The Dink Minor League Pickleball @ The PICKLR hosted by American Pickleball League ~ Scottsdale, AZ
March 2, 2025
Registration open
Ends February 26, 2025
Address
The Picklr - Scottsdale
9190 East Talking Stick Way, Scottsdale, AZ 85256, United States of America
Events
Format: The Dink Minor League Pickleball
Price: $80.00 / Player (must register and pay as a team)
Description
$12 fee per athlete paid directly to the PICKLR at check in.
3/2 DUPR 14, 16, 18
ONE DAY EVENT
Ball: Vulcan
Cash prize per divisions listed below. *minimum teams required (please see rules)
Prizes:
1st Place DUPR 14 $800
1st Place DUPR 16 $1000
1st Place DUPR 18 $1000
Lunch provided by Ike's Sandwhiches for competing athletes
The Dink Minor League Info:
The future of pickleball is NOW: The Dink Minor League Pickleball is sweeping the nation with its innovative, fun and social amateur MLPlay™ Team Event.
FORMAT
Minor League Pickleball is an innovative team competition where teams of 4 players (2 women and 2 men) compete against each other in an engaging format, with twists on traditional match-ups and scoring for games, matches, and tiebreakers. Teams compete against each other in Matches using the MLPlay™ format:
MLPlay™ is an ingenious gameplay format that brings men and women together on a level playing court. In the MLPlay™ format team matches are composed of four 21-point games, one women’s doubles, a men’s doubles, and the final two games consisting of mixed doubles. If both teams are tied at 2-2 after the 4 games are played, they’ll go to a Dreambreaker™! In a Dreambreaker™ one person from each team plays singles against the other team’s player, switching players every four rallies until someone gets to 21 and wins by two points.
Rules
DUPR Divisions
DUPR 20 (The team’s aggregate DUPR must not exceed 20.99)
DUPR 18 (The team’s aggregate DUPR must not exceed 18.30)
**Maximum individual player DUPR cannot exceed 5.10 to play in DUPR 18
DUPR 16 (The team’s aggregate DUPR must not exceed 16.30)
**Maximum individual player DUPR cannot exceed 4.60 to play in DUPR 16
DUPR 14 (The team’s aggregate DUPR must not exceed 14.30)
**Maximum individual player DUPR cannot exceed 4.10 to play in DUPR 14
DUPR 12 (The team’s aggregate DUPR must not exceed 12.30)
**Maximum individual player DUPR cannot exceed 3.60 to play in DUPR 12
Once a team registers for a Minor League Pickleball event, their ratings are “locked” and their DUPR increasing or decreasing will not impact the team’s aggregate or division placement.
To sign up for any Minor League event, a DUPR account is required at the time of registration. Not rated players can play; however, their estimated rating will be verified by the tournament director.
Single Registrations
If you are registering as a single registration but are already part of a team, please notate Team Name AND the DUPR Division. For example, “Mad Drops – 18.”
If you want to play in the Minor League event but are unable to form a team, the tournament director will do their best to place you on a team. For players that are not placed, thus not playing the event, their registration fees will be refunded.
Substitute Players
A team that needs a player substitute can either edit their team by signing into Swish and making the edits themselves or a player may submit the player substitute information directly to the tournament organizer. Substitute player’s DUPR may not cause the established team’s aggregate to go over max event’s aggregate.
For the full Minor League Pickleball rules: https://www.dupr.com/minorleague/rules
Cancellation/Refund Policy
Cancellation Deadline:
To receive a refund minus the $5 technology fee and the 3% processing fee, cancellation must be received by the end of day 15 days prior to the Minor League Pickleball event start date.
Example: Event start date is June 15, 2024. Cancellation must be received by 11:59pm local time on Friday, June 1, 2024. After June 1, 2024, no refunds will be issued.
Individual Registration Refund Policy:
Individual Registrations are not guaranteed placement in a team. Players that sign up as a single player (Individual Registration) with no team and are not placed in a team, will receive a full refund minus the $5 technology fee and the 3% processing fee 3-5 business days after the event ends.
Players
DUPR 14
Volley Llamas (Team DUPR = 13.869)
Yiting Cheng & Ken WANG & Asuka Nakano & FuCheng Huang
The Smashed Potatoes (Team DUPR = 14.285)
Chi Kakizawa & Paloma Patino & Nellie Cournoyer & Beniah Faleta
The Mighty Dinks (Team DUPR = 13.909)
Lidia Ouk & Ryan Donnan & Drew Kingston & Nicholas Calcagno
Spicy Dills (Team DUPR = 14.219)
Scott Foster & Patty Foster & Jodi Chavez & Mickle Moore
Older Than You Dink (Team DUPR = 13.927)
Jeff Earl & David Randall & Claire Ritchie & Lorry Bottrill
3 team spots remaining
DUPR 16
Carpe Dinkem (Team DUPR = 16.203)
Annie Stender & Casey Childers & Alex Lynch & Parris Biggs
Net Prophets (Team DUPR = 16.009)
Kate Hendrix & Nia Rodriguez & Amos Ramirez & Jesus Landin
Blood Type O negative (Team DUPR = 15.933)
Ashley Courlivant & Jane Gratteri & Isaiah Nava & Quincy Cobbin
Baby got backhand (Team DUPR = 16.005)
Tim Guerrero & Janae Hillman & Patricia Trout & Harrison Hebert
TBD (Team DUPR = 15.672)
Tony Goble & Michelle Vrolyks & John Markosian & Bucky Jones
Smash Squad (Team DUPR = 15.697)
Linda Cron & Rusty Hayes & Rhonda Rhiner & Mark Rhiner
Rolling Stones (Team DUPR = 15.826)
Rafa Seifert & Mark Elliot & Kimberly Fuller & Vernon Fuller
Down to Pickle (Team DUPR = 15.747)
Chadwick Burnell & Richard Bradley Rzendzian & Kristin Bertilson & Karen Mills
0 team spots remaining
DUPR 18
TBD (Team DUPR = 18.177)
Ryan Guercio & Ciara Kelly & Christina Chai & Garret Johnson
Drillers & Fillers (Team DUPR = 18.266)
Karen Greenwood & Russell Krzyzanowski & Laramie Edens & Jerry Worsham III
6 team spots remaining
