Snooker draw generator
Make a random or seeded knockout draw for your club tournament, with byes placed for you.
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Add at least two players.
Free for clubs
SnookerFlow runs the whole tournament: it makes the bracket, scores every match on the referee pad and moves the winners on for you.
Score the whole match free →How the draw is made
The draw is rounded up to the next knockout size (8, 16, 32 and so on) and the spare places become byes. Players are placed in the standard seeding order used in professional snooker: the top seed meets the lowest, the second seed is in the other half, and so on, so the strongest players are kept apart until the late rounds.
Worked example
With 12 players the draw has 16 places, so there are 4 byes and 4 first-round matches. In a seeded draw the top 4 seeds get the byes and go straight into the quarter-finals, where they meet the 4 first-round winners.
Playing a Shoot-Out format? Use the free Shoot-Out clock, and the points calculator for snookers required.
Frequently asked questions
- How do byes work in a knockout draw?
- A knockout draw needs 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 or 128 places. If you have fewer players than that, the spare places become byes and those players go straight through to the next round. With 12 players the draw has 16 places, so 4 players get a bye.
- Who gets the byes?
- In a seeded draw the byes go to the top seeds, the same way professional events reward ranking. In a random draw the players are shuffled first, so the byes fall to whoever lands in those places.
- What is the difference between a random and a seeded draw?
- A random draw shuffles everyone, which is the usual choice for club nights. A seeded draw takes your list in order, with the first name as the top seed, and keeps the strongest players apart: seeds 1 and 2 can only meet in the final, and seeds 1 to 4 only in the semi-finals.
- Can I redraw if I do not like it?
- Yes. Press Redraw for a fresh random draw. For a fair club draw, agree before you press it that the first draw stands.
- How many players can I enter?
- Up to 128. Put one name per line, or separate names with commas. Repeated names are only counted once.