How it works
Every match is a land grab.
Most padel games vanish the moment you shake hands. Here, every match moves a court on a live map, banks points toward your season, and puts your name on a record someone else wants to erase. This is how a single game turns into a turf war.
The capture loop
From open court to held turf.
Five steps, on repeat, all season long. Here's how one capture actually plays out.
Claim or challenge
You open the map on your way to the club and there it is: the Gold division at Riverside, sitting open. One tap and it's claimed. If a rival already holds the slot you want, you challenge them instead. Either way, the 48-hour clock starts the second you commit.
The other side answers
The holder, or the field on an open claim, has 48 hours to accept and lock in a match. Duck it and the division is forfeited straight to you. There's nowhere to hide: on a held court, only players in the top half of the division can issue a challenge, so the fight stays between teams that are actually in the race.
Play it out
You meet at the real court and play a real match: standard padel scoring, best of three sets. No app-tapping mini-games, no luck. The only way to take ground is to win on court, in front of the team you're taking it from.
Log it, confirm it
One side enters the score, the other confirms. Now it's permanent: part of your record, your rivalry, your rank. Something feels off? Either side can dispute, so a fabricated result never sticks and the ladder stays honest.
Capture, then defend
The tier flips to your colour on the city map and drops points into your season total. But taking it was the easy part. Now the challenges come to you. Hold on, and you stack up courts across the city. Slip, and someone's already lining up to take it back.
Anatomy of a court
A holder for every division.
Every court runs three ranked divisions, Bronze, Silver and Gold, plus an Open tier for casual play. Each is held by whoever won it last, so there are several separate fights going on at every club near you.
Start where you can win. Bronze is the easiest way onto the board; Gold is where the city's best collide today. Platinum, the earned summit, switches on later.
In the app
The whole match, sorted in-app.
Chat per match
Every accepted game gets its own chat, so you can sort out the where and when without leaving the app or swapping numbers.
Reschedule easily
Life happens. Move an accepted game to a time that works for both pairs, without forfeiting the challenge.
Invite by link
Pull in a partner with a single “join me for this match” link. They tap it, they're in, and you're ready to play.
Kept honest
No fake wins. No easy hides.
Results need both sides to sign off, disputes are one tap away, and an ignored challenge simply hands the court over: a 48-hour deadline that can't be stalled. The ladder only means something if every place on it was earned, so we built it that way.
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