Free Large Format Blank Printable Tournament Bracket

Large 11×17 8 Player Blank Printable Double Elimination Tournament Bracket

This is a double elimination blank bracket that is formatted to be printed on 11×17 size paper. This is a larger format than many printers can handle, but just save the file and bring it to a print shop like kinkos and they will be able to print it for you. The benefit of using the larger format is that it is much easier to read for the players and it will be much easier to write the match results and player names on the bracket.

Over the next couple of days we plan to release all of our current blank brackets in this larger format. They will be formatted for 11×17 size paper, but you can print them at even larger sizes at your local print shop, and they will retain their original quality.

If you have any questions or comments on this bracket or any of the free tournament brackets on our site, please leave your comments on any of the comment areas below each post. If you are looking for a specific bracket format that you have not been able to find, just let us know and we will create it and make it available for you to download. You do not need to register or anything in order to comment, and everyone is encouraged to leave their comments.

To download the file, just click the link below.

11×17 8 Team/Player Double Elimination Blank Bracket

8 Player Double Elimination Blank Bracket

8.5/11 8 Player Double Elimination Blank Printable Tournament Bracket

This is a high quality 8 player or team double elimination tournament bracket to print. In an earlier post I have included instructions on How to Use Blank Double Elimination Brackets and how to open and print the brackets. If you have any comments on this or other brackets on the site, please do not hesitate to leave a comment.

8 Player Blank Double Elimination Bracket

How to Use Blank Double Elimination Brackets

How to Run a Double Elimination Tournament

Running a double elimination tournament can be very confusing if you have never done it before. If you are wondering “how do i make a tournament bracket” for a double elimination tournament, you can just download one of double elimination blank brackets and either print it yourself or use it as a template to make your own.

After you have the blank bracket, you need to take all of the names of the teams or indivuals who have entered your tournament and write them on the bracket. Just randomly pick a name and place it on line 1 in the middle of the bracket. Continue to randomly pick names and place them on the next line (line 2, then line 3, etc) until all of your names are written on the bracket. When you are finished, you will need to place a ‘bye’ on each line that remains empty. In other words, some of your tournament participants will have a match against a ‘bye’. The bye moves through the tournament exactly the same way as any other player or team would, except the bye automatically loses every match. Any player with a ‘bye’ automatically advances to the next round. It is possible that you will have bye vs bye, in which case one of the byes wins, and the other loses.

Begin playing the matches, and advance the winner as indicated by the arrows on the bracket. Some matches are marked ‘loser to x’. This means that the loser of the match is moved to ‘x’ on the other side of the bracket. A player is not out of the tournament until they have lost two matches. The winner of the losers bracket (left side) plays the winner of the winners bracket in the final match. The winner of the winners side is considered to be ‘in the drivers seat’ and the winner of the losers bracket must beat them twice (until he/she/they have lost two matches). The winner of this match is the tournament champion.

Blank Double Elimination Bracket

Free Double Elimination Blank Bracket To Print

This is a sixteen team/player blank double elimination bracket. It is in a high quality PDF format and can be scaled to any size. Just save the file and you can print the bracket yourself, or you can bring it to a print shop and they should be able to print it out at any size you want. This particular bracket is designed to fit on regular Letter size paper which is 8.5in/11in. It can however be printed as large as you want without any loss of quality.

To use this bracket, once the entries are completed pick a player or team at random and write it on line #1. Put the next name on line 2, then line 3, etc until all the participants are in. If there are any remaining empty lines, write in a ‘bye’. A bye is just like a regular player except that it automatically loses every match. Anyone who is scheduled to play a ‘bye’ is advanced to the next round, and the bye is moved to the losers bracket. The bracket is also labeled to tell you how to move players to the losers bracket after they have lost a match.

16 player printable tournament bracket

Free Set of Blank Single Elimination Tournament Brackets

Printable Tournament Bracket Set - 8.5/11

This is a new set of blank brackets to print. These brackets have been designed with the idea of printing Free Blank Single Elim Tournament Bracket Previewthem on standard letter size 8.5/11 paper. The brackets are in PDF format and can be downloaded and then printed. Even though they were designed for standard letter paper, they can be scaled and printed at any size you want. Just bring the PDF to a print shop and they should be able to print at any size you want. The great thing about them being in PDF format is that you can scale these tournament brackets to any size, as large as you want, and they will maintain the same crisp, rich quality, with no ugly artifacts from scaling a regular image.

These blank brackets are perfect for any tournament or event requiring between 2 - 16 players. You can use them as volleyball, billiards, darts, soccer, chess, or free softball tournament brackets. Draw the players at random and write their names on the first lines. If you have an odd number of players, just place a “bye” in any of the remaining blank lines. The byes are the same as regular players, except for the fact that they automatically lose every match. So just advance teams or players playing a bye to the next round.

4 player bracket

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How To Use the Blank Brackets

We offer many free blank printable tournament brackets. The files are all in a high quality PDF format. This allows the brackets to be scaled and printed at any size you want. No matter how big you stretch the image, there will be no loss in quality and everything will stay nice and crisp and clean.

To use the brackets, just click the link to the file and it will automatically open in a pdf reader. You may need to download Adobe Acrobat reader which is completely free to view the files. When the bracket opens, go to the file menu and choose ‘print’. This will open the print dialog box and allows you to choose several settings. All the brackets are designed to be printed in ‘landscape’ mode, and you should scale the image to fit on the paper (this should be the default).

If you’d like to print the brackets at a larger size, just bring the pdf file to a local print shop and they should be able to print them at any size you want.