals, then Final. 8 is a power of two, so the bracket is perfectly balanced and nobody sits out with a bye.
Updated
- Matches
- 8
- Including the third-place match.
- Rounds
- 3
- Quarter-finals → Semi-finals → Final
- Byes
- 0
- 8 is a power of two, so nobody sits out round one.
- Roughly how long
- 1 h 45 min on 2 courts
- Allowing 25 minutes a match, courts running in parallel.
Free, and there is no account to make first. About a minute to the QR code.
No byes needed for 8 teams: a balanced 8-team bracket
Because 8 is an exact power of two (2^3), a 8 team bracket requires zero byes. Every team enters in the opening round (Quarter-finals), with 4 matches starting simultaneously.
The tournament progresses through 3 rounds: Quarter-finals (4 matches), then Semi-finals (2 matches), then Final (1 matches), plus a third-place match. With 8 matches in total, every team plays an authentic opening match, and nobody receives an artificial bye.
How the day runs
Quarter-finals (4 matches), then Semi-finals (2 matches), then Final (1 match).
A knockout round cannot start until the one before it has finished, so the finish time above is optimistic in a way a round robin's is not: the last few rounds run on fewer and fewer courts. Two courts is assumed; a single court roughly doubles it.
Before it is played
The whole bracket exists from the moment you draw it. Positions that do not have a team yet carry the label the server wrote ("Winner QF1" and so on), so it can go on a projector on the morning of the tournament and be read as a plan rather than a grid of blanks.
Common questions
How many matches is a 8 team knockout?
8. One for every team eliminated: 7 of them, plus a third-place match.
How many rounds for 8 teams?
3: Quarter-finals, Semi-finals, Final.
Does a 8 team bracket have byes?
No. 8 is an exact power of two, so all 8 teams play in the opening round (4 matches) with zero byes.