Americano schedule for 11 players

2 courts, 14 rounds, and 1 repeated pairing across the whole rotation. Generated by the same code that runs a live session in the app, so this is the schedule you would actually play.

11

Players

2

Courts

14

Rounds in full

10

Partners each

What a real booking fits

The full rotation is 14 rounds, and almost nobody plays 14 of them. This is the number worth checking before you book rather than after: at 21 points a round runs about 8 minutes, and the first ten minutes of any slot go on arriving, warming up and picking a first pairing.

BookingRounds it fitsOf the rotation
60 min6 rounds43%
90 min10 rounds71%
120 min13 rounds93%
At 21 points per round. Play to fewer points and you fit more rounds — see the court-time maths for the other targets.

Stopping early costs nothing structural. Partners are spread from the first round onward, so 10 rounds of it is a complete Americano with a real winner — just one where some pairings never came up.

The rotation

Players are numbered 1 to 11. Hand out the numbers however you like — by arrival, by lot, or by putting your strongest players at opposite ends — because Americano scores individuals, so the numbering carries no seeding.

RoundCourt 1Court 2Sitting out
18 & 2 v 7 & 310 & 9 v 1 & 54, 6, 11
22 & 5 v 11 & 36 & 8 v 4 & 17, 9, 10
310 & 11 v 9 & 56 & 3 v 7 & 41, 2, 8
48 & 7 v 2 & 64 & 11 v 1 & 93, 5, 10
510 & 2 v 8 & 93 & 5 v 1 & 64, 7, 11
65 & 8 v 11 & 97 & 1 v 4 & 102, 3, 6
77 & 10 v 2 & 116 & 5 v 3 & 41, 8, 9
81 & 11 v 9 & 48 & 3 v 7 & 25, 6, 10
95 & 10 v 1 & 87 & 9 v 6 & 42, 3, 11
103 & 1 v 10 & 611 & 7 v 2 & 45, 8, 9
119 & 6 v 3 & 25 & 11 v 8 & 101, 4, 7
123 & 9 v 4 & 81 & 2 v 7 & 65, 10, 11
1310 & 1 v 11 & 89 & 2 v 5 & 43, 6, 7
143 & 10 v 7 & 56 & 11 v 1 & 92, 4, 8
Rests range 3–4 rounds across the 14 rounds.

Why 11 doesn't divide cleanly

With 8 seats on 2 courts, 3 players sit out every round. Two or three spare players cannot be rotated without some pair drawing each other twice — that is arithmetic, not a limitation of the generator, and this schedule holds it down to 1 repeat.

  • 2 courts is the most this roster can fill, and the arrangement this schedule assumes. Booking fewer never buys more rounds, only more sitting.
  • The 3 players sitting out keep score for the courts they are next on. It is the one job that makes resting feel like part of the game.
  • One player short is the 10-player rotation, not a broken version of this one.

Playing with a number that doesn’t divide goes through the options in full, including the ones this schedule rules out.

Running it

  • Read one row at a time and call both courts together. Rounds that start together finish together, which is what keeps the rotation honest.
  • Every point counts towards the individual, not the pair. Winning 21–14 banks 21 for both players on the winning side and 14 for both on the losing one.
  • Play to a fixed point total rather than to games. It is the only way both courts finish on time, and it is why a round count can be promised at all.

The scoring is the part a group chat handles worst. How Americano scoring works covers the rules in full, and the court-time maths covers point targets other than 21.

Other roster sizes

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Every roster from 4 to 24 players, each with its own rotation.