Padel king of the court: win and you move up a court, lose and you move down

The courts are numbered: 1 is the top one and the last is the bottom. Each pair plays one short match (to four or five games, or to a fixed time) and when the round ends everybody moves: the winners go up one court and the losers go down one.

With two edge rules, which are the ones that make it work: on court 1 there is no higher to go, so whoever wins there stays to defend it; and at the very bottom there is no lower to drop. If there are more pairs than slots, the extra ones wait their turn and come in on the last court as soon as someone drops out of it.

In four or five rounds (one afternoon) every pair ends up on the court it belongs on. The pair does not change all evening: you bring your partner and there is no rotation.

In an americano you change partner every round and the standings are individual, by games won. In king of the court you play with your partner all evening and what moves is the courts. If you come already paired up, king of the court; if you come on your own and want to play with everybody, americano.

The whole thing cannot be printed in advance, and that is not a shortcoming of this tool: who plays whom in round 3 depends on who won round 2. Any page that shows you five rounds written out is showing you a sheet of paper that gets thrown away in the second.

What we do give you: the first-round draw, the movement rules printed next to it and the blank grid to fill in. And if you would rather not carry paper, set it up in Peldia and the next round appears on its own as soon as the last court is entered.