Pick your game
The ten most-played games on the open-tournament circuit. Every page has annotated court diagrams, scoring walkthroughs and the etiquette nobody tells beginners.
Pickleball
The boom sport — underhand serves, dinks, and the sacred kitchen.
Table Tennis
Spin, strict serves, and the fastest reflexes in racket sport.
Esports
Brackets, drafts and fair play — every title, one tournament skeleton.
Football
Offside finally explained, plus every card and free kick.
Cricket
Overs, innings, and all ten ways a batter gets out.
Badminton
Rally scoring, service courts, and why the shuttle never bounces.
Tennis
Love, deuce and tiebreaks — the scoring ladder decoded.
Basketball
Shot clocks, the paint, and what actually counts as a travel.
Running
Chip time vs gun time, corrals, pacers and race-day etiquette.
Padel
The fastest-growing racket sport — walls included.
The live layer
Rules are step one. Step two: actually compete. We scout real open competitions across Bangalore — and if you run a venue, we'll list your event for free.
Why a playbook?
Walk on with confidence
Most people skip their first tournament because they're scared of looking lost — not because they can't play. Twenty minutes here fixes that.
Diagrams, not walls of text
Every court is drawn to proportion and every scoring system is a picture. If a rule can be shown, we show it.
Open-circuit specifics
Amateur opens bend the official rules — golden points, Fast4 sets, Americano rounds. We cover what you'll actually meet.
