Dink Minor Leagues @ John Newcombe Country Club ~ Braunsfel, Texas (June)
June 22 - June 23, 2024
Registration closed
Ended June 18, 2024
Events
Format: The Dink Minor League Pickleball
Price: $60.00 / Player (must register and pay as a team)
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.
June 22nd: DUPR 14 & 18
June 23rd: DUPR 16 & 20
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
Heeeeyyyyy Kool-Aid (Team DUPR = 13.73)
Travis Beard & Tracy Karschnik & Carol Baring & Gill Brochu
The Pickle Pak (Team DUPR = 13.88)
Brandon Jones & David Pak & Kristine Pak & Jeanne Cyree
Legally Brined (Team DUPR = 14.57)
Connor Lowrance & Lee May Gonzales & Nicole Kuhn & Alexx Montanez
No drops (Team DUPR = 14.09)
Jorge Betancourt & Azahareni Guerra & Carlos Nolasco & Crusita Lopez
Nothing But Net (Team DUPR = 11.97)
Brandon Lamb & Cynthia Stewart & Cody Weil & Brittany Weil
The Team With No Name (Team DUPR = 12.48)
Eric King & Tracey King & Kevin Clinton & Becky Clinton
Dink Positive (Team DUPR = 14.25)
Tracy Allen & Mike Allen & Chris Washa & Lauren May
1 team spot remaining
DUPR 16
Cranky Picklers (Team DUPR = 16.3)
Walter (Trey) Golden & DARREN ANDERSON & Pia Lomax & Katheryne Tang
Team Fuhulatoogans (Team DUPR = 16.09)
David Sorenson & Victoria Valadez & Mia Huet & Jordan Argabright
We Got Skills (Team DUPR = 15.3)
Lyle Jeffrey Hartz & Sandra Haines & Gabriel Folse & Litsa Folse
Ivory League (Team DUPR = 16.3)
Sam Hakim & Eric Mapes & Megan Hawkins & Kathie Bendle
Austin Eastside Pickle Paddle Ranch Club (Team DUPR = 15.73)
Lindsey Stawowy & Anh Nguyen & Lisa Dao & Erin Pang
Dink 182 (Team DUPR = 14.78)
Jennifer Larsen & Kira Villrreal & Diz Benliro & Lito Sensano
The Dill Slicers (Team DUPR = 15.45)
Chip Lano & Derrick McCoy & Jeanne Cyree & Lauren May
1 team spot remaining
DUPR 18
JNCC (Team DUPR = 18.3)
Jake Namken & Luana Stanciu & Freddie Stone & Rachel Janssen
Cranky Picklers (Team DUPR = 18.2)
Walter (Trey) Golden & DARREN ANDERSON & Julie Alvarez & Mariel Tinnirello
The Big Dills (Team DUPR = 17.5)
Daniel Ng & Chris Tripoli & Steph Douglass & Courteney Landis
Hold My Pickle (Team DUPR = 16.57)
Jennifer Ryon & Billie Ryon & Trent Trullender & Wendi Schlesinger
4 lokos (Team DUPR = 17.6)
Hector Zamora IV & Mia Huet & John Vollbrecht & Christie Muldoon
3 team spots remaining
DUPR 20
The Dill (Team DUPR = 18.58)
Jimbo Valadez & Nicki Tafolla & Jane Ayala & Ajit (AJ) Kurki
JNCC (Team DUPR = 17.8)
Luana Stanciu & Frederick Stone & Don Henderson & Victoria Beardsley
The Denim Ninjas (Team DUPR = 19.13)
Jake Namken & Mariel Tinnirello & Emilse De Los Santos & Josiah Watje
Unpredictable (Team DUPR = 19.94)
Marie Lutz & Sebastian Gutierrez & Cherie Yi & Eliel Herminas
4 team spots remaining
Individual Registration
No players yet
8 team spots remaining
