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Corporate days

Everyone plays. Everyone is on the board.

Padel days for companies — 8 guests or 64, two courts or six. CourtsOS handles the draw, the scoring and the screens, and puts your company's colours, logo and slides on every one of them.

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Run it yourself, or we run it for you Kit hire available Any venue, any number of courts

Guests
8–64
Courts
2–6
Typical day
2–4 hrs
Your branding
Every screen

Why they go flat

Three things go wrong on a corporate day

And all three are the same problem: nobody in the room knows what is happening.

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Nobody knows who they are playing

Someone reads names off a clipboard, a court stands empty for ten minutes, and the two people who came on their own end up on the same court all afternoon.

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The day drifts

A round finishes and nothing happens. The rotation is in one person's head, and that person is now holding a tray of drinks.

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Nobody knows who won

Scores are on scraps of paper. Somebody adds them up over the bar and announces a winner nobody can check — which is exactly when a corporate day stops feeling like an event.

CourtsOS fixes all three the same way: the day is on the screens, and the screens are yours.

Run of day

What your guests actually see

From the moment they walk in to the photograph of the winners. Nothing is announced twice, and nothing is written down.

Before anyone arrives

We build the event: your courts, the format, the length, your colours and logo, and the slides you want on the screens. It is done and tested before the day, not on the morning.

Guests sign in on an iPad

A sign-in sheet on a tablet at the door, in your branding. Guests tap their name — or scan a QR code and do it on their phone. Latecomers add themselves and are dealt into the next round automatically.

The draw goes up

Press start and every court knows its match. The board in the room shows who is on which court, who is up next and who is sitting this one out — so nobody has to be found and told.

Each court scores itself

The iPad on the court fence carries that court's match with the four names already in it. The players tap the score in when they finish. The board updates in about a second, everywhere.

The finish is a moment

The last score lands and the big screen becomes the result — champions, runners-up, the plate. It is on the wall before anyone has walked off the court, which is what makes the presentation work.

Afterwards

A results page for the day at its own web address, with a QR code on the screens so guests can pull it up on their phones on the way to the bar. Send the link round the office on Monday.

White label

Your brand, on every screen in the building

This is the part a company is really buying. For four hours, every screen your guests look at carries your identity — your colours, your logo, your sponsor — and nothing of the venue's.

During play

Your colours, your logo, your crest

The whole system takes your identity — a nineteen-colour palette built from the two or three you give us, your logo top-left on every board, and your mark across the top of the big screen beside the word LIVE.

If the day has a sponsor, or you are hosting a client, their crest sits in the middle of the header on every board for the whole event.

  • Send us a logo and a hex code — that is the whole setup
  • Two brands at once — host and sponsor, side by side
  • Everything above the footer is yours — our only mark is a small Powered by CourtsOS credit line along the bottom
The CourtsOS TV board with a club logo top left and a sponsor crest across the header
Host mark on the left, sponsor crest in the middle, live scores underneath.
Around the play

The screens carry your message too

Every court screen and the concourse screen run a slideshow of whatever you give us — a welcome, the running order, where the food is, the product you are launching, a thank-you to the client. They rotate on their own, full bleed, in your artwork.

Each slide can carry its own QR code, so a screen can send a guest to a landing page, a feedback form, a booking page or a download. And each slide can be scheduled — the bar slide appears at four, the taxi slide at six, without anybody touching anything.

  • Runs as guests arrive, through the break, and after the last match
  • Drop a JPG or PNG in and it is on the screens in seconds
  • Reorder, schedule or pull a slide from a phone at the venue
A courtside CourtsOS kiosk showing a full-bleed event advert beside a padel court
A courtside screen carrying a full-bleed slide between events.

Pick the shape

One group, or two companies head to head

The format decides how the day feels. We will tell you which one fits your group — but here is the short version.

The default

Americano — everyone with everyone

Partners change every round, so a guest plays alongside as many colleagues as the rounds allow, and never with the same person twice. Scores are points, so a weaker pair is never humiliated — they just win fewer points.

  • Best for mixed ability and mixed seniority
  • Everyone finishes on the same leaderboard
  • Nobody is knocked out of anything
Company v company

Americano Interclub — two sides

Two companies field a squad each. Every pair is two players from the same company and every match is host against visitors, so the day ends with a company-versus-company score as well as an individual leaderboard.

  • Both companies' crests and colours on the boards
  • Time-boxed — play to the clock, not to a round count
  • Two results: the firm's, and each guest's own
Teams and a trophy

Cup — departments, offices, clients

Fixed pairs in groups, then a knockout and a plate, so there is a real final to present. Everyone is guaranteed their group matches, and the ones who go out early get the plate rather than a seat.

  • The whole group stage dealt before the first ball
  • Tables, count-back and the draw all automatic
  • The big screen becomes the champions screen at the end
Short window

Tiebreak 10s — a lot of people, not much time

One tiebreak decides each match — first to ten, about ten minutes. It is the format for a big group and a two-hour slot, or for the hour before dinner.

