Creating a tournament bracket in Google Sheets involves a few steps to set up the structure and format it appropriately. Here's a simple guide to help you get started:
Determine how many teams or participants will be in your tournament. The number of participants will dictate the structure of your bracket. For simplicity, let's assume a single-elimination tournament with 4 teams.
Open Google Sheets and create a new spreadsheet. Enter the names of the teams by merging two cells and placing each name in every other row to leave space for the next rounds.
Label the columns with the corresponding rounds, and so on, depending on the number of rounds your tournament will have. For simplicity, let's stick with two rounds.
Use the cell borders tool to create the visual lines that connect the teams in the bracket. For each pair, you will draw lines connecting to the next round.
Below is an example of what your spreadsheet might look like:
As the tournament progresses, you can input the winners of each matchup into the merged cells in the next round's column. Continue this process until the final winner is determined and placed in the last column.
This is just a basic guide to get you started. Feel free to customize your tournament bracket in Google Sheets using its various formatting options!
We hope that this article has helped you and given you a better understanding of how to make a tournament bracket in Google Sheets. If you enjoyed this article, you might also like our articles on how to unpivot a table in Google Sheets and how to set up a ForEach loop in Google Sheets.
