PA Open 2025, a Pickleball is Life Tournament is being held at the new 18 indoor court Dill Dinkers in Hatboro, PA April 4-6, 2025. Men's & Women's Singles will be Friday Apr 4, Men's & Women's Doubles will be Saturday Apr 5, and Mixed Doubles will be Sunday Apr 6. Amateur brackets include skill levels 2.5, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5 with age levels 9-49, 50-59, 60+. There are also Pro and Senior Pro (age 50+) brackets for skill levels 4.5+ with prize money! Registration includes a tournament water bottle (for the first 200 players, other welcome gifts after that) and medals and prizes for all 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners. Amateur events are $20 each. Pro and Senior Pro events are $60 each with $40 going to prize money.

At all Pickleball is Life tournaments we:

- Submit results to DUPR.

- Live stream multiple courts on YouTube www.youtube.com/@PickleballisLife.

- Have a well stocked hospitality tent with snacks, fruit, and water.

- Will receive medals and gifts from our sponsors including paddles, pickleball bags, water bottles and other gear.

- There will be referees for Pro and Senior Pro matches and most amateur medal matches. This is not a sanctioned tournament.

- We accept Venmo, PayPal, Zelle and Credit Cards payments.

Sandbagging Policy - Our goal is to make sure you are competing against players at the same skill level and age. All brackets will be checked for sandbaggers by checking the player's DUPR, PBR and tournament play history. If a player's rating and/or has competed and won gold at a certain skill level they will be required to play up. We have created a fair amount of age levels and as long as we can get four teams/players in a specific skill level/age level we will allow that bracket to go forward and not combine brackets.

Event Formats - Our goal is to give players the most games possible. Brackets with 4 to 12 teams will be round robin with playoffs, giving teams that don't make the playoffs 4 to 6 games and teams that make the playoffs 6 to 8 games. Brackets with 13+ teams will be double elimination.

Bracket Size - Bracket Formats: (for singles its players instead of teams)

4 teams - Double round robin, teams get 6 games to 11 win by 2. All 4 teams go to playoffs and get more games.

5 teams - Single round robin, teams get 4 games to 15 win by 2. Top 4 teams go to playoffs and get more games.

6 teams - Single round robin, teams get 5 games to 15 win by 2. Top 4 teams go to playoffs and get more games.

7 teams - Single round robin, teams get 6 games to 11 win by 2. Top 4 teams go to playoffs and get more games.

8 teams - Single round robin, teams get 7 games to 11 win by 2. Top 4 teams go to playoffs and get more games.

9 teams - Two pools of 4 and 5 teams, single round robin, teams get 3 or 4 games to 15 win by 2. Top 3 teams from each pool go to playoffs and get more games.

10 teams - Two pools of 5 teams. Teams get 4 games to 15 win by 2. Top 3 teams from each pool go to playoffs and get more games.

11 teams - Two pools of 5 and 6 teams. Teams get 4 or 5 games to 15 win by 2. Top 3 teams from each pool go to playoffs and get more games.

12 teams - Two pools of 6 teams. Teams get 5 games to 15 win by 2. Top 3 teams from each pool go to playoffs and get more games.

Round robins have a single elimination playoff round, format decided by the tournament director.

At the discretion of the TD, 13 and higher teams will play either multiple pools of RR or double elimination with the consolation draw able to win gold.

For brackets with 3 or less teams, the tournament director will need to combine brackets by age and/or skill level to make the bracket viable.

Refunds are available for registration and event fees minus the refund fees described below if canceled before the cancellation deadline of 3/4/25. Refund requests made after that date and before 3/28/25 will be granted minus a $25 processing fee to cover the purchase of water bottles, medals, balls, etc. and minus the refund fees described below. No refunds on or after 3/28/25. Brackets may be combined by age and/or skill at the discretion of the tournament director and no refunds are available when this occurs, however the tournament director may offer a partial refund if there is no way to combine brackets minus the refund fees described below. REFUND FEES: ALL refunds will minus any PayPal/Venmo/CC processing fees and the PickleballBrackets Software Fee. The PickleballBrackets Software Fee is non-refundable as stated at checkout. Refunds will be issued as quickly as possible, but could occur after the conclusion of the tournament. This is an indoor event so most weather events will not affect the tournament, however there is no refund for an unforeseen circumstance (flood, power outage, etc.) and the tournament coordinators will do all they can to play matches. If brackets are in mid play when an unforeseen circumstance occurs the situation will be evaluated on a case by case basis to determine if the bracket may be finished or if winners may be determined. There are no alternate dates.

The Pro and Senior Pro (50+) brackets will use the additional $40 per player to fund the prize money. Payouts will be 60% going to gold, 25% going to silver and 15% going to bronze. Total prize money depends on the number of players registering for each Pro bracket. As an example, here are the numbers from a previous tournament of Pro players/teams and the payouts:

20 Singles Players - Total $800, 1st $480, 2nd $200, 3rd $120 (per player)

24 Doubles Teams (48 players) - Total $1,920, 1st $1,152, 2nd $480, 3rd $288 (per team)