Congratulations for putting up a successful tournament with 20 participating teams. That’s quite a turn out. Obviously you’re here for a printable 20-team bracket for your upcoming sports tournament.
Our thirty-two team printable brackets were created with 20 tournament teams in mind as well as single-elimination and five full stages of exciting games that will come down to one champion. Our blank tournament brackets are not only printable, but come in blind draw and seeded; the latter of which is fillable and customizable.
Why a 20-Team Bracket?
It might be because you chose 20 teams because it was a nice round number, or that’s just how many teams that signed up. A 20 team bracket isn’t ideal in terms of running the smoothest tournament, but it’s very much doable.
As we’ve preached in other posts, we recommend capping participating teams at one of the following numbers: 4, 8, 16, 32, or 64 teams. With these number of teams, so there’s no additional, potentially subjective, decisions in regards to seeding, etc. In a 20-team tournament field, we start with eight teams playing into the larger bracket. The winners of which will play the top four seeds. The teams are then play until they lose until there’s only one undefeated left.
How do I Seed 20 Team Tournament?
With a 20 team bracket, you will seed each team from the highest seed to lowest seed on both sides of the bracket. However with 20 teams, it’s not that easy. It’s essentially a 8-team bracket mirrored both two sides with four additional play in games. We created a table to help you see how to properly seeding your bracket:
| High Seed | vs. | Low Seed |
|---|---|---|
| Seed #13 | vs. | Seed #20 |
| Seed #14 | vs. | Seed #19 |
| Seed #15 | vs. | Seed #18 |
| Seed #16 | vs. | Seed #17 |
| High Seed | vs. | Low Seed |
|---|---|---|
| Seed #1 | vs. | Seed #16 or #17 |
| Seed #2 | vs. | Seed #15 or #18 |
| Seed #3 | vs. | Seed #14 or #19 |
| Seed #4 | vs. | Seed #13 or #20 |
| Seed #5 | vs. | Seed #12 |
| Seed #6 | vs. | Seed #11 |
| Seed #7 | vs. | Seed #10 |
| Seed #8 | vs. | Seed #9 |
Printable 20-Team Bracket in PDF, Word and JPG
Our printable 20-team, single-elimination bracket gives you the option to download and print the bracket in the format you want to print out and populate team names, seedings or more with your writing utensil. To download our printable blank 20-team bracket, click.
If it’s PDF you want then please download the most-updated version of Adobe Reader so you can open, view, print and edit our 20-team bracket. Click here to download. If you’re like to edit and customize the bracket, like adding in seeds, teams or logos, dates, times, and locations then please download and the Excel spreadsheet version to edit and populate your tournament’s information.
No matter what kind of 20 team tournament you’re running, our printable brackets work with every sport. Here’s a sampling of our printable sports brackets we have.
- 6-team bracket
- 7-team bracket
- 8-team bracket
- 9-team bracket
- 10-team seeded bracket
- 12 team bracket
- 14-team seeded bracket
- 16-team bracket
- 32 teams bracket
- printable NCAA bracket
- blank NCAA bracket
- March Madness bracket to print
- Sweet Sixteen bracket
As long as the tournament is a single-elimination tournament, any of the above brackets will work for anything. Here’s a list of team sports that our printable brackets will work with (in alphabetical order): baseball, basketball, football, hockey, lacrosse, rugby, and soccer The brackets even work with individual sports like tennis.
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