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Australia Minor League Pickleball @ Melbourne

September 8, 2024

Registration closed

Ended September 3, 2024

Address

Frankston Centenary Tennis Club

Centenary Park Drive, Frankston North VIC 3910, Australia

Events

Format: The Dink Minor League Pickleball

Price: AUD75.00 / Player

Tournament Director

Mike Newell

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

Picklemon (Team DUPR = 12.987)

Kim Leong & John Maitland & Debra Driessen & Simon Nightingale

Kitchen Nightmares (Team DUPR = 12.679)

Kirsty Anderson & Simone Newland & Logan Wall & Jonathan Lee

Tassie Dinking Devils (Team DUPR = 12.379)

Phil Exton & Zoe Exton & Robecca Sinclair & Dieter Jones

Zero Zero Four (Team DUPR = 13.769)

James Cox & Loretta Millen & Simon Butson & Andy Butson

4 team spots remaining

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DUPR 16

Pickleholic Pals (Team DUPR = 15.249)

Matthew Gunadi & Pary Gohil & Diana Van Dooren & Claire Walker

Rebel4 (Team DUPR = 13.4)

Ben Teo & Lee Na Lee & Melissa Wartman & Drew Woff

4 Pickles In A Pod (Team DUPR = 14.563)

Amanda Moo & Tevita Palu & Casey Dolcetta & Kingsley Liu

Marvels Four (Team DUPR = 14.216)

Amy Yong & Martin Cherk & Ron Huynh & Sally Lee

Just Dink It (Team DUPR = 14.644)

Michelle Gross & Trieste HuyClark & Geoff Forbes & Joshua DeLange

Kind of a Big Dill (Team DUPR = 16.128)

Matthew Pattison & Anna mjatovic & Jessica Close & James Burgoine

Double Trouble (Team DUPR = 17.204)

Craig Jones & Christie Potsepis & Mimi Ghisellini & Broden Cox

Rebel Alliance (Team DUPR = 13.595)

Andrew Nguyen & David Perry & Melissa Wartman & Lee Na Lee

0 team spots remaining

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DUPR 18

ODNT (Team DUPR = 17.2)

Diana Suttebry & Rosa Morris & James Burgoine & David Lurie

7 team spots remaining

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DUPR 20

Dink Dynasty (Team DUPR = 16.206)

Rebecca Lally & Paul Gleddon & Timothy Kuznetsov & Molly O'Donaghue

7 team spots remaining

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Individual Registration (Include Division in Name)

Lau Hoi Ting (Joyce)

Geoff Forbes

Rob Miller

Sonia Goodliffe

Chris Singh

3 player spots remaining