Run open play without the whiteboard.

• Swaps you can see. Drag-and-drop now animates the actual exchange — courts trade games, player slots slide into place, and preview reorders fly to their new spot — instead of snapping. A FLIP motion engine drives it across mouse, touch and Apple Pencil.
• Apple Pencil, fully supported. Drags activate instantly under the Pencil (no hold delay), and controls that used to hide until hover now stay visible for it — so the Pencil behaves like a precise finger everywhere on the board.
• Link walk-ins to their accounts. A one-tap scan finds registered KitchenSync accounts for walk-ins already on the roster and links them — pulling in their photo and profile — and links are re-checked whenever you refetch a Reclub list. Registered rows are badged, and add-player suggestions now say Account vs Saved.
• Self-serve sign-in & password reset. Clean /login and /sign-up links, a forgot-password flow with a proper reset page, and friendlier errors — signing up with an email that’s already taken now suggests logging in instead of failing cryptically.
• Little touches, everywhere. A light/dark toggle on the landing and fairness pages, tap a player’s photo to see it full-size, the player view now calls out partner vs opponents, swiped rows lift with a shadow, and the player dashboard explains what appears once they’re checked in.

• Drag the board, not the whiteboard. Drag a court onto another to swap every player on it, drag players between courts to trade slots, and drag a previewed group onto a court to start it — with mouse, touch or Apple Pencil. A new press-drag gesture engine makes tablet drags survive iPadOS’s scroll-hijacking, and previews can be reordered by hand.
• A console that behaves like an app. Every screen is now a real route with smooth transitions and a shell that persists; the dashboard leads with action tiles and a live-session banner, the New Session dialog sets courts, queue mode and game target up front, and an installable PWA shell with an offline banner keeps you covered when the venue Wi-Fi drops.
• Your club’s name on everything. Set an org name and upload a club logo once — it flows into the manager header, the TV display board, the printable QR check-in sheet and the shared standings image.
• Reclub, more complete. Reserved spots and +1 guests now come through the import, and Reclub photos follow players into past-session standings and match history — not just live sessions.
• Kinder rescues. When the anti-starvation rescue steps in for a long-waiting player, it now picks the tightest skill match among eligible groups instead of the first one that qualifies — the zero-starvation guarantee holds and the rare extreme mismatches disappear. The full fairness simulation was re-run against the shipped algorithm with this change.
• Accessible by design. A calmer, larger type scale with a light theme that keeps its contrast, visible keyboard focus rings, tap targets grown to ~44px on touch devices, screen-reader labels on drag handles and fixed-group markers, a swipe-to-delete roster, and collapsible Queue/Resting sections.

• Group variety, engineered. The pair that just lost sits out a round (a random pair when games go unscored), equal-rated players reshuffle between rounds, and candidate groups now favor compositions that split into mirrored teams (4+3 vs 4+3) — so opponents and partners rotate instead of repeating.
• Rotation works without scores. Partner and opponent rotation used to depend on games being scored; a venue that never kept score had zero rotation (one real session: 44% repeat partners). Recency now counts every game actually played — that session’s repeat-partner rate drops to ~7% going forward.
• Ghost players eliminated. Players stranded as “playing” with no court (after a court-count change from another device) are recovered into the queue automatically, and mid-game court deletions requeue their players instead of orphaning them.
• Edit the history. Update or add a score to any recorded game — standings, history and rotation recompute everywhere, live across managers.
• A dashboard that fits. Sidebar Queue/Groups tabs, a compact Add Player with a filters popover, secondary actions under a ⋮ menu, a slide-over pane for standings/history/activity (swipe-to-open on touch), swipeable queue rows, actual/expected game counts (3G/6G), and an announce mute toggle.

• Expectations now model real co-presence. A full-court fixed group (a pinned four) can only field when every member is simultaneously present — resting and no-shows cost it court time it can never claw back. The expected-games pace now reflects that, so a full four isn’t flagged as falling behind for games it structurally cannot play.
• A manager can break a stuck fixed group. If a group becomes incomplete (a member can’t field) and starts sidelining its waiting members, the manager can permanently dissolve it to free them to queue as individuals. The simulation and the expectation model both account for this — a full four’s target blends between staying pinned and being freed.
• Small fixed groups stay honest. Duos and trios share courts with fillers, so they keep the standard per-check-in expectation; a pinned pair that slots into partial courts runs a mild, bounded surplus rather than a shortfall — shown transparently in the results.
• Fairness, measured against what’s achievable. After the change, ~67% of players in the shipped Mixed mode land within half a game of their expected count and ~90% within one — with the same actual schedules and the same shipped algorithm.

