Frequently asked questions

Infliction Point is a scoring and tournament platform for padel and tennis. It has three parts:

• The Android app is the scoreboard. Tap your half of the screen, or use a Bluetooth remote or a Wear OS watch, and a voice umpire announces the score.
• The web app at app.infliction-point.2an.dev handles tournaments, profiles and venues. It is also built into the Android app.
• Displays show the live score to everyone else: LED court displays, TVs and videotrons.

No. Quick Match scoring, the voice umpire, match history and every accessory work without an account and without internet. You only sign in (with Google) to join or organize tournaments, keep a profile, manage a venue or get notifications.

Infliction Point is free to download. Scoring with Quick Match works offline without an account and will always be free.

Creating tournaments is free during early access and may become a premium feature later.

LED displays and Bluetooth remotes are hardware you can buy from us separately; message us on WhatsApp.

• Android 8 or newer for the scoring app (phones and tablets, portrait and landscape).
• Wear OS 3 or newer for the watch companion.
• Any modern browser for the web app, including iPhone, iPad and desktop. You can add it to your home screen.
• Chromecast, smart TVs with a browser, screen-mirroring dongles such as Miracast, a PC plugged into the TV, and videotron player PCs for screens.

Not point by point yet. Live scoring with the voice umpire, Quick Match, the Bluetooth remote and the watch are part of the Android app.

On an iPhone, iPad or computer you use the web app: join and run tournaments, follow live scores and the schedule, and, as an organizer or umpire, enter a match's final score.

The Android app, the Wear OS watch app, the web app and this website are available in English, Indonesian and German. Score announcements are spoken in the same three languages, and you can pick any voice your phone's text-to-speech engine offers and set its speed.

Classic is the scoring you know from TV: points go 0, 15, 30, 40, then game. Games make a set, and the first team to win the required number of sets wins the match. Everything else, from the number of sets to what happens at 40-40, is configurable.

Choose best of 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 sets and 3 to 9 games per set (5 by default). Odd numbers of sets always produce a winner. With 2 or 4 sets the match can be level at the end, and you choose whether that is a draw or goes to a super tiebreak (see below).

When you play a single set, the scoreboard shows colored game dots instead of set scores, so you can see at a glance who won each game.

• Golden Point (default): the next point wins the game. Fast and decisive, common in social padel.
• Single Advantage: one advantage is played. If the team with advantage loses the next point, it goes back to 40-40 and the next point decides the game.
• Star Point: advantage is played for at most two deuces. At the third 40-40 the next point, the star point, wins the game. This is the newer professional padel rule.
• Advantage: traditional scoring. A team must win two points in a row from deuce, with no limit.

Three set rules are available:

• Tiebreak (default): at all games level at the target (for example 6-6 in a 6-game set) a tiebreak is played, first to 7 points and win by 2. The set ends 7-6.
• Two-Game Lead: no tiebreak. Play continues until one team leads by two games, such as 7-5 or 8-6.
• No Margin: the first team to reach the target wins the set, even by one game.

With Tiebreak selected you can add two options, separately or together:

• Short Set: the tiebreak starts one game earlier (5-5 in a 6-game set) and its winner takes the set 6-5. Good when court time is tight.
• Sudden Death: at 6-6 inside the tiebreak, the next point wins instead of needing a two-point lead.

With 2 or 4 sets, the match can be level after all sets are played. You choose what happens:

• Super Tiebreak: one tiebreak to 10 points, win by 2, decides the match. The optional Sudden Death makes the point at 9-9 decisive.
• No Margin: the match ends as a draw.

Teams in padel and tennis swap sides after every odd game (1, 3, 5 and so on) and every 6 points in a tiebreak. With Auto Change Ends on, the app announces "Change ends" at the right moment and flips the scoreboard so each team's color stays on its side of the court. LED displays swap sides too. An optional "Skip after first game" setting leaves out the change after the first game of each set.

It depends on where you stand. Facing the LED display from across the court, you see the teams the same way round as the display. Standing next to the display and looking the same way it faces, you see them mirrored. Mirror view flips only your phone's scoreboard; the LED display, TVs and live scores keep the real court sides.