  • Roughly ten minutes a match
  • Serve spun on the court, rotation counted for them
  • Works as a Cup draw too, for a Tie Break Tens day

Ten formats ship with CourtsOS. See them all →

The bit people remember

Nobody sits out, and nobody is stranded

A corporate group is never the neat number a tournament wants. It is 23 people, four of whom have never held a racket, two of whom are stuck on a call until half past.

The draw is even

CourtsOS searches for a rotation that avoids repeat partners first and repeat opponents second, so guests meet as many colleagues as the day allows instead of the same four all afternoon.

Sitting out costs nothing

When the numbers do not divide, somebody has to rest — so a rest is credited as a drawn match. Missing a round can never cost a guest their place on the leaderboard.

Late in, early out

Someone arriving at the second round is dealt in from the third. Someone leaving at four keeps every point they earned, and the rounds after that are drawn without them.

Two ways to do it

Run it yourself, or we run it for you

Both include the software, your branding and your slides. The difference is who is standing at the desk on the day.

Event licence

You run the day

For a venue, an events team or an office sports lead who is happy to press the buttons.

  • Your event built and tested before the day
  • Colours, logo and up to five slides loaded for you
  • Screens for every court, the concourse and a TV
  • A half-hour handover call, and a one-page crib sheet
  • Support on the phone for the whole event
  • The results page and player cards afterwards

Contact us for pricingPriced per event, by courts and length — not per guest.

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Fully managed

We run the day

For a client-facing day, a launch, or any day where nobody on your side should be looking at a screen.

  • Everything in the event licence, plus:
  • A CourtsOS operator on site for the whole event
  • We set up, sign guests in and run the desk
  • We brief the players and call the rounds
  • The finish handled — result up, winners announced
  • A results pack sent over the next working day

Contact us for pricingHalf day or full day, plus travel outside the South East.

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Kit hire, if you need it

CourtsOS runs on any iPad or tablet the venue already has. If there are none, we can bring a tablet per court, a screen on a stand for the room, and a 4G router for a venue whose wifi does not reach the courts.

Artwork, if you want it

Send us your brand guidelines and we will build the slides — welcome, running order, the client's message, a QR to wherever you want guests to land. Or send us finished JPGs and we will load them.

More than one day

Companies that do this quarterly, and agencies running a series of venues, are priced as a season rather than one event at a time. Tell us how many and we will put a number on it.

The day after

Something to send round on Monday

Every finished event gets its own web address — the whole day, readable on a phone. There is a QR code for it on the court screens and the big screen as the event ends, so guests can pull it up while they are still in the building.

After an Americano or a Tiebreak 10s day, every guest also gets their own card: where they finished, every match they played, their best win and the one that got away by two points. It is on the court screens for ten minutes after the finish, which is exactly when everybody is standing around.

  • A link that keeps working — not a screenshot of a leaderboard
  • Player cards that read well even for a guest who lost every match
  • A printable programme of the whole draw for a Cup day
A CourtsOS player recap card on a phone, showing one player's rank, matches and best win
One guest's afternoon, on their own phone.

Before you ask

The questions we always get

How many guests can we have?

Anything from eight to sixty-odd — but courts are the real limit, not the system. Four guests are on a court at any moment, so reckon on about six per court before people spend more of the afternoon watching than playing: two courts suits a dozen, four courts around two dozen, six courts around thirty-six. An Americano round takes roughly twelve minutes. For a bigger group in the same slot, run Tiebreak 10s — the matches are short enough to keep everybody moving.

Half of them have never played padel. Does that matter?

No — and it is the reason the Americano format exists. Partners rotate every round, so a beginner spends the day alongside different people rather than stuck with the one other beginner, and scoring by points means a one-sided match still ends with something on the board. If the group is genuinely split, we can run the stronger half as a separate draw on its own courts.

Do we need good wifi?

It helps, but the app keeps working if the venue's wifi drops — scores are held on the device and go up when the signal comes back. For a venue with nothing at the courts we can bring a 4G router.

Can we use our own iPads?

Yes. There is nothing to install — every screen is a web address, so any tablet, laptop, phone or smart TV that opens a browser will do. Most venues already have enough kit; we only bring some when they do not.

What do you need from us?

A guest list (first names are enough), your logo as a PNG, a colour, and any slides you want on the screens. That is genuinely it. Give us a fortnight if you can, and we will have the event built and tested well before the day.

Can two companies play each other?

Yes — that is the Americano Interclub format. Each side fields a squad, every pair is two players from the same company, and every match is one company against the other. You finish with a firm-versus-firm score as well as an individual leaderboard, and both crests are on the boards all day.

Who books the courts?

You or the venue, normally — we are the system that runs the day, not the venue. If you do not have a venue yet, tell us where you are and we will point you at clubs we already work with.

What does it cost?

It depends on the number of courts, the length of the day, whether you want an operator on site and whether you need kit. Tell us those four things in the form below and you will have a number back the same day.

Contact for pricing

Tell us about the day

Four things — when, where, how many and how long — and we will come back with a price and a suggested shape for the day. No hard sell.

We reply within one business day. Or email hello@courtsos.com — or call 07792 224 641.

Running a one-off tournament instead?

Opens, charity days, league finals and brand tours have their own page — the draw, the boards and a public results link, for a single event.

Scoring for one-off events →