The Dink Minor League Pickleball @ Cranky Pickle ~ New Braunfels, Texas
April 26 - 27, 2025
Registration open
Ends April 22, 2025
Events
Format: The Dink Minor League Pickleball
Price: $60.00 / Player (must register and pay as a team)
Description
Saturday: DUPR 14 & 18
Sunday: DUPR 16 & 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.
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
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
Cranky Crockpot Chicken (Team DUPR = 13.522)
TBD & Deanna Angel & Blake Olson & Leslie Anderson
Dink Around and Find Out (Team DUPR = 14.148)
Jeanne Cyree & Kain Smith & Kristin Wolfe & Stephen Wolfe
NBTX (Team DUPR = 14.269)
Colton Rutherford & Lauren May & Tyree Stewart & Cody Dees
KC Bangers (Team DUPR = 14.215)
Ken Kosic & Kim Kosic & Ava Kosic & Travis Beard
Pickle Chips (Team DUPR = 14.063)
John Napier & Thor Lokey & Christina Amaro & Jennifer Larsen
Cranky Pickle Purple Cobras (Team DUPR = 13.799)
Cody Weil & Brittany Weil & Lee Brinkerhoff & Melyn Gregorio
I Dink Therefore I Am (Team DUPR = 14.224)
Trevor Leslie & cynthia leslie & max leslie & Theresa Long
Bad Poachers (Team DUPR = 14.15)
Eric King & Kevin Clinton & Becky Clinton & Brandy Hamilton
Dinkers (Team DUPR = 13.708)
Allan Zamora & Tiff Zamora & Adrian Llanas & Erica. Llanas
The B Team (Team DUPR = 12.574)
Brandon Lamb & Shelly Whidby & Brandon Lamb & Shelly Whidby
Big Dills (Team DUPR = 12.77)
Gina Domis & JJ McSweeney & Chad Cunningham & Anna Gonzalez
Jr Cranky Picklers (Team DUPR = 13.964)
Jesse Allen Thomas Jr & Ranger Adams & Delaney Anderson & Loralee James
0 team spots remaining
DUPR 16
Ready to Rumble (Team DUPR = 16.259)
Darren Anderson & Chip Lano & Lauren May & Angelica Ramos
The Cranky Picklers (Team DUPR = 16.274)
Mia Huet & Cynthia Choi & Dean Ong & Jordan Argabright
NBTX (Team DUPR = 15.83)
Colton Rutherford & Derrick McCoy & Kristin Wolfe & Deanna Angel
Wasians (Team DUPR = 15.577)
Shwe Sein & Meagan Desmet & John Desmet & Tien Vo
SM Rio River Rats (Team DUPR = 15.948)
Stephen De Leon & Justin Youens & Casi Helbig & Kristen Turner
Highway Lobbery (Team DUPR = 16.094)
Pia Lomax & Chris Stansbury & Ben Bergsten & Jeanne Cyree
Without a Paddle (Team DUPR = 15.424)
Jeff Karl Miller & Niusha Emami & Jeff Karl Miller & Jeff Karl Miller
Liveball (Team DUPR = 16.099)
Remus Anduiza & Brenda Lopez & Brian Frost & Lindsey Epperson
The Crankys and the Markleys (Team DUPR = 15.465)
Jesse Allen Thomas Jr & BJ Markley & Lily Markley & Becky Markley
Cranky Picklers (Team DUPR = 15.925)
Walter Golden & Gary Rigoni & Linda shields & Jennifer Larsen
2 team spots remaining
DUPR 18
First Rodeo (Team DUPR = 18.011)
Darren Anderson & Jane Ayala & Evonne Allerkamp & David Jt Tucker
The Cranky Picklers IV (Team DUPR = 17.85)
Mia Huet & John Vollbrecht & Christie Muldoon & Hector Zamora
3 team spots remaining
DUPR 20
Cranky Picklers (Team DUPR = 20.261)
Martin Robertson & Christopher Robertson & Mariel Tinnirello & Mariel Tinnirello
4 team spots remaining
