Snapdown supports several ways to organize individual wrestlers and dual teams. The format selected for a division determines how many bouts each participant can receive, which places are decided, and how wrestlers move through championship and consolation rounds.
Individual bracket families
Round robins
- Two-person best-of-three.
- Three-, four-, five-, six-, and eight-person full round robins.
- Every wrestler competes against every other wrestler in the bracket. Final places are determined from the completed round-robin standings and tiebreakers.
Standard wrestleback brackets
- Two- and four-person medal brackets.
- Eight-, 16-, 32-, and 64-person wrestleback-to-third brackets.
- Eight-person and larger brackets can be configured to place four, six, or eight wrestlers.
“Place 4,” “Place 6,” and “Place 8” describe how deep the final standings go. They do not change the main championship bracket. Deeper placement formats add the bouts needed to distinguish fifth from sixth and seventh from eighth.
Pigtail wrestleback brackets
Pigtail formats handle participant counts that do not fit a standard power-of-two bracket. Snapdown currently provides 10-, 12-, 16-, and 32-person pigtail configurations with supported placement depths of four, six, or eight depending on the bracket size. After the pigtail round, wrestlers enter the associated standard eight- or 16-person wrestleback structure and follow that structure’s crossover rules.
Pool-to-bracket formats
Pool-to-bracket formats begin with round-robin pools and then advance wrestlers into placement bouts or placement brackets. Current configurations support:
- Eight wrestlers in two pools of four.
- Ten wrestlers in two pools of five, with either paired placement bouts or placement pods.
- Twelve wrestlers in two pools of six or four pools of three.
- Sixteen wrestlers in four pools of four.
Automatic matchup formats
For events designed around a target number of matches rather than traditional placements, Snapdown also supports one-, two-, and three-match grouping styles. These are matchup schedules rather than standard advancement brackets.
Dual-team formats
Snapdown supports a single team dual, three- through six-team dual round robins, four-team placement brackets, larger 24- and 32-team single-elimination brackets, and an eight-team wrestleback format that places all eight teams.
Wrestleback crossover rules
A crossover rule determines where the loser of a championship bout enters the consolation bracket. Snapdown selects the crossover pattern independently for each bracket size; one global pattern would not produce the intended structure at every size.
| Bracket size | Selected crossover pattern |
|---|---|
| 8-person | Quarterfinal losers remain in their consolation region. Championship semifinal losers cross into the opposite consolation semifinal. |
| 16-person | Round-of-16 losers remain in their region. Championship quarterfinal losers cross in full reverse order. Championship semifinal losers remain on the corresponding side. |
| 32-person | Round-of-32 losers remain in their region. Round-of-16 losers use a full inversion. Quarterfinal losers flip within each half in a 3,4,1,2 pattern. Championship semifinal losers cross sides. |
| 64-person | Round-of-64 losers remain in their region. Round-of-32 losers use a full inversion. Round-of-16 losers flip within each half as 3,4,1,2 / 7,8,5,6. Quarterfinal losers use 3,4,1,2. Championship semifinal losers remain on the corresponding side. |
The position sequences describe bracket regions from top to bottom, not published bout numbers. Bout-numbering strategies can interleave championship and consolation rounds without changing the underlying crossover path.
Crossovers reduce or delay likely rematches, but they cannot prevent every outcome-dependent rematch. A rematch can still be correct when two wrestlers take compatible championship and consolation paths.
Reading bracket labels
- RR means round robin.
- WB-3rd means wrestleback to third place.
- Place 4 / 6 / 8 identifies the number of wrestlers receiving distinct final places.
- Pigtail means preliminary bouts feed a smaller standard bracket.
- Pool-to-bracket means round-robin pool results feed placement bouts or brackets.
Tournament directors should review the selected bracket format and placement depth before publishing matches. Once results exist, changing the structure can affect advancement paths and completed placements.