Padel Tournaments
Padel is always played in pairs, and that is exactly where general tournament tools start to strain: two people register but one pays, some players arrive without a partner and want to be drawn one, and levels have to be separated or the matches are lopsided. Bukujanji for Organisers treats padel as a doubles sport from the registration page onward — not as a singles tournament forced to accept two names. Free for organisers, and entry fees reach your account whole.
The team captain pays for both, but the committee needs details for both players. On an ordinary form only one name is captured and the partner follows over chat — often only complete on match day, when the committee is at its busiest.
There are always entrants who sign up alone hoping to be paired. Drawing partners by hand in a group chat goes wrong in predictable ways: someone appears in two pairs, someone is left out, and the mixed category ends up with pairs of the wrong composition.
Without firm level separation, a pair three months into the sport meets a pair that plays tournaments monthly. The scoreline is lopsided, both leave unsatisfied, and the next tournament draws fewer entries.
A category can be set to take entries per pair, so one registration carries two players and one payment. Another category in the same tournament can still take entries per player — the setting lives on the category, not the tournament.
For categories where partners are drawn, the system builds pairs from the entry list. Mixed mode guarantees each pair is one man and one woman, and the draw can be re-rolled up to ten times per category if the committee wants a more even spread.
Scoring can use the golden point — a single deciding point at deuce, with no advantage. The setting applies tournament-wide or to specific categories, so you can run golden point through the group stage and something else in the final.
Run Open, intermediate, beginner, and mixed doubles in one tournament. Each carries its own fee, quota, and format, and you can see which categories are full and which still need a push.
Amateur padel wants more than one match, so group play makes more sense than straight knockout. The format can differ per category, and group standings calculate themselves from incoming results.
The match schedule sits on the tournament page, so pairs know when they are on without asking the committee. For a one-day event across two to four courts, this is what saves the organiser's voice.
Choose padel so the scoring rules follow padel convention, then fill in the date, the courts, and the registration deadline.
Add categories matching the levels in your community, set the fee per pair or per player, and size each quota to the courts and hours you have.
Share the link in club groups and on Instagram. Pairs register together and pay on the spot, while solo players enter the categories whose partners are drawn.
Once registration closes, draw partners where needed and then draw each category. Scores come in from the referee's or court marshal's phone as matches are played.
No recurring fee and no cut of entry fees. If you charge Rp250,000 per pair, all Rp250,000 stays yours. Players pay the payment-gateway admin fee on top of the entry price — visible before they pay — and your funds are released 48 hours after the tournament ends.
The two questions padel communities ask most before adopting tournament software, answered up front.
The social formats that rotate partners each round and total individual points are not implemented. What exists is round robin and knockout with fixed pairs. If your event is genuinely an Americano, the bracket side will not serve you — though registration and payment still will.
Bukujanji does not carry ranking points from one tournament to the next. Each tournament stands alone; deciding player levels stays with you, through how you split the categories.
Free organisers can keep three events live at once. For a club running monthly tournaments this rarely bites — complete the past ones and the slots free up.
This handles the tournament, not court hire. If you are a padel venue also renting courts by the hour on ordinary days, that is Bukujanji's separate booking system.
Padel is growing fast in Indonesia, and nearly every tournament is born from a community: a club running an internal event, a venue inviting other clubs, or a group of players booking courts for a whole day. What they manage entries with is usually a general tool — an online form and a messaging group — and general tools have no concept of a pair. One form row means one person, while one padel team means two people, one payment, and one shared fate in the draw.
So committees invent workarounds: an extra field called 'partner name', a separate note on who paid for whom, and a reserve list of solo players waiting to be matched. All of it holds until entries pass thirty or so. After that, merging the data takes longer than building the bracket.
Handling pairs from registration onward changes the order of work. When one entry already means two players and one payment, the entry list can be drawn from directly, without being copied anywhere. Solo players stop being a special case managed by hand and become part of a category whose partners are drawn by design.
Drawing partners looks trivial until you do it for twenty-four players in a chat group. The same mistakes recur: one person lands in two pairs, one person is left out, or the mixed category ends up with pairs that do not match its rule. All three slip past the eye because the result still looks random — the error surfaces only when a player finds their own name twice.
In Bukujanji the pairing is done by the system from that category's entry list, under one of two rules you choose: free, or mixed, which requires every pair to be one man and one woman. The mixed rule matters precisely in mixed doubles, where a free draw could produce same-gender pairs and strip the category of its point.
Committees may also re-roll the draw up to ten times per category. That cap is deliberate: re-rolling a few times is reasonable when the first result looks badly skewed, but unlimited re-rolls turn a draw into an arrangement — and players can tell.
Padel scores differently from tennis despite borrowing its numbers. The clearest difference is the golden point: at deuce the next point decides the game outright, with no need to win by two. For an organiser this is not a matter of taste — it is what lets a one-day event with dozens of matches finish inside the hours you booked the courts for. In Bukujanji the golden point can be set tournament-wide or per category.
Level separation matters just as much. Community padel tournaments usually split an Open category for regular players, one or two tiers below it, and a mixed doubles category that is often the busiest of all. Each can carry its own fee and quota — useful when the beginner category is priced lower to get people to try, while Open is priced higher because the prize is bigger.
The most common shape on court: round-robin groups first, then a knockout for those who progress. The reason is practical — people have paid for courts and set aside a whole day, so being knocked out after one match is an expensive outcome. Bukujanji supports both, and the format can differ between categories inside the same tournament.
Point-by-point scoring with capped deuces and tie-breaks, plus red and orange ball juniors.
The full picture: registration, payment, draws, referees, and live scoring across racket sports.
For padel venues renting courts by the hour on ordinary days — online booking and deposits.