Free printable 5 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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Five teams stretches the bracket tree to eight slots, so three top seeds open with byes — and nine games is the most this tournament can take.
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.
5 is not a power of two, so the winners bracket expands to 8 slots and 3 byes go to seeds 1 through 3. Byes only ever appear in the winners side — every team that plays, wins or loses, starts in the winners bracket, and nobody begins the tournament in the losers side.
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 8 and 9: 4 in the winners bracket, 3 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.
Five-squad double elimination is a natural fit for a bar league playoff or a club night where dropping out after one bad game feels too harsh. Three teams wait through round one, and the early losers bracket immediately gives the round-one loser a path back.
Byes only exist in the winners bracket — nobody ever starts in the losers side. If a team with a bye loses its first game, it drops into the losers bracket like everyone else, so the "free pass" is only a scheduling advantage, not immunity.
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 8 and 9. The winners bracket always takes 4 games, the losers bracket 3, 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".
Seeds 1 through 3. A 5 team field expands to 8 winners-bracket slots, and the 3 byes belong to the top seeds. Byes never appear in the losers bracket — every team starts on the winners side.
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.