How to Make Schedules for Tournament Brackets

The most widely known tournament brackets are the NCAA basketball tournament referred to as "March Madness." Thousands of sports fans, marginal and die-hard alike, fill out their brackets for the chance to win money or for bragging rights. Creating your own tournament brackets is part of the allure and fun of any athletic playoff system. You can design tournament brackets for college baseball, hockey, lacrosse, darts, golf and bowling. Depending on the number of participants or teams involved, you can create in the range of a 3-team and up to a 64-team bracket.

Things You'll Need

  • Microsoft Word
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Instructions

    • 1

      Open the "Crow Darts: Tournament Brackets" website. Click the link for the bracket you want to design. Your choices are to create a "3 Bracket" up to a "64 Bracket" tournament. Save the file on your computer.

    • 2

      Open the file and rename to desired appellation. Select and name the different regions or leagues that comprise the tournament. If there is only one region, naming this section of your bracket is unnecessary.

    • 3

      Enter the name of each participant or team on the left side of each region; this will be round 1 of your tournament. A 64-team tournament bracket consist of 5 rounds plus the championship. From left to right, label each column "Round 1" through "Round 5." The documents are pre-formatted so once you have listed all the teams, simply wait for the outcome. Enter the winners of round 1 into round 2 and your tournament bracket is now in full swing.