Free printable 6 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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Six teams gives the top two seeds a rest in round one, then runs an eleven-game gauntlet where one bad night never ends a season.
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.
6 is not a power of two, so the winners bracket expands to 8 slots and 2 byes go to seeds 1 through 2. 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 10 and 11: 5 in the winners bracket, 4 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.
A six-team division playoff is where double elimination really earns its keep: the regular season's top two seeds get byes, everyone else plays in, and a favorite that slips early still has a real road to the title. It runs comfortably across one long day or two evenings.
The losers bracket at this size is four games, and its rhythm confuses first-timers: winners from the losers side alternate between playing each other and playing teams dropping down from the winners bracket. The sheet labels every slot with where its occupant comes from, so trust the labels rather than memory.
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 10 and 11. The winners bracket always takes 5 games, the losers bracket 4, 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 2. A 6 team field expands to 8 winners-bracket slots, and the 2 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.