Brackets
Bracket competitions for March Madness, the World Cup, AFL Finals, Grand Slam tennis, and every knockout tournament your audience cares about. Every round changes the standings. Every upset rearranges the leaderboard.
How it works
Bracket competitions run in three phases. Each one is distinct. The last one runs itself.
Before the tournament begins, every participant predicts the winner of every match from the first round through to the championship. Reminders go out 24 hours and one hour before lock. Incomplete brackets receive zero points for unpicked matches.
At the configured lock time, typically the kick-off of the first game, all brackets freeze simultaneously. No exceptions, no late entries. Once locked, every bracket becomes visible to the whole competition. Pick distribution percentages show how the field split on every matchup.
Once the bracket locks, results are recorded as matches are decided: by Fanzava's results feed where it carries the match, and by our team where it does not. Every bracket is rescored with each one, so picks score and leaderboards update without you entering a thing. Whoever predicted the upsets moves up. Whoever played it safe watches their bracket collapse. By the Final Four, the competition has its own story.
Tournaments & scale
March Madness, FIFA World Cup, AFL Finals, Grand Slam tennis, UEFA Champions League, and more: any single-elimination draw of up to 128 teams. Our team builds the bracket from the tournament's own draw, seeds included, and records every result the feed does not carry. The scoring engine takes it from there.
Custom tournaments are supported too. Talk to our team, hand over your teams and your lock time, and we build your bracket and enter its results. The same scoring engine runs underneath.
Scoring and setup
The defaults work out of the box. Two things vary, and our team sets them when the bracket is built: the lock time, and how many brackets each participant may enter.
Later rounds are worth more. A correct pick scores one point times the round number: one in round one, two in round two, and so on, and a correct champion adds ten. Every bracket scores the same way, so there is nothing to configure.
By default each participant submits one bracket. Allow up to five per participant if you want to encourage experimentation: different strategies, different risk profiles, different names. Each participant's best-scoring bracket counts toward the leaderboard.
Nobody sees how the field has picked until the bracket locks, so there is nothing to copy. After lock, pick distribution shows how the field split on every matchup.
Every bracket competition you run inherits the complete platform layer: white-label branding, live leaderboards, groups and inter-group rivalries, Banter Board, prize administration, and CRM integrations.
Enterprise-grade security, SSO, and data residency covered on the security page.
Explore the full platform →Set up your tournament, invite your audience, and go live before the first game. One submission per participant. Three weeks of drama after.
Free to start. No credit card.