The Dink Minor League Pickleball @ Canada Launch Party WEST at YEG Pickleball
April 18 - 19, 2025
Registration open
Ends April 14, 2025
Events
Format: 4-Person Team Format
Price: CAD100.00 / Player (must register and pay as a team)
Description
Friday April 18 8:30 AM Start time for DUPR 16
Friday April 18 1:30 PM Start time for DUPR 18
Saturday April 19 8:30 AM Start time for DUPR 14
Saturday April 19 1:30 PM Start time for DUPR 20
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.
PRIZING
Cash payouts based on full divisions of 8 and will be adjusted accordingly if your division is not full.
1st - $400 per team
2nd - $200 per team
3rd - $100 per team
ALL MATCHES WILL BE REFFED BY CERTIFIED REFEREES
*A CASH DONATION WILL BE COLLECTED AT SIGN IN TO HELP COVER REFEREE FEES
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)
**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
In the interest of maintaining partnership consistency, player safety, and fair play, we will follow suit with the paddle ban implemented by the CNPL.
USAP and UPA-A approved paddles are approved for use except the following banned paddles
Joola: Perseus 14mm Mod TA-15
Joola: Perseus 16mm Mod TA-15
Gearbox: Pro Power Elongated
ProKennex: Black Ace Ovation
ProKennex: Black Ace Pro
ProKennex: Black Ace LG
ProKennex: Black Ace XF
Chorus Fire
Please read the following link for more details.
https://cnpl.ca/canadian-national-pickleball-league-announces-immediate-ban-on-non-compliant-paddles/
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 14
Pipino Poachers (Team DUPR = 12.195)
Paolo Canton & Jay Mitra & Chai Cabrera & Gidget Fernandez
The Dirty Kitchen (Team DUPR = 13.476)
Don Besavilla & Richard Reburon & Ramesh wadkar & Erin Tanagras
Lil Dinkers (Team DUPR = 13.698)
Aura De Leon & Clarke Sopczak & Kennedy Sopczak & Paulo Tan
The Right Angles (Team DUPR = 14.032)
David Pye & Michael Medos & Holly Lewis & Nicola Barton
Kitchen Katchers (Team DUPR = 13.98)
Cyndi Hoekstra & Everett Hoekstra & Michele Garford & Rob Penner
3 team spots remaining
DUPR 16
Made you Dink (Team DUPR = 16.251)
Jeff Holm & Don Hickling & Nicola Barton & Serena Daniels
Flick it like it s Hot (Team DUPR = 15.76)
Blaine Weiss & Brady Weiss & Dallas Rushton & Karla Mertiny
Aime for Leon s nipple (Team DUPR = 15.72)
Jerry Pao & Terri Bercier & Amy Lattimer & Leon Malakhin
5 team spots remaining
DUPR 18
TOP GUNS (Team DUPR = 18.223)
Sean McCartan & Guy Wight & Gloria Wipf & Lauren Evans
Net Ninjas (Team DUPR = 17.805)
Declan Hickling & Taylor Chartier & Kevin MacAlpine & Nicole Walisser
6 team spots remaining
DUPR 20
The Pickleball Diaries (Team DUPR = 19.316)
Andrew Gorman & Anyarat Surin & Wing Tat Chan & Aireen Gorman
Body Baggers (Team DUPR = 19.304)
John Heinen & Kristy Ryan & Cassie Postma & Nolan Nicoll
Buenas Poaches (Team DUPR = 18.693)
Trevor Stride & Diane Gibb & John Huk & Femke Pennings
16 & Smashing (Team DUPR = 18.903)
Benjamin Lim & Amanda VanSpronsen & Jill Bjornson & David Martin
TNT (Team DUPR = 20.301)
Shea Koebel & Jacob Bolkowy & Ava Weeks & Bradley Saffran
3 team spots remaining
