Fair padel Americano rounds in seconds
Paste the names, pick your courts and points. Bandeja builds a rotation where partners don’t repeat, takes scores from the courts and puts the standings on the club TV.
Set up your tournament
How a night runs
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Set up
Paste up to 32 names, choose Americano, Mexicano, Team, Mixed or King of the Court, the number of courts and points per match.
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Play
Each round shows who plays where and who sits out. Enter scores yourself, or let players send them from a QR code on their court.
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Show and share
The TV view rotates courts and standings by itself. At the end, send the table to WhatsApp or save it as an image.
Five formats, one organiser
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Americano
New partner every round, everyone scores for themselves. With 8, 12 or 16 players everyone partners everyone exactly once.
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Mexicano
After round 1 the standings decide the pairings: in each group of four, 1st and 4th play 2nd and 3rd. Games get closer as the night goes on.
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Team Americano
Pairs stay together and play every other pair once, spread over your courts.
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Mixed Americano
Every pair is one man and one woman, and partners rotate within that rule.
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King of the Court
Win and move up a court, lose and move down. The pair that holds court 1 at the end is king.
Players score from their phones Free during beta
Open a live room and print one QR code per court. Players scan it, enter the room PIN and send their score; you accept it with one tap. No accounts, no app downloads, and it keeps working on your phone alone if the club Wi-Fi drops.
A TV board nobody has to touch
Open the TV view on the clubhouse screen: the current round’s courts in big type, then the full standings, rotating every few seconds. The screen stays awake.
Ready-made schedules
Printable Americano schedules for every group size from 4 to 24 players, each built by the same engine as the organiser.
All schedulesQuestions organisers ask
How many rounds does a padel Americano have?
With 8 players on 2 courts a full rotation is 7 rounds; 12 players on 3 courts take 11 rounds and 16 players on 4 courts 15. In general a group of N players (N a multiple of 4) needs N − 1 rounds for everyone to partner everyone once. Most clubs stop earlier to fit a 90 or 120 minute booking.
What if my player count isn’t a multiple of 4?
Then some players sit out each round. With 5, 9, 13 or 17 players a perfect rotation still exists: one player sits out per round and everyone sits out exactly once. With 6, 7, 10 or 11 players a perfect rotation is impossible, so Bandeja keeps repeat partners to a minimum and makes sure nobody sits out twice in a row.
How are points counted?
Each match is played to a fixed total such as 24 points, so a game might end 13–11. Every player banks the points their side won. Standings are sorted by points, then wins (a draw counts as half), then point difference. You can give players who sit out half the match total or their own average, as a house rule.
What is the difference between Americano and Mexicano?
Americano follows a fixed rotation worked out in advance. Mexicano builds each round from the current standings, so after a few rounds players of a similar level meet. Both score points individually.
Do players need an account or an app?
No. The organiser uses this page; players only scan a QR code to send scores, and the TV is just a web page. Without a live room nothing leaves your device.
Does it work without internet?
Yes. Once the page has loaded, setup, rounds, scores and standings all run on your device. Only the live room (player scoring and remote TV) needs a connection, and changes queue up until it returns.
Is it free?
Yes. Everything is free during the beta, including live rooms and the TV view.
Guides for organisers
- Padel Americano: rules, scoring and how it works
How padel Americano works, covering rotating partners, individual points, sit-outs, serving conventions and how many rounds each group size needs.
- Americano vs Mexicano: which padel format?
Americano follows a fixed rotation, Mexicano re-pairs players by the standings each round. How each works, who each suits, and the pitfalls to avoid.
- How to organise a padel tournament for your club
A practical plan for a social padel tournament, covering courts, player numbers, format, points or time, schedules, scoring, TV standings, prizes and etiquette.
- King of the Court padel: rules and rotation
How King of the Court works in padel, with winners up and losers down, fixed or switching partners, bench rotation, scoring options and session length.
Running padel nights every week?
Everything here is free during the beta. Tell us what would make it worth paying for and we will email you when it ships.