Americano schedule for 8 players

2 courts, 7 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.

8

Players

2

Courts

7

Rounds in full

7

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 8. 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 2
11 & 6 v 7 & 45 & 3 v 8 & 2
25 & 8 v 4 & 31 & 2 v 6 & 7
31 & 3 v 6 & 48 & 7 v 5 & 2
41 & 8 v 7 & 35 & 6 v 2 & 4
54 & 1 v 5 & 72 & 6 v 8 & 3
66 & 8 v 2 & 35 & 4 v 1 & 7
75 & 1 v 3 & 68 & 4 v 2 & 7
Nobody sits out across the 7 rounds.

Why 8 works out evenly

8 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.

  • 2 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 7-player rotation, not a broken version of this one.

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

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