The Dink Minor League Pickleball @ John Newcombe Country Club March
March 22 - 23, 2025
Registration open
Ends March 15, 2025
Address
John Newcombe Country Club
625 Mission Valley Road, New Braunfels, TX 78132, United States of America
Events
Format: The Dink Minor League Pickleball
Price: $80.00 / Player (must register and pay as a team)
Description
Saturday - 8:00am DUPR 16 & 20; 1:00pm DUPR 12
Sunday - 10:00am DUPR 14 & 18
Cash prize money will be distributed to each division depending on registration starting at $500 per division winners with minimum 4 teams. The amount will increase if more teams sign up. 8 teams - $1000 prize money
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 12
The Cranky Pickles Doce (Team DUPR = 12.22)
Becky Brandenburger & Ron brandenburger & Cynthia Stewart & Brandon Kennedy
Cranky Pickles (Team DUPR = 11.752)
Shelly Whidby & Brandon Lamb & Kim Guillory & Travis Beard
Newkies (Team DUPR = 12.073)
Allan Zamora & Tiff Zamora & Mark Vlahos & Tyree Stewart
12 Pack Big Shots (Team DUPR = 12.282)
Leslie Anderson & Lorilee Hammer & Matt Turner & Mitchell Wigginton
SUPR DUPRs (Team DUPR = 12.234)
Inaky Strick & Paige Miller & Chip Miller & Kristen Inks
3 team spots remaining
DUPR 14
Not so Cranky Pickles (Team DUPR = 14.142)
Ron brandenburger & Travis Beard & Jeanne Cyree & Nancy Muldoon
Baby got backhand! (Team DUPR = 14.082)
Chip Lano & Lauren May & Allan Zamora & Tyree Stewart
Dink and Destroy (Team DUPR = 12.746)
Nick Mericle & Elizabeth Mericle & Adrian Llanas & Erica Llanas
NBTX (Team DUPR = 14.189)
Colton Rutherford & Cody Dees & Theresa Long & Tiff Zamora
Cranky Roots (Team DUPR = 14.175)
Blake Olson & Lily Markley & Leslie Anderson & Jarrett Jecmenek
Bad Poachers (Team DUPR = 13.256)
Eric King & Tracey D King & Kevin Clinton & Becky Clinton
Dilly Dally’s (Team DUPR = 13.615)
Alex Owen & Ally Farmer & Nouri Aktouf & Elleana Poulis
TEAM TKVKs (Team DUPR = 13.438)
Van Davis & Alyx Chung & Scott Chung & Thuan Nguyen
Netflix n Dill (Team DUPR = 13.931)
Dominic Stanford & Nina Karlin & Andrew Awaldt & Thuy Whitaker
Newk’s Nukes (Team DUPR = 14.238)
Toy Bethel & howk bethel & Lucas Elmore & Kathy Uriarte
0 team spots remaining
DUPR 16
Cranky Picklers (Team DUPR = 16.121)
Walter Golden & Jeanne Cyree & Kristin Wolfe & Jesse Allen Thomas Jr
Ringing the Bell (Team DUPR = 16.272)
Darren Anderson & Katheryne Tang & Angelica Ramos & John Napier
BIG Dink Energy (Team DUPR = 16.051)
Chip Lano & Colton Rutherford & Megan Hawkins & Lauren May
Fab4 (Team DUPR = 14.738)
Gabriela Moni & Victor Pestana & Robert Moreno & Kristy Urbick
Net Flicks (Team DUPR = 16.291)
John “Juan” David & Weldon Long & Julie Alvarez & Casi Helbig
1 Day Dreamers (Team DUPR = 15.802)
Jeff Karl Miller & Niusha Emami & Ben Rogers & Ari Solis-Villa
Drops Shots (Team DUPR = 16.153)
Jesse Foster & Jennifer Hanson & Christina Amaro & Brad Neuhaus
1 team spot remaining
DUPR 18
Horns and Spurs (Team DUPR = 17.9)
Darren Anderson & Manolo Martinez & Whitney Shaffer & Christina Dorman
COBRA KAI (Team DUPR = 18.293)
Jake Namken & JP Gorby & Zalina Giometti & Emilse De Los Santos
Cranky Picklers (Team DUPR = 18.292)
Walter Golden & Mariel Tinnirello & Trent Trullender & Amanda Louie
Powerpuff Pickleball (Team DUPR = 18.046)
Adil Akbar & Julianna Hess & Evelyn Nguyen & Felix Yao
Tbd (Team DUPR = 13.769)
Luana Stanciu & TBD & Nikita Pradeep & Mo Isaboke
Clean (Team DUPR = 18.268)
amy Yarbrough & Nate Thurlow & Jimbo Valadez & Nicki Tafolla
0 team spots remaining