When a match starts with the LED display connected, the app asks where you are standing: Facing the display or Same direction as the display. To change it during the match, long-press the ENDS button. A small mirror bubble on ENDS shows that mirror view is on. You can turn the question off with "Don't show again" or with Settings → Ask Where the Umpire Stands; your last choice is then kept for every match.

Yes. End Match Early records why the match stopped, and each reason has its own rule:

• Walkover and disqualified: you pick the winner, who is awarded a full default score (the maximum for the format, opponent 0).
• Time expired: the current score stands and the team leading wins. It cannot be used while the score is level.
• Retired: either end with the current score (the leader wins) or award a default win to the team you pick.

An early ending never produces a draw, and the reason is shown in history and in tournament results.

A fixed number of games, from 3 to 9, is played with no sets. Every game is played even when the result is already clear, and the team that wins more games wins the match. Points inside each game still go 0, 15, 30, 40 with your chosen deuce rule.

Total Games is popular for timed tournament slots: every match takes about the same number of games, so courts free up together.

Yes, with an even number of games (4, 6 or 8) both teams can win the same number. Odd numbers (3, 5, 7, 9) always produce a winner. For formats that need a winner, such as King of the Hill or a knockout, choose an odd number.

Like Classic: the serve passes to the other team every game. Before the first point you can switch who serves first from the phone, the watch or a remote.

Every rally is worth exactly one point. There is no 15-30-40, no games and no sets. A fixed total is played (16, 21, 24 or 32 points, 21 by default) and the team with more points at the end wins.

This is the scoring used in Americano and Mexicano. Because every point is played, each team's points count directly toward the individual ranking.

The serve changes automatically every N points, where N is 1 to 5 (2 by default). A tennis-ball icon shows who is serving, and the voice umpire announces the server.

With an odd total (21) a tie is impossible. With 16, 24 or 32 points, all points can be played and leave the score level (for example 12-12 out of 24). You choose:

• No Margin: the match is a draw.
• Golden Point: one extra sudden-death point decides it.
• Advantage: play continues until one team leads by two points.

A simple rule of thumb: if people come alone and want to meet everyone, choose Americano. If they come alone but want close games, choose Mexicano. If they come as pairs and want a champion, choose World Cup.

Yes. A tournament can be Men, Women or Mixed. In Mixed Americano and Mixed Mexicano, every side on court is one man and one woman, and sit-outs are balanced so that always works.

To set it up, choose the format (for example Mexicano) and set Gender Category to Mixed when you create the tournament. You can change it later while registration is open. Mixed Americano and Mixed Mexicano need the same number of men and women, for example 8 men and 8 women for 16 players, so the tournament can only start once the roster is balanced.

You can also set a skill tier from Newbie through Beginner, Upper Beginner, Lower Bronze, Bronze and Silver to Gold; players confirm their tier when they register.

The organizer picks one, and every match in the tournament uses it: Classic, Total Games or Fixed Points. Rotating formats usually use Fixed Points (often 21 or 24 points) so all courts finish at about the same time. World Cup can use a different match format for the group stage, the knockout stage, or even an individual knockout round, for example a longer final.

Organizers choose. A private tournament is visible only to its organizers, players and anyone with the link. A public tournament can be found by anyone in the app, including in the nearby search, and players can ask to join.

In Americano you play with a different partner every round and against different opponents. There are no fixed teams. Every point your side wins counts for you, and the player with the most points at the end wins.

Americano is the classic padel social. It is used when people sign up on their own, when levels are mixed, at club evenings, beginner sessions and corporate events. Because partners keep changing, nobody is stuck with a weak or strong partner all night, and everyone meets everyone. It works best with a multiple of four players (8, 12, 16 and so on), but the app handles any number.

The schedule uses a round-robin rotation (the Berger circle method): when the numbers fit, every player partners every other player exactly once. When some players must sit out a round, the app switches to a history-aware matcher that never repeats a partner if it can avoid it and spreads repeat opponents as evenly as possible.

Sit-outs rotate by fairness only: the players who have sat out least sit out next, and among them the ones who have played most. Players who join late play first. Your ranking never decides whether you sit out.

Each player's score is the total points their side won across all their matches. If you miss matches, for example because you joined late or sat out more than others, you receive M+ compensation: your average points per match played, multiplied by the matches you missed. That keeps the ranking fair without penalizing whoever happened to sit out.

Ties are broken by win rate (a draw counts as half a win), then point difference, then points scored.

