Cornhole bracket maker
Cornhole Tournament Bracket
Type your teams and build a double elimination bracket, the format almost every cornhole tournament runs. Everyone follows it live on their phone or on a TV by the boards. Running a different game? The bracket maker takes anything.
- Double elimination by default: out after two losses
- Seeded or blind draw, byes placed for you
- Add teams up to 64, free
8-team bracketno byes · 14 matches
- v 8
- v 7
- v 6
- v 5
- v 4
- v 3
- v 2
- v 1
Format
Seeding
Free, no account needed. Blank slots become “Team 1”, “Team 2”… and you can rename them in the editor.
How Cornhole Tournaments Are Run
Three decisions shape the day. Make them before anyone signs up, and put them on the flyer.
Double or single elimination
Double elimination gives every team at least two games and lets a team that loses early fight back through the losers bracket. Single elimination halves the games; use it when the venue is booked for two hours, not the afternoon.
Bring your partner, or blind draw
Fixed teams suit fundraisers and tailgates, where friends sign up together. Blind draw pairs strangers at random each week and is the norm for bar leagues; the random team generator does the draw in front of everyone.
Straight to a bracket, or pools first
With 20 or more teams, some events play a few pool games first and seed the bracket from the pool standings, so everyone throws plenty of bags. A round robin runs the pools; this page runs the bracket.
How Many Games, How Many Boards
A game to 21 takes 15 to 20 minutes with a changeover. Double elimination needs two games for every team, less two, and the later rounds can only run one or two at a time, so the organizer's real question is how many sets of boards to borrow.
One set of boards per four teams keeps the first rounds moving. More than that mostly sits idle once the bracket narrows. If the grand final is a reset (the losers-bracket team wins the first one), add one more game.
| Teams | Games | Sets of boards | Takes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 14 | 2 | about 2½ hours |
| 16 | 30 | 4 | about 3 hours |
| 24 | 46 | 6 | about 3½ hours |
| 32 | 62 | 8 | about 4 hours |
Rough figures, before a grand-final reset. Single elimination is one game fewer than the number of teams.
Scoring Rules to Agree On
Most arguments at a cornhole tournament are about scoring, not the bracket. Post the rules at the check-in table.
- 3 points in the hole, 1 on the board
- A bag that ends on the board's surface is 1; a bag through the hole is 3. Bags touching the ground count nothing.
- Cancellation scoring
- Each round, only the difference counts: 7 against 4 scores 3 for the first team. It keeps games short and close.
- First to 21
- The usual tournament rule is 21 or more at the end of a round wins. Some backyard games play a bust rule, dropping a team that goes over; decide before round one.
- Finals format
- Many events play the final, or both grand finals, as best of three. Say so up front so the last game does not start an argument.
Scoring a single game on a phone or tablet? The scoreboard maker has a cornhole mode with 1 and 3 point buttons.
Frequently Asked Questions
Double elimination, for almost every backyard, bar or fundraiser event. A team is out after its second loss, so nobody drives across town to play one game, and a bad draw in round one does not decide the day. Single elimination is the choice when you are short on time or boards; it needs about half as many games.
Two games for every team, minus two: 14 for 8 teams, 30 for 16 teams, 62 for 32 teams. Add one more if the grand final goes to a reset, which happens when the team coming up from the losers bracket beats the unbeaten team. Single elimination is one game fewer than the number of teams.
Players sign up alone and partners are drawn at random, so a new player can end up with the best thrower in the room. It is the standard format for weekly bar leagues. Draw the pairs with the random team generator, then build the bracket from the teams it makes.
Seed it if you know who the strong teams are, so they cannot knock each other out in round one; type them strongest first and the bracket places them. Choose Random draw when nobody knows anyone's level, or when seeding would only start an argument. Either way, byes go to the top seeds when the number of teams is not a power of two.
Plan on about 20 minutes a game including changeovers. A 16 team double elimination bracket on four sets of boards runs about three hours; eight teams on two sets of boards about two and a half. Late rounds cannot run side by side, so extra boards help most early on.
Yes. The printable bracket page prints a blank bracket for 4 to 32 teams on one landscape sheet, byes marked. For a bracket with names and results filled in, build it here and print from the bracket's Export menu after each round.
Share the bracket's link, or put it on a TV by the boards. It updates the moment a score is entered, so teams can see who they play next and which games are still running without crowding the organizer's table.
Yes, for up to 64 teams, with double elimination, the live link and the TV view included. No account is needed to build one.
Printing it instead?
Print a blank bracket for 4 to 32 teams on one sheet, byes marked, or build it online and share the link.
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