Minor League Pickleball @ Paddle Creek Pickleball Resort – Nashville, TN
January 3 - 5, 2025
Registration open
Ends December 30, 2024
Events
Format: The Dink Minor League Pickleball
Price: $75.00 / Player
Description
Friday Jan 3 8:00am – 2:40pm DUPR 12 (age 50+)
Friday Jan 3 2:40pm – 8:20pm DUPR 14 (age 50+)
Saturday Jan 4 8:00am – 2:40pm DUPR 16 (all ages)
Saturday Jan 4 2:40pm – 8:20pm DUPR 18 (all ages)
Sunday Jan 5 8:00am – 2:40pm DUPR 12 (all ages)
Sunday Jan 5 2:40pm – 8:20pm DUPR 14 (all ages)
For each division, round robin play is anticipated to last 4 hours followed by approximately 2.5 hours of playoff brackets for teams that advance.
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 12 (The team’s aggregate DUPR must not exceed 12.30)
**Maximum individual player DUPR cannot exceed 3.60 to play in DUPR 12
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 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 18 (The team’s aggregate DUPR must not exceed 18.30)
**Maximum individual player DUPR cannot exceed 5.10 to play in DUPR 18
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, June 1, 2024. After June 1, 2024, 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
No players yet
4 team spots remaining
DUPR 14
Pickleballerz (Team DUPR = 14.034)
David Hanes & Trevor Honeycutt & kris Honeycutt & Cara Graham
Tenn 4 (Team DUPR = 14.774)
Kevin Gillespie & Leonard Warren & Mary Dobson & Susie Knose
2 team spots remaining
DUPR 16
Beauties and the Beasts (Team DUPR = 15.604)
Carolyn Peterson & James Peterson & Ryan Burnett & Valerie Smith
Big Dink Energy (Team DUPR = 15.055)
Kara Moody & Daniel Zapata & Grace Baird & Nathan Foutch
2 team spots remaining
DUPR 18
Bada Bing Bada Boom (Team DUPR = 18.09)
Michelle Casady & Kevin Mulder & Kraig Haberer & Kimberly Collins
Music City Smash (Team DUPR = 17.661)
Alex Balingit & Dalton Potts & Sarah Beth Bowers & Nicole crosby
BK & 2Pauls (Team DUPR = 18.302)
Paul Williams & Paul Davidson & Brooklyn Tolentino & Kendall Warren
3 team spots remaining
DUPR 12 (Age 50+)
60 something’s (Team DUPR = 12.649)
Deborah Huber & John Wilson & Rhonda Wicks & Leonard Cathey
3 team spots remaining
DUPR 14 (Age 50+)
Tenn 4 (Team DUPR = 14.549)
Kevin Gillespie & Mary Dobson & Susie Knose & Leonard Warren
Chefs in the Kitchen (Team DUPR = 13.675)
Thomas Behrens & AnnRiley Caldwell & Ellen Eagon & Terry Hoffberg
2 team spots remaining
Individual Registration
Kelly McDonnell
Cathie Weaver
10 player spots remaining
