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We are delighted to once again present an all-age, fully sanctioned, high-quality pickleball tournament to meet the demand from competitive players in our area—another successful event will again demonstrate the need for a permanent, large-scale, dedicated public Pickleball complex in Santa Rosa.

We look forward to your support for this tournament.

The event now falls under Adam's new brand, PB4ALL Pickleball. We encourage you to connect with our new Facebook group facebook.com/groups/pb4allpickleball. Also, please check out our Website and add yourself to the PB4ALL mailing list at: PB4ALLPickleball.com. Updates will be posted there.

The tournament will again be held at Finley Park in Santa Rosa, and will include brackets divided by skill and age, for Womens and Mens Doubles, and Mixed Doubles. and both Regular and Mini (Skinny) Singles. This is a prize-money event for the top-level brackets, a chance to test your competitive skills for players at all levels and is also intended to give a first tournament experience to those new to tournament play. We will be using the Vulcan VPRO Flight Outdoor (Neon Green) ball.

Registration ($79) begins February 1, 2025 at 8am, and runs through April 20, 2025 until 11:55pm.

Event Fee is $25 per registered event.

Registration and event fees are per player.

USA Pickleball Membership (Champion level) valid through May 4, 2025, is required to participate in this tournament per sanctioning rules.

You can sign up for membership at USA Pickleball.

You must also connect your USA Pickleball membership to your account in this Tournament Registration Pickleball.com software:

Login to PickleballTournaments.com account | at top right: click on your name, and select My Profile | then click on Edit Profile | then click the Association Memberships tab | then Add Membership, then select USA Pickleball from the drop-down list, after which you’ll be prompted to put your Member Number in (it may take 1-2 days to synch if you have just joined USA Pickleball).

We are using DUPR Ratings in PickleballTournaments.com for tournament registration and seeding. You must have a DUPR account to register!

***UPDATE*** If your DUPR RATING is still ‘NR’, you CAN self-rate to register for the tournament.

If you have a numerical DUPR rating already but feel it is inflated, or the ‘Reliability Score’ is low, we will consider appeals for bracket adjustment, with supporting evidence and screenshots emailed to registration@pb4allpickleball.com.

Tournament match results will be entered into DUPR. www.dupr.com

If you have questions, see: How-to-create-an-account-on-DUPR.

Connect your account with your Pickleball.com account: How-To-Connect-Pickleball-com-with-DUPR

If you are having difficulties integrating DUPR, please consult this FAQ before proceeding.

Getting a DUPR level: How-Do-I-get-a-DUPR-Rating.

If you have any further questions, just let us know and we will be happy to help!

Please note, the DUPR rating is dynamic and does NOT get 'frozen' by pickleball.com at registration. While you might see someone in a bracket with a higher rating than the bracket apparently allows, they could not have registered for the bracket unless they were either at the right rating at the time of registration (PT.com only displays brackets for which a player is eligible to play), or they have lodged a successful appeal to us based on their reliability rating being low. Note: we cannot move player's based on creative math if their partner's rating happens to be lower: the highest-rated player dictates the bracket.

We will review changes in DUPR ratings 2 weeks or less before the tournament and we reserve the rate to move players to the appropriate bracket based on their adjusted rating.

In tournaments one plays in the bracket in which one's 2-digit rating resides: for example, anyone rated 3.5 to 3.999 is eligible to play in the 3.5 bracket, or if rated from 4.5 to 4.999 is eligible for the 4.5 bracket.

These are the Division Skill Level Ranges:

- Division 2.5 (Skill levels 1.0-2.99)

- Division 3.0 (Skill levels 1.0-3.49)

- Division 3.5 (Skill levels 1.0-3.99)

- Divisions 4.0 (Skill levels 1.0-4.49)

- Division 4.5 (Skill levels 1.0-4.99)

- Division 5.0/OPEN (Skill levels 4.5-5.0+, i.e. anyone with a rating over 4.5 can play the Open bracket, and we will also consider requests from lower rated players if still establishing their true rating, and/or if space allows, and/or we believe they will be competitive in that bracket.)

The format and bracket arrangements will be similar to our Spring 2024 event.

Initially, events will display in broad skill categories. The Event list may have brackets with age breakdowns where clearly anticipated, but more will definitely come later to follow demand.

Please understand that we list a bracket as, for instance, Mens 50+ initially, rather than predetermine age division breakdowns ... in order that player demand can drive whether that bracket needs to be split 50-54, 55-64, 65+, or perhaps 50-59, 60-69, 70+, or 50-64, 65+ or any possible permutation based on the level of interest. Be aware that we only have 12 courts and will do our best to accommodate as many players that want to play as we can.

