Pickleball Charleston’s Championship Cup Presented by Pickleball Charleston

🏆 The 3rd Annual Pickleball Charleston Cup 🏆

The DOUBLES and TEAM events are "stand alone" event, therefore you can play in one without playing in the other. To be eligible for the CUP, you have to play in the TEAM event. To give yourself the best chance to win the CUP, all four teammates should play doubles too.

Get ready for one of the most exciting pickleball weekends of the year!
This unique event lets you grab 3 friends to form a team of 4 (Teams are either all male or all female). Here’s how it works:

• Saturday: Doubles Event All Ages and 50+ (Men's and Women's Divisions Only, no Mixed)

• Sunday: Team Event (Men's and Women's Divisions Only, no Mixed) – 4 person teams (MiLP style only teams are all one gender) and you play matches against other teams in your division. A match consists of 4 doubles games (Team Captains decide the lineup and each player will play 2 games in a match), the team that wins the most games wins the match. If both teams win 2 games, then a 5th doubles game will be played to determine the winner.

Earn points for your team on Saturday based on how you finish in each division. Then as a team earn more points on Sunday, and the Team with the most points takes home the CASH 💰 and gets their name engraved on the Cup!

👉 The best part? You choose how you want to play:
1. Doubles Only
2. Team Event Only
3. Both Doubles + Team Event – for your shot at the CASH and the Cup!

Don’t miss your chance to be part of Pickleball Charleston history.

Format Details:
Once a player registers, their rating is “locked” and their DUPR increasing or decreasing will not impact their team’s aggregate or division placement. To be eligible for the Championship Cup Prize Money, all 4 players have to have an established rating in DUPR. Your rating must include games from a tournament/league within the last 6 months or a rating provided by a certified DUPR Coach.

TEAM FORMAT:
Pickleball Charleston's team competition is where teams of 4 players compete against other teams in a unique format.

Matches are composed of four games, with each player participating in two games (players can NOT have the same partner twice in one match). The matchups will be determined by the Team Captains. If both teams are tied at 2-2 after the 4 games are played, they’ll go to a tiebreaker.

Tie Breaker: A doubles game to 11 win by 1. The Team Captains will select the matchup, then when one team has scored 6 points the other four players finish the game. Ex: Team 1 Player A & Player C vs Team 2 Player B & Player C to start, and when one team has scored 6 points the teams switch ends and players. The rest of the game will be Team 1 B & D vs Team 2 A & D. (Tie breaker is NOT recorded in DUPR)

Scoring: Standard Scoring

DOUBLES FORMAT:
When deciding which bracket to register for, combine you and your partner’s rating. If your rating total is under 7, then you register for DUPR 7. Example: Your rating is 3.65 and your partner’s rating is 3.3 your team rating is 6.95. Therefore, you register for DUPR 7.

To be eligible for the Championship Cup Prize Money, both players have to have an established rating in DUPR. Your rating must include games from a tournament/league within the last 6 months or a rating provided by a certified DUPR Coach.

Round Robin into bracket. All teams are scheduled for a minimum of 5 games. All scores will be entered into DUPR. The bracket size will determine if it will be single or double elimination.

Scoring Format: Standard Scoring

Round Robin: Number of games will be determined by the number of teams in your Pool.

Bracket: Matches consist of one game 15 (win by 2) format.

Teams will be placed into pools based on their team rating (combine you and your partner’s rating). If you do NOT have a DUPR rating you will be given a rating in our tournament software based identical to your partner’s rating (one player is required to have a rating).