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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The GAA championships
Both championships end in a knockout people call a bracket. Neither is a simple knockout tree from the start, and that decides what you can run.
From 2026 the Sam Maguire is a 16-county qualifier series. Round 1 pairs the eight provincial finalists with the eight other qualifiers. Round 2A splits the winners, Round 2B the losers, and Round 3 puts the 2A losers against the 2B winners. Eight counties reach the quarter-finals.
Munster and Leinster are played as round robins. The top two in each province meet in the provincial final, and third place goes straight into the All-Ireland quarter-finals. A table is not a bracket.
A county beaten in Round 1 drops into Round 2B instead of going out, and a bracket only follows winners forward. Fanzava brackets are single elimination, so the full championship cannot be one of them.
Run predictions on each round as the fixtures are set. Once the quarter-finals are set and the route to the final is known, the last eight counties are a true knockout: seven matches to the final. Our team can build that as a bracket, locked before the quarter-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 predictions, 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 competitions 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.
A 32-team knockout from the round of 32, filled in once the group stage has set it.
Predictions round by round, then a four-team bracket once the semi-finals are drawn.
128 players and seven rounds on the grass, in late June and early July.
Every Grand Slam singles draw: 128 players, seven rounds, no byes.
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 event with no subscription. Included: Full white label · Fanzava watermark removed · Brackets.
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