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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FA Cup and Champions League
Both are knockout cups, and people search for a bracket for both. Only one of them has a route to the final you can fill in early, and that decides what you can run.
Thirty-six clubs play one league table, then sixteen go into a knockout. The round of 16 draw sets every tie through to the final, so from late February there is a real bracket of 15 ties that everyone can fill in at once.
The FA draws each round on its own, from the third round to the semi-finals. No route to the final exists until the last four are drawn, so an early FA Cup bracket would be one you invented, not the one the cup is playing.
A bracket only follows winners forward through a draw that is already set. Fanzava brackets are single elimination on a published draw, so a cup that redraws every round cannot be one bracket from the start.
Predict the FA Cup round by round as each round is drawn. Once the semi-final draw is made, the last four are a true four-team knockout: two semi-finals, then the final. Our team can build that as a bracket, locked before the semis.
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.
The last sixteen, with a route to the final fixed by the round of 16 draw.
Predict it round by round, then a four-team bracket once the semi-finals are drawn.
128 players and seven rounds in each singles draw, over one fortnight.
The same 128-player shape at the Australian Open, Roland-Garros and the US Open.
Predict 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 tournament with no subscription. Included: Full white label · Fanzava watermark removed · Brackets.
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Free to start. No credit card.