Tournament Types

Recourt supports several tournament formats and structures. This page explains each one — what it is, when to use it, and how to set it up step by step.

Recourt mendukung beberapa format dan struktur turnamen. Halaman ini menjelaskan masing-masing — apa itu, kapan menggunakannya, dan cara mengaturnya langkah demi langkah.

Formats

The format controls how players are paired and how points are scored. You choose a format when creating each round.

Americano

What it is: Every round, players are randomly paired with a new partner. There are no fixed teams — you play with a different partner each round. Points are tracked per individual, and the leaderboard ranks every player by their total accumulated points.

Best for: Social events, mixed-level play, large groups where everyone wants to play with everyone. The most popular format for padel clubs.

Sport constraint: Americano is only available for Padel tournaments.

How to set up

1. Create a tournament — choose Padel as the sport.
2. Add participants — open registration and confirm players. Player count must be a multiple of 4.
3. Create a round — in the Rounds tab, click Create Round. Set Format to Americano and Team Type to Random.
4. Configure scoring — set the point target and choose between split points or winner-takes-all (see table below).
5. Generate matches — click Generate Matches, configure courts, preview the pairings, and confirm.
6. Start the tournament — transition to In Progress. Umpires can now score.

Mexicano

What it is: Round 1 is random (same as Americano). From Round 2 onward, the matchmaking is driven by the current leaderboard — the top-ranked players share a court with the next-ranked players. This self-balances over time: strong players face equally strong opponents.

Best for: Competitive play where you want matchups to become fairer and more challenging as the tournament progresses. Popular for multi-round padel events where seeding matters.

Sport constraint: Mexicano is only available for Padel tournaments.

How to set up

1. Follow the same steps as Americano for tournament creation and participant registration.
2. Round 1: Create a round with Format = Mexicano, Team Type = Random. The first round behaves identically to Americano.
3. Round 2 and beyond: Create another Mexicano round. The system automatically seeds players by their current standings — no manual seeding needed.
4. Scoring options are identical to Americano (point target, split points, winner-takes-all).

Tennis

What it is: Fixed doubles teams play with traditional games-and-sets scoring. Teams are pre-registered and stay together for the entire tournament. Scoring follows standard tennis convention: 0–15–30–40, deuce, advantage, games to 6, tiebreak at 6–6.

Best for: Traditional tournaments, club championships, competitive brackets, and any event where players want to compete as a fixed pair.

How to set up

1. Create a tournament — choose Tennis or Padel as the sport.
2. Create fixed teams — in the Teams tab, add teams by pairing two confirmed participants together. Each team plays together for the entire tournament.
3. Create a round — set Format = Tennis and Team Type = Fixed.
4. Configure scoring — choose games per set, sets to win, tiebreak rules, and super tiebreak option (see table below).
5. Generate matches — the system produces a round-robin schedule (every team plays every other team) or use the Draws tab for knockout brackets.
6. Start the tournament — transition to In Progress. Umpires score each point (15, 30, 40, game, set).

For Tennis sport tournaments, only the Tennis format is available. For Padel tournaments, all three formats (Americano, Mexicano, Tennis) are available.

Tennis-Points

A simplified scoring variant: count raw points with no games or sets. First side to reach the point target wins, or play to a total combined score. Available as a scoring config option under Tennis format. Best for short exhibition matches or warm-up rounds.

Structures

The structure controls how matches are organized across rounds. You can layer these on top of any format.

Round-Robin (Default)

What it is: Every player or team plays every other player or team. For Americano/Mexicano, this means all 3 pair combinations within each court of 4. For Tennis fixed teams, every team faces every other team exactly once.

Best for: The default choice. Use when you want everyone to play everyone — no elimination, maximum court time.

No special setup required — this is what happens when you generate matches normally from a round.

Pool Stage + Knockout

What it is: Teams are divided into pools. Within each pool, every team plays every other team (round-robin). The top teams from each pool advance to a single-elimination knockout bracket (quarter-finals → semi-finals → final).

Best for: Multi-stage tournaments, World Cup-style events, club championships with group stages.

How to set up

1. Create a draw — in the Draws tab, click New Draw. Give it a name (e.g. "Main Bracket").
2. Create pools — add pool groups under the draw (e.g. Pool A, Pool B). Each pool needs at least 2 teams.
3. Assign teams to pools — in the Groups tab, drag fixed teams into each pool.
4. Add pool round — in the Draws tab, click Add Pool Round. This creates a shared round container for all pools.
5. Generate pool matches — for each pool, click Generate Matches. The system creates a round-robin schedule per pool.
6. Score the pool matches — start the tournament and score normally.
7. Set up the knockout bracket — in the Draws tab, click Set up knockout bracket. This builds the whole bracket at once (quarter-finals → semi-finals → final), with each slot labelled by where it comes from (e.g. "Pool A #1", "Winner QF1"). You can do this even before the pools finish, so you can assign courts and times to every knockout match ahead of time.
8. Seed from pools — once the pool matches are complete, click Seed from pools. The real top finishers (default: 2 per pool, cross-pool seeded) drop into the bracket while keeping the courts and times you already set. You can re-run it if a pool result changes.
9. Play to the final — score the knockout matches. Winners advance into the next round automatically, all the way to the final.

