Boards, bags, and how many teams
One set of boards is one game at a time, so the boards set the pace: 16 teams on four sets is a day; on eight sets it's an afternoon. A game to 21 takes about 15 to 20 minutes with a changeover. Use regulation boards (2 by 4 feet, 27 feet apart front edge to front edge) and two sets of bags per board, and keep a spare set for the one that splits.
Teams are pairs. A "32-player" fundraiser is a 16-team bracket, and the bracket pages count in teams.
Double elimination is the standard
Cornhole runs on double elimination: everyone gets two games, the day has a clear end, and the losers bracket keeps the bar busy. 8 teams is 14 games, 16 teams is 30, 24 teams is 46 with 8 byes for the top seeds, and 32 teams is 62, each plus a reset final if the team from the losers bracket wins the first championship game. Every size from 4 to 32 has a free printable at the double elimination pages.
For a social night where nobody should sit out early, run pools: 16 teams as four pools of 4 is 24 pool games and an 8-team playoff, 31 in all, with everyone sure of 3. A league night with 8 teams is a plain round robin: 28 games, everyone plays everyone.
Settle the rules before the first bag
Cornhole arguments are about rules, not scores. Write these down and post them:
- Play to 21 exactly with a bust back to 15, or first to 21 and over wins.
- Cancellation scoring: only the difference in a round counts.
- Who throws first: the team that scored last, or alternating.
- The foul line, and that a bag touching the ground first is dead.
- Airmail counts three like any bag in the hole.
- A time limit per game (say 20 minutes, highest score wins), so one slow game doesn't stall a board.
- Your own bags or house bags.
The rules section of a TourneyPage puts them under the bracket on every phone, so the argument ends with "it's on the page."
Fundraiser math and sponsors
Entry fees for charity cornhole events usually run $25 to $100 a team, and the payout is either a share of the pot or prizes donated by sponsors. Board sponsors are the easy ask: a logo on a set of boards and on the page that every player opens all day. A "bracket sponsor" tier, whose logo sits over the bracket itself, is common on fundraiser ticketing pages for a reason.
Collect entries however you already do; TourneyPage doesn't take sign-ups or payments. It puts your sponsors' logos and your logo on the public page, with the bracket, the scores, and the next games.
Seeding or a blind draw
Most cornhole events blind-draw the bracket, and that's fine: shuffle the team list and the bracket is the draw. If you run a league with records, seed from them so the two best teams can only meet in the final. Either way the byes go to the top of the draw, and TourneyPage advances the bye teams on its own.
How to seed a bracket covers where each seed goes.
Keep it moving
Call games by number, not by team: "Game 7 on board 2." The page shows the next games at the top, so players know they are up before you shout. One helper per board, or the winners, enter the final score from a phone through a helper link, and the bracket moves on every screen. Losers go straight to their losers bracket game number, which the page prints on their game.
Don't let the losers bracket fall behind; it has as many games as the winners side and it runs a round later. When it's down to the grand final, remember the reset: if the losers bracket champion wins once, they play again.
After the final bag
The champion and the full bracket stay on the page for the photos and the thank- you post. Next year, copy the event and the boards, rules, and sponsors are already there.