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.

v3 is an innovative expansion of Minor League Pickleball in which teams of 3 players compete against one another.  Matches consist of 3 sub-games, each to 21 points. See the rules section for additional guidelines.

Rules

V3 FORMAT: The Dink Minor League Pickleball v3 is a round-robin team competition with guaranteed matches. Gendered teams of 3 players are broken into divisions (based on their combined DUPR rating) to compete against each other in three 21-point games. Top teams will face off in a bracket playoff.

v3 Match Format: 3 games constitute a match. An example of the format is as follows:
Player 1 and Player 2 from each team play the first game
Player 2 and Player 3 play the second game
Player 1 and Player 3 play the third game
*Players will pick their lineups before the match starts.

The Minor League Pickleball Guarantee:
Predictable playing times and reduced waiting periods between matches.
Guaranteed 6 played games with at least 3 matches each.
A fair, level-based competitive experience - whatever your level of play

MiLP v3 DUPR Divisions:
DUPR 15 (The team’s aggregate DUPR must not exceed 15.30)
***No maximum individual player DUPR

DUPR 13 (The team’s aggregate DUPR must not exceed 13.30)
**Maximum individual player DUPR cannot exceed 4.600 to play in DUPR 13

DUPR 11 (The team’s aggregate DUPR must not exceed 11.30)
**Maximum individual player DUPR cannot exceed 4.100 to play in DUPR 11

DUPR 9 (The team’s aggregate DUPR must not exceed 9.30)
**Maximum individual player DUPR cannot exceed 3.600 to play in DUPR 9

Events:

• Friday after 4 PM - 50/50 and Heroes Divisions
• Saturday - Men's and Women's Doubles
• Sunday - Mixed Doubles

Format:

• All divisions will be round robin format with either one group of players or multiple pools. You will play everyone in your group or pool. The combined skill divisions will have an upper and lower playoff bracket (min. 8 teams) depending on how you finish in your pool or round robin event. Playoff brackets will be 2 out of 3 matches time permitting.

Registration Cost:

•  $65 for the first event
• $20 each for 2nd and 3rd events

Be sure and check out the PickleCon home page https://www.picklecon.com/

Your PickleCon Access Pass gives you full access to the event floor for all three days — July 24–26, 2026! Enjoy open play courts, demo courts, the Vendor Village, skills challenges, and more.

Please note: Some experiences such as clinics, tournaments, eatertainment tours, and select activities may require an additional fee.
To purchase your PickleCon Access Pass starting December 5, 2025 go to
https://store.triplecrownsports.com/Store/Index/11272/?groupEvents=true

To take advantage of the PickleCon event hotels go to: https://picklecon.hotelplanner.com/Event/8fde/

Tournament Schedule:
8:00 AM start time for all divisions

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.