Association of Pickleball Athletes – Canadian Circuit (APA)
The Admiral Cup
What's up, APA fans?! We're beyond excited to be hosting The Admiral Cup – Powered by Dink Monsters for the second straight year!
We are very excited to welcome you all to The Backyard Club, a brand-new, premier, state-of-the-art pickleball facility! The venue features 21 fully fenced pickleball courts, a full-size basketball court, a modern fitness gym, a players' lounge, and everything you've ever dreamed of in a pickleball paradise.
Thank you to The Dink Monsters for being a proud partner of the APA - The Admiral Cup! We are very excited to be working with the team!
No championship RINGS this time as we are bringing you a BRAND NEW custom design medals presented by Dink Monsters! You're going to want to have ONE of these!
This will be a skill/age tournament with 19+, 35+, 50+, 60+, & 70+ age categories played at 2.5, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 5.0, OPEN/PRO skill levels. You can play up to 5 events. Tournament directors reserve the rights to combine brackets & change format based on registration numbers. The registration fee will be $70, $15 Per Event/$70 Per OPEN Event. Your spot is not guaranteed in your event until both partners are registered and paid in full. You and your partner both have 5 days to register before being put onto the wait-list. Maximum 8 teams per division except the OPEN/PRO TBD. Spots will fill up quickly, so sign up TODAY!
All participants of the APA Canadian Circuit MUST have a DUPR account to participate. We will be submitting scores to DUPR. Please create an account on DUPR, if you don't already have one - https://dashboard.dupr.com/signup
Tournament director reserves the right to move teams playing up too far if he feels they won't be competitive. We will be using the DUPR/PickleballBrackets Self rating system. Please note that the PRO events are for OPEN level athletes. For ambitious players with a lower rating, please email the APA Tournament Director for approval to participate. Email @ staffapa@outlook.com.
Tournament will be ran on 5 days:
Wednesday Sept 16 2026 - Men's/Women's Singles 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 - AGE 19+/35+/50+/60+
Thursday Sept 17 2026 - Men's/Mix/Women's Doubles Split Age - 3.5-/4.0+/PRO - AGE 50+/49-
Friday Sept 18 2026 - Men's/Women's 2.5, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, SR PRO- AGE 50+/60+/70+ - Men's/Women's Singles PRO
Saturday Sept 19 2026 - Mixed Doubles 2.5, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 5.0, PRO - AGE 19+/35+/50+/60+/70+
Sunday Sept 20 2026 - Men's/Women's 2.5, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 5.0, PRO - AGE 19+/35+
This event will follow USAPA rules with all medal matches refereed. We will try to ref other games when possible. UPA paddles are approved.
The 2.5, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5 5.0 categories will be pool round robins and the top teams in each pool will advance to a playoff round to determine medal winners. Each team will be guaranteed a minimum of 3 games. (Games played to 15, Bronze medal match played to 15, Gold medal round best 2 out of 3 to 11) Games can be up to 11 with a guaranteed minimum of 5 games. All games will be win by 2. PRO/OPEN Division will be a double elimination format with a minimum of 5 teams.
