Your club’s tournaments, from sign-up to result picture

• Send a request

  Under Tournaments in the web portal, or in the app under Cup in Denmark, Germany and Austria, tap “Set up your centre”, enter the club’s name and country and send the request. Once PadelRanks has approved it, you are the organiser and are told in the app.

• Is your centre there already?

  If you type a name that exists, the app shows that centre, and you can tap “Ask for access” instead. The request goes to the centre’s organisers.

• Getting started

  A new centre gets a checklist on the Dashboard: the first tournament (americano is the easiest), demo players, the big screen button and the join code. Outside Denmark there is a fifth step: start Find a Match in your town.

• Dashboard

  The organiser’s page, with one card per centre: tournaments, this week’s programme, members, regular players, standings and club ranking, sponsors, the club screen, the join code and the organisers. It is in the app and in the web portal.

• More than one organiser

  An organiser can make other members of the centre organisers. Each tournament is run by the organiser who created it, and the others can see it.

• Name, country and organisers

  To change the centre’s name or country, or to remove an organiser, write to kontakt@padelranks.online, and PadelRanks does it.

• Seven formats

  Americano and mexicano, both also with a fixed partner, plus knockout, group play and groups + knockout.

• Sizes

  Knockout for 4, 8, 16, 32 or 64 teams, with empty places as byes, and group play for 4 to 16 teams. Americano and mexicano for 4 to 40 players or 3 to 20 pairs, and groups + knockout with 2 to 8 groups of 3 to 8 teams.

• The tournament’s details

  A name, the day and start time, an optional sponsor shown as “Sponsored by …” above the draw, and a text about the tournament, such as food and parking, that everyone signed up can read.

• Who can find it

  “Everyone” lists the tournament for everyone in your country who is signed in, “Members only” for your centre’s members, and “Code only” hides it from everyone without the code until it is full or started. Americano and mexicano are never listed for everyone.

• On time or to points

  Rounds are played on minutes or to 12, 16, 18, 21, 24 or 32 points. Played to points, the organiser enters one side’s points and the app works out the other.

• Courts and rounds

  By default there is one court per four players, but you can choose, and a line shows how many rounds each player gets and roughly how long it takes. Courts can have names, shown in the round and on the club screen.

• Counts on the club ranking

  Switch it on for a tournament, and its matches move points on the club ranking when it is finished.

• Create again

  Copies a tournament with its format, size, courts, court names, time, sponsor, description and visibility. The date becomes the same weekday next time, and you check the day and time before you save.

• Demo players

  Fill a tournament with demo players, pairs or teams and run a round to try the format. They count only in that tournament.

• Dates per round

  In knockout and group play you can fix the day a round is played and leave others open, so a tournament can run over several weeks.

• Change it later

  The name, dates, details and settings can be changed after the tournament is created. The format cannot, and the size cannot after the draw.

• Draw and start

  “Draw and start” closes the sign-up. A tournament that is not full can still be played.

• Americano and mexicano run themselves

  The app puts the players on courts with a new partner each round, in mexicano by the standings, and shares out the sit-outs fairly. Players with the app see their court, and when the last round is entered, the tournament ends by itself.

• Round clock and alarm

  The organiser starts the clock, and when the time is up, the organiser’s phone rings, even with the app closed, and again after 30, 60 and 90 seconds. “Stop the alarm” in one place stops it everywhere, also when the round was started in the web portal.

• More or fewer courts

  The number of courts can be changed while the tournament runs and applies from the next round.

• Knockout as a list or a bracket

  In the app a knockout shows as a list or a bracket, matches can be put on named courts, and they are played best of three sets with a match tiebreak to 10. If you change a result that later rounds build on, those rounds are cleared.

• Players enter results

  In knockout and group play, players linked to an entry can enter their match result. After that only the organiser can change it.

• Match chat

  The players in a knockout or group match can write to each other and agree a time and place, and the organiser can read along. The thread closes when the match is played.

• Group play

  Everyone plays everyone, and a win gives 3 points. On equal points, sets decide, then games.

• Who goes through

  In groups + knockout, 1 to 3 go through from each group, plus the best of those just behind. The app suggests the qualifiers in seed order, and the organiser can move or swap teams before confirming.

• Finish, undo and cancel

  “Finish the tournament” makes the standings final, and “Undo the draw” opens the sign-up again. Cancelling tells everyone signed up and cannot be undone.

• One button for the next step

  At the top of a tournament, the next action is one big button, such as share, start, next round or big screen. The rest is under “More”.

