Brackets
Bracket predictors for the World Cup, the Champions League knockouts, Grand Slam tennis, March Madness and every knockout tournament your audience cares about. Every round changes the standings. Every upset reshuffles the leaderboard.
How it works
Bracket competitions run in three phases. Each one is distinct. The last one runs itself.
Before the tournament starts, every player predicts the winner of every match from the first round through to the final. Reminders go out 24 hours and one hour before lock. Incomplete brackets score zero for any match left unpicked.
At the set lock time, usually kick-off of the first match, every bracket freezes at once. 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 tie.
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 called the upsets climbs. Whoever played it safe watches their bracket fall apart. By the semi-finals, the competition has its own story.
Tournaments & scale
The FIFA World Cup, the UEFA Champions League, Grand Slam tennis, March Madness 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 player 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 set up.
By default each player submits one bracket. Allow up to five per player if you want to encourage experimenting: different strategies, different levels of risk, different names. Each player's best-scoring bracket counts towards 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 tie.
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 match. One submission per player. Three weeks of drama after.
Free to start. No card needed.