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Dink Minor Leagues @ Bang Bros Pickleball and 3rd Shot Pickleball June throwdown ~ Wheat Ridge, Colorado

June 8 - June 9, 2024

Registration closed

Ended June 4, 2024

Address

3rd Shot Pickleball 3545 Wadsworth Boulevard

Wheat Ridge, CO 80033, United States of America

Events

Format: The Dink Minor League Pickleball

Price: $100.00 / Player (must register and pay as a team)

Tournament Director

JP Parker

Description

The future of pickleball is NOW: Minor League Pickleball is sweeping the nation with its innovative, fun and social amateur MLPlay™ Team Event. Hosted by Bang Bros Pickleball Ltd. 3rd Shot Pickleball, and The Inclusive Pickleball Project

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

Designated Dinkers

Tom Gibson & Lisa Fentress & Kellea Jeffrey & Brad Jeffrey

Smak!

Amy Lopez & Steve Lopez & Mike Jelen & Kelli Jelen

Four of a kind

Christophe Grimault & Erin Knaub & Ramon Contreras & Kat Perry

Konami Code

Van Dinh & Mandy Cole & Traci Wieland & Michael Tepper

0 team spots remaining

DUPR 18

A.C.E.D

Chris Curtis & Annie Perizzolo & Emily Mone & David Midtbo

Gilligan’s Island

Heidi Gurley & Leticia Baldwin & Steve Baldwin & Anthony Buttshaw

Dink around and find out

Pryncess Fifita & Sione Tauataina & Taylor Duran & Ti Fu

Suck My Dink

Melody Klein & Gwen McClure & Caleb Glass & Colin Cochran

The Underachievers

Ashley Knepp & Rachel Hines & Matthew Weigel & Nathan Gillespie

JAMBS!

Andrew Gendall & Jill Birkhead & Beth Cushman & Matt Ganskopp

AACD

Alicia Lai & Chris LeCompte & Anika Pornpitaksuk & Daniel Connell

Dank Dinks

Brooke Dennis & Gabriel Drury & Sean Behnke & Elizabeth Roy

Denver Super Shrooms

Aaron Monahan & Ryker Chute & McKenna Mills & Molly Ryan

Pop, Block and Drop It

Taylor Ahrensdorf & Jaime Weible & Sarah Ray & Jeff Kamei

Sneak Attack

Katherine Lynn & Joe Hopfe & James Snyder & Gretchen Dinges

0 team spots remaining

Individual Registration

Denise Van Peursem

Mitchell Chhay

Audrey Stapleton

Fio Collado

Ryan Eller

Kory Harper

Taylor O'Donnell

Stephan Balliet

Levi Blanchette

Hannah Templeton

Chelsey Parker

Shelby Ireland

0 team spots remaining