Paddle for Life
February 1, 2025
Registration open
Ends January 27, 2025
Events
Format: The Dink Minor League Pickleball
Price: $50.00 / Player (must register and pay as a team)
Description
Crosses for Cameron - https://www.crossesforcameron.org
Garden of Healing - https://gardenofhealingfargo.com
Prize Money: $400 for each division winning team
Tournament Schedule:
12:00PM Start Time
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 for Paddle for Life:
Saturday, February 1st, 2025
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
How to sign up for a DUPR account(free): https://dashboard.dupr.com/signup
Cancellation/Refund Policy
Cancellation Deadline
To receive a refund minus the $5 technology fee, cancellation must be received by the end of day January 12, 2025. After January 12th, no refunds will be issued.
Players
DUPR 12
No players yet
4 team spots remaining
DUPR 14
Pickleballmaniacs (Team DUPR = 14.025)
Susan Klabunde & Scott Archer & Melinda Moffett & Jeff Hemberger
7 team spots remaining
DUPR 16
Tweetle beetle puddle paddle buddies (Team DUPR = 16.254)
Sara kemmet & Zachary Smith & Kyle Finneman & Samantha Colvin
AG ED DNKRS (Team DUPR = 15.819)
heidi odegaard & Brett Odegaard & Andrea Langlie & Mark Langlie
AG ED DNKRS (Team DUPR = 15.819)
heidi odegaard & Brett Odegaard & Andrea Langlie & Mark Langlie
5 team spots remaining
DUPR 18
PASHTUNS (Team DUPR = 17.385)
Qasim Durrani & Annie Van Heel & Momin Durrani & Shireen Durrani
Family Hitters (Team DUPR = 17.346)
Kari Bryant & Daniel Bryant & Abby Bryant & Jameson Wanzek
Fargo Slice and Dice (Team DUPR = 17.21)
Amanda Logan & Daniel Skrade & Linette Dahl & Chad Weisgram
1 team spot remaining
