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The Dink Minor League Pickleball @ The PICKLR ~ Scottsdale, Arizona

December 7 - December 8, 2024

Registration open

Ends December 3, 2024

Address

The Picklr - Scottsdale

9190 East Talking Stick Way, Scottsdale, AZ 85256, United States of America

Events

Format: The Dink Minor League Pickleball

Price: $70.00 / Player (must register and pay as a team)

Tournament Director

Will Plantillas

Description

START TIME 10AM BOTH DAYS
$12 fee per athlete paid directly to the PICKLR at check in.

12/7 DUPR 12, 14, 20
12/8 DUPR 14 50+, DUPR 16, DUPR 18

Cash prize per divisions listed below. *minimum teams required (please see rules)

Prizes:
1st Place DUPR 12 $600
1st Place DUPR 14 $800
1st Place DUPR 14 50+ $800
1st Place DUPR 16 $1000
1st Place DUPR 18 $1000
1st Place DUPR 20 $1000

SPONSORS:
Jigsaw Health

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

*Division minimum for cash prizes.
DUPR 12 $600 8 teams, $500 6 teams
DUPR 14 50+ $800 8 teams, $600 6 teams
DUPR 14: $800 8 teams, $600 6 teams
DUPR 16: $1000 8 teams, $800 6 teams
DUPR 18: $1000 8 teams, $800 6 teams
DUPR 20: $1000 8 teams, $800 6 teams

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

Serving and Sleighing (Team DUPR = 14.009)

Chi Kakizawa & Quentin Steele & Anna Grone & Adrian Lesoing

7 team spots remaining

DUPR 16

Pickle Me This (Team DUPR = 14.577)

Tony Goble & Michelle Vrolyks & Heather Hoehn-Paine & Nathan Rufty

Team Yeah Yeah (Team DUPR = 15.58)

Parris Biggs & Jason Lucero & Alex Lynch & Danaka Stanger

Jingle Bell Bangers (Team DUPR = 15.828)

Alex Maldonado & Matthew Montoya & Janessa Maldonado & Ellie Medawar

Desert Dinkers (Team DUPR = 16.29)

Annie Stender & Lise Houston & Jose Magallanes & Allen Nevarez

4 team spots remaining

DUPR 18

The Aces (Team DUPR = 17.914)

LORIN SCHLECHT & Andrea McDaniel & Ricardo Coppel & Vicki Teeple

7 team spots remaining

DUPR 20

No players yet

8 team spots remaining

DUPR 14 (Age 50+)

Not as old as you Dink (Team DUPR = 13.068)

Lorry Bottrill & Claire Ritchie & Jeff Earl & David R Randall

7 team spots remaining