This is a mini tournament with no partner required. Sign up solo. Play multiple games with various partners during round robin pool play. Get paired with a partner for single elimination bracket play. All results get submitted to DUPR the same day. First, second, and third place finishers earn medals and bragging rights.
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February 8, 2025 All day
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.
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February 22, 2025 All dayThe St. Louis Shock, a premier Major League Pickleball (MLP) franchise, is excited to announce tryouts for the newly launched Minor League Pickleball (MiLP) teams. These tryouts will take place across three dates in February and March at premier pickleball venues in Missouri, providing an exciting opportunity for players to showcase their skills and compete for a spot on the Shock’s inaugural MiLP rosters.Tryout Dates, Locations, and SessionsFebruary 2, 2025 – Location: The Pickleball Factory 1507 Independence St, Cape Girardeau, MO 63703February 22, 2025 – Location: PaddleUp 4 Meadow Cir Dr, Lake St Louis, MO 63367March 8, 2025 – Location: Missouri Pickleball Club 747 Gravois Bluffs Blvd, Fenton, MO 63026Tryout FormatWarmup: 10 minutes, led by John Kleinschmidt, Director of Talent & MiLP Operations.Drills & Skills: 20 minutes of technical evaluations.Gameplay: Approximately 3 hours of competitive play per session, including round robin mixed doubles, gender doubles, singles and mini tournament.Evaluation ProcessParticipants will be evaluated by John Kleinschmidt and the St. Louis Shock staff on their performance in drills, skills, coachability, and competitive gameplay. Feedback will be provided to each player post-tryout to help them understand their strengths and areas for growth.Registration DetailsCost is $200 per participant. Space is limited! Register for your desired tryout session at https://stlshock.com/.Each tryout participant will receive:- A St. Louis Shock Dri-Fit T-shirt.
- A voucher for one free entry to a Shock DUPR Rating Session in the future.
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March 1, 2025 - March 2, 2025 All day
Tournament Schedule:
Saturday: DUPR 12, 16, 16 50+ and 20
Sunday: DUPR 14, 14 50+, 18 and 18 50+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.
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March 7, 2025 - March 9, 2025 All day
All brackets will be ROUND ROBIN. Some will have additional playoff bracket depending on registration. 4 game minimum.
Cost is $60 (this includes as many events you want to play). This includes the website service fee of $1.50 per person, which is NON-REFUNDABLE.
Includes "guaranteed" event shirt if you register by February 28th. Final registration deadline is March 5th at 8:00am.
Events will be:
Friday 8am-5pm: Men's Singles, Women's Singles, Coed JUNIORS Singles (ages 8-12)
Friday 5pm-8pm: OPEN PLAY and PRACTICE $5 per person ($10 if not playing in tourney)
Saturday 8am-8pm: Men's Doubles, Women's Doubles, Senior Scrambles
Sunday 8am-5pm: Mixed Doubles, Coed Senior Scramble, Coed JUNIORS scramble (ages 8-12)
Senior Brackets (50+) may receive a $10 discount if you're a member of USSP.
JUNIORS bracket are 1/2 price.Brackets will be separated by age and then skill level. You may play DOWN in age and/or UP in skill at your discretion. Be sure to register for your preferred age/skill level and check your current Skill Rating on Pickleball Brackets & DUPR.
This tournament will use DUPR ratings for primary placement. Please make sure to link your DUPR account to your PBB account. If you do not have a DUPR rating, then it will use your PBB rating or your self rating. If you do not know what skill level to register for, please seek the advice of experienced players and/or the Tournament Director. For instructions on how to link your DUPR account to your Pickleball.com account, please visit: https://pickleball.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/72000631731-connecting-your-dupr-account
Planned Age Divisions: 8-49, 50+, 60+, 65+, 70+ (scramble), 80+ (scramble)
Planned Skill Divisions:
<2.99 (beginner to novice)
3.0-3.49 (low intermediate)
3.5-3.99 (high intermediate)
4.0-4.49 (low advanced)
4.5-4.99 (high advanced)
5.0+ (expert) -
March 8, 2025 All dayThe St. Louis Shock, a premier Major League Pickleball (MLP) franchise, is excited to announce tryouts for the newly launched Minor League Pickleball (MiLP) teams. These tryouts will take place across three dates in February and March at premier pickleball venues in Missouri, providing an exciting opportunity for players to showcase their skills and compete for a spot on the Shock’s inaugural MiLP rosters.Tryout Dates, Locations, and SessionsFebruary 2, 2025 – Location: The Pickleball Factory 1507 Independence St, Cape Girardeau, MO 63703February 22, 2025 – Location: PaddleUp 4 Meadow Cir Dr, Lake St Louis, MO 63367March 8, 2025 – Location: Missouri Pickleball Club 747 Gravois Bluffs Blvd, Fenton, MO 63026Tryout FormatWarmup: 10 minutes, led by John Kleinschmidt, Director of Talent & MiLP Operations.Drills & Skills: 20 minutes of technical evaluations.Gameplay: Approximately 3 hours of competitive play per session, including round robin mixed doubles, gender doubles, singles and mini tournament.Evaluation ProcessParticipants will be evaluated by John Kleinschmidt and the St. Louis Shock staff on their performance in drills, skills, coachability, and competitive gameplay. Feedback will be provided to each player post-tryout to help them understand their strengths and areas for growth.Registration DetailsCost is $200 per participant. Space is limited! Register for your desired tryout session at https://stlshock.com/.Each tryout participant will receive:
- A St. Louis Shock Dri-Fit T-shirt.
- A voucher for one free entry to a Shock DUPR Rating Session in the future.
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March 12, 2025 - March 16, 2025 All day
AMATEUR PLAYERS
Play Where the Pros Play
Amateur matches will be played alongside Championship Court where the top professionals in the world compete for the biggest payouts in the sport of pickleball.Click on the Events Link above for a full description of each event.
SPECTATORS
Watch the World's Best Pickleball
The PPA Tour has exclusive contracts with the top professional pickleball players in the world, including #1 female, Anna Leigh Waters, and #1 male, Ben Johns.PPA TOUR CAMP
A two-day 3.0/4.0 PPA Tour Camp is available on March 11th and March 12th from 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm each day. Cost: $400/per person.Cost Includes:
- 6 hours of total instruction from PPA Professionals
- 1 courtside ticket for a day of your choice
- Pickleball Central offer of 20% off apparel and 10% off paddles at the tournamentDue to limited space, travel expenses, and court booking fees we have a strict refund and cancellation policy. You may request to cancel your spot in this camp for a full refund 30+ days before the date and time of the event. Cancellations between 15-30 days before the camp will receive a 50% refund. Cancellation requests made 14 days or less before the camp date/time will not receive a refund. When you register for a camp, you agree to these terms
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March 29, 2025 - March 30, 2025 All day
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.
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April 5, 2025 All dayMinor 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 (The team’s aggregate DUPR must not exceed 20.99)
DUPR 18 (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 (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 (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 (The team’s aggregate DUPR must not exceed 12.30)
**Maximum individual player DUPR cannot exceed 3.60 to play in DUPR 12Once 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.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