You can optionally enable 3rd Place Match on the draw settings to automatically generate a bronze-medal match.

Groups (Ryder Cup)

What it is: Players or teams are divided into named groups (e.g. Team Red vs Team Blue). All matches are cross-group: Group A members always play against Group B members. Each group's total score is the sum of all points earned by its members. The group with the highest total wins — similar to Ryder Cup in golf.

Best for: Club vs club events, team competitions, social tournaments with a collective scoring twist.

How to set up

1. Create groups — in the Groups tab, create two or more groups (e.g. "Club A", "Club B").
2. Assign participants — drag players or teams into each group. Groups can mix individual players and fixed teams.
3. Create a round — choose your format (Americano, Mexicano, or Tennis). The system knows to generate only cross-group matchups (A vs B, A vs C, B vs C).
4. Generate matches — matches are created with cross-group sides. No one plays against their own group.
5. View group standings — the group leaderboard shows each group's total accumulated score.

With 3+ groups, the schedule is a round-robin between groups: A vs B, A vs C, B vs C. Each round covers one group matchup.

Single-Elimination Knockout

What it is: Winners advance, losers are out, until a final. The easiest way to run one is a Knockout draw in the Draws tab — a guided 3-step wizard that builds the whole bracket at once, with a spin wheel for drawing positions and automatic byes.

Best for: Quick tournaments, finals day, or as the knockout phase after pool play.

How to set up

1. Create a tournament of type Knockout (or add a Knockout draw later).
2. In the Draws tab, set up the bracket: select players, assign positions (spin wheel or manual), and schedule the stages. See Draws & Knockout Brackets for the full walkthrough.
3. The bracket auto-advances byes and fills winners into the next round in place as matches finish, all the way to the final (and optional 3rd-place match).

You can also build a knockout by hand by chaining rounds — create a round, score it, then create the next round with Player Source = "Winners of Round N". The Knockout draw is the recommended path for anything larger than a couple of rounds.

League (Team-vs-Team)

What it is: A football-style league inside a single tournament. You build squad teams (each with its own roster of players), and teams play each other in fixtures across matchdays. Each fixture (a tie) is decided by several rubbers — separate doubles matches between the two squads, like a Davis Cup tie. Teams are ranked in a league table using configurable points (e.g. Win = 3, Draw = 1, Loss = 0).

Liga ala sepak bola dalam satu turnamen. Anda membuat tim (skuad dengan daftar pemain), tim saling bertanding di setiap matchday, setiap pertemuan (tie) ditentukan oleh beberapa pertandingan (rubber), dan tim diperingkat dalam tabel klasemen dengan poin yang bisa diatur.

Best for: Club leagues, corporate leagues, inter-academy competitions — any event where fixed teams play a season of fixtures and you want a Premier-League-style standings table.

How to set up

1. Create a tournament — choose the League type in the creation wizard. This unlocks a dedicated League tab.
2. Add teams & rosters — in the League tab → Teams, add each team and build its roster from confirmed participants. The first player added becomes the captain.
3. (Optional) Grant scoring access — toggle ⚖ scoring on a team to let that team's logged-in members act as umpire and score their own ties — no separate umpire assignment needed.
4. Configure & generate fixtures — in the Fixtures sub-tab, choose single or double round-robin, the number of rubbers per tie, and the league points (Win / Draw / Loss). Click Generate fixtures to build all matchdays at once.
5. Assign line-ups — for each rubber, pick which two players from each team take the court. Home players come from the home team, away players from the away team.
6. Start the tournament — transition to In Progress. Score each rubber; the Table sub-tab and the public league page update live.

A tie counts as played only once all its rubbers are completed. Equal rubber wins (e.g. 1–1 with 2 rubbers) is a draw. Each rubber still has its own QR/score link, so umpires or granted team members can score from their phones.

What's Not Supported

Cross-Tournament Circuits

A circuit is a series of separate tournaments played across multiple venues or dates, where players accumulate points across the entire series and an overall circuit champion is crowned. Examples: a "Jakarta Padel Tour 2026" with 5 stops, or a season made of monthly tournaments and year-end finals.

Recourt does not yet link multiple tournaments together — there is no cross-tournament standings or season abstraction spanning several events. Each tournament keeps its own participants, rounds, and leaderboard.

Note: a single-tournament League (team-vs-team fixtures and a football-style table within one tournament) is supported — see the League section above. Only the multi-event circuit/season is still on the roadmap.

Other Formats Not Yet Available

Quick Reference: Choosing a Format

See it in action: Worked Examples — step-by-step scenarios for every tournament type.