2024 Rotorua Doubles Tournament

Welcome to the 2024 Rotorua Pickleball Doubles Tournament - Registrations have now closed and we are preparing the pools for the tournament.

Emails will be sent out in the days leading up to the tournament with more detailed information on each day.

Registration fees for the tournament are $50 per player for the first event, and $20 for a second event, plus a $5 per event Swish Tournament tech fee which is non-refundable.

When you register for your second event the system will show the $50 initial registration fee, then give a discount of $30 to get to the $20 fee. Make sure you use the same email address for the second registration as this is what the system uses to recognise your second entry and apply the discount.

You must register and pay for both you and your playing partner at the same time, and will need their email address and DUPR ID to register.

This year we are going to have both a Championship competition and also a Plate competition for those who don't make it out of pool play and into the Medal Rounds. This will give more games for everyone!

All pool games will be to 15, win by 2, with the gold medal match and play off for 3rd and 4th best of three games to 11, win by 2.
Games will be un-timed, and all results will be uploaded to DUPR.
All players must have a DUPR account, and will ideally also have a Swish Sports App account linked to their DUPR account.

We will run both Open divisions and Super divisions, with the Super being for those who turn 60 anytime during 2024.

Practice times Practice times: Friday 8:30am to 9:45am and 5pm to 9pm. Game times will stick to the following schedule as much as possible but are subject to change so keep an eye on this page:

Friday 27th September - Super Men's and Super Women's:
Warm-up 8:30am to 9:45am
9am Registration Desk opens
9:45am Tournament Briefing
10:00am to 12:15pm - Super Mens and Super Womens Pool Play - courts 1 to 3 Mens, 4 to 6 Womens
1:00pm to 4:00pm Medal Brackets, Championship and Plate - including finals
4:00pm Medal presentations
5:00pm Registration Desk closes
5:00pm to 9pm practice play
9pm Practice play ends and courts are closed.

Saturday 28th September - Super Mixed and Open Mixed:
7:00am Registration Desk opens
7:45am Tournament Briefing
8:00am to 10:15am - Open Mixed Pool Play
10:30am to 1:00pm - Super Mixed Pool Play
1:00pm to 2:30pm Open Championship Bracket and Plate rounds
2:30pm to 4:00pm Super Championship brackets and Plate Rounds
4:00pm Open and Super Championship medal brackets, finals and Plate finals
6:00pm Mixed Medal Presentations

There is no tournament dinner this year to give time for the games to carry on if needed.

Sunday 29th September - Open Men's and Open Women's:
8am to 8:45am warm-up
8:45am - Briefing
9am to 10:30am Open Mens and Open Women's pool play - courts 1 to 3 Mens, 4 to 6 Womens
10:30am to 2:00pm Championship Brackets and Plate pool play
2:00pm Championship semis, finals and Plate finals
4:00pm Medal presentations

The Kitchen will be open from 9:30 to 3:30 selling light snacks, hot and cold drinks, cakes, toasted sandwiches, etc

Many thanks to our kind Sponsors:
Pickleball Essentials (Major Sponsor)
Dawson Insurance
Red Stag Timber
Speedy Signs Rotorua
EmbroidMe Rotorua

Looking forward to seeing you at this years tournament in our beautiful town.