• Confirmed-only, or check them straight in. The Reclub import takes the Confirmed roster (the host-approved players) and falls back to Going when an activity needs no host approval. A toggle on the review step checks your picks into the queue right away.
• The link sticks, and syncs by diff. The Reclub link is remembered per session. Reopening Import refetches one tap — new players get a New badge, people who dropped off appear in a “No longer on the Reclub list” section to remove from the session, and the roster baseline updates.
• Reset a session, keep the slot. Reset Session clears players, matches, scores, courts, fixed groups, and the preview while keeping the session and its settings — re-run the same slot without spending a credit.

• Import players from a Reclub activity link. Paste a reclub.co/m/… link to pull the session’s roster into the same review list as a paste or upload — auto-matching registered players, with include toggles and duplicate flags.
• Photos travel with the player. Reclub avatars are kept session-locally as a fallback, so walk-ins and players without a profile photo still show a face at the desk.
• Touch-friendly controls. Bigger touch targets on buttons and court/queue controls, a spotlight tutorial guide that walks new managers through the session view, and a rotating tip of the day. Modal inputs no longer autofocus on touch devices, so the virtual keyboard stops popping open over the dialog.

• Fixed groups take their turn. A pinned duo, trio or group used to get the very next court every time their game ended — in simulation they played every game back-to-back (14 games, 0 min rest) while singles waited up to 31 minutes. Fixed groups now queue by wait order like everyone else: ~11 games with ~5 min rest, same togetherness, zero idle courts.
• A preview you can trust. A new check-in used to rewrite the groups you’d already shown players (94% of sessions) and could even jump into the next game with a 0-minute wait. Existing groups now stay put — newcomers are placed on the next iterations — and a fairness grace period stops a fresh check-in from outranking longer-waiting players.
• Partners rotate, even shorthanded. When the same foursome has to play repeatedly (early session, thin queue), the pairings cycle instead of repeating: mixed foursomes alternate their mixed pairings forever; same-gender foursomes cycle all three. The team preview, start dialog and court assignment always show the same split.
• Pace watchdog & fairness nudges. Every player carries an expected-games pace from their check-in time and the session’s actual game rhythm — visible as a games counter on every row that turns amber/red when someone falls behind, with a warning toast for the manager. Manual overrides (group edits, on-court swaps, hand-picked courts) get a nudge naming who’s ahead on games and who would balance the turns.
• Plan sessions ahead. Create a session with a planned start time and duration — add and import players, configure courts and queueing before play begins. Hours extend mid-session, and missing players can be substituted with one tap from the start dialog, with level-matched suggestions for on-court swaps.

• Check in by scanning. Managers print a sheet of check-in QR cards from the session toolbar — or download it as a PNG/PDF to share — and post it at the venue. Players scan with their phone camera and land straight in the queue with a fresh wait clock, same as a desk scan. No camera? The session code is printed right on the card. Joining by typed code still goes through the manager’s check-in, and a player already on the roster moves into the queue the moment they scan.

• Opponent & partner rotation. A finished foursome used to re-form game after game — ~60% of your groupmates were the same as your previous game. Groups that repeat recent court-mates are now scored down: under 20% repeats, while a game-count fairness term keeps the average games spread tight at 2–3 games. Managers can pin fixed groups (duos, trios, or a full four) that are exempt from rotation by design.
• Offline-first sessions. Manager actions apply instantly and sync automatically when the connection returns; sessions with multiple managers are warned to keep a reliable connection.
• Player history. Players can see their past sessions, every match they played (searchable), their live queue position, fixed-group membership, and which court they’re picked for next.

Shipped with the anti-starvation rescue, which closed the gap our simulation surfaced in pre-release testing. Without it, rare skill tiers could wait out entire sessions: