🟧 The Dink Series is finally here at Melbourne’s most-spacious indoor facility – THE RALLY! Just google it to see how beautiful this place is.
🟧 Just 20 minutes from Melbourne’s CBD – The Rally is a secret gem for Melbourne’s pickleball community with 6 pristine orange courts perfectly made to debut The Dink Series.
🟧 Run by James Thurston, the previous owner of Melbourne Pickle Club, this event brings organised and experienced energy.
🟧 Say goodbye to delayed tournaments, small pools, rally scaring, unknown start times and annoying technology. Say hello to a well-run professional DUPR tournament with a minimum of 5 games.
🟧 5-8 games to 11 or 15, minimum
Format:
8-11:30am: 4.00+
11:30-3pm: 3.00-3.49
3-6:30pm: <3.00
6:30-10pm: 3.50-3.99
🟧 All divisions are COED (male and female teams in any combination). We will ask if people have a preference and will try to make one pool mostly men, one mostly women and one mostly mixed but it will not be 100%
🟧 EACH DIVISION: 18 doubles teams split into 3 simultaneous pools
🟧 The pools will be split at random - with seeding in mind.
🟧 ROUND ROBIN: MINIMUM OF 5 GAMES TO 11 for all teams (play every other team)
🟧 FINALS: Quarter-finals, semi-finals and final will ensue to determine the category winner. The top 2 teams from each pool, and the next 2 best teams - will advance to the quarter-finals (top 8/18 teams)
🟧 First, second and third place (bronze medal match) will receive awards (medals and other 👀)
ARRIVAL TIME:
🟧 MINIMUM 30 MINUTES PRIOR
🟧 If you miss your start time, you will automatically forfeit the first game regardless of whether there was time to play it or not. If you are not at least 30 minutes early, you will forfeit your warm-up time.
