The Dink Minor League Pickleball @ PALA ~ Spring, Texas
September 14 - September 15, 2024
Registration closed
Ended September 12, 2024
Events
Format: The Dink Minor League Pickleball
Price: $75.00 / Player
Description
DUPR 14 & 18: 14th 12:00pm
DUPR 16 & 20: 15th 12:00pm
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 end of day 15 days prior to the Minor League Pickleball start date.
Eg: 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.
Players
DUPR 14
Spaceballs (Team DUPR = 14.3)
Michell Bergeaux & Nicole Ortiz & Nate Kist & John Wang
Dink and Destroy (Team DUPR = 13.707)
Dylan Carnes & Tim Huynh & Diana Lievano & Sean Newson
Cranky Picklers (Team DUPR = 13.31)
Cody Weil & Brittany Weil & Brandon Lamb & Mia Huet
Ball Busters (Team DUPR = 13.709)
James Newton & Katherine Newton & Seve Ramirez & Melissa Reineke
HTOWN Heavy Hitters (Team DUPR = 14.511)
Christine Gonzaga & Alan Truong & Calvin Eata & Liana Tam
Tran Clan (Team DUPR = 13.922)
Johny Tran & Julie Tran & Tony Tran & Annie Mescall
6 team spots remaining
DUPR 16
Dink-A-Boo (Team DUPR = 15.488)
Christine Gonzaga & Dylan Carnes & Ivan Ayangco & Earl Benigay
Lone Star Liners (Team DUPR = 15.554)
Andrew Keller & Lyndsey Keller & Steven Kaplan & Margaret Harris
One Good Driver (Team DUPR = 15.32)
David Chuah & Hannah Vuong & Lakoda Jacobson & Jennifer Tieu
You-You Me-Me (Team DUPR = 16.349)
Kevin Carnett & Andy Duong & jacqueline Christlieb & Veronica Velez
Greybeards (Team DUPR = 16.463)
guillermo ordorica & Nick Keith & Kellye Ansel & Stephanie Smith
White rice & beans (Team DUPR = 15.805)
Carlos Bonilla & Stanley Ng & Shannen Sombito & Taylor McFarland
6 team spots remaining
DUPR 18
Cranky Picklers (Team DUPR = 18.29)
Walter (Trey) Golden & Martin Robertson & Mariel Tinnirello & Christie Muldoon
11 team spots remaining
Individual Registration
Brian Watts
11 player spots remaining