How the Condiments bracket works
Condiment tier list without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Ketchup or Mustard? Mayonnaise or Hot Sauce? — and after 15 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. The awkward pairings are the point: they are the calls a drag-and-drop tier list quietly lets you avoid.
This bracket runs 4 rounds at the default 16-slot size (Round of 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship), with every one of the 16 choices in the field. The field is reshuffled on every play, so the same choice can meet a different opponent in round one and finish somewhere else entirely. You can also play it at 8 slots for a shorter or longer run.
15 picks, 4 rounds
- Round of 168 matchups
- Elite 84 matchups
- Final Four2 matchups
- Championship1 matchup
Roughly 1-2 minutes start to finish.
All 16 entrants
All 16 entrants are listed below, including Ketchup, Mustard, Mayonnaise and Hot Sauce.
Ketchup
Tomato classic
Mustard
Yellow or Dijon
Mayonnaise
Creamy spread
Hot Sauce
Spicy kick
Ranch Dressing
America's favorite dip
BBQ Sauce
Sweet & smoky
Soy Sauce
Salty umami
Sriracha
Rooster sauce
Salsa
Tomato-based dip
Honey Mustard
Sweet & tangy
Buffalo Sauce
Spicy wing sauce
Guacamole
Avocado dip
Pesto
Basil & pine nuts
Hummus
Chickpea dip
Teriyaki Sauce
Sweet soy glaze
Aioli
Garlic mayo
Would rather group them than rank them? Open all 16 in the tier list maker and sort them into S, A, B, C, D and F tiers instead — same entrants, no matchups.
How everyone else ranked them
Aggregated from 18 completed Condiments brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
Ranch Dressing
32W - 13L · won 5 brackets
71%
win rate
- 2
BBQ Sauce
24W - 15L · won 3 brackets
62%
win rate
- 3
Buffalo Sauce
26W - 17L · won 1 bracket
60%
win rate
- 4
Ketchup
23W - 17L · won 1 bracket
57%
win rate
- 5
Guacamole
21W - 16L · won 2 brackets
57%
win rate
- 6
Hot Sauce
20W - 17L · won 1 bracket
54%
win rate
- 7
Soy Sauce
18W - 16L · won 2 brackets
53%
win rate
- 8
Honey Mustard
16W - 17L · won 1 bracket
48%
win rate
- 9
Pesto
16W - 17L · won 1 bracket
48%
win rate
- 10
Mayonnaise
15W - 17L · won 1 bracket
47%
win rate
Getting a ranking you actually agree with
- 1Answer as if both options were in front of you and you could only eat one.
- 2The default run puts all 16 choices in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 8 slots — a quicker run over a random 8 of them.
- 3Undo exists for a reason: an early-round mistake propagates all the way to the final, and there is no shame in taking it back.
Condiments bracket FAQ
How many choices are in the Condiments bracket?
The pool holds 16 choices. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 15 picks across 4 rounds: Round of 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16 slots.
Which choices are included?
Ketchup, Mustard, Mayonnaise, Hot Sauce, Ranch Dressing, BBQ Sauce, Soy Sauce, Sriracha, Salsa, Honey Mustard, Buffalo Sauce and Guacamole, plus 4 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the condiment tier list take?
About 1-2 minutes — 15 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to a 8-slot bracket. It works the same on a phone as on a desktop, and no login is involved.
How does this compare to a drag-and-drop tier list maker?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other choice grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 15 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two choices that never met. If you would rather place the choices into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 16 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
How did everyone else rank these choices?
Every completed bracket feeds the Condiments community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 16 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I build my own condiments bracket?
Use the bracket maker: add your own choices, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 16 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.