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The Dink Minor League Pickleball @ Performance Pickleball RVA – Henrico, Virginia

August 24, 2024

Registration closed

Ended August 20, 2024

Address

8641 Quioccasin Road

Tuckahoe, VA 23229, United States of America

Events

Format: The Dink Minor League Pickleball

Price: $75.00 / Player

Tournament Director

Jon Laaser

Description

The future of pickleball is NOW: 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

VA Warriors (Team DUPR = 14)

Mary M Ganous & Lilia Dietz & Bart Zekert & David Magner

Giant Gherkins (Team DUPR = 14)

Susie Solari & Kevin Solari & Lindsay Jones & Randy Jones

Tickle My Pickle (Team DUPR = 13.896)

Matthew Sachs & Marian Howard & Hugo Rodriguez & Kelly Silvers

5 team spots remaining

DUPR 16

Richmond Rally (Team DUPR = 14.542)

Matthew Drumm & Rachel Wolman & Mark Hannon & Hasun Hamilton

Dink Around and Find Out (Team DUPR = 16.34)

Jon Laaser & Brooke Hopkins & Lauren Giedgowd & Lloyd Zelazny

Rivanna Pickle Club (Team DUPR = 14.669)

Kyle Stamper & Tamar Glaser & Daryl Russell & Kristin Kauffman

Misfit Toys (Team DUPR = 14.5)

Leah Fremouw & Sriram Talluri & Laine Sims & Kirk Unson

Roanoke Ruckus-All Gas (Team DUPR = 15.766)

Kamyron Meeks & Penny Goodwin & Bill Gallagher & Kim Mays

Star City Smash (Team DUPR = 14.862)

Lauren Sprouse & Matthew Bedwell & Ashlyn Pugh & Matthew Phelps

Richmond Netflickers (Team DUPR = 15.4)

Todd Springer & Jack Kendall & Beth Ashton & Eileen Talamante

Cville Baddies (Team DUPR = 15.157)

Aydon Duenas & Adam Gemmill & Emily Clancy & Knikki Hernandez

Salisbury Shredders (Team DUPR = 16.3)

Lee Warfield & Margie Warfield & Nina Sorkin & Scott Steinour

0 team spots remaining

DUPR 18

Carpe DINK em (Team DUPR = 17.887)

Aimee Zona & Dipen Patel & Chanthachone Williams & Suraj Singh Chandel

Pouncey Picklers (Team DUPR = 17.43)

Morgan Fuqua & Arnav Khanna & Lizzy Salazar & Hridhay Pothunoori

6 team spots remaining

DUPR 20

The Good the Bad and the Oldie (Team DUPR = 19.185)

Joseph Carroll & Sarah Boruta & Thaian Nguyen & Christina Barker

The Brew Crew (Team DUPR = 19.825)

Megan Knutson & Angela Fink & Jared Racicot & Vincent Riccabona

6 team spots remaining

Individual Registration

David Robertson

3 player spots remaining