What a paper sheet needs to show
A useful printable sheet for a padel tournament usually covers three things. First, the groups: which teams are in which group, so players can find their own group and see who they're up against. Second, the schedule: which court and time slot each match is on, so players know where to be and when. Third, the bracket: the knockout structure once the group stage finishes, including the Main draw and Plate if you're running one. Without all three, players end up asking organisers the same questions over and over — 'what court am I on?', 'who do I play next?', 'where's the bracket?'.
iTournee's printable view
Every live tournament in iTournee has a built-in printable view that an organiser can open from the admin screen. It lays out the schedule, groups and bracket on a clean page designed for pinning up — exactly the kind of sheet you'd want on a noticeboard by the courts. It also includes a QR code that links straight to the live tournament page, so anyone standing at the board can scan it and open the same live link players are already using on their phones. That means the paper sheet works as a quick reference and a way to point people toward the live version, rather than being the only source of truth.
Why pair paper with a live digital link
The trouble with a purely paper-based tournament is that scores change. A group table that's accurate at 11am is wrong by lunchtime once a few matches finish, and someone has to notice, cross things out, and write in the new standings — or print a fresh sheet. If a match overruns, the schedule on the sheet goes stale too. With iTournee, scores are entered by players or the organiser on their phones and update live everywhere, including the group tables and bracket that feed the printable view. The noticeboard sheet becomes a snapshot you print once near the start, with the QR code there precisely so people can jump to the always-current version instead of trusting a printout that's hours old.
Re-copying scores is the real cost
If you've ever run a tournament on paper alone, you'll know the real time cost isn't filling in the first sheet — it's the constant re-copying. Someone has to collect scores from each court, update the group table, recalculate standings, redraw the knockout bracket once groups finish, and then write all of that onto a fresh sheet so the noticeboard isn't out of date. Do that for several rounds across a full afternoon and it eats into time you could spend actually organising. Letting players enter their own scores on their phones, with standings and brackets updating automatically, removes that job entirely — the organiser's role shifts from data entry to just keeping an eye on things and using announcements if something changes.
Setting it up
There's nothing extra to prepare. Once you've created a tournament with your groups, schedule and format, the printable view is generated automatically from the same data players see on their phones — there's no separate template to fill in or keep updated by hand. Open it from the admin screen whenever you want a fresh copy for the noticeboard, print it, and you're set for the day.
If you're still planning the event
If you haven't settled on groups, a schedule or a format yet, start with our guides on padel tournament formats and scheduling a padel tournament, then come back to print your sheet once the draw is set. And if you need a refresher on how scoring actually works before you publish, see our guide to padel scoring rules.