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Use this guide to decide how participants advance, how many matches to expect and which generator fits. Each link opens that format's generator in one hop.
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Free tournament bracket maker
Create a single-elimination bracket and verify the power-of-two expansion, explicit byes, seed order, rounds and resource slots before you publish it.
13 participants require 3 byes. The bracket has 4 rounds and 15 main matches: 8 first-round matches, 4 quarterfinals, 2 semifinals and 1 final. With 2 courts, the first round takes 4 slots; later rounds use 2, 1 and 1 slots.
Double elimination bracket maker
Build a true two-loss tournament and inspect the winners bracket, losers bracket, byes, seed paths and conditional reset before the event begins.
8 participants produce 14 matches before a reset: 7 in winners, 6 in losers and 1 grand final. If the winners-bracket champion wins that grand final, the tournament ends at match 14. If that undefeated finalist loses, the engine adds reset match 15 so both finalists have the same loss allowance.
Free round robin schedule generator
Generate a complete round-robin schedule for teams or individual entrants, then inspect the real pairings and resource slots before your event starts.
With 4 participants, n(n−1)/2 is 4×3/2 = 6 matches over 3 logical rounds. With 7 participants, 7×6/2 = 21 matches over 7 rounds; the added bye position creates one rest each round. On 2 courts, 3 matches in a 6-participant round occupy 2 resource slots. A two-leg 6-participant schedule is 30 matches over 10 logical rounds.
Free rotating doubles generator
Enter the players, courts and rounds available. BracketCanvas searches for a doubles schedule with balanced playing time and fewer repeated partnerships, then explains unavoidable compromises with a transparent Fairness Score.
Two doubles courts use eight players per round, so two people rest. Across five rounds there are ten rest assignments—exactly one per player if the schedule can distribute them perfectly. Partner repeats may still be unavoidable depending on the number of rounds.