You register with one partner and stay together for the whole tournament. Your team plays every other team once in a round robin (with the same fair sit-out rotation as Americano when teams outnumber courts), and the team with the most combined points wins.

Choose Team Americano when pairs sign up together and want to play many different opponents without a knockout, such as pairs leagues, friendly club-versus-club days or short team events where everyone should play the same number of matches.

Mexicano is like Americano, with a new partner every round and an individual ranking, but the pairings are not fixed in advance. Each round is drawn from the current standings, so players with similar results meet each other and the games get closer as the tournament goes on.

Mexicano suits groups with a wide spread of levels who still want competitive games: club nights, regular "Mexicano evenings" and socials where stronger players should not spend the evening winning 21-5. After a couple of rounds, the strongest players end up on court 1 together and newer players play each other, without the organizer having to sort anyone by hand.

1. Round 1 is a random draw that fills as many courts as possible.
2. From round 2, players are ranked by total points (if equal, whoever has played fewer matches ranks higher).
3. The ranking is cut into blocks of four. The top block plays on court 1, the next block on court 2, and so on.
4. Inside each block, 1st and 4th play against 2nd and 3rd, which gives the most even match the four players can make.

In Mixed Mexicano, men and women are ranked separately and paired by rank, so every side is one man and one woman of similar standing.

Americano's schedule is a fixed rotation: you meet everyone, whatever the score. Mexicano decides each round from the results so far, so you meet people at your level. That is why Mexicano rounds appear one at a time: the next round only exists once the current one is finished. Ranking, M+ compensation and sit-out fairness work the same way in both.

Teams of two stay together for the whole tournament. After each round, teams are ranked by points and paired with the team closest to them in the standings, so the top two teams meet on court 1, the next two on court 2 and so on. The closer the standings, the tighter the matches.

Use it for larger pair events that want competitive matches every round without the elimination of a knockout bracket. Every team keeps playing until the end.

Courts are stacked like a ladder. The top court, court 1, is the winners court: the hill. After every round, winners move up one court and losers move down one. Winners on court 1 stay on top. Losers on the bottom court go to the bench when there are more players than places, and whoever has waited longest comes back in.

King of the Hill fits competitive groups on several courts who like a visible goal: get to court 1 and stay there. It is fast, easy for spectators to follow and gives every match real stakes.

Each round, the winners earn the value of the court they won on: the top court is worth the number of courts, the bottom court is worth 1. With four courts, a win on court 1 is worth 4 points and a win on court 4 is worth 1. A loss earns 0. Round 1 does not count, because its court draw is random. Players with equal points share the same rank.

In individual King of the Hill, yes: when two players arrive on a court together they are always split, so the winning pair of the court below never stays together. In Team King of the Hill partners are fixed and the whole team moves up or down.

No. Someone has to move up, so King of the Hill only allows match formats that always produce a winner, such as Fixed Pointss to 21 or an odd number of games.

Like the football tournament: teams of two are drawn into groups. Each group plays a round robin, usually all on the same court. When every group match is done, the organizer advances the tournament to a single-elimination bracket built from the best teams of each group. Lose in the bracket and you are out; win every match to take the title.

World Cup is the format for official tournaments, championships and sponsored events: everyone is guaranteed several group matches, and the day builds up to semi-finals and a final that spectators can follow on the screens.

Teams are ranked by matches won. When teams have the same number of wins, the organizer picks the tiebreak order:

Head-to-head first (official FIP, the default):

1. Head-to-head: the team that won the match between them ranks higher (only when exactly two teams are tied)
2. Set difference
3. Game difference
4. Set ratio
5. Game ratio

Difference first (common in Indonesia):

1. Set difference
2. Game difference
3. Head-to-head (only when exactly two teams are still tied)
4. Set ratio
5. Game ratio

If teams are still tied after every step, a fixed draw order decides, as a stand-in for a coin toss. The organizer can change the order until the first knockout match starts.

Group positions are paired mirror-style (the winner of one group meets the runner-up of another), and slots are swapped where needed so teams from the same group do not meet again in the first round.

When the qualifiers do not fill a full bracket (8, 16, 32 and so on), the organizer chooses:

• Byes: empty slots stay empty and the top seeds advance automatically.
• Wildcards: the best runners-up across all groups fill the empty slots, so every first-round match is real.

