The Dink Minor League Pickleball @ West Meade Nashville, Tennessee
October 26 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm CDT
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.
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. All players must join the The Courts at West Meade DUPR Digital Club via their DUPR app.
Join The Courts at West Meade DUPR Digital Club: click here
IMPORTANT : ALL payments are non-refundable. By completing registration, it is expected you will participate in the event. Any player or players/team(s) who withdraw from the event in advanced or the day of the event will not be refunded. In the event, due to circumstances beyond the control of All State Pickleball League, the facility has to close, or does close, there will be no refunds or credits. The All State Pickleball League will attempt to reschedule the event if there is a facility closure however the League can make no guarantee that a new date and time can occur.
DUPR Divisions
DUPR 20 Maximum team aggregate is 20.900
DUPR 18 Maximum team aggregate is 18.300.
*Maximum individual player rating is 5.100 at registration.
DUPR 16 Maximum team aggregate is 16.300.
*Maximum individual player rating is 4.600 at registration.
DUPR 14 Maximum team aggregate is 14.300.
*Maximum individual player rating is 4.100 at registration.
DUPR 12 Maximum team aggregate is 12.300.
*Maximum individual player rating is 3.600 at registration.
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. If you are a NR (not rated) player, your rating will be set to the average rating of the division you sign up for.
To sign up for any Minor League Pickleball 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 Pickleball 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 minus the Stripe Fee and processing fees.
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