Welcome to Pickleball Showdown! This tournament will be held at Pickleball Harbor. This beautiful facility just outside of Pittsburgh features 6 indoor climate controlled dedicated pickleball courts!. There will be singles, split age, men's and women's doubles, and mixed with skill levels ranging from 3.0-4.5+ with prize money for the 4.5+ divisions. Total prize money depends on total number of entrants in 4.5+ divisions. See prize money section for more info. There will be prizes such as paddles, bags, hats etc for all gold medalists from each bracket. Come out for fun games, competitive pickleball, and a good time!

In order to optimize the tournament experience, we have decided to remove 50+ events. This will make for fuller brackets and a more exciting tournament experience consisting of many matches against different teams. (If enough players over 50 and under 50 sign up for a given bracket, we can split into 50+ and any age) There would have to be at least 6 for "any age" and 6 for "50+" in order to split into 2 separate events.

Amateur events will be robin format! Larger brackets will be split into pools and top teams from each pool will advance to playoffs. All teams will be guaranteed many games. Exact number depends on number of teams in bracket.

Open Level/Pro events will be double elimination brackets are best 2 out of three games to 11 in the winners bracket and one game to 15 in the consolation bracket. Teams in the consolation bracket still have the opportunity to make it to the gold medal match if they advance all the way through the consolation bracket.

Early Bird Registration is $50. $10 off! Early bird pricing is in effect until February 1st.

Normal Registration cost for this tournament is $60.

Each amateur event is $25.

Each Pro/open level/Prize money event is $50.

Pickleball brackets also charges a $5 service fee per event with the maximum being $10 on top during checkout.

Registration includes a free T-shirt.

Teams will be moved to the waitlist if both players are not registered and paid, player's partner in not registered for tournament, or player is registered as needing a partner.

There is a 4.5 amateur bracket separate from 4.5+. Events named 4.5+ open level $$$ are the pro/open events with payouts.

Start times will not be announced until registration closes! This is because the number of signups for each event will determine when we can start each bracket. We need to know the final number of entrants for each event in order to determine the most efficient start times to keep the day running as smoothly as possible. Start times will be released 1 or 2 days after registration closes and may be subject to change due to any unforeseen circumstances.

The results will be uploaded to DUPR.

Format may be abbreviated if necessary due to any other unforeseen circumstance but the tournament directors will do the best they can to get all matches played and keep regular format.

Payments will be accepted via Stripe. Email if this is an issue.

Reach out to brandon@pbshowdown.com with any inquiries

Skill level used to determine which level events you can play in will be based on DUPR rating. If player has no DUPR rating, his or her self rating will be used from pickleball brackets profile. Players are responsible to self-rate at a skill level that is NOT lower than their actual skill level.

Players may play in a skill level higher than their rating.

Players may not play in a skill level that is lower than their rating.

Players above 50 years of age may play in the "50+" bracket or the "any age" bracket

Players below the age of 50 may not play in the "50+"

Brackets may be combined if not enough teams are signed up in a given event. Age groups within the same skill level would be combined first. If necessary, Skill levels may be combined.

Full refunds (excluding the pickleball brackets service fee) offered until February 7th

50% refunds offered from February 7th until March 7th.

No refunds after March 7th.

For 4.5+ open $$$ events $35 from each entrant's event fee will go towards prize money for that event. Payouts for each event will be split as follows. Gold medalists get 60%, silver medalists get 25%, bronze medalists get 15%.

For example, if there are 25 teams in men's doubles open, that is 50 total players. The total prize money for that event would be 50*$35=$1750. The team who wins gold would be paid out $1,050, Silver would be paid out $437.50, and Bronze would be paid out $262.50.

No rain indoors! In the unlikely event of snow or icy roads, you will be notified about any changes to the schedule.