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# Super 4, Super 8, Super 12 and Americano
> The one-afternoon doubles formats: how matches are drawn, the default score format, the standings, and who wins.
These are the formats for playing **a single event** — an afternoon, an
evening — in a **doubles** sport. In all of them the competition draws the
matches by itself from the players' order. Except in Super 4, the **Matches**
tab shows which **turn** and which **court** each match is on (*Turn 2 · Court
1*).
## What applies to all of them
**Default score format: one 4-game set**, and 4–3 ends the set. In pickleball,
one game to 11 points. In sports without a short score format, the sport's own
applies. The organizer changes this under **Score format by phase** when
creating the competition.
**The standings**, in the **Standings** tab, are ordered by **wins → game
difference → games won → head-to-head**. Americano is the exception: there each
game is a point, and the order is **games won → wins → game difference →
head-to-head**. If the organizer picked a **regulation**, theirs applies.
**There is no promotion or relegation** between groups: it is an event, not a
season.
**The players' order** used to draw the matches is the preliminary table the
organizer checks before opening the round — they can reorder it.
## Super 4
4 players, **3 matches**: each player partners each of the other three once.
The champion is an **individual**.
## Super 8
8 players, **14 matches in 7 turns on 2 courts**. Each player plays 7 times:
partners each of the other seven **once** and faces each of them **twice**. The
champion is an **individual**, the top of the standings.
### Fixed-pairs Super 8
With **Fixed teams — the team is ranked** turned on at creation, Super 8
becomes a tournament of **8 pairs** (16 entries). Pairs register together or
are formed by the organizer, and the round only opens with **8 complete
pairs**.
The organizer picks the **Fixed pairs mode**:
| Mode | How it works |
| ------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **8 pairs, everyone plays everyone (28 matches)** | 7 turns on 4 courts; each pair plays 7 times. The champion is the pair at the top of the standings. |
| **2 groups of 4 pairs + final** | In round 1, 12 matches in 3 turns on 4 courts; groups are built by the pairs' strength, alternating the best between the two. Then the knockout stage: each group winner faces the other group's runner-up, and the champion is the pair that wins the final. Can include a third-place match. |
## Super 8 in groups
8 players over **two rounds**, 6 matches each:
Two groups of 4, built so both have similar strength: 1st, 4th, 5th and 8th
in one; 2nd, 3rd, 6th and 7th in the other. Each group plays 3 matches, each
on its own court.
The **top 2 of each group** go to the **Final**; the other four, to the
**Consolation**. Again 3 matches per group, and in the Standings tab the two
groups are now called Final and Consolation.
The champion is an **individual**: the top of the Final.
## Super 12
12 players. The **group stage is individual** and the **final stage is in
pairs**:
3 groups of 4 by level — 1st to 4th, 5th to 8th, 9th to 12th — each with 3
matches on its own court: 9 matches in total.
When the organizer publishes the knockout stage, the 12 are sorted into an
**overall table** and the **top 8 form pairs**: 1st + 8th, 2nd + 7th, 3rd +
6th and 4th + 5th. Whoever finished 9th to 12th is done at that point.
(1st + 8th) against (4th + 5th) and (2nd + 7th) against (3rd + 6th). The
winners play the final, and there can be a third-place match.
The champion is the **pair** that wins the final.
## Americano
The rotation for **any number from 4 to 16 players**. Every turn each player
has a different partner; whoever does not fit on that turn's courts **sits
out**, and byes are spread so everyone sits the same amount (at most one turn
apart). The champion is an **individual**.
At creation, the organizer sets:
* **Courts** — 1 to 4. Only the courts the players can fill are used: with 6
players and 4 courts, play happens on one.
* **Turns** — 1 to 30. The suggestion is one turn fewer than the number of
players when nobody sits out, and the same number when someone does.
Partners may repeat; with 8 players, 2 courts and 7 turns you get exactly the
Super 8 rotation.
* **Mode** — **Fixed**, with every turn created at once when the round opens,
or **Mexicano** (below).
**A game is a point.** That is why the standings start with games won, and a
**walkover is worth a whole set to zero** — with the default score format, 4–0
for the winner.
### Mexicano mode
In Mexicano only the **first turn** is created when the round opens. The next
ones come from the **live standings**: whoever has played fewest matches
plays, and on each court the next four in the standings form **1st + 4th
against 2nd + 3rd** — matches get more even as the event goes on.
The organizer generates each turn with **Generate next turn** on the round
card. The button only shows up once **every match of the current turn is
finished**; after the last agreed turn, the app says every turn has already
been generated.
Where to pick the format, the courts, the turns and the mode.
Open rounds, publish the knockout stage and generate turns.