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Dink Minor Leagues – Beat the Heat @ The Pickleball Club Lakewood Ranch ~ Sarasota, Florida

July 20, 2024

Registration closed

Ended July 19, 2024

Address

1300 Sarasota Center Boulevard

Sarasota, FL 34240, United States of America

Events

Format: The Dink Minor League Pickleball

Price: $150.00 / Player

Tournament Director

David Tabb

Description

Paddlewars Prize Money
DUPR 20 1st Place $2000, 2nd Place $1000
DUPR 18 1st Place $1000, 2nd Place $800

The future of pickleball is NOW: 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)

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, cancellation must be received by the end of day 15 days prior to the Minor League Pickleball start date.
Eg: 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.

Players

DUPR 18

Team name is team (Team DUPR = 18.217)

Dhruv Patel & Kara Evans & Kamden Bradstreet & Mya Bui

The Dink Dynasty (Team DUPR = 17.649)

Alina Leontarakis & Luke Burton & Matthew Cusic & Ashley Griffith

The Picklers (Team DUPR = 15.53)

Prabhu Ramkumar & Christine Hayashi & ANURADHA Yusuf & Ethan Eddy

Certified Droppers (Team DUPR = 17.415)

Zoe Routson & Ben Brietz & Jake Bower & Erin Denney

2 blondes don’t make a right (Team DUPR = 17.703)

Luke Jaso & Varun Ganti & Danielle Nickerson & Victoria Shinkaretzky

3 team spots remaining

DUPR 20

Tampa Bay Picklers (Team DUPR = 20.31)

Grayson Hall & Macy Vonderschmidt & Dusty Boyer & Nejc Sitar

Fire 🔥 (Team DUPR = 20.6)

Dominique Lemperle & Forest Dennis & Maxwell Ruyle & Madalina Grigoriu

Individual Registration (Team DUPR = 20.67)

Ben Yue & Sydnee Metzold & Nicholas Astbury & Mandy Gabriel

Dink & Bling (Team DUPR = 19.6)

Ben Zipay & John Goins & Tiff Jen Liu & TBD

4 team spots remaining

Individual Registration

Ben Yue

Sydnee Metzold

Nicholas Astbury

Mandy Gabriel

Jade Rau - Body Baggers

Davidson Kozlowski

John Lucian goins

Chandra Moore-Body baggers

Rey Greenlaw

5 player spots remaining

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