Bracket challenge
Everyone fills in the same tournament bracket before it starts, and points follow the real results. Fanzava runs yours under your own brand: our team builds the bracket and records every result. Looking for an official draw instead? The links are just below.
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AFL and NRL finals
Both codes finish with a finals series people call a bracket. Neither is a simple knockout tree, and that decides what you can run.
From 2026 the top six rest in week one while seventh plays tenth and eighth plays ninth in the Wildcard Round. Week two has the qualifying finals, first v fourth and second v third, and the elimination finals, where fifth plays the lowest wildcard winner and sixth the highest. Semi-finals, preliminary finals and the grand final follow: 11 matches.
Week one has qualifying finals, first v fourth and second v third, and elimination finals, fifth v eighth and sixth v seventh. The top four get a double chance: lose a qualifying final and you still play a semi-final. Then the semi-finals, preliminary finals and grand final: nine matches over four weeks.
A team that loses a qualifying final drops into a semi-final instead of going out, and a bracket only follows winners forward. Fanzava brackets are single elimination, so the full series cannot be one of them.
Tip each week's games through the finals as the matchups are set. Once the preliminary finals are set, the last four sides are a true four-team knockout: two matches, then the grand final. Our team can build that as a bracket, locked before the preliminary finals.
Seeds, first-round pairings and the shape of the draw go up at once. Everyone picks every match through to the final in one sitting, rather than being chased week after week.
One deadline, usually minutes before the first match. Nobody sees anyone else's picks before then, so there is nothing to copy. After lock, pick percentages show how the field split.
Each result is recorded as its match is decided: from Fanzava's results feed where it carries the match, and by our team where it does not. Correct later-round picks are worth more, so a bracket that looks dead after one upset can still win.
A bracket has one deadline and almost no admin. What it has instead is scoring design.
Double elimination gives every entrant a second life but doubles the matches and produces a tree most people cannot read at a glance. For prediction, single elimination is almost always right, and it is the only kind Fanzava runs.
Fanzava scores one point in round one, two in round two and so on, with ten more for the champion. Doubling weights make every round worth the same in total. Linear keeps the opening round meaningful and lets the champion pick swing the contest.
Some pools pay extra for correctly picking a lower seed. Fanzava does not: points follow the round, not the seed, and the weighting is not set per competition.
64 teams, 63 picks, three weeks from first tip to title game.
An office or customer challenge under your company brand.
16 teams and four best-of-seven rounds each, one pick per series.
The last sixteen, with a route to the final fixed by the round of 16 draw.
128 players and seven rounds, from the Australian Open to Wimbledon.
Tip the pools, then run a 16-team bracket from the round of 16.
Knockout brackets run on Fanzava today, scored round by round, with results recorded for you. Our team builds the draw and records every result the feed does not carry.
Paid plans and a Bracket Pass ship full white label. Pro and above add a custom domain and a custom email sender. Bracket pools let an office floor or a club run a league inside your challenge.
Brackets start above the Free plan. Run them on Starter or higher, or pay once for a Bracket Pass that covers a single knockout event with no subscription. Included: Full white label · Fanzava watermark removed · Brackets.
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Free to start. No credit card.