PadelTournament Planner
Set up a padel tournament, show the QR code, start playing.
You set up the tournament and pass the QR code around: whoever is playing scans it and is in. One tap on “Start” shares out partners and courts fairly. After each match, one of the four types in the result, and everyone sees the new standings straight away.
- Just runs in your browser Free, no app and no account needed.
- Everyone signs themselves up Scan the QR, type your first name, you’re in. No typing up lists of names.
- Americano, Mexicano, King of the Court Three formats – from a fair club night to the fight for Court 1.
- Up to 32 players on 8 courts From just four people on one court – plus a big-screen display for the TV in the hall.
or set up a new tournament
Americano: changing partners, your own points
In an Americano you don’t play in fixed pairs but with constantly changing partners. Every match is played to a set number of points – usually 24 – and each player collects their own points. So in the end it isn’t a team that wins, but the person with the best record.
That’s exactly why the format is so popular for club nights: it works with mixed levels, everyone plays with everyone, and nobody sits out half the evening. The catch used to be the paperwork – who plays with whom in round 6, and what was the score again in round 2? The planner takes care of that.
Mexicano: pairings follow the table
In a Mexicano only the first round is fixed. After that, the four leaders play each other on Court 1, places five to eight on Court 2, the next four on Court 3. With every round you increasingly meet opponents of your own level – with mixed fields that is far more fun than a purely random schedule.
King of the Court: up and down
Here the courts are a ranking, and Court 1 is the king’s court. Win your match and you move up a court, lose and you move down. Unlike in a Mexicano, only winning or losing counts, not the margin – so you work your way up court by court. Whoever is at the top at the end wins; if you are level on the same court, points decide. If not everyone fits on the courts at once, whoever loses at the bottom sits out, and whoever has waited longest moves in.
What the planner does for you
The schedule is built so that partners repeat as rarely as possible and breaks are spread evenly: between the player with the most appearances and the one with the fewest there is never more than one match. If you come with a number of players that isn’t divisible by four, the breaks rotate automatically – nobody sits out twice while someone else hasn’t sat out at all. In King of the Court this deliberately doesn’t apply: there the result decides who sits out, and the queue moves up in order.
After you create it you get a short link, a five-character code and a QR code. Whoever scans the code types in their first name and is in the lobby – without installing anything. As soon as everyone is there, the organiser starts the tournament, and the same page shows the schedule and table from then on.
How do players get into the tournament?
You no longer type anyone in. Pass the QR code around or read the code out – everyone enters their own name on their own phone and sees straight away who is already in. Anyone standing at the court without a phone is added by the organiser; anyone who made a typo removes themselves again. And if someone ends up not playing after all, the organiser takes them off the list with one tap.
FAQs
Do I need an account?
No. Neither to set up nor to join in. There is no registration and no request for your email.
How long does the tournament stay available?
7 days after the tournament ends, it is deleted automatically along with all the names. If you want to keep the final table, it’s best to take a screenshot.
Can someone still join once the tournament is running?
No. When you start, the complete schedule is built – anyone arriving after that would have no place in it. So wait until everyone has signed up, then start. As long as nobody has entered a result yet, you can reshuffle the schedule at any time.
Can several people enter results at the same time?
Yes, that’s the whole point. Each court enters its own result, and everyone else sees the new table within a few seconds. Only someone who was actually on court for that match can enter it – so no result ends up at the wrong court by accident. The organiser can enter and correct results anywhere.
What if the phone signal at the court is bad?
Entering results also works without JavaScript as a perfectly ordinary form. And once a page has loaded, the schedule stays visible – only the live updating pauses.