BYE

It renders a seed inactive

• 'Adios!'

• 'Au revoir!'

• 'Catch you later!'

• 'Ciao!'

• 'Later!'

• 'Sayonara!'

• 'See ya!'

• 'Ta-ta!'

• 'Toodle-oo!'

• A seed might get one

• A top seed may earn one

• A word before you go

• Arrivederci

• Automatic advancement in a tourney

• Automatic tournament advance

• Backstreet Boys' favorite farewell?

• Bit of scheduling luck at a tournament

• Bon voyage!

• Brief adieu

• By the

• Chat ender

• Ciao, here

• Closing word

• Competition pass

• Competitive edge

• Court break for Zina Garrison, e.g.

• Cricket term

• Day off at the tourney

• Departure announcement

• Don't let the door hit you on the way out, but nicer

• Doubled, a remark to birdie

• Draw in a tourney

• Early round pass

• Easiest victory

• Easy round

• Exemption

• Exit line

• Exiter's exclamation

• Famous last word?

• Farewell

• Farewell salutation

• First-round pass

• Football player's week off

• Free pass to the next round

• Free pass to the second round

• Free pass, in sports

• Free pass, of sorts

• Free ride in a tennis tournament.

• Free ride, in a tournament

• Free round

• Free round in a tournament

• g2g follower

• Golf term

• Good ending?

• I'm out

• I'm outta here!

• It may be said at a parting

• Last word

• Last word in telecommunications?

• Last word, often

• Later, dude!

• Luck of the draw?

• Lucky draw

• Nicer Good riddance

• Off week in the playoffs

• Oft-reduplicated parting word

• Ominous Elliot Smith song

• One third of an 'N Sync hit

• One third of an 'N Sync title

• One-third of an 'N SYNC hit

• Parting remark

• Parting word

• Pass to round two

• Pass, of a sort

• Peace

• Perk for a top seed

• Play-off edge

• Preferential status, in sports

• See ya! Woultin' wanna be ya!

• See you later

• Seed's free pass

• Seeded player's delight

• Seeded player's freebie

• Short farewell

• Side issue

• So ___, Miss American Pie (repeated lyric)

• So long

• Sports award?

• Sports pass

• Succinct farewell

• Terse ta-ta

• The last word?

• Top seed's reward

• Top seed's reward, perhaps

• Tournament break

• Tournament edge

• Tournament exemption

• Tournament freebie

• Tournament helper

• Tournament pass

• Tournament term

• Tourney pass

• TTYL

• Unplayed hole in golf match

• Walkover in a tournament

• When doubled, a remark to birdie

• Word accompanying a wave

• WORD BEFORE HANGING UP

• Word in the title of an Everly Brothers hit

• You can go now

• You need one to skip a round

• You advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent

• A farewell remark