Welcome to the "Spring Fling Paddle Battle" tournament at Foster City happening April 19th-20th, 2025!

This 2-day event includes Womens/Mens doubles and Mixed doubles. All events will be round robin format.

We will have 6 permanent courts.

There will be a limit of 6 teams per skill level/age bracket for mens, womens, and mixed. The number of teams may be increased depending on total number of teams participating. Brackets may be combined if there are too few teams in a single bracket. We will use DUPR ratings to determine eligibility for each bracket. Please see "Additional Information" below for the DUPR limits per bracket.

Skill levels: Under 3.5, 3.5-4.0, and 4.0+.

Age levels: 9-49 and 50+

Dates:

- April 19th: All Mens events, Womens under 3.5

- April 20th: Womens 3.5-4.0, 4.0+, all Mixed events

We will schedule womens and mixed on Sunday, April 20th, such that players can play in both events if they'd like.

Sign up before March 1, 2025 8am: Registration is $50 per player (not team).

Sign up after March 1, 2025 8am: Registration is $60 per player (not team).

Additional events after the first are $15 each.

A registration discount of $15 is available to Foster City Pickleball Club members. You must be a member by April 12th, 2025 to qualify for the discount. Use member discount code, FCPCMEMBER, to apply discount. You can join the club here: https://www.fostercitypickleballclub.org/join-online

Your registration will be marked as incomplete if you use the member discount code and you are not a member of the Foster City Pickleball Club.

A $5 SERVICE FEE PER EVENT (MAX $10) WILL BE ADDED TO YOUR REGISTRATION BY PICKLEBALLBRACKETS.COM AND IS NON-REFUNDABLE.

If you register without a partner, you will have 5 days to add a partner. Otherwise, you will be moved out of your selected bracket and into "Need a Partner" status. If your bracket reaches the max number of teams while you are waiting for a partner, you will not be placed back into that bracket unless a spot opens.

Players on the waitlist will be notified by April 14th if they are in the tournament.

Tournament Director reserves the right to amend the format of play based on participation or any other unforeseen event up to and including the day of the tournament.

Tournament team will make every effort to complete all matches. However, adjustments and/or cancellations may be necessary. Players are guaranteed 3 matches.

Start time of the tournament is 8:00AM. Start time of each individual bracket will be determined 3 days before the day of the tourney.

It is strongly recommended that registrants keep the entire day available for this tournament.

If the event is rained out, the event will be cancelled and players will be refunded (minus the service fee).

Skill levels:

3.5 and under

3.5-4.0

4.0+

Age levels: 14-49, 50+

In order to facilitate fair play in all divisions, we will be looking at all players' DUPR ratings. Teams will be asked to move brackets if they are not eligible for the one they registered for. The rules are as follows:

- Individual player DUPR cap: 3.5 and under: cannot have a DUPR over 3.75; 3.5-4.0: cannot have a DUPR over 4.25; 4.0+: no maximum

- Combined team DUPR cap: 3.5 and under: cannot have a combined DUPR over 7.1; 3.5-4.0: cannot have a combined DUPR over 8.1; 4.0+: no maximum

If a player has no rating, we will assume their DUPR is 3.5 if playing the 3.5 and under bracket and 4.0 if playing 3.5-4.0 when calculating the combined DUPR. A team can play any bracket higher than their DUPR ratings. We will use DUPR ratings as of February 1, 2025. There will be no exceptions made.

This event is round robin.

Formats for round robin brackets will be either:

Matches of 2 out of 3, game to 11, win by 2, or first to 15, or

Each match 1 game to 11, win by 2, or first to 15, or

Each match 1 game to 15, win by 2, or first to 18

Round Robin results will be determined following the USA Pickleball Rule book:

12.C.3. Round Robin. All players or teams play each other. Games may use any of the approved tournament scoring options. (See Rule 12.B.) The winner is determined based on number of matches won.

If two or more teams are tied:

12.C.3.a. First tie-breaker: head-to-head matches won.

12.C.3.b. Second tie-breaker: point differential of all games played. (e.g., Team A won Match 1 11-8, 11-4, so they would have a point differential of +10. Team A then wins the second match 11-9, 2-11, 11-6. For this round, they would have a point differential of -2. This would give them a total for the day of +8.)

12.C.3.c. Third tie-breaker: head-to-head point differential.

12.C.3.d. Fourth tie-breaker: point differential against next-highest team. (e.g., If the teams are tied for second, use point differentials against the first-place team.)

Referees will not be provided in any round robin matches.

If a round robin bracket is split into 2 groups:

Each group of teams will play each other in 1 game to 15, win by 2, or first to 21.

The top 2 finishers in each group will move on to a playoff. Each first place finisher of a group will play the second place finisher in the other group, 1 game to 15, win by 2, or first to 21. The winners of the playoff games will play each other in a gold match, and the losers of the playoff games will play each other for the bronze medal, either best 2 out of 3, game to 11, win by 2 or first to 15, OR 1 game to 15, win by 2 or first to 21

Combined Brackets:

If brackets are combined, they will be combined by skill level first, then age.

Medals will only be awarded to the top 3 finishers in a combined skill/age bracket, not to each individual skill/age bracket.

Games will be uploaded to DUPR.

A $10 cancellation fee will be applied if cancellation is requested by April 12th, 2024 at 8am PT.

Final date to withdraw and receive a refund of your paid registration (less cancellation fee) is April 12th, 2024 8am.

***THE SERVICE FEE OF $5 PER EVENT (which is charged by pickleballbrackets.com) IS NON-REFUNDABLE***

No refund requests will be accepted after April 12th, 2024 8am.

All refunds will be processed between April 20th, 2024 (second day of tournament) and May 20th, 2024.

In the case that we are rained out on both April 19th and 20th, we will process refunds minus the service fee.