Three courts on the highway

Why we built it

Bernardo “Bernie” Alcantara came back to Trento in 2023 with a paddle he had been given in Davao and nowhere to use it. The nearest proper court was two hours away. So the basketball slab behind the house got resurfaced, a portable net went up, and by the second month there were fourteen people waiting for a turn.

The problem after that was never demand. It was the notebook. One court, one phone number, and a queue of people who had driven in for nothing because someone had already taken the slot and nobody had written it down.

What changed

Three courts now, all three under a full roof, which in Agusan matters more than anything else we could have spent the money on. Rain does not cancel a session here.

And the notebook is gone. The board on this site is the board at the desk. When you look at Court 3 and it says open at 18:30, that is not a marketing claim, it is the reservation system. Book it and it goes red for everybody else the same second.

How we run it

Open 06:00 to 22:00, every day, including the days nobody expects us to be. Walk-ins are welcome and always will be. A facility that only takes online bookings stops being a local one. But the 18:30 slot goes to whoever booked it first, member or not.

Beginners get a rented paddle for ₱80 and someone to show them the two-bounce rule. That is how most of the people on the season table started.