Alex opens Excel and creates a new spreadsheet. "Okay, let's start with a basic template," Alex says. "We'll need a few columns to display the teams, their opponents, and the game results." Alex sets up the following columns:
Alex uses Excel's drawing tools to create a simple bracket visual. "This will help us see the tournament structure," Alex explains. Alex draws a series of lines and shapes to create the bracket: how to make a tournament bracket in excel
If Team A’s score is in cell B2 and Team B’s score is in B3, you can use: =IF(B2>B3, A2, A3) This tells Excel to look at the scores and automatically display the name of the winning team in the next round's slot. Alex opens Excel and creates a new spreadsheet
