Can you run a Fortnite tournament as a bracket?

Only for 1v1 formats such as box fights or build battles. Battle royale puts everybody in one lobby, which is a points series and a leaderboard rather than a bracket.

How do Fortnite tournaments score?

Placement points plus points per elimination, added across a set number of matches. The highest total after the last game wins.

What can I use this generator for?

A 1v1 bracket for box fights or build battles, or the round robin table as a rough group tracker while you keep the placement points separately.

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Battle royale does not fit a bracket, and that is worth saying before you draw one. A bracket pairs two entrants per match; a Fortnite lobby holds a hundred. There is no honest way to express seventh place out of a hundred as a win or a loss, so a knockout cannot represent what actually happened in the game.

What Fortnite events really use is a points series. Everybody plays the same set of matches, placement and eliminations score points, and the leaderboard after the last game decides it. The round robin table here is the closest thing this tool has: use it to track a group, and keep the placement points on the printed sheet beside it.

Which format to run

For battle royale, run a points series over several matches and rank on the leaderboard rather than drawing a bracket at all. A bracket only works for Fortnite if you are running 1v1 box fights or Creative build battles, where a match genuinely has two sides.

Running it on the day

A battle royale match is about twenty minutes. A points series is usually four to six matches, so plan two hours plus the time spent filling lobbies.
Placement points plus points per elimination is the standard scoring. This table ranks on wins and draws only, so keep the real scoring on your own sheet.
For 1v1 box fights or build battles a bracket works exactly as it should. Switch to double elimination and draw it normally.
Custom matchmaking keys, not the tournament format, are the practical limit on running a large Fortnite event.

How the draw is structured

Entrants

Matches played

Rounds

Per entrant

Round by round

Round	Matches	Entrants left after it
Round 1	4	all still playing
Round 2	4	all still playing
Round 3	4	all still playing
Round 4	4	all still playing
Round 5	4	all still playing
Round 6	4	all still playing
Round 7	4	all still playing

How long it takes

Rounds run one after another, because a round cannot start until the one feeding it has finished. Matches inside a round can all run at once, so the number of lobbies you have decides the day more than the number of entrants does.

Lobbies	10 min matches	20 min matches	30 min matches
1	4h 40m	9h 20m	14h
2	2h 20m	4h 40m	7h
4	1h 10m	2h 20m	3h 30m

Playing time only. Add changeovers, warm-ups and the gap between rounds.

Questions

Can you run a Fortnite tournament as a bracket?: Only for 1v1 formats such as box fights or build battles. Battle royale puts everybody in one lobby, which is a points series and a leaderboard rather than a bracket.
How do Fortnite tournaments score?: Placement points plus points per elimination, added across a set number of matches. The highest total after the last game wins.
What can I use this generator for?: A 1v1 bracket for box fights or build battles, or the round robin table as a rough group tracker while you keep the placement points separately.

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