Cup and Consolation Brackets: Give Everyone More Matches
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Single elimination is ruthless. Half your participants are gone after one match. In an 8-team bracket, four teams lose in round one and that is it — tournament over for them. If those teams drove an hour to get there, paid an entry fee, and only played 20 minutes of football, they are not coming back next year. Cup and consolation brackets solve this by splitting participants into two separate knockout brackets, so everyone gets a real competition to play through.