Top seeds can be decided by group results, or by group order (A, B, C...) so the full bracket can be shown before the groups finish.

• Several knockout tiers: split qualifiers into a main bracket and lower brackets, so more teams keep playing.
• Bronze match for third place.
• Different match formats for the group stage, the knockout stage or a single round.
• Group draw wheel to draw teams into groups live in front of everyone.

Sign in, open Tournaments and create a tournament: choose the sport, format, match format, courts, date and whether it is public. Then add players yourself, share an invite link or let players request to join. When you start the tournament, the app draws the first round. Tournaments can also be imported from, and exported to, Excel.

Partner invites (a player registers and sends their partner a link), a waitlist when the tournament is full, payment proof uploads (visible only to the team and the organizers), jersey sizes, gender categories and skill tiers.

Tournaments can have several organizers, each with flags. A manager can edit the tournament, players, courts and organizers, schedule rounds, correct scores, record retirements or disqualifications, pair screens and see the change history. An umpire can score matches live, run warm-ups and end matches early. One person can have both.

Yes. Leaderboards can be saved as images (podium or full list, in four aspect ratios for stories, posts and chats), matches as photo cards in a scorecard or versus style, and the schedule as an image. Organizers can also attach photos to matches and leaderboard places.

Ask the photographer to share their Google Drive folder as Anyone with the link. Then open the tournament, tap Photos on the Details tab, tap + and paste the folder link. The app checks the folder can be opened and uses its name for the album. Event organizers can add an album to every category at once. The photos stay in Google Drive: players browse them in the app and open the originals in Drive.

Open the tournament's rounds in the Android app and switch to scoreboard mode. Swipe through the matches, which also shows the VS preview on the court's LED display and TV, and tap to start scoring. The native scoreboard opens with the tournament's match format, and every point is synced live to players, organizers and screens.

Only one device scores a match at a time. Starting to score claims the match, and the claim is kept alive while your app runs. If your device goes quiet for 90 seconds, for example because the battery died, another umpire can take over and continues with the full point history, including undo. The previous device shows that scoring was taken over.

Calls you can trigger with one tap, on the phone, the watch or a mapped remote button. They are announced over the speaker:

• Service let: knows whether it is the first or the second serve.
• Fault: a second fault becomes a double fault and scores the point for the receiving team.
• Rally let and Out.
• Reannounce repeats the current score, and up to four custom sounds can be recorded or picked from files.

Start a 3, 5, 10 or 15 minute warm-up (3 minutes is the official FIP warm-up), or a custom length, before the first point. The countdown appears on the phone, the LED display, the TV and for everyone following the tournament. At zero the LED display beeps and the voice umpire announces the end of the warm-up.

A venue page with name, address, map location and logo, plus its courts, each tagged with a sport and marked active or inactive. Players find venues nearby, and tournaments are linked to a venue's courts. Several owners can manage the same venue.

From your venue, add a screen and pair a TV, Chromecast or videotron. A venue screen automatically shows whatever tournament is running at the venue. A court screen follows only that court. Templates add your sponsor banners and slides, and set your own colors, title and player photos (see TV screens).

No, but it helps. A small LED display at the net post shows the score to players and spectators on that court, while TVs and videotrons give the overview. Each LED display connects to the phone that scores its court.

An RGB LED matrix scoreboard built on an ESP32 controller. It connects to the scoring phone over Bluetooth Low Energy and shows:

• Score: points in team colors (blue and orange), games or sets on top and a lime arrow pointing at the receiving side. Sides swap when players change ends.
• VS preview: both teams' names before the match.
• Warm-up: a large MM:SS countdown that blinks red and beeps at zero.
• Winner: the winner's name alternating with the final score.
• Waiting message: your own text while no match is running.

Power on the display, then open Accessories → LED Display in the app and tap connect. The display beeps when it connects. The app remembers it and reconnects by itself when you open the scoreboard. Brightness (0 to 15) and the waiting message are set from the same screen.

Over the air, from the app. When a newer firmware is available, the Accessories screen shows an Update badge. The update is checked for integrity, sent over Bluetooth, and the display restarts on the new version. A safe dual-slot layout keeps the previous firmware if anything goes wrong.

