Event formats
Pick the format your players will love
Rallyo supports the most popular tennis, padel and pickleball event formats, each with automatic rotations, live scoring and fair player ratings. Find the one that fits your group below.
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Summer Open · Padel D
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Americano
Everyone partners with everyone, the social classic.
Americano is the most popular social event format. Players rotate partners every round so each person teams up with everyone else exactly once. Total points won across all matches decide the ranking.
Read the rulesMix Americano
Americano with men/women rotation built in.
Mix Americano follows the classic Americano flow but ensures men and women rotate as partners and opponents in a balanced way. Ideal for mixed club nights.
Read the rulesMexicano
Like Americano, but matched by current ranking.
Mexicano starts the same as Americano but uses the current standings to build each next round: #1 plays with #4 against #2 + #3, and so on. It keeps matches close from start to finish.
Read the rulesMove Up / Down
Win and move up a court, lose and move down.
A multi-court ladder. The winners on each court move up to a higher-ranked court next round, losers move down. Court 1 is the king's court.
Read the rulesKing of the Court
Defend court 1, or fight your way up to it.
All the action centres on court 1. Winners stay and defend; losers rotate out. Whoever holds court 1 longest wins the night.
Read the rulesOne Point Challenge
Knockout bracket where every match is a single rally.
A single-elimination bracket where every match is exactly one point. One rally, one winner, one loser. High energy, short evening, and with the optional second-chance bracket everyone gets at least two matches. Does not affect ratings, so no pressure.
Read the rulesTournament
Pools, knockout, or pools → knockout — one event, multiple levels.
The tournament format bundles multiple categories (e.g. Level 5, 6 and 7, or Men's / Women's / Mixed) into a single event. For each category you choose how to run it: a pool phase (round robin), a knockout bracket, or the classic pools-into-knockout combo. Players self-register into the right category, brackets auto-seed from ratings, and the standings update live on every phone. Built for club championships and weekend tournaments.
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