Padelkeskus is the first padel centre to run Padlo.co scoreboards, and they are using them where it matters most: tournaments.
A tournament is the hardest test for scoring software. Several courts run at once. Matches finish out of order. The person scoring is often a player from the next match who has never seen the app before. If the software needs a manual, it fails.
What the setup looks like
Each court at the venue gets a named screen. The screen knows which match belongs to it, so nobody has to drag a match onto a display between rounds. Whoever is scoring opens the match on a phone at the side of the court and taps through the points. The screen follows.
Because the score is one record rather than two, there is no moment where the phone says 40-30 and the wall says deuce. The screen updates while the rally is still fresh.
For the club, the practical win is that a tournament stops depending on one person with a clipboard. Any of the courts can be scored by anyone standing next to it.
What spectators get
Padel courts are enclosed, which is good for the sport and bad for anyone watching from ten metres away. A spectator standing behind the glass can usually work out who is winning the rally. They rarely know the set score.
A screen fixes that. It is a small thing and it changes how a venue feels during an event.
Where this goes
Padelkeskus is the first, which means they are also the club that tells us what is broken. The screen layout, the match handover between rounds, and the way a court display behaves when a match ends have all been shaped by running real tournaments there rather than by us guessing in an office.
If you run a padel centre and want to see how the screens behave during a live event, contact us and we will walk you through it.