diff --git a/app/features/tournament-bracket/components/Bracket/PlacementsTable.tsx b/app/features/tournament-bracket/components/Bracket/PlacementsTable.tsx
index ed603388b..77b003ccc 100644
--- a/app/features/tournament-bracket/components/Bracket/PlacementsTable.tsx
+++ b/app/features/tournament-bracket/components/Bracket/PlacementsTable.tsx
@@ -164,9 +164,17 @@ export function PlacementsTable({
 					const overridenDestinationBracket = overridenDestination
 						? bracket.tournament.bracketByIdx(
 								overridenDestination.destinationBracketIdx,
-							)!
+							)
 						: undefined;
 
+					const key = () => {
+						if (overridenDestinationBracket === null) {
+							return "null";
+						}
+
+						return overridenDestinationBracket?.idx;
+					};
+
 					return (
 						<tr key={s.team.id}>
 							<td>
@@ -221,7 +229,7 @@ export function PlacementsTable({
 							) : null}
 							<td>{team?.seed}</td>
 							<EditableDestination
-								key={overridenDestinationBracket?.idx}
+								key={key()}
 								source={bracket}
 								destination={dest}
 								overridenDestination={overridenDestinationBracket}
@@ -249,7 +257,7 @@ function EditableDestination({
 }: {
 	source: Bracket;
 	destination?: Bracket;
-	overridenDestination?: Bracket;
+	overridenDestination?: Bracket | null;
 	possibleDestinations: Bracket[];
 	allMatchesFinished: boolean;
 	canEditDestination: boolean;
@@ -273,9 +281,10 @@ function EditableDestination({
 		);
 	};
 
-	const possibleDestinations = !destination
-		? (["ELIMINATED", ..._possibleDestinations] as const)
-		: _possibleDestinations;
+	const possibleDestinations = [
+		"ELIMINATED",
+		..._possibleDestinations,
+	] as const;
 
 	if (editingDestination) {
 		return (
@@ -325,7 +334,7 @@ function EditableDestination({
 				<td className="text-theme font-bold">
 					<span>→ {overridenDestination.name}</span>
 				</td>
-			) : destination ? (
+			) : destination && overridenDestination !== null ? (
 				<td
 					className={clsx({
 						"italic text-lighter": !allMatchesFinished,
diff --git a/app/features/tournament-bracket/core/Tournament.test.ts b/app/features/tournament-bracket/core/Tournament.test.ts
index 80358395e..01f322edd 100644
--- a/app/features/tournament-bracket/core/Tournament.test.ts
+++ b/app/features/tournament-bracket/core/Tournament.test.ts
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ describe("Bracket progression override", () => {
 		).toBeFalsy();
 	});
 
-	it("ignores -1 override (used to indicate no progression)", () => {
+	it("destinationBracketIdx = -1 eliminates the team", () => {
 		const tournament = new Tournament({
 			...SWIM_OR_SINK_167([
 				{
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ describe("Bracket progression override", () => {
 			11,
 		);
 		expect(tournament.brackets[2].participantTournamentTeamIds).toHaveLength(
-			11,
+			10,
 		);
 		expect(tournament.brackets[3].participantTournamentTeamIds).toHaveLength(
 			11,
diff --git a/app/features/tournament-bracket/core/Tournament.ts b/app/features/tournament-bracket/core/Tournament.ts
index 5ca24db5b..51dfadda9 100644
--- a/app/features/tournament-bracket/core/Tournament.ts
+++ b/app/features/tournament-bracket/core/Tournament.ts
@@ -274,27 +274,31 @@ export class Tournament {
 				allRelevantMatchesFinished = false;
 			}
 
-			const excludedOverridenTeams = sourcedTeams.filter(
+			// exclude teams that would be going to this bracket according
+			// to the bracket progression rules, but have been overridden
+			// by the TO to go somewhere else or get eliminated (in the case of destinationBracketIdx = -1)
+			const withOverriddenTeamsExcluded = sourcedTeams.filter(
 				(teamId) =>
 					!this.ctx.bracketProgressionOverrides.some(
 						(override) =>
 							override.sourceBracketIdx === source.bracketIdx &&
 							override.tournamentTeamId === teamId &&
-							// "no progression" override
-							override.destinationBracketIdx !== -1 &&
-							// redundant override
 							override.destinationBracketIdx !== bracketIdx,
 					),
 			);
 
-			teams.push(...excludedOverridenTeams);
+			teams.push(...withOverriddenTeamsExcluded);
 		}
 
 		const teamsFromOverride: { id: number; sourceBracketIdx: number }[] = [];
 		for (const source of sources) {
 			for (const override of this.ctx.bracketProgressionOverrides) {
-				if (override.sourceBracketIdx !== source.bracketIdx) continue;
-				if (override.destinationBracketIdx !== bracketIdx) continue;
+				if (
+					override.sourceBracketIdx !== source.bracketIdx ||
+					override.destinationBracketIdx !== bracketIdx
+				) {
+					continue;
+				}
 
 				teamsFromOverride.push({
 					id: override.tournamentTeamId,