What is King of the Court in padel?

King of the Court is a dynamic padel format where winners climb toward the King's Court each round and losers move down. High tempo, short rounds, and a ladder that never stops moving. Suited to 8 to 24 players across multiple courts.

How does QR score entry work at a tournament?

At Silva's Padel, every court had a QR code hanging on it for the whole session. Players scan after their match, enter the score, and the standings update automatically. No paper forms and no organizer having to process everything by hand.

How do Slams credits work as prize money?

As soon as an organizer marks the tournament as finished, Slams automatically shares out credits among the top 3. Those credits land straight in the player profile and can be redeemed at the organizing club. No manual admin, no separate payouts.

Club story17 June 20263 min read

King of the Court at Silva's Padel: 20 players, 5 courts, one evening

Silva's Padel ran a King of the Court evening with 20 players across 5 courts. QR scoring per court, automatic ladder rotation, and credits landing straight in every player profile.

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King of the Court at Silva's Padel: 20 players, 5 courts, one evening

On 12 June 2026, the first real tournament ran through Slams. At Silva's Padel in Almelo. King of the Court, 20 players, 10 pairs, 5 courts, and 6 rounds of 15 minutes.

The evening itself

Silva's Padel wanted to host a King of the Court evening with a full board of players. 5 doubles courts, 10 pairs, not for a handful of people but for a whole evening. Owner Senna Silva was looking for a tool that could keep up with the pace of padel: fast changeovers, ladder rotation where winners climb toward the King's Court, and live score entry without keeping lists by hand.

The format itself is not run of the mill. Most tournament tools handle knockout brackets or round robins. King of the Court asks for something specific: dynamic ladder rotation where winners move up each round and losers move down. There is no Excel sheet that pulls that off without manual work every fifteen minutes.

QR code on the net of court 5, the King's Court, at Silva's Padel — One QR code per court, for the entire session.

Players enter their own scores

Every court post had a QR code hanging on it for the whole session. Scan, enter the score, next round. No loose forms, no organizer chasing everyone down. One link, one action, one tap. The standings on the tournament page updated round by round.

Players in action during the King of the Court evening at Silva's Padel — Full board: 5 courts in the rotation at once.

After two hours: winners, credits, and archive

After two hours, the winners were decided. Senna clicked 'Mark as finished' in the settings. At that moment, Slams credits were automatically shared out among the top 3:

🥇 MBBK (Milo Buursink + Bas Kamp): 45 credits per player
🥈 Kansloze Smash (Sander Tukker + Nick Bekke): 30 credits per player
🥉 Hoppatee (Jurre Hoogeveen + Senna Niezink): 20 credits per player

The credits can be redeemed at Silva's Padel. No lists to keep, no credits to book manually per player, no WhatsApp messages about who gets what. They were sitting in the player profile right after the last match.

And that profile does more than show credits. Every player now has a personal rating graph that works across all Slams clubs. Match history, opponents, score progression per round, all in one place. A player who joins another Slams club next week will see today's KOTC result there too.

What the evening proved

The biggest question for padel clubs is not how to set up a tournament. Anyone with enough time can manage that. It is how you get players back for the next one. How you build an evening people talk about, where they track their progress, where they challenge each other again.

On 12 June, that became concrete. Players experienced the QR flow, watched their rating change, got credits in their profile. Senna could focus on her guests instead of on admin. The top 3 immediately had something to spend at their own club. And the player who finished fourth knows exactly where he wins next time.

What makes Slams unique is not any single feature. It is that the whole cycle fits together: register → play → score → archive → come back. In one platform. See the Silva's Padel club page or the archive of this evening.

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King of the Court at Silva's Padel: 20 players, 5 courts, one evening

The evening itself

Players enter their own scores

After two hours: winners, credits, and archive

What the evening proved

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