You can play in more than one event during the tournament but all events need to be in a different categories e.g. Mixed Doubles, Doubles, Singles and hybrid.

- Gold Medal matches will be best out of three games to 11 with a win by 2.

- Players are guaranteed minimum three games per event.

- Medals will be awarded to gold, silver and bronze winning competitors for each bracket.

- There are new age groupings this year: Junior, 19+, 35+, 50+, 60+, 70+. This is going to be standardised by Pickleball Australia across all sanctioned State tournaments in 2024. Your age group is your age as at Dec 31 2024.

This is a Pickleball Australia SANCTIONED Australian Ranking tournament.

There age groupings are Junior, 19+, 35+, 50+, 60+, 70+.

This tournament will use the current Global Pickleball Federation rules. They can be found at: https://globalpickleballfederation.org/pickleball-rulebook/

OPEN EVENTS - Best of three best of 3 games, first to 11, win by 2 in the elimination draw. 1 set to 15 in the consolation draw. Guaranteed one match (best of three) and 1 match to 15.

SKILL/AGE EVENTS - Round Robin with top performers through to single elimination.

Round Robin matches will be

First to 15, win by 2 [5 or less players/teams in the pool]

First to 11, win by 2, [6 or more players/teams in the pool]

Pre- Medal (Semi finals) __ first to 15, win by 2.

Medal matches will be best of 3 games, first to 11, win by 2.

Junior divisions will be structured at the discretion of the tournament committee to best fit the needs of the Junior participants.

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DIRECTOR'S DISCRETION

The tournament director reserves the right to:

- review, and possibly alter the rating of players who self-rate below or above their actual rating.

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

- Skill and age divisions will be collapsed at the discretion of the tournament committee.

- Any event with fewer than 3 entries will be combined with another event of closest possible standard.

- 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).