<b>The Dink Minor League Pickleball, The Home of Team Pickleball<b>
Auckland Get Ready! Sign Up for the most popular pickleball teams event on the planet!
Secure your ticket to the NZ MiLP National Championships by finishing in the Top 2 of your division in our tournament at Auckland Pickleball Centre!
Where Fun Meets Fierce: Team Up. Serve Big. Win together in the most innovative, social, and competitive team tournament.
Assemble your teams and compete in Minor League Pickleball!
TEAM UNIFORMS AND TEAM NAMES
We HIGHLY encourage teams to get creative and match! It’s all part of The Dink Minor League Pickleball fun!
<b>FORMAT:<b>
Minor League Pickleball is an innovative team competition where teams 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 MiLP Team Format:
MiLP is an ingenious gameplay format that brings men and women together on a level playing court. In the MiLP 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. Teams will compete in a round robin to bracket playoffs format, with a guarantee of a minimum three full matches.
The Dink Minor League Pickleball Guarantee: Predictable playing times and reduced waiting periods between matches. Guaranteed 6 played games with at least 3 matches each. A fair, level-based competitive experience - whatever your level of play!
Available Divisions (see below for an explanation of the divisions):
DUPR12
DUPR14
DUPR16
DUPR18
DUPR16 (50+)
DUPR18 (50+)
SCHEDULE and TIMES:
Check in will start at 8:00am each morning, with the courts also being available for warm-up.
Briefings will be at 8:30am
Games will commence at 9:00am
Medal Presentations are expected to be around 6:30pm each evening depending on how the games flow during the day.
Friday 17 July - DUPR16 (50+) and DUPR18 (50+)
Saturday 18 July - DUPR16 and DUPR18
Sunday 19 July - DUPR12 and DUPR14
Maximum of 8 teams per Division, played in pools of 4, with the top two teams of each pool going into the play-off brackets.
Pricing:
$70 per person*
Please note Minor League Pickleball requires you to have an active DUPR+ account to register and play in this tournament. Follow the prompts online to subscribe.
*Discount for APC Members:
Auckland Pickleball Centre Members (excluding guest/casuals and not open to non-members) are entitled to $5 off the registration fee. Promo code is sent to your membership email address. Promo code can not be applied retroactively.
