Consolation bracket A consolation tournament is sometimes used to determine which team or participant will finish in third or fourth place. It's kind of like a double-elimination bracket except that the participants in the consolation bracket have no chance of winning the championship.

A consolation bracket is typically used in tournaments to allow participants who lose in the main draw in the first round of competition to play more instead of having one win and they go home.

A third place match, game for third place, bronze medal game or consolation game is a single match that is included in many sporting knockout tournaments to decide which competitor or team will be credited with finishing third and fourth.

A consolation bracket, sometimes called a dropdown bracket, is a type of division format where losers from a main single elimination bracket feed in as the lose their first match. Single elimination bracket are most commonly used for the consolation bracket of a division.

The winner of the final match in the consolation bracket takes second place, while the loser of that match takes third place. Figure 4 shows an example of how the “Double Elimination Consolation Bracket Second” bracket is displayed in “Brackets” tab.

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For leagues that offer consolation playoffs, consolation games allow the “losers” to keep playing. If the commission sets aside a small amount of pool money as an award to the manager that wins the consolation playoffs, this is one way to keep everyone in the league engaged until the end of the fantasy season.