The Dink Minor League Pickleball @ the Greater Midland Tennis Center ~ Michigan (October)
October 19 - 20, 2024
Registration closed
Ended October 15, 2024
Note - to view the tournament as a spectator, please download the Swish mobile app on your phone or tablet. Once you have the app downloaded, please click from your mobile device and it will take you to "Spectator Mode".
Address
Greater Midland Tennis Center
900 East Wackerly Street, Midland, MI 48640, United States of America
Events
Format: The Dink Minor League Pickleball
Price: $80.00 / Player
Description
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:
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 12
No players yet
8 team spots remaining
DUPR 14
Rally Rascals (Team DUPR = 13.346)
Linda Kim-Habermehl & Steven Schoenherr & Janice Shawl & Keith Thurlow
Cross Court Crushers (Team DUPR = 14.243)
Kent Miller & Maureen Acker & Renee Casady & Roger Ferguson
Pickle Pugs (Team DUPR = 14.668)
Breanna Embury & Rene Carrasco & Lori LaPoe & BRENT REHOR
The Real Dill (Team DUPR = 14)
mary baumgarten & Vicki Bunker & Greg Bunker & Christopher Setser
4 team spots remaining
DUPR 16
Pickle Squad (Team DUPR = 15.33)
Lori Brown & Ann Szymanowski & Kenneth F Arthur & Dennis Buckler
Flick n Pickles (Team DUPR = 15.643)
James Flick & Nancy Flick & Bethany Flick & Jared Flick
Pickle me Elmo (Team DUPR = 14.38)
Jack Bunker & Kristen Birch & Josh Elliot & Christine Nisula
Dilly Dallies (Team DUPR = 14.796)
Jeremy Owen & Julie Loessel & Kathy Washabaugh & Ron Crowl
Dinking Dirty (Team DUPR = 14.879)
Andy Lai & Darla Pawlak & Curt Zastrow & Mary Ann Bellor
3 team spots remaining
DUPR 18
No players yet
8 team spots remaining
DUPR 20
No players yet
8 team spots remaining
Individual Registration
Andy Lai
Dan Wolgast
8 player spots remaining
