The Dink Minor League Pickleball @ Pickleball at Victory Pickleball ~ Loves Park, Illinois (August)
August 25, 2024
Registration closed
Ended August 21, 2024
Events
Format: The Dink Minor League Pickleball
Price: $70.00 / Player
Description
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.
All Divisions will start at 9:00am. Courts will be available for warm-up starting at 8:15am and there will be an all division meeting from 8:45am - 9:00am.
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
Flamingos (Team DUPR = 12.776)
Kari Herrera & Jonathan Herrera & Danielle Vanek & Patrick Vanek
Drop It Like It s Hot (Team DUPR = 14.11)
Neil Kasicki & Erica Smith & Ricky Wolfe & Renee Kanak
Dink Squad (Team DUPR = 15.405)
Luke McMillan & Leah Carter & Ethan Schau & Mary Smith
5 team spots remaining
DUPR 16
Money Time (Team DUPR = 15.88)
Brandon Goldbeck & Rachel Goldbeck & Josh Leber & Rebecca Hulce
February and Quin (Team DUPR = 16.126)
Joaquin Gonzalez & Abigail Czaja & Sue Knuth & Adrian Velasquez
Designated Dinkers (Team DUPR = 15.8)
Morey Washington & Ann Washington & Jake Washington & Kristine Speece
Slice Slice Baby (Team DUPR = 15.623)
Marc Smith & Joetta Haas & Steve Leppert & Michelle O Donnell
Then who’s that (Team DUPR = 15.5)
Khash Lkhaajav & Tuly Syphommarath & Bella Kazluski & Ian Holley
Ultimate Coy (Team DUPR = 16.023)
Abbi Erickson & Lindsay Becker & Matt Verderame & Hassan Kamel
Victory Warriors (Team DUPR = 16.57)
Patti Sowers & Chuck Merriott & Rick Tague & Becca Ivancich
1 team spot remaining
DUPR 18
Kind of a big dill (Team DUPR = 17.62)
Maggie kasicki & Nick Montgomery & Lisa Hurda & Heath chambers
Madisonians (Team DUPR = 16.46)
Holly Elsberry & Michelle Hebert & Kelby Mack & Ruben Diaz
Deadly Dinks (Team DUPR = 17.699)
Kathy Helms & Tan Tran & Jonathan Betz & Hannah Manning
Mid-court crisis (Team DUPR = 16.769)
Marcia Moe & Rej Shaun-Strathman & Abhishek Shankar & Chris Nuon
A Team (Team DUPR = 16.199)
Noah Hlavac & Ben Brandel & Lola Berumen & Lola Chemer
3 team spots remaining
Individual Registration
No players yet
0 player spots remaining
DUPR 20
No players yet
8 player spots remaining
