Americano schedule for 12 players

3 courts, 11 rounds, and every player partners every other exactly once. Generated by the same code that runs a live session in the app, so this is the schedule you would actually play.

12

Players

3

Courts

11

Rounds in full

11

Partners each

What a real booking fits

The full rotation is 11 rounds, and almost nobody plays 11 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 rounds55%
90 min10 rounds91%
120 min11 roundsAll of it
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 12. 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 2Court 3
18 & 4 v 9 & 512 & 11 v 1 & 32 & 6 v 10 & 7
28 & 6 v 3 & 1210 & 9 v 5 & 711 & 1 v 4 & 2
32 & 11 v 6 & 312 & 8 v 10 & 54 & 1 v 7 & 9
41 & 12 v 11 & 68 & 7 v 4 & 59 & 3 v 2 & 10
58 & 2 v 7 & 36 & 9 v 11 & 410 & 12 v 1 & 5
65 & 6 v 4 & 128 & 3 v 2 & 910 & 11 v 1 & 7
712 & 2 v 10 & 84 & 7 v 6 & 15 & 3 v 11 & 9
82 & 3 v 6 & 411 & 5 v 12 & 79 & 8 v 10 & 1
912 & 6 v 11 & 71 & 2 v 10 & 34 & 9 v 8 & 5
102 & 5 v 9 & 121 & 8 v 7 & 610 & 4 v 3 & 11
116 & 10 v 4 & 312 & 5 v 7 & 28 & 11 v 9 & 1
Nobody sits out across the 11 rounds.

Why 12 works out evenly

12 is a multiple of four, which is exactly the condition for a rotation with no repeated partner: every player is on a court every round.

  • 3 courts is the most this roster can fill, and the arrangement this schedule assumes. Booking fewer never buys more rounds, only more sitting.
  • One player short is the 11-player rotation, not a broken version of this one.

Running it

  • Read one row at a time and call all 3 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 all 3 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

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