Changelog
Changes to PadelFormat's tournament generators and organiser tools.
August 2026
Added
- Team Americano and Team Mexicano.
- Mixed Americano and Mixicano.
- Group A and Group B setup for mixed tournaments.
- Team and mixed mode selection through page URLs.
- Team and mixed support across standings, exports, saved tournaments, result images, and live boards.
Changed
- Automatic setup now follows the rules of the selected format.
- Team tournaments calculate rounds from the number of teams.
- Mixed tournaments account for group sizes, cross-group rotations, available courts, and rests.
- Americano schedule generation now uses bounded, deterministic matching.
- Rematches retain the existing live-board access details.
Fixed
- Opening an earlier round no longer changes the active timer or spectator board.
- Team withdrawal and reinstatement now update both players together.
- Invalid team and mixed player lists are blocked before scheduling.
- Duplicate player, team, group, and court names now trigger validation errors.
- Final summaries now report the correct entrant count and tournament duration.
- Correcting a Mexicano score now recalculates later rounds affected by the result.
- Starting another tournament now closes the existing live board before clearing organiser data.
July 2026
Added
- Private spectator links for live tournaments.
- QR-code sharing from the organiser screen.
- Separate spectator and TV views.
- Full-screen display mode for clubs and tournament venues.
- Controls for copying, disabling, and regenerating live links.
- Connection status and last-update time on public boards.
Changed
- Live boards now receive confirmed scores only.
- Public tournament data uses a separate access token from organiser controls.
- Spectator and TV pages are read-only and excluded from search indexing.
- Live boards show the active round, timer, court assignments, results, standings, upcoming round, and final results.
Fixed
- Partially entered scores are no longer sent to spectators.
- Reloading the organiser page no longer creates another live board.
- Disabling a shared tournament now removes public access.
- Live standings update after score confirmation.
- TV mode remains on the active round while the organiser reviews an earlier result.
June 2026
Added
- Standard Mexicano tournament generator.
- Standings-based generation for later Mexicano rounds.
- Timed rounds and fixed-point rounds.
- Configurable breaks between rounds.
- Optional tournament start time.
- Round start, pause, resume, and completion controls.
- Score confirmation and earlier-round correction.
- Player withdrawal and reinstatement.
- Final standings, tournament summaries, rematches, exports, and result images.
Changed
- Mexicano pairings now use the latest confirmed standings.
- Correcting a result rebuilds later pairings that depend on that score.
- Timer state now uses the stored round start time.
- Tournament progress is saved after each confirmed change.
Fixed
- Reloading the page now restores the active tournament.
- Pausing and resuming no longer resets elapsed round time.
- Withdrawn players are excluded from later court assignments.
- Completed rounds remain locked until score correction is opened.
- Rematches no longer overwrite completed tournament results.
May 2026
Added
- Standard Americano tournament generator.
- Manual and automatic tournament setup.
- Player, court, round, and points configuration.
- Support for limited court availability and resting players.
- Round-by-round court assignments and score entry.
- Individual standings based on confirmed scores.
- Configurable points per round.
- Dedicated tournament-format pages in the tools section.
Changed
- Scheduling, scoring, and standings now use shared tournament modules.
- Tournament configuration is stored separately from active tournament state.
- Stable tournament IDs now connect saved tournaments, sharing, and rematches.
- Match records now use the same structure across rounds, summaries, and exports.
Fixed
- A player can no longer appear on two courts in the same round.
- A court can no longer receive two matches in the same round.
- Setup now rejects missing player names and invalid court counts.
- Explicit rest records are created when not every player can play.
- Tournament setup locks after the first round begins.
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