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COLORADO STATE CHAMPIONSHIP ~ The Dink Minor League Pickleball @ The Picklr ~ Aurora

May 31 - June 7, 2025

Registration open

Ends May 27, 2025

Address

The Picklr Aurora

23860 East Orchard Road, Aurora, CO 80016, United States of America

Events

Format: The Dink Minor League Pickleball

Price: $110.00 / Player

Tournament Director

JP Parker

Description

The Picklr and CPA members will receive discounted entry. Email [email protected] for discount code if you are a member.

Schedule:
5/31 will be DUPR 12 & 20. They will start at 8am. 6/1 will be DUPR 16. They will start at 8am. DUPR 14 will be 6/7, starting at 8am. DUPR 18 will be 6/8, starting at 8am

***IMPORTANT PLEASE READ PRIOR TO SIGN UP!***
MEDAL MATCHES-Will be played at Rocky Mountain Championships on Sunday June 22nd. Times will be released as it comes closer. As you sign up this will be considered an agreement that you and your team understand and agree to all terms listed.

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, May 1, 2025. After May 1, 2025, 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 12

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8 team spots remaining

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DUPR 14

No players yet

12 team spots remaining

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DUPR 16

No players yet

12 team spots remaining

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DUPR 18

No players yet

8 team spots remaining

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Levi Blanchette

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DUPR 20

Team Topspinners (Team DUPR = 20.899)

Tiffany Ash & Zach Drost & Beth Kaufman & Matthew Deaver

Twoey Nation (Team DUPR = 20.717)

Eli Steiner & Simone Leonard & Tomoko Taniguchi & Keaten Kappes

4 team spots remaining

Looking for Partners
Levi Blanchette

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Individual Registration

No players yet

20 player spots remaining