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Seeding a single-elimination bracket: byes, top seeds and a 3rd-place match

Single-elimination brackets look simple until you ask three questions: where do the byes go, how do you stop the top seeds from meeting in round one, and how do you add a third-place match without…

  • Byes are added by rounding up bracket size to nearest power of two
  • Top seeds avoid first-round matchups through seeded order
  • Third-place match automatically occurs without extra coding

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