The Colorado Champions Cup is back! This time with more court time, longer games, more bracket play and bigger PRIZES! This is an amateur tournament for anyone looking to challenge themselves, improve, and have a blast doing it!
The event features a Round Robin into a bracket play-off format.
All scores will be entered into DUPR.
Ball: Franklin X-40
Indoors: No wind! No rain! No cancelations!
Signups:
All registrations are on a per player basis. As such, each teammate must make an account, register, and pay separately from their teammate (*you cannot sign up for your team!*) If your teammate has not made a pickleball.com account yet, mark yourself as "need teammate" in your registration until they have set up their account.
All signups will include a registration fee + an event fee as follows:
Registration fee: All participants are required to pay a registration once per tournament follows:
○ First Supporters - Stating 5/3 -$25
○ Early Bird Tier 1 - Starting 5/15 -$30
○ Early Bird Tier 2 - Starting 6/5 - $35
○ Early Bird Tier 3 - Starting 6/19 - $40
○ Standard Price - Starting 7/10 - $45
Event Fees:
○ All non-open division events are an additional $35 per event (men's, women's, mixed, max 2).
○ Open divisions are $65 per event of which $30 will be included in the cash prize pot (see prize money breakdown below)
Events:
Men's & Women's Doubles (all divisions) - August 2nd
Mixed Doubles (all divisions) - August 3rd
**PLEASE NOTE: Due to undetermined division sizes, times will not be set until after registration closes**
Each event will included the following divisions which are based on AVERAGE DUPR:
3.0 and under, 3.0-4.5, 3.5-4.0, 4.0-4.5, and Open (4.5+). Smaller divisions may be combined. Larger divisions may be split by age.
*subject to change depending on signup #s.
Format: Pool Play into playoff Bracket
All division sizes will start with round-robin pool play. This round will be 1 game first to 15 or 1 game to 11 win by 2.
Results from pool play will determine placement into either a playoff bracket (1 game to 11 or 15) and/or a gold and bronze medal matches which will be best 2/3 games to 11 win by 2.
Final pool sizes and bracket sizes will be decided after registration closes.
*Format is subject to change as TD deems necessary, however 4 games minimum are guaranteed to all players, with most getting between 5 and 12 games per event*
DUPR Requirements and Enforcement:
In an effort to make all games as close, fair, and fun as possible, DUPR requirements will be strictly enforced. There will be no sandbagging here!
○ All Players must have a DUPR account to register.
○ All divisions require teams to have an Average DUPRs within the proper range based on rating at end of registration period:
○ Playing Down: No team will be permitted to play in a division below their current Team average DUPR rating (sandbagging). TD will be monitoring this periodically and will move you up to the proper division in this situation without asking.
○ Playing Up: Teams in which the average DUPR is below the division threshold will be allowed to play up a division for the 2.5, 3.0, 3.5 divisions. For the higher divisions, your team must have the following to play up:
1) the higher rated player on team has a rating in the proper range of the division
2) the lower rated player is within .5 DUPR rating of the lower threshold. This essentially prevents teams from skipping two whole divisions, which can make pool play unfair for those in the proper division.
○ If you are unrated that is ok. You will be added to the lowest rated division for the event you choose.
○ No exceptions!
***IF YOUR DIVISION IS FULL PLEASE JOIN WAITLIST ASAP - we will be adding a few more spots to divisions based on the waitlist so this will increase your chance to play!!***
**PLEASE NOTE: Due to undetermined division sizes, times will not be set until after registration closes**
