Americano schedule for 7 players

1 court, 7 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.

7

Players

1

Court

7

Rounds in full

3–4

Partners each

What a real booking fits

The full rotation is 7 rounds, and almost nobody plays 7 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 rounds86%
90 min7 roundsAll of it
120 min7 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 7 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 7. 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 1Sitting out
17 & 5 v 4 & 31, 2, 6
22 & 5 v 1 & 63, 4, 7
33 & 7 v 4 & 12, 5, 6
45 & 6 v 2 & 13, 4, 7
53 & 2 v 4 & 71, 5, 6
61 & 5 v 6 & 23, 4, 7
73 & 6 v 4 & 71, 2, 5
Everyone rests 3 rounds across the 7 rounds.

Why 7 doesn't divide cleanly

With 4 seats on 1 court, 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.

  • One court is all this roster can fill. A second court needs four more players, not a different rotation.
  • 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 6-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. The next round's pairing is fixed before the current one ends, so nobody has to negotiate it on court.
  • 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 the court finishes 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.