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title: Introduction
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# Introduction
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[Bracket](https://github.com/evroon/bracket) is a tournament system meant to be easy to use. Bracket
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is written in async Python (with [FastAPI](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com)) and
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[Next.js](https://nextjs.org/) as frontend using the [Mantine](https://mantine.dev/) library.
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## Overview of features
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It has the following features:
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- Supports **single elimination, round-robin and swiss** formats.
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- **Build your tournament structure** with multiple stages that can have multiple groups/brackets in
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them.
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- **Drag-and-drop matches** to different courts or reschedule them to another start time.
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- Various **dashboard pages** are available that can be presented to the public, customized with a
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logo.
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- Create/update **teams**, and add players to **teams**.
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- Create **multiple clubs**, with **multiple tournaments** per club.
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- **Swiss tournaments** can be handled dynamically, with automatic scheduling of matches.
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## Why does this exist?
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There are plenty of tournament systems to be found online. So why does Bracket exist?
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**Firstly**, there are **no complete open-source tournament systems to be found** [on
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github](https://github.com/search?q=tournament%20system&type=repositories). Let me know if you find
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one, I will list it here as alternative to Bracket. Furthermore, the closed-source tournament
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systems that can be found online are typically payware, and **quite expensive**.
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**Secondly**, there is a **lack of tournament systems that support Swiss tournaments**. There are a
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few that exist, but they're typically quite ancient projects. Furthermore, AFAIK the Swiss
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tournament systems that exist usually only support Swiss, no other types of tournament elements
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(round-robin, elimination etc.). That is quite a limitation when you want to host a tournament that
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starts with Swiss and determines a winner based on a knockoff (elimination) stage.
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**Finally**, I developed this project to learn more about Next.js and apply my Python (e.g. FastAPI)
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experience to a project with a real purpose.
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## Quickstart
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To get started in selfhosting Bracket, follow the steps described
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in [quickstart](/docs/running-bracket/quickstart.mdx).
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To learn how to organize a tournament in Bracket, read the [usage guide](/docs/usage/guide.mdx).
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