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What each word in a bracket, a schedule or the standings means. Including the formats Peldia does not run, and we say so.
Each card says at the top whether Peldia runs it. We also define what it does not, because whoever looks it up deserves the answer.
You enter alone and play with someone different every round.
Tournament where everyone enters alone, without a partner, and new pairs are formed every round: you play one round with someone and the next with someone else. The standings are individual and scoring is by games won rather than by matches, so who you get drawn with matters little. It is the one-afternoon format and the most common one in club padel.
Winners move up a court and losers move down.
One-afternoon tournament played on several numbered courts at once: court 1 at the top and the bottom one (the pozo, the well the name comes from) at the other end. Every pair plays a short match at the same time and, when the round ends, the winners go up one court and the losers go down one; the aim is to finish the last round on court 1. Court 1 is defended (its winner cannot climb further) and nobody drops below the last one. In Spanish it is called pozo, rey de la pista or sube y baja, and the English name is also used elsewhere for the single-court variant where the winners stay on. Neither that one nor the version where your partner rotates every round is what you get here: Peldia runs it on several courts, with pairs that stay together all afternoon, scoring the games of each round.
Everyone plays everyone, and the most points wins.
Competition where every entrant plays every other one once, or twice if it is home and away. Whoever collects the most points wins. There is no elimination: losing a match puts nobody out. With n entrants you get n−1 rounds if n is even and n rounds if it is odd, because then somebody sits out each round.
Lose and you are out, until only one is left.
Competition where whoever loses is out, until one is left. It is drawn as a bracket and each round has half as many entrants as the one before. When the number is not a power of two, some go through without playing.
A small league in each group, then the best go into the bracket.
Format in two parts: first the entrants are split into small groups that play a league among themselves, and then the best of each group go through to a knockout bracket. It is the format of a football World Cup.
Challenge someone above you and, if you win, take their place.
Permanent standings where you climb by challenging whoever is above you: win, and you take their place. It has no rounds and no schedule list: challenges go out whenever someone wants, with a maximum reach upwards and a deadline to play them. That is why it works in clubs where nobody is free at the same time.
Each round you face someone on the same number of wins.
Format without elimination where, each round, players on a similar number of wins are paired against each other. You neither play everybody as in a league nor knock anyone out: in a few rounds the standings separate the field rather well. It comes from chess.
An americano where every pair is one man and one woman.
Variant of the americano where every pair is one man and one woman, and the pairs keep changing each round just as in a normal americano. The standings are still individual. Peldia does not run mixed americano: it runs the americano, but when forming each round's pairs it draws no distinction.
The words that show up in a schedule and in the standings.
The set of matches in a league that are played in the same batch. They are numbered and usually carry a date: “matchday 3, Saturday the 26th.”
In an americano or a bracket, each batch of matches played at the same time. It is the same thing as a matchday in a league, under another name, because in these formats they are all played on one day.
Each part of a competition that has its own format. A competition with groups and then a bracket is two stages chained together: the standings of the first decide who goes into the second.
League where each pair of entrants meets twice, once on each one's ground. It doubles the matchdays and evens out the split of home games, which with one leg only always ends up somewhat unfair.
Going through to the next round without playing. It turns up in brackets when the number of entrants falls short of a power of two: the missing slots are filled with gaps, and whoever draws one goes straight through.
Entrant given a set position in the bracket, according to their previous ranking, so that the favorites do not meet each other in the early rounds.
The criterion by which two entrants on the same number of points are ordered. It is not a single one: it is an ordered list applied until one of the criteria separates them, and it depends on the sport. In padel: points, head-to-head record, set difference, game difference, games won and, if nothing separates them, a draw.
Each part into which the result of a match is divided: the sets of a padel or tennis match, the games within a set. A result is not a number: it is a sequence of partial scores from which the winner comes out.
A match shown live while it is being played: streaming from a fixed court camera, from a phone running OBS, or from the club channel on YouTube or Twitch. It is not the same as the head to head result, which is a tiebreaker criterion and unrelated. Peldia does not broadcast video, does not host it and does not play it inside its pages: what it does is show the link of whoever is broadcasting, next to the match and only while it is being played.
The initial allocation of who plays whom. In Peldia's tools the draw travels inside the link: whoever opens it sees the same schedule you do.
Match given up as lost because one of the two sides does not turn up. It is shortened to W.O. It counts as a defeat, and depending on the sport it may score differently from a defeat that was played.
The record of meetings between two particular entrants: how many times each has won, adding up every competition in which they have crossed paths.
What football and basketball bring with them, with what Peldia does not do named as such.
Form of football with seven players a side, goalkeeper included, on a reduced pitch. It is the most common format of unaffiliated amateur football in Spain: works leagues, friends' leagues and club leagues. Matches last around an hour and there is no need to round up twenty-two people.
Five against five on a court, with a goalkeeper. In Spain it is called fútbol sala; in Argentina and much of Latin America, fútbol 5, and it is also played outdoors on artificial grass. It is the most widespread way of playing football informally.
Result where neither side wins. It depends on the sport and not on the format: in football it is a normal result and gives one point to each side, while in padel, tennis, pickleball, badminton or basketball it cannot happen, because play continues until the tie is broken. A 0-0 is a legitimate draw, not a match that was never played.
Goals scored minus goals conceded. It is the criterion that separates two teams on the same number of points, after the head-to-head record. In basketball the equivalent is points difference, and in padel or tennis, set and game difference.
Whoever scores a goal. A top-scorer table needs to record what happens INSIDE each match, and not just the final score. Peldia stores the match result, so it has NO top-scorer table, and none for cards or minutes played either.
The official document of an affiliated match: line-ups, incidents, cards and the referee's signature. Federations require them; a league between friends does not. Peldia does NOT produce them: for that there are platforms aimed at affiliated competition.
Four can be set up right here, with no account: they come out in full and they print. All six can be seen working in an example club, with made-up results.
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