Seeding and byes
How seeds are placed in the bracket and why some participants skip round one.
Traditional seeding
The default places seed 1 against the lowest seed, seed 2 against the second-lowest, and so on, so the top seeds can only meet in the final. Switch to List order in settings to place participants exactly as listed.
Byes
Brackets need a power-of-two size (4, 8, 16, 32…). When you have, say, 13 participants, the bracket is sized to 16 and three top seeds receive a bye — they skip round one automatically. Byes are shown in the bracket so everyone can see why.
Randomizing
Use Shuffle before generating to randomize the order, or enable Auditable draw to record the seed and produce a verifiable draw log.
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