Every club has the same problem: not enough courts.

Padel clubs typically have between two and six courts, and a tournament match at short sets runs about forty-five minutes with the changeover. That gives one court around nine matches in a long day, and it is the number every other decision follows from.

Sixteen pairs as a straight knockout is fifteen matches — on four courts that is eight rounds of court-time, about six hours, and half your entries play once. The same sixteen pairs in four groups of four feeding quarter-finals is thirty-one matches: twenty-four in the groups plus seven in the knockout, around six and three-quarter hours on four courts, with every pair guaranteed three matches. Forty-five minutes more for triple the padel.

That comparison is why groups win at almost every club tournament. Work out your own numbers before registration opens rather than after — the group stage + knockout generator takes your real pair list and shows the match count and round count immediately.

Worth getting out of the way early, because it is the first thing a padel organizer asks. Americano — where partners rotate every round and points are scored individually — and Mexicano, where the pairings are drawn from the current individual standings, are not supported formats on Tournamyx and are not planned.

Those formats are a genuinely different model: the unit being ranked is a player rather than a pair, and the pairing rule changes between rounds. Everything Tournamyx does assumes a fixed entrant that persists through the event. Saying so plainly is more useful than a feature list that quietly omits it.

What does work is any tournament of fixed pairs: a round robin where every pair plays every pair, a knockout draw with seeds and byes placed, groups feeding a knockout, or a Swiss that pairs teams on equal records without eliminating anyone. For a club social where people want to play with everyone, Americano is the right format and you should run it on something built for it.

The operational problem at a padel tournament is small and constant: four courts, a match ending every ten minutes or so somewhere, and pairs who are somewhere in the clubhouse rather than watching the desk. Matches start late because someone had to be found, and fifteen minutes lost per round is an hour across the day.

A public link removes most of it. Every Tournamyx event publishes one URL with no login and no install, so a pair can see their own next match and court number, and how far the current round has to go, without asking anyone. The desk stops being a paging system.

Scores go in from any phone courtside, and roles are per tournament so a club coach or a player can enter results without being able to edit the draw. Group tables recompute on every result and the knockout fills automatically when the last group match is scored — which is the twenty minutes most club tournaments lose at the halfway point.