Soo Pickleball December Classic

This tournament has 2 formats of play. Individual rotating partner round robin and Mixed Doubles round robin.
There are 4 divisions for the tournament, recreational, intermediate, advanced, and competitive advanced. Each division will have 3 events, men's rotating partner round robin, women's rotating partner round robin, and mixed doubles.
For Rotating round robin you register by yourself and will be playing with and against players in your own event. For mixed doubles each team must have one woman and one man. You register as a team and play a round robin against other teams in your event.
The minimum amount of participants for an event to take place is 5. The maximum is 15. With 7 or more participants in an event there will be a semi-final of 5 participants followed by a final of 4 participants. For events with less that 7 participants there will not be a semi-final.
For events of more than 7 participants, participants will be randomly assigned to pools to play against others in their pool for that event.
Intermediate, Advanced, and Competitive Advanced round robin rotating partner play is on Saturday Dec 7, and Mixed doubles play is on Sunday the 8th
Pat attention to messages on the app for start times and any changes. Be prepared to start your games 15 minutes before the listed time. Two minute warm ups will be allowed before play commences.
For score keeping and tracking the SWISH will be used. The app can be found on google play and the apple store. Down load it to your phone. There are instructional videos about the app linked to the app or can be searched for on You Tube. Type SWISH in the search window.
You will need to scan a QR code with the camera on your phone when you check in for your event. You will also receive an email with a link to join a tournament messaging group once you are registered.
Volunteers are needed to monitor the courts to ensure games start as scheduled and to help enter scores on the app. Training will be provided if needed.
Balls used in this tournament will be the Penn red indoor balls we have at Tech. If you want to use a different ball there are conditions. Contact the tournament director.
A wait list will be kept for each event in case of drop outs.
At registration check out a $5 SWISH administration fee will be added. It is non-refundable.
Prizes will be available if enough registrations happen.

Soo pickleball members that are registered to play at Clergue MUST register in the Clergue division and then select their division to play in at the Tech December Classic

Soo Pickleball members that are not registered to play at Clerque or the Tech must first register in the Division for them to pay the extra fee and then register for the event they want in the December Classic Tournament. The Tournament director reserves the right to re-assign the registrants to different events than registered for to maintain balanced and fair skill levels as much as possible for the tournament.