Association of Pickleball Athletes (APA)
Raw Pickleball Classic
APA Ontario Circuit is proud to announce a NEW partnership with RAW Pickleball to bring you an outdoor player experience like none other! Owner Corey Osborne is really excited to bring a competitive pickleball tournament up North in Midland, Ontario.
Can you guys handle the HEAT/SUN?! We are excited to welcome you to the Town of Midland, where we will be hosting an outdoor event with 8 dedicated pickleball courts fenced individually.
Corey Osborne: "I am really excited to be bringing the APA up North to the Penetang-Midland area. We want to grow pickleball at a high level here in this community. I recently started my own coaching company, Raw Pickleball (Ready & Waiting) and eager to start hosting clinics here in my hometown. We will be hosting a 2 day tournament as well as a "Tournament Prep" clinic on the Friday. I will be hosting a FREE kids clinics as well. We will be having a FREE BBQ on both Saturday & Sunday for the players registered in our tournament. We will be donating partial of our tournament makings to a charity as we want to help give back."
This will be an OPEN AGE tournament with skill LEVEL categories played at 3.0/3.5/4.0/4.5. You can play up to 2 events. Tournament directors reserve the rights to combine brackets & change format based on registration numbers. The registration fee will be $55 + $15 Per Event. Your spot is not guaranteed in your event until both partners are registered and paid in full. You and your partner both have 5 days to register before being put onto the wait-list. Maximum 8 teams per division. Spots will fill up quickly, so sign up TODAY!
July 5th 2025 Saturday: Junior championship games YOUTH event targeting the younger generation in this sport. We will be offering a U12 and U16 Gender Doubles event. $40 per particpant. Please message us if you have any kids who would want to participate in a tournament type atmosphere. This will be ran separately from PickleballBrackets. Levels TBD. Format TBD.
We will be offering NEW championship RINGS to all our medalist!
All participants of the APA Ontario Circuit MUST have a DUPR account to participate. We will be submitting scores to DUPR. Please create an account on DUPR, if you don't already have one - https://dashboard.dupr.com/signup
Tournament will be ran on 2 days with a tournament prep clinic ran on Friday
Friday July 4 2025 - TOURNAMENT CLINIC! Message for more details!
Saturday July 5 2025 - Men's/Women's 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5
Sunday July 6 2025 - Mixed Doubles 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5
This event will follow USAPA rules with Gold medal matches refereed. We will ref games where requested when we can.
The 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5 categories will be pool round robins and the top teams in each pool will advance to a playoff round to determine medal winners. Each team will be guaranteed a minimum of 3 games. (Games played to 15, Bronze medal match played to 15, Gold medal round best 2 out of 3 to 11) Games can be up to 11 with a guaranteed minimum of 5 games. All games will be win by 2.
IMPORTANT!
Starting time for each day will be 8AM. The outdoor courts has LIGHTS so events can go as late as 11pm Depending on how many participants we have registered, the time can change for each day. Full schedule will be available Sunday Night June 29th 2025.