• The big screen button

  “Big screen” at the top of a tournament opens the live board on the phone, for AirPlay for instance, or shares the link for the club TV.

• During a tournament

  The americano board shows courts, the round clock, sit-outs and standings, a knockout shows as a list or a bracket, and group play as tables. A QR code lets players sign up or follow along in the app.

• Between tournaments

  The screen turns through the pages you pick, such as this week, club standings, club ranking, player of the month, streaks, rivalries, club records and upcoming tournaments. When a tournament starts, it takes over the screen by itself.

• Screen settings

  You choose the seconds per page, how many days this week covers and what it shows. Changes reach the screen within about 20 seconds, and “New link” makes the old one stop working.

• QR code for members

  Every page between tournaments carries a QR code, so players can join the club in the app.

• Sponsor logos on the screen

  Your centre’s up to four sponsor logos sit at the foot of the screen between tournaments and, if you like, under the live standings.

• Court board

  If your centre uses Padelmates, an extra screen link shows every court as taken or free now and next, refreshed every minute. You choose whether the courts stand under or beside each other, and whether PadelRanks tournaments are included.

  With Padelmates (Europe)

Setting up a TV

• Club standings

  Every finished americano and mexicano counts in standings per format that are kept for good. The period runs from All time down to 2 weeks, and members see the same table.

• Club ranking

  Matches from tournaments that count on the club ranking move points across formats. Everyone starts at 1000, regulars without the app are included, and “How the points are counted” explains the rest.

• My statistics

  Every player sees their tournaments, their place in the centre’s standings and on the club ranking, tournaments and matches won, and their average place.

• Club statistics in the web portal

  A table of everyone who has played americano or mexicano at your centre, with wins, top 3 finishes, games %, places and partners, and a table of form and streaks. Both can be shown for the period you pick.

  Web portal only

• Result pictures

  After an americano, mexicano, knockout or groups + knockout, the organiser shares ready-made pictures with your centre’s logo and sponsors: podium, table and the tournament’s numbers, or winners, final and semi-finals. They can be shared in one go, saved to Photos or downloaded as PNG in the web portal.

• My tournament

  Every player in an americano or mexicano can share their own card with their place, points, best round, best partner and place on the club ranking.

• Text for Facebook and Instagram

  Under the result pictures, the app writes a ready post from the tournament’s numbers, short or long, in Danish, English or German. You can edit it and copy it, and PadelRanks never posts anything.

• This week’s programme

  A picture of several pages with the week at your centre: your own tournaments, and in Denmark, Germany and Austria also activities from Padelmates or Matchi, plus the Lunar matches and DPF tournaments at the hall for Danish centres or the club’s Rankedin events for German and Austrian centres. It carries your logo and up to four sponsors.

• Typed names become regulars

  A name the organiser types into an americano or mexicano becomes one of your centre’s regular players and counts from then on in the club standings and on the club ranking. Two with the same name get a tag.

• Entries by phone or on paper

  The organiser adds entries as teams, pairs or players and can link a profile, so the player can enter results.

• Regulars on the Dashboard

  The organiser can create, rename, tag, archive, delete and restore regular players.

• From a name to a profile

  When a regular gets the app and joins the centre, the organiser links the name to the profile, and the tournaments and statistics move along.

• “That is me”

  A player can pick their typed name in the standings. The organiser is told and says yes or no, and the player gets the answer.

• Sign-up in the app

  Players sign up alone, as a pair or as a team, and pick their partner in the app or type the name. They sign in with Apple or Google and must be at least 16.

• Waiting list

  When a tournament is full, the next players go on a waiting list and move up by themselves with a notification. The organiser sees the order, and at the draw those still waiting are told.

• Share the tournament

  A ready text with a link, and the code if the tournament is hidden. The button shows how many have signed up.

• The join code

  Every centre has a code that can be copied and shared. “New code” stops the old one without removing current members.

• QR code for members

  The Dashboard shows a QR code that opens the app with the code filled in when it is scanned with the camera.

• Welcome message

  A ready text for your players with the code and a link, for you to pass on.

• One code field

  Players type every code in the same place, under “Code” in the menu: centre, tournament, training team and invitations.

• The member list

  The organiser sees each member, when they joined, and their tournaments, wins and games at the centre. A member can be removed.

• What members see

  For a member, your centre’s tournaments come first under Cup, split into In progress, Today, Coming up and Recently finished, and the club ranking and standings appear.

• New tournament

  When you put up a tournament, your centre’s members are told the day, time and number of places. A tournament for “Everyone” also reaches those who have played at your centre before, and “Code only” sends nothing.

