The Dink Minor League Pickleball @ NP Palm Desert Open ~ California
October 18, 2024
Registration closed
Ended October 14, 2024
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Address
Palm Desert Resort Country Club
77333 Country Club Drive, Palm Desert, CA 92211, United States of America
Events
Format: The Dink Minor League Pickleball
Price: $70.00 / Player
Description
8AM start time
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)
DUPR 16 (The team’s aggregate DUPR must not exceed 16.30)
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, cancellation must be received by the final day of registration.
Players
DUPR 14
TBD (Team DUPR = 14.29)
Tony Goble & Michelle Vrolyks & Nathan Rufty & Heather Hoehn-Paine
Drop it like it’s hot (Team DUPR = 13.8)
Patrick Pichon & Denise Pichon & Joseph Rocchio & Amy hamric
6 team spots remaining
DUPR 16
Pickle Pirates (Team DUPR = 14.3)
Dyan Cwynar & Derek Vanacore & Monique Jansen Trimble & Josh Trimble
High Sierra Hitters (Team DUPR = 15.987)
Greg Hartker & Paige Mezger & Rebecca Milo & Colton Byrnes
6 team spots remaining
DUPR 18
OneShot (Team DUPR = 18.58)
Kelly James & Dan Milgrom & Tuyen Nguyen & JoAnn Gries
Fair Oaks Ranchers (Team DUPR = 16.571)
Jimmy Warshawsky & Asa Richards & Lisa Warshawsky & Vanessa Felix
Uke and Do It (Team DUPR = 17.623)
Kristin Walla & Fergus Gould & Mimi Mercado & Mike Evans
Drop Posse (Team DUPR = 15.915)
TARA COLE & Joseph Aguilar & Denise Leonard & Kellen Arnold
The OG s (Team DUPR = 17.958)
Jay E Rippel & Benjamin Druyon & Kristina McNamara & Drita Rosin
Happy Valley Pickleball (Team DUPR = 18.216)
Thomas Dalessandro & Scott Wong & Mary Buchanan & Dalia Garza
Mission Hills (Team DUPR = 16.687)
Wendy Melcher & Andrea Bowen & Duke Kulas & Robert Downing
1 team spot remaining
Individual Registration
No players yet
8 player spots remaining
DUPR 12
No players yet
8 team spots remaining
DUPR 20
PB4Σ (Team DUPR = 18.521)
Danielle Murcray & Julie Henderson & Brady Bowles & Eric Glade
No Filter Pickle (Team DUPR = 18.879)
Jenny Robinson & Tori Eichleay & Eric Byrnes & Andrew Biederman
6 team spots remaining