For a single match, open Accessories → Chromecast in the Android app and pick your Chromecast or Google TV on the same Wi-Fi. The TV shows a live broadcast-style scorecard, the VS preview before the match and the warm-up countdown. No ads, no extra app.

A paired screen is a TV that belongs to a tournament, a venue or one court and runs on its own, without a phone casting to it. It rotates through boards such as the live scorecard, the schedule, the leaderboard and podium, group standings, the bracket and your slideshow.

1. On the TV, open the screen page of the web app in a browser (or pick the Chromecast from the Android app).
2. The TV shows a pairing code and a QR code.
3. In the tournament or venue, choose Add screen and enter the code or scan the QR.

The TV remembers its pairing. If a Chromecast forgets it after a restart, casting to it again from the app restores the same screen.

Yes. Any device that can show a web page on the TV works:

• A PC or laptop plugged into the TV over HDMI, with the screen page open full screen in its browser.
• A screen-mirroring dongle such as Miracast, mirroring a laptop, tablet or phone that has the screen page open.
• A smart TV browser or an Android TV box.

Pair it with the code like any other screen. When mirroring, keep the device awake and its screen on.

Yes, with a screen template:

• A background image with your sponsor banners built in. Set a top and bottom space so the boards never cover them.
• Slides with sponsor ads, posters or photos that play while no match is live, each for as many seconds as you choose.
• Your colors, a title and a tournament QR code to match your brand.

Assign the template to a screen and preview it on the live, schedule, leaderboard and idle boards before the event.

Yes. A videotron (a large LED video wall) is driven by a player PC, an Android box or a Chromecast connected to its controller. Infliction Point treats it like any other paired screen: open the screen page on that player, pair it once, and it shows the same live scorecard, schedule, leaderboard and bracket boards as a TV, at stadium scale.

1. On the videotron's player PC or box, open the web app's screen page in a browser (Chrome works well).
2. Switch the browser to full screen or kiosk mode so no browser bar is visible.
3. Pair it from your tournament or venue with the code shown on the wall.
4. Optionally assign a template with your sponsors' slides and backgrounds.

The boards are designed for landscape screens and scale to any resolution. Set the player's output to the native resolution of the wall's controller (for example 1920x1080 or the cabinet grid's pixel size). The closer the wall is to 16:9, the less empty space there is around the boards.

A small Bluetooth remote with an optional wrist strap and keys printed for team 1 (blue), team 2 (red), undo and the voice umpire, plus a large logo key. It has an on/off switch, charges over USB-C and connects to the phone like a keyboard, the way a camera shutter remote does (other supported shutter remotes work too).

In Accessories → Shutter Button you map each key to an action: score for team 1 or team 2, undo or switch serve, reannounce, change ends, service let, rally let, fault, out or one of four custom sounds. The same remote also browses tournament matches in scoreboard mode. Supported models are tested by us; message us on WhatsApp to get one.

Install Infliction Point on a Wear OS 3+ watch from the Play Store. It pairs with the phone app automatically, with no setup. Swipe between three pages: a round scoreboard where you tap a half to score, the Say page for calls and sounds, and live match stats. Undo and switch serve are on the scoreboard. The watch vibrates differently for a point, a game, a set and the match.

The app also supports up to two first-generation Flic Bluetooth buttons through the Flic app. With one button: click for team 1, double-click for team 2, hold to undo. With two buttons: click scores for that button's team, double-click reannounces, hold undoes (or switches serve before the first point).

Yes. A remote, a watch, an LED display, a Chromecast and paired screens all work at the same time and follow the same match. Score from whichever is closest.

Quick Matches, match history and saved player names stay on your phone. If you sign in, your profile and tournament data are stored on our servers so other participants can see them. No advertising or analytics SDKs are used, and no data is sold. Details are in the Privacy Policy.

In a tournament's Photos, Find me shows the photos you are in. You give it your profile photo or a few photos of yourself, and the app compares your face with the faces in the album photos. Everything runs on your phone: your photo and the face data are never uploaded, and nobody else sees your results. Face data is kept on your phone for 7 days so the next search is quick, and Clear face data in Find me deletes it sooner. The first search downloads the face models (about 45 MB) and the photos, so Wi-Fi is a good idea. Find me is only for finding yourself. More in the privacy policy.

In the app, open Settings → Delete Account. If you cannot access the app anymore, see Delete your account.