How many teams fit in a lunch hour?

Four, as a round robin: 6 matches and three games each. Eight teams is 28 round robin matches, so use a knockout plus a third-place game instead.

What if somebody cannot play their match?

Edit the team name or reorder the list — the bracket only tracks teams and scores, so replacements do not break anything.

How does the rest of the office follow it?

Paste the share link into the chat. It carries the whole bracket, needs no account, and anybody who opens it sees the current scores.

Office pool bracket

An office tournament has one hard constraint: it has to fit in a lunch hour, or in the twenty minutes after work when people are still in the building.

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Format

Seeds are spread so the strongest teams meet as late as possible.

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Teams

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Team count

Teams: 8
Bracket size: 8

Seed order

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Seeded bracket (1 vs last, 2 vs second last, …)

Seeds are spread so the strongest teams meet as late as possible.

Rethink the order? Shuffle the list at random. The draw is the list itself, so you can still tweak it afterwards.

Third-place match (3rd vs 4th)

Adds one extra match between the two semi-final losers.

1Team 01
2Team 02
3Team 03
4Team 04
5Team 05
6Team 06
7Team 07
8Team 08

Moving teams keeps first-round results; later rounds reset.

Share link

Anyone with the link sees the same bracket. No account, nothing uploaded to a server.

Everything stays editable: type your own team names, set scores and dates, then export the bracket as an image — a PNG in three sizes, no watermark.

The lunch-hour arithmetic

Four teams as a round robin is 6 matches over 3 rounds, and every player gets three games — about an hour at ten minutes a match, including the queueing. That is the format that actually fits.

Eight teams as a round robin is 28 matches, which is a season, not a lunch. For eight teams use a knockout (7 matches) plus a third-place game (8), and either play it over two lunchtimes or shorten the early matches.

The organiser problem

Nobody wants to run the spreadsheet, and that is usually what kills an office tournament. Here the organiser does not need an account and does not need to send a file at all: copy the share link into the team chat and everybody sees the same live bracket.

Open the same link on the phone at the table and enter results as they happen. Scorekeepers can be recruited by just pasting the link to somebody else.

Substitutions, latecomers and rotating pairs

Office teams change: somebody has a meeting, somebody else joins. Team names are editable at any point, so a pairing can become “Priya / Tom” without regenerating anything.

If the roster changes mid-tournament the bracket does not care — it tracks teams, not people, which is exactly the right level of detail for a lunchtime competition.

Frequently asked questions

How many teams fit in a lunch hour?: Four, as a round robin: 6 matches and three games each. Eight teams is 28 round robin matches, so use a knockout plus a third-place game instead.
What if somebody cannot play their match?: Edit the team name or reorder the list — the bracket only tracks teams and scores, so replacements do not break anything.
How does the rest of the office follow it?: Paste the share link into the chat. It carries the whole bracket, needs no account, and anybody who opens it sees the current scores.