Welcome to the WA Youth Classic 2024 on Saturday December 7th, held at Ocean Ridge Tennis Club in Heathridge, Western Australia.

Food and Drinks are available for purchase at the venue. Plenty of free parking available around the facility.

This tournament will use the current USA Pickleball Official Rules 2024. They can be found at: USA Pickleball (https://usapickleball.org/what-is-pickleball/official-rules/).

This tournament is a PAA Sanctioned event.

Specific details are listed below:

REGISTRATION

- To register Western Australian residents will need to be a PAWA member with PAA membership (join here https://www.pickleballwa.org.au/membership) and non residents must be a members of PAA. All registrants must have a Pickleball Brackets login and profile. Profile must contain your contact number, email & PAA ID number.

- Opens: Friday 4th October 2024 @ 8:00 am for PAWA/PAA members only.

- Registration Closes: Extended to Tuesday 26th November 2024 @ 8pm.

FEES

- Western Australian residents registering must be a PAWA Ordinary member with PAA membership (https://www.pickleballwa.org.au/membership).

- Registrants from other Australian states, or international must hold current PAA membership.

- Registration Fee: $25.00 per player (Includes 1 Singles & 1 Doubles events)

- All fees above are exclusive of third party charges which may apply.

EVENTS

- Qualifying games will be a round robin format and finals will be elimination

- You can enter in one singles event and one doubles event only according to the age and skill level.

- Qualifying matches will be 1 game to 11 (win by 1).

- Medal finals matches will be best out of three games to 11 (win by 1).

- Players are guaranteed a minimum of three games.

- Medals will be awarded to Gold, Silver and Bronze winning competitors for each bracket.

PLEASE NOTE:

- When registrations are closed, any event with insufficient numbers for a competition will need to be collapsed and combined with another event.

- The tournament director reserves the right to cancel or modify the events and/or schedule as needed pending influences beyond our control.

DELAYS

- If you are unavoidably detained and it appears that you will not arrive in time for your game/match, please contact the Tournament Director. We may be able to adjust the schedule and consider options but your game may result in a forfeit.

If you are more than 10 minutes late for your game your result may be a forfeit!

Each age group will consist of players of all skill levels.

DIRECTOR'S DISCRETION

The tournament director reserves the right to:

- move players and teams between age brackets if on verification the wrong event has been entered.

- merge or split brackets based on event registration. Any event with fewer than 3 entries will be combined

with another event of closest possible age group.

- change start times to facilitate smooth running of the tournament

- The tournament director reserves the right to modify the events and/or schedule as needed pending influences beyond our control (ie. Fire drill, Covid restrictions, etc).

PRE-TOURNAMENT PRACTICE

Ocean Ridge TC conducts Youth Pickleball 5-17 years Mondays 6:30 – 7:30pm & Saturdays 4-5pm $10/student pay as you go. Via Teamreach App. Code to view calendar and register on App. Is ORPB6027

Refunds are available up until the close of registration but will incur a $5 service fee.

No refunds will be offered once registration is closed.