• The day before

  Everyone signed up and the organiser get a reminder, and the organiser’s shows how many have signed up.

• To players during the tournament

  In knockout and group play, players are told when the tournament starts, when they are through and when there is a new message in their match, but not once they are knocked out. When it is over, everyone signed up hears who won.

• Americano and mexicano

  Here players get no notification when the tournament starts or ends, because they are in the hall watching the club screen.

• To the organiser

  The organiser is told when the tournament is full, when the groups are done, the day before with the number signed up, when the round alarm rings, and when someone asks for access or sends “That is me”.

• Cancelling and the waiting list

  If a tournament is cancelled, everyone signed up is told, with the date, including the waiting list. Players who move up from the waiting list, or did not get a place, are told too.

• Padelmates tournaments to members

  If your centre uses Padelmates, the organiser can pick one of the club’s tournaments there in the next 14 days and send your members a notification. It can go out at most twice per tournament and three times a day per centre, and a tap opens Padelmates.

  With Padelmates (Europe)

• Players decide

  In Settings, players can switch off Cup notifications, “News from your centres” and training messages. All are on from the start.

• Create a team

  Anyone signed in can create one training team with a name and town. They become its admin at once and get a code for the players.

• The team’s admin page

  The code and a new code, the team list, more admins and removing members, all in one place.

• Sessions and matches

  An activity has a day and time, a meeting time, place, note, reply deadline, number of places and a waiting list, and can repeat weekly for 2 to 12 weeks. Reminders go to those who have not replied and to those who are coming.

• Replies and declines

  Members accept, go on the waiting list and move up with a notification, or decline with a reason that only admins see.

• Team messages

  Everyone writes, or admins only, and before a message is sent, it says how many people it reaches. Messages are kept for 6 months.

• Matches in training

  Four players on sides A and B with a court and a note, results in sets, a match chat and a table with points, rating and head-to-head.

• Training notifications

  Notifications go out for invitations, moving up, cancellations and reminders, and for matches that are created, full, cancelled or given a result.

• Link your systems

  Under This week’s programme, the organiser links your Padelmates clubs or Matchi venues. Danish centres also link their Lunar club and the DPF calendar’s spellings, German and Austrian centres their Rankedin organisation, and the pictures, the club screen and the notifications use what you pick.

• Fetch from Padelmates

  An activity in the next 14 days becomes a tournament with its name, day, time, courts and the players signed up. An open tournament can also be filled from there.

  With Padelmates (Europe)

• Free courts on the week picture

  In the web portal you can fetch the week’s free 1½- and 2-hour courts from Padelmates and put them on the week picture, one time or a whole day at a time.

  Web portal onlyWith Padelmates (Europe)

• Logo from Padelmates or Matchi

  Your centre’s logo is fetched from Padelmates or Matchi, or you upload your own. It appears on the pictures and on the club screen.

• Activities from Matchi

  Matchi activities go on the week picture and the club screen just like activities from Padelmates.

• Your club’s Rankedin events

  German and Austrian centres link their Rankedin organisation, and its events go on the week picture.

  Germany and Austria

• Club in the Lunar League

  A page per Danish club with PadelRanks’ club index, the weekend’s Lunar results with a short text and a picture to share, league matches at the hall and all the club’s teams. No player names and no predictions.

  Danish centres only

• The weekend in Lunar on the screen

  A page on the club screen with the club’s Lunar results from the weekend.

  Danish centres only

• Lunar teams in the web portal

  All your teams in the Lunar League on one page, with division, pool, place, matches and the next match.

  Danish centres onlyWeb portal only

• Everything on the computer

  The organiser has Dashboard, Tournaments, Club statistics, Club screen, Club standings, This week’s programme, My statistics and Settings, plus Notifications with Padelmates and Lunar teams for Danish centres.

• Sign in with your phone

  Scan the QR code on the computer with your phone’s camera and confirm in the app. The code is valid for 5 minutes and only once, so the organiser needs the app first.

• Safe on a shared computer

  Without the tick at “Stay signed in on this computer”, the portal signs out when the browser closes, and signing out on the computer does not sign the phone out.

• “Today” in the menu

  Your centre’s tournaments that are running or set for today open with one click.

• The whole round on one screen

  On a wide screen, two or three courts stand side by side with the standings next to them, and the Tab key moves from court to court.

• The bracket across the window

  A 32-team bracket fits an ordinary screen, with arrows to step a round forward or back.

• Small things

  Every page has its own address for bookmarks, the last centre you picked is remembered, and the portal warns you before unsaved changes are lost.