Run your first mixer

You can run a full session without an account and without installing anything. Here's the whole loop.

1. Add your players

Open the Mixer and type each player's name into the input, pressing Enter after each one. A few shortcuts:

• Paste a list of names to add many at once. Without an account, a very long list fills the roster up to the free limit and the remaining names are listed above it with a Copy button so you can add them by hand — you still mix with everyone.
• Type a number + "players" (e.g. 12 players) to bulk-create placeholder names you can rename later — handy when people are still arriving.
• Tap any name to mark them as sitting out, a VIP (never sits), or to set a rating or gender.

Rather watch first? While the roster is empty, three buttons sit under the name box — ▶ How does it work?, ▶ How do I print a schedule? and ▶ What else can it do? — above the line "Type player names above to start. No account needed." Each plays a short demo that runs itself on your own screen:

• How does it work? — adding names, mixing game 1 with a swap, the big screen, the rest of the rounds, and printing.
• How do I print a schedule? — the Print Schedule flow: plan all 8 games, preview, step through, swap two players, re-print.
• What else can it do? — linking a pair, Bad Blood, gender and rating, the Gender Mixed Balance preset, Rating Isolation, and players checking themselves in on the big screen.

The demo doesn't touch your real data, and the roster is empty again when it finishes. Any real tap, key or scroll stops it. The buttons show only while the roster and game history are empty, the name box is empty (typing hides them), and the group isn't a ladder — signed-in organizers see them too.

2. Set your courts

Set how many courts are available tonight. The Mixer uses this to decide how many players are on court each round and how sit-outs rotate. If numbers don't divide evenly, it shares the sit-outs fairly across the whole session rather than benching the same people repeatedly.

3. Mix

Press Mix to generate the first round. The Mixer builds matchups that keep players on fresh partners and opponents as deep into the session as possible — not just a random shuffle.

• Mix Next — generate the next round when the current one finishes.
• REmix — regenerate the current round. Only use this if the displayed round wasn't actually played; it replaces the matchups rather than advancing.

That's the core loop. From here you can freeze a court that's still playing, drag players between courts to swap them, rename courts to match your real locations, show everything on a TV with Big Screen mode, or share a board link to a venue TV that never signs in.

What's next

• Want to save your roster, track ratings, or schedule recurring play? See Accounts and your data.
• Running a season with promotion and relegation? See What is a ladder league?.