The Cornhole Tournament Kit

Plan a cornhole tournament or league night that finishes on time: count the games, time them in waves, rent the fewest boards, seed fairly, give whole-point head starts and pay out the pot to the cent

Our bracket generator seeds a field and pads it with byes, then stops at round 1. It never says how many games the day holds, how long they take on the boards you have, or whether renting another set would finish any sooner. Our handicap calculator worked out a fair gap, then added it after the game, which a race to 21 cannot use. This kit joins the tools into one plan for the day. Twelve teams in three pools of four with a six-team playoff is 23 games; at a 25-minute slot (an example: time your own), 3 courts finish in 3 h 45 min and a fourth set saves nothing, so a $15.00 entry and $27.50 board rental leave $97.50 for prizes instead of $15.00 with a set for every two teams. Pools are dealt by the snake, scoring follows the ACO and ACL rules (no bust at 21), handicaps become whole-point head starts with the rounding stated, and the pot is split to the cent. Every figure is computed from the site's own tools; worked numbers are examples and rules of thumb are called so. While writing it we fixed three of our tools: the court planner now uses the ACO 40 by 8 foot court, the handicap is whole points, and the scorekeeper refuses half a bag. Included: 25 printable pages with a plan sheet, pool schedules, a playoff bracket, score sheets and a pot sheet, plus a personalised sheet worked from the teams, space and averages you enter in our tools.

Look inside

Two full pages from the pack, exactly as printed. Click either to read it at full size before you decide.

What is in it

• The Game Count Rule: the games each format holds and the fewest games any team plays, for 8 to 24 teams
• The Wave Rule: games divided by courts, round by round, with finish times for 1 to 6 courts
• The Fewest Boards Rule: the smallest number of sets that finishes inside your booking, and the courts your space holds
• The Snake Seed Rule: pools with equal seed sums, circle-method round robins, tie-breaks and the playoff seeding
• The Cancellation Rule: ACO and ACL scoring frame by frame, with house rules named as house rules
• The Head Start Rule: handicaps as whole-point head starts, halves to the even number, with a table of gaps
• The Pot Rule: fees in, costs out, prizes split to the cent and a break-even entry fee
• Five working pages: a plan sheet, pool schedules, a playoff bracket, score sheets and a pot sheet
• A reference table of games and waves for 6 to 32 teams on 2, 4 and 6 courts, and a quickstart
• A personalised sheet worked from the teams, space and averages you enter in our tools

The pack picks up where the free tournament bracket generator leaves off. The generator seeds round 1; the pack counts every game in the day, times them in waves on the courts you have, finds the fewest sets of boards that finish inside your booking, and seeds the pools and the playoff. It scores by the ACO and ACL rules, turns the handicap calculator's figure into a whole-point head start, and splits the pot to the cent. Keep score on the day with the free cornhole score calculator.