Draw

The list of competitors in a tournament, indicating who will play against whom. A draw sheet is prepared not only to indicate the pairings for the first round of play, but who of those who emerge will play whom in later rounds, all the way to the finals, if they survive. If everything is to come out neatly, a normal field should have 8 or 16 or 32 or 64 or 128 players, but it's unusual to achieve that exactitude. That is why the bye was born.