Official Rulebook
The Rules 🎾🍻
How Ghetto Padel is played — format, scoring, the winning pair, the serve, the queue, and one extra rule for those who skip the beer.
01
Format
- —2 vs 2.
02
Points
- —First team to 5 points wins.
- —Played with tie-break rules.
- —The player who starts the match serving gets only 1 serve before the opposing team gets 2 serves.
- —No two-point margin is required.
- —A score of 5–4 is a win.
03
The Winning Pair
- —The winning pair stays on court.
- —A pair may stay on for a maximum of 3 matches in a row.
- —If a pair wins 3 matches in a row, all 4 players on court are swapped out.
04
Serve
- —The challenging team starts with serve.
- —If both pairs are new, they play off to decide who serves first.
05
Queue System
- —Lay your rackets in a row outside the court while you wait.
- —The two rackets stacked on top of each other play together.
- —After a loss, your racket goes to the back of the queue, on top of another racket.
06
🍻 Extra Ghetto Rule
- —Players who don't drink alcohol must play with their wrong hand.
Final Note from the Committee
Lay your racket in the queue, keep the winning pair honest, and remember: skip the beer and you play with the wrong hand.