Get 10 Team 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.

As such, the number of possible outcomes for a bracket is 2^63, or 9,223,372,036,854,775,808. That's 9.2 quintillion. In case you were wondering, one quintillion is one billion billions. If we treated the odds for each game as a coin flip, that makes the odds of picking all 63 games correctly 1 in 9.2 quintillion.

10 teams in two equal pools of 5. Round robin gives 4 games per team. Games are 50 mins long or to 13 points. If time is reached, a cap of two is put in place after any running point has been played out.

Tournament format for 10 teams - Saturday 10 teams in two equal pools of 5. Round robin gives 4 games per team. Games are 50 mins long or to 13 points. If time is reached, a cap of two is put in place after any running point has been played out.

There are 68 teams in the NCAA Tournament bracket. 32 teams in the field won their conference tournament and clinched an automatic bid, while the other 36 were chosen by the selection committee based on their total body of work from this season. By the time the first round starts, there will only be 64 teams remaining.

How do you do the double-elimination tournament? Starting the second round, games are played simultaneously in both brackets. The winner of the upper bracket is going to the next round in the same bracket. The loser of the upper bracket is going to the next round in the lower bracket.

With 10 teams, there would be an odd number of winning teams advancing into the second round and that means one team wouldn't have a match-up. So the typical 10-team brackets has four rounds of games that end with a single champion.