The Option to fill the rest of the grid with "Freewins"
I want an option to fill the rest of the grid with freewins, if I have a 32 players grid but only 24 players.
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Rotendo commented
I personally don't like looking at 'non traditional' brackets. A 24-man bracket looks really odd compared to a 32-man bracket filled with byes. Especially with seeding involved. Say you need to seed 7 people and random the rest. There is no option to highlight or select players you want the bracket to randomize.
I actually miss selecting the number of participants available. 8, 16, 32, 64.... Why? Because if I'm running a tournament with 25 players that I either added or they signed up themselves, it gives no option to allow another player after the tournament begins. So if we have 3 people show up late, there is no way to add them in without restarting the tournament and that will not be fair to the players who have already played and won Round 1. Plus, by adding those 3 new players, you'll have to reshuffle the entire brackets.
So if we were able to select 32 max participants and only have 24 enter, not only are those 8 slots byes, but it allows to add late players, having them play players further down the bracket who initially had byes and not played yet.
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AdminChallonge (Admin, Challonge) commented
running a bracket with 24 players accomplishes this already. players who would receive a free win are advanced with a bye.
please let me know if I'm misunderstanding, though.