TO REGISTER - please go to https://bit.ly/RomeMiLP

Southern Pickleball is presenting an Official Dink Minor League Pickleball Event at the Rome Downtown Racquet Center on Sunday, March 23rd!! Captains to register your team - you will need all players names, DUPR ID, email and contact phone number to complete the registration.

Southern Pickleball is also hosting a one-day tournament the Head Spring Pickleball Classic on Saturday, March 22nd (men's and women's doubles only) come to Rome and play both the Head Spring Pickleball Classic and The Dink Official Minor League Pickleball Event. - make it a weekend!! Registrations are separate. To register for Saturday go to https://pickleballbrackets.com?HeadSpringClassic

The Dink Minor League Info:

The future of pickleball is NOW: The Dink Minor League Pickleball is sweeping the nation with its innovative, fun and social amateur MLPlay™ Team Event.

FORMAT

Minor League Pickleball is an innovative team competition where teams of 4 players (2 women and 2 men) compete against each other in an engaging format, with twists on traditional match-ups and scoring for games, matches, and tiebreakers. Teams compete against each other in Matches using the MLPlay™ format.

MLPlay™ is an ingenious gameplay format that brings men and women together on a level playing court. In the MLPlay™ format team matches are composed of four 21-point games, one women’s doubles, a men’s doubles, and the final two games consisting of mixed doubles. If both teams are tied at 2-2 after the 4 games are played, they’ll go to a Dreambreaker™! In a Dreambreaker™ one person from each team plays singles against the other team’s player, switching players every four rallies until someone gets to 21 and wins by two points.

Rules

DUPR Divisions

DUPR 20 (all ages) (The team’s aggregate DUPR must not exceed 20.99)

DUPR 18 (all ages) (The team’s aggregate DUPR must not exceed 18.30)

**Maximum individual player DUPR cannot exceed 5.10 to play in DUPR 18

DUPR 16 and DUPR 16 50+(The team’s aggregate DUPR must not exceed 16.30)

**Maximum individual player DUPR cannot exceed 4.60 to play in DUPR 16

DUPR 14 and DUPR 14 50+(The team’s aggregate DUPR must not exceed 14.30)

**Maximum individual player DUPR cannot exceed 4.10 to play in DUPR 14

DUPR 12 and DUPR 12 50+ (The team’s aggregate DUPR must not exceed 12.30)

**Maximum individual player DUPR cannot exceed 3.60 to play in DUPR 12

Once a team registers for a Minor League Pickleball event, their ratings are “locked” and their DUPR increasing or decreasing will not impact the team’s aggregate or division placement.

To sign up for any Minor League event, a DUPR account is required at the time of registration. Not rated players can play; however, their estimated rating will be verified by the tournament director.

Single Registrations

If you are registering as a single registration but are already part of a team, please notate Team Name AND the DUPR Division. For example, “Mad Drops – 18.”

If you want to play in the Minor League event but are unable to form a team, the tournament director will do their best to place you on a team. For players that are not placed, thus not playing the event, their registration fees will be refunded.

Cost is $70.00 per player plus a $5 technology fee

Substitute Players

A team that needs a player substitute can either edit their team by signing into Swish and making the edits themselves or a player may submit the player substitute information directly to the tournament organizer. Substitute player’s DUPR may not cause the established team’s aggregate to go over max event’s aggregate.

For the full Minor League Pickleball rules: https://www.dupr.com/minorleague/rules

Cancellation Deadline:

To receive a refund minus the $5 technology fee and the 3% processing fee, cancellation must be received by the end of day 15 days prior to the Minor League Pickleball event start date.

Example: Event start date is June 15, 2024. Cancellation must be received by 11:59pm local time on Friday, June 1, 2024. After June 1, 2024, no refunds will be issued.

Individual Registration Refund Policy:

Individual Registrations are not guaranteed placement in a team. Players that sign up as a single player (Individual Registration) with no team and are not placed in a team, will receive a full refund minus the $5 technology fee and the 3% processing fee 3-5 business days after the event ends.