Create a single elimination bracket — single_elim • bracketeer

Single elimination (knockout) tournament where losing a match eliminates the participant from the tournament.

Usage

single_elim(participants, ...)

Arguments

participants: Character vector of participant names, or a data.frame with a 'name' column and optional 'seed' column.
...: Additional arguments passed to bracket constructors or tournament stage-verb dispatch methods.

Value

A single_elim_bracket object

Examples

# Simple knockout bracket
trn <- tournament(paste("Team", LETTERS[1:8])) |>
  single_elim("bracket")

# Chain after group stage
trn <- tournament(c("A", "B", "C", "D")) |>
  round_robin("groups") |>
  single_elim("finals", take = top_n(2))