How the Esports Games bracket works
Rank esports games without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — League of Legends or Counter-Strike 2? VALORANT or Dota 2? — 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 contenders in the field. Seeding is random, which means a replay is a genuinely different bracket rather than the same path twice. 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 League of Legends, Counter-Strike 2, VALORANT and Dota 2.
League of Legends
MOBA - Riot Games
Counter-Strike 2
FPS - Valve
VALORANT
FPS - Riot Games
Dota 2
MOBA - Valve
Fortnite
Battle Royale - Epic Games
Overwatch 2
FPS - Blizzard
Rocket League
Sports - Psyonix
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Fighting - Nintendo
Street Fighter 6
Fighting - Capcom
Apex Legends
Battle Royale - Respawn
Rainbow Six Siege
FPS - Ubisoft
StarCraft II
RTS - Blizzard
Call of Duty
FPS - Activision
EA FC / FIFA
Sports - EA
Tekken 8
Fighting - Bandai Namco
PUBG
Battle Royale - Krafton
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 1 completed Esports Games brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
Call of Duty
4W - 0L · won 1 bracket
100%
win rate
- 2
Rocket League
3W - 1L
75%
win rate
- 3
League of Legends
2W - 1L
67%
win rate
- 4
EA FC / FIFA
2W - 1L
67%
win rate
- 5
Counter-Strike 2
1W - 1L
50%
win rate
- 6
Fortnite
1W - 1L
50%
win rate
- 7
Street Fighter 6
1W - 1L
50%
win rate
- 8
Rainbow Six Siege
1W - 1L
50%
win rate
- 9
VALORANT
0W - 1L
0%
win rate
- 10
Dota 2
0W - 1L
0%
win rate
Getting a ranking you actually agree with
- 1Decide your criteria before you start — peak, longevity or trophies — and hold to it all the way through.
- 2The default run puts all 16 contenders in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 8 slots — a quicker run over a random 8 of them.
- 3If a matchup genuinely splits you, undo and replay it — a coin-flip pick in round one distorts everything below it.
Esports Games bracket FAQ
How many contenders are in the Esports Games bracket?
The pool holds 16 contenders. 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 contenders are included?
League of Legends, Counter-Strike 2, VALORANT, Dota 2, Fortnite, Overwatch 2, Rocket League, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Street Fighter 6, Apex Legends, Rainbow Six Siege and StarCraft II, plus 4 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the rank esports games take?
About 1-2 minutes — 15 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to a 8-slot bracket. No account is needed, and you can abandon a run at any point without losing anything.
Can I turn the result into S/A/B tiers?
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 contender 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 contenders that never met. If you would rather place the contenders into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 16 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
Can I compare my order with other people's?
Every completed bracket feeds the Esports Games 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.
What if a contender I wanted is missing?
Use the bracket maker: add your own contenders, 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.