The Dink Minor League Pickleball @ Pickle & Chill, hosted by The Columbus Sliders April ’25
April 19, 2025
Registration open
Ends April 15, 2025
Address
Pickle & Chill
880 West Henderson Road, Columbus, OH 43214, United States of America
Events
Format: The Dink Minor League Pickleball
Price: $65.00 / Player (must register and pay as a team)
Description
***The code is PER PERSON, NOT per team! Players found registered having used the code, and not signed up for MLP/PPA Amateurs will be kicked out of the tournament.****
Amateur registration: https://pickleballtournaments.com/tournaments/columbus-classic
Tournament Schedule:
8:00 Am: DUPR 14, DUPR 16, DUPR 18
12:00pm DUPR 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:
**Refunds only to be issues to parties that did not use the 2 for 1 deal offered for MiLP and the MLP/PPA Amateur tournaments**
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
Joyce Cox & Stephen Mendoza & Monica Price & Edward L Stockwell
Team Name TBD... Please let us change it :) (Team DUPR = 13.816)
Kurt Mueller & Stephanie Taylor & Alan Scudds & Emily Kientz
6 team spots remaining
DUPR 16
Pick’em & Hit’em (Team DUPR = 15.72)
Ashley Topper & David Hague & Rachel Bixler & Neal Johnson
7 team spots remaining
DUPR 18
Premier (Team DUPR = 16.762)
Hannah Minnich & Logan Rowe & Cara Provenzale & Matt Spyak
7 team spots remaining
DUPR 20
No players yet
8 team spots remaining
Individual DUPR 14
Michael Case
15 player spots remaining
Individual DUPR 16
No players yet
16 player spots remaining
Individual DUPR 18
No players yet
20 player spots remaining
Individual DUPR 20
No players yet
20 player spots remaining
