{"id":29636,"date":"2025-11-25T12:19:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T11:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exmachina.ch\/?p=29636"},"modified":"2025-11-25T14:21:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T13:21:54","slug":"exm-padel-day-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exmachina.ch\/en\/news\/exm-padel-day-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Exm Padel Day 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 data-path-to-node=\"3\">On October 28th, employees, collaborators, and friends were invited to a padel competition,<\/h3>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">creating a moment of sport and fun for colleagues who usually only see each other in the office, staring at a screen.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">For those unfamiliar with padel, it is a team sport played in doubles on a rectangular court enclosed by glass walls and fencing. It\u2019s a cross between tennis and squash, making the game fast, dynamic, and highly entertaining even for beginners, as the ball can bounce off the walls, making it unpredictable.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">Among the participants were some already experienced padel players, such as Carlo, who, paired with Gabriele, was the star of the competition: together, they claimed the final victory in a knockout tournament, narrowly defeating Sebastiano and Simone in the final match, who lost by a whisker. For others, however, it was the first padel match of their lives: between initial awkwardness and laughter, they challenged each other on the court, discovering a sport they hadn&#8217;t known before.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\">The two winners were presented with bananas, accompanied by a medal, in tribute to the event\u2019s name\u2014<i>Banana Padel 2025<\/i>\u2014which was a nod to the official mascot, a Minion.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"7\">The <i>Banana Padel 2025<\/i> tournament brought together various people, creating new bonds and leaving some participants eager to play again soon, and others with a few days of muscle aches! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Padel Day @EXM\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bIJp1T65eIk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, April 10, 2025, we gathered at the Teatro Foce in Lugano to celebrate a special anniversary: 20 years of Ex Machina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":29637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exmachina.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exmachina.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exmachina.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exmachina.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exmachina.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/exmachina.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29658,"href":"https:\/\/exmachina.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29636\/revisions\/29658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exmachina.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exmachina.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exmachina.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exmachina.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}