Mats Toftenes
The format
A big part of inventing Matsicano® and the first to run nights with its rules.
Our story · Vollen, Norway
A local padel group, a broken spreadsheet, and a format the world was missing.
It started with dead time.
In Vollen, just outside Oslo, a group of padel players kept running into the same problem: the format ended before the court booking did. Forty minutes left, nothing meaningful to play.
Mats Toftenes was a big part of coming up with the answer and began running nights with the new rules. The format fills exactly the time on court and still mixes everyone up. It carries his name: Matsicano®.
Then the spreadsheet broke.
Scoring a busy night in Google Sheets on a phone reached breaking point for Simon Walker. He built a simple local web page to handle mid-match scoring. It grew into a full platform with live scoring, standings and stats to keep any padel player happy.
Fittingly, “Si” sits right in the middle of Matsicano®.
On club nights we still keep it simple: a cheap projector, a laptop, and the live standings on the wall.
65
players in the first series
3×
nights a week
12 or 16
players on a typical night
7
nights to qualify for the season table
Timeline
From Vollen to the App Store and Google Play.
- Autumn 2025
Matsicano® is born
A local fix in Vollen to end the dead time at the end of court bookings.
- Winter 2025/26
The first series
65 players, three nights a week, a season table that rewards turning up.
- September 2026
Vamoset AS is registered
Mats and Simon turn the local solution into a company and an end-to-end platform.
- 29 Sept 2026
Live on the App Store
Vamoset for iPhone, in eight languages.
- October 2026
170 tournaments, without any marketing
2,839 matches and 20,400 minutes of padel, with 6 men's and women's season series at 2 clubs. Now we want to grow it.
- 21 Oct 2026
Live on Google Play
Vamoset for Android, in eight languages.
The founders
Made by padel players.
Simon Walker
The tech
Gave up on spreadsheets and built the scoring page that became Vamoset.
¡Vamos!
We built it so the energy stays on the court, not in the logistics. Come and play.