Presets

A preset is a saved bundle of mixer settings. Instead of nudging a dozen weights by hand, you pick one and the Mixer loads the whole configuration at once — fresher partners, balanced ratings, more mixed doubles — without touching every individual slider.

Choosing a preset

Open the mixer's game settings and look for the Algorithm Presets heading. There are two buttons:

• Built-in Presets — the ready-made bundles described below. These ship with the Mixer and can't be edited.
• Custom Presets — your own saved bundles. Tweak the settings the way you like, then save the current configuration as a named preset to reuse next session. Saving and importing custom presets requires a logged-in account.

Tap a preset and confirm to apply it — it overwrites your current mixing settings — then Mix as usual. A preset is only a starting point. Open the settings afterward and adjust any individual value you want; the Mixer keeps the preset's name as long as the settings still match it.

Presets are an online feature — they're disabled when the Mixer is running in offline mode.

The built-in presets

The built-ins fall into a few families. Pick the one that matches what you're trying to do tonight.

Preset	What it's for
Default	The everyday choice — fresh partners and opponents, fair sit-outs. Start here.
Fast Mode	Same as Default but skips the slower fallback search. Faster mixes; accepts a few more repeats.
Gender Minor / Mixed / Mixed Only / Forced Separation	Dial how hard the Mixer pushes for mixed-doubles or men-only / women-only courts.
Bad Court / Multiple Bad Courts	One or more courts nobody likes — spread the bad court evenly so the same people don't get stuck on it.
Rating Minor / Opponents / Partner Balance	Use player ratings to even out matchups, from a gentle nudge up to strictly balanced opponents.
Rating Isolation	Group similar-rated players onto the same court — a soft "court ladder." See below.
Ladder / Ladder Team Mode	Tuned starting points for ladder-league nights, individual or fixed-team.

Most of these only do something if your players have ratings or genders set. For more on the underlying knobs each preset moves, see the Settings reference.

Rating Isolation

Rating Isolation is the one to reach for when you want ladder-style play inside an ordinary group. It pairs and opposes players of similar rating, and it deliberately relaxes the usual "fresh partners and opponents" rules to do it.

The effect: your strongest players tend to land on the same court game after game, your next tier shares the court below, and so on — a soft, emergent "court ladder." As scores come in and ratings shift, an overperformer drifts up to a tougher court next mix and an underperformer drifts down. Movement happens mix by mix, driven by results.

It's a great way to feel out ladder competition before committing to real divisions. The trade-off is built into the name: because it prioritizes rating over freshness, you'll see more repeat partners and opponents than Default does.

Sharing presets with other organizers

Any preset — built-in or custom — can be shared as an opaque code. Open the Custom Presets or Built-in Presets panel and tap the Copy chip on the preset card. The Mixer copies a compact code (it starts with pmp:1:) to your clipboard, then shows a confirmation. Send that text to another organizer however you like — email, chat, whatever.

To use a code someone sent you, open the Custom Presets panel and tap the ↧ Import preset card. Paste the code into the prompt and confirm. You'll then be asked to give the preset a name — the sender's name is pre-filled, but you can change it. Names are capped at 12 characters so they fit the active-preset badge in the Mixer header. The imported preset lands in your My Presets list and is saved to your account.

Codes are self-contained snapshots — no login required on the sender's side, though receiving one requires the recipient to be logged in. Copying a built-in preset (like Ladder or Rating Isolation) gives the other organizer a copy they can apply directly; it's a clean way to hand off a "start here" configuration. If you later edit the preset, copy again — the code carries only the settings as they were at the moment you shared it.

Launcher Settings and the mix-loaded toast

If your group has Launcher Settings configured (in the group's settings on the dashboard under the Launcher Settings tab), those settings are applied automatically whenever you launch a new mixer session from that group.

A brief toast at the bottom of the screen confirms it — "Mix settings loaded from this group's launcher settings" — so you know the algorithm config came from the group profile rather than your last manual setting. It fades in a few seconds; no action needed.

Launcher Settings are applied at session launch, before your first mix. You can still open any settings modal mid-session and adjust individual values, or tap a preset to replace the configuration entirely. The launcher config doesn't lock anything down — it's just a starting point pinned to the group.

To set or update a group's Launcher Settings, see Group settings.

What's next

• Every knob a preset can move is explained in the Settings reference.
• Ready for tracked divisions, promotion, and relegation? Read What is a ladder league?.