bracket base

The elimination rounds used a single-elimination tournament, with fixed brackets based on the ranking round seeding.

Each participant is grouped into their respective brackets based on their performance on the Qualifying Session.

Another is the balanced variant which is a bracket arrangement that is not strictly divided into two brackets based on number of losses.

Insider Higher Ed ran through the 68-team bracket based on academics and had Butler defeating Texas in the nerd tournament.

The competitors were ranked 1st to 64th based on their ranking round results and seeded into a head-to-head knock-out bracket based on this ranking.

Now American baseball players are being asked to participate in a 16-team tournament next March, with four brackets based in Asia, Puerto Rico, Arizona and Florida.

Then all teams except for the blue group would advance to a second round and are placed in either a top, middle, or lower bracket based on their performance within their group.

As Mr. Keno and his colleague John Nye tried to imagine what could have been there, they thought of the bracket bases on early Georgian dome-topped secretary bookcases, which sometimes stood on four ball feet.