Mexicano & Americano padel tournaments – help

Americano or Mexicano?

Both are played in pairs that change every round, and every point you win counts for you alone. The difference is how the next round is drawn.

• Americano: you partner and play against as many different people as possible. Good for getting to know everyone.
• Mexicano: after each round the players are sorted by the standings. The top four play together on the top court, ranked 1 & 4 against 2 & 3, the next four on the next court, and so on. Matches get more even as the evening goes on. Round one is random (or by list order).
• Final round (optional): the same grouping, but 1 & 3 against 2 & 4 (you can change this in Settings).

You can also play with fixed teams instead of individuals; then teams rotate instead of players.

Running a Saturday, step by step

1. Get the players. On the front page the app fetches who signed up for this Saturday on tennis.ntnui.no. Press Create with these players. You can also Paste list – one name per line, or paste a whole web page or chat and use ✨ Find names with AI.
2. Check the courts. Under Players & courts, the first court is the top court. Rename them, reorder them, and give each a colour so they are easy to tell apart on screen.
3. Check the settings. Mexicano or Americano, points per match (24 by default), points for resting (half the match points by default), and how names are shown on the courts.
4. Start. The first round is drawn. Players who can't fit on a court rest this round.
5. Enter the scores as matches finish, then press Next round →. Repeat until time is up, optionally with a Final round, then 🏁 Finish.

Everything is saved as you go. Refreshing the page or going back doesn't lose anything, and Undo (or Ctrl/⌘ + Z) takes back the last change.

Entering scores

• One match: click a score on the court. Type the number and press Enter, or tap it – the other pair gets the rest of the 24 points.
• The whole round: ✏️ Enter all scores lists every court. Type one side per court; Enter moves to the next court and saves after the last one. One Undo takes back the whole round.
• Stopped early? Open Custom score in the score window and type both sides.
• Past rounds can be corrected under All rounds; the standings update straight away.

Resting, late arrivals, no-shows and substitutes

• Resting: when there are more players than places, players take turns to rest as fairly as possible and get the resting points (12 of 24 by default).
• Late arrivals: add them under Players & courts. They play from the next round and get points for the rounds they missed.
• Leaving early: pause a player (⏸) and they are left out of the coming rounds.
• No-shows: 🚫 marks a player who signed up but didn't come. After you confirm, they are left out of the rounds and get a strike (prikk) on the Tour and their player page. Nothing is sent to tennis.ntnui.no. Press 🚫 again to take it back.
• Substitutes and swaps: click a name on a court to put someone else in that place – a resting player, someone from another court (they swap), or a new player.

On a TV

Laptop mirrored to the TV (the usual setup): press 📺 TV. The board fills the screen – every court with the players' current ranks, who is resting, and the full standings – and you run the evening from it:

• E enter all scores
• N next round
• U undo
• F full screen
• Esc back to the normal view
• Click a name to substitute or mark a no-show

TV as a second screen: Settings → 🖥 Board on a second screen opens the board in its own window for the TV, while the laptop keeps the normal view. In Chrome or Edge it can move itself to the TV once you allow it to use your screens.

Players' phones

The TV board shows a QR code. Scanning it opens the live courts and standings, which update by themselves. With Players can enter their own scores switched on (📱 Live link), players can report their result from their phone.

The Tour, ratings and player pages

• Tour: results from every Saturday added up per player, with a page per week.
• Rating: an Elo-style rating from every match, starting at 1500. Beating stronger opponents gives more; a close loss to a much stronger pair can still gain.
• Player pages: each player's weeks, matches, most frequent partners and opponents, rating over time, and any no-shows.

Where the data is kept

Tournaments are saved in the browser you use and sent to the app's server so the TV, other devices and players' phones can see them. The app stores players' names and results only – no email addresses or phone numbers. Player lists are read from tennis.ntnui.no; the app never writes anything there.

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