Ring in the New Year at the December 2023 Connecticut Pickleball Open Singles and Skinny Singles - Friday, December 29th - All Day Starting at 8:00 AM Men's and Women's Doubles - Saturday, December 30th - All Day Starting at 8:00 AM Mixed Doubles - Sunday, December 31st - All day starting at 8:00 AM This is a Skill Level/Age Group Tournament. Registration is by skill level. Registration is limited to 400 Players. For doubles and mixed doubles, you must sign up at the skill level of the higher rated partner. Players with a PickleballBrackets.com rating must use that rating. Players with both a PickleballBrackets.com Rating and a USA Pickleball UTPR rating must use the higher rating. Players with a USA Pickleball UTPR rating but no PickleballBrackets.com rating must use that rating. Players with neither rating may self rate. Skill levels are determined at the time of the tournament. Ratings will be verified. ************************** The tournament reserves the right to move players and teams between skill level brackets. ************************** SKILL LEVEL GROUPS WILL BE SPLIT BY AGE TO CREATE PLAYING EVENTS. Age groups will be determined by registration numbers. For a guaranteed spot in mixed doubles or doubles, the second partner must sign up within 7 days of the first partner's registration. Incomplete teams will be moved to the waiting list after that OR WHEN REGISTRATION CLOSES. Once the second partner registers, they will be moved back into the event IF THERE ARE SPOTS LEFT IN THE TOURNAMENT AND THE EVENT AND REGISTRATION IS STILL OPEN. The tournament is limited to 400 players and will automatically close when that number is reached. The tournament format is round robin for events with a small number of teams. For events with more than 9 teams, teams will be divided into two or more seeded pools and the top two teams in each pool will advance to a playoff round to determine medal winners. Skinny singles is played on half the court. Players may register for both regular singles and skinny singles. The registration fee is $70 for one event and $10 for each additional event. There is a non-refundable PickleballBrackets.com software use fee of $5 for one event or $10 for more than one event that will be applied to every registration.