Dink Minor Leagues @ Pickleville ~ Knoxville, Tennessee by Southern Pickleball
June 1, 2024
Registration closed
Ended May 28, 2024
Events
Format: Minor League Pickleball, Rotating Partner Round Robin
Price: $0.00 – $70.00 / Player
Description
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)
DUPR 16 (The team’s aggregate DUPR must not exceed 16.30)
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, 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 14
Pickleball Addicts
Melanie Vanderpool & Leddy Vanderpool & Scott Mobley & Laura Mobley
Dill or No Dill
Craegen Ashby & Channie Ashby & Cindy Tabor & Stephen Pruitt
Broken Dinks
Amoron Blakeman & Matt Blakeman & Jen Schumacher & Nikki Roufs
2 team spots remaining
DUPR 16
Keeping Balls Deep
Mark Cutright & Jill Cutright & Josh Cutright & Savana Edwards
The Body Baggers
Jerry Whitsitt & Ryan Walden & Daria Tyshchenko & Gloria Jang
Super Dupr's
Anne Warren & Josh Roberts & Dave Allen & Jennifer Arthur
Tri-Cities
Scott Dietrich & Gina & Mike Maness & Stephanie Saxma
TN Takers
Ana Draht & Allison Dalton & Brad Moorman & Jalen Hopkins
E-Town Pickled By Life
Wendell Smith & David Eversole & Kay Parker & Lesa Haynes
2 Chicks and 2 Dudes from Georgia
Lara Schu & Angie Briant & Sung Choe & Mark Spackman
1 team spot remaining
DUPR 18
Hometown Pickleball
John M. Kallevig & Matthew Taylor & Kaitlyn Harp & Haley Hensley
Big Dink Energy
Greg Adkins & Kelly Smith & Cheri Hogrefe & Becky Hardesty
E-Town Paddle Pounders
Mc Dranreb Africa & Jaime Velediaz & Tammy Moore & Mallary Kelley
Dinkernators
Chad Talbot & Christopher Bowman & Lisa Duong & Mickey Napier
4 team spots remaining
DUPR 20
E-Town Mixed Signals
Alex White & Criss Golden & Willa Rogers & Renee Ensor
4 team spots remaining
Individual Registration
No players yet
1 team spot remaining