• 1-3 registered teams - Combined with another bracket(s)

• 4-5 registered teams - Round Robin leading to medal rounds: 2/3 to 11 or 1 to 15 based on circumstances (ex. time, weather, age)

• 6+ registered teams - Traditional double-elimination bracket (matches are 2/3 to 11) with a come-around bracket (matches are 1 to 15)

Please note: For Round-Robin events, there will be a play-off where the top two teams/players will have a Gold Medal match, while the third and fourth-placed teams/players will play for Bronze. Please stay around for the play-off matches: Pool play is not the end of the bracket!

Indicated here so players know which days brackets will take place. This is NOT a final list of age divisions: brackets will be split up later based on demand.

Womens Doubles 2.5 Age 55+

Womens Doubles 3.0 Age 55+

Womens Doubles 3.5 Age 55+

Womens Doubles 4.0 Age 55+

Mens Doubles 3.0 Age 50+

Mens Doubles 3.5 Age 50+

Mens Doubles 4.0 Age 50+

Mens Doubles 4.5 Age 50+

Womens Doubles 2.5 Age 8-54

Womens Doubles 3.0 Age 8-54

Womens Doubles 3.5 Age 8-54

Womens Doubles 4.0 Age 8-54

Womens Doubles 4.5

Mens Singles 3.0

Mens Singles 3.5

Mens Singles 4.0

Mens Singles 4.5/5.0+

Mens Skinny Singles 3.0/3.5

Mixed Doubles 3.0

Mixed Doubles 3.5

Mixed Doubles 4.0

Mixed Doubles 4.5

Mixed Doubles 5.0+/OPEN

Mens Doubles 3.0 Age 8-49

Mens Doubles 3.5 Age 8-49

Mens Doubles 4.0 Age 8-49

Mens Doubles 4.5 Age 8-49

Mens Doubles 5.0+/OPEN

Womens Singles

Womens Skinny Singles 2.5/3.0

Womens Skinny Singles 3.5/4.0

Women's Doubles 5.0+/OPEN

For brackets with a defined age range, at least one player in the partnership must meet the age range. (i.e. You can play down in age if you have a younger partner that fits in the age bracket.)

Please note: Bracket start time scheduling takes place in the week or so prior to the tournament, when we as organizers have a clearer sense of team numbers in each bracket and therefore which brackets have to start when. As soon as the schedule is ready, we will email all participants. For planning purposes, players should assume their bracket could start as early as 12pm on Thursday / 8am Friday thru Sunday, or have an afternoon start, and that their continued progress in a bracket could make for a full day! (Don't schedule yourself to do anything else on a tournament day!)

Our "Open" events are intended for our highest-level players with a rating of 5.0 and above and will be set as the minimum rating for registration into these events. 4.5-level players may be accommodated if space allows.

We reserve the right to move teams down from any bracket if their DUPR rating(s) are more than 0.5 lower than registered.

Brackets will be broken up or combined based on registration numbers.

Tournament directors reserve the right to modify formats as needed based on registrations. This includes the unlikely, but possible, removal of medal matches in round-robins due to darkness or other adverse scheduling factors (so play every match to win!).

Please note that a waitlisted team is not considered ready to be moved into the live event when an opening occurs unless the team has both partners registered. The tournament software generates an email to the player(s) when a team is moved from the waitlist to the live event. Once a team has been moved from the waitlist into the live event, the team will be given 48 hours to complete payment of the associated registration / event fees to hold their spot. If payment is not received the team may be moved back to the waitlist and the next team in line will be moved into the live event. The Tournament Director also reserves the right to determine the best fit for each bracket when moving waitlisted teams into newly open spots.

Once again, this will be a fully sanctioned tournament, with referees for every match, and this time around we will have the highest proportion to date of fully certified referees officiating the tournament.

All USA Pickleball Rules will apply: USAP Rulebook. Please verify in advance that your Paddle is on the USA Pickleball Approved Paddle List. This is a requirement for sanctioned tournaments.

Head Referee: Andrea Mayorga

Referee Coordinator: Somchai Moy

Interested referees should sign up at www.PickleballDesk.com/signup/641.

Tournament Director: Adam MacKinnon

PB4ALL Pickeball LLC, 'Advance with Adam' Pickleball Coaching

Questions: info@pb4allpickleball.com

Spectators

We encourage spectators to come and cheer the competitors on! Admission is free. You may want to bring a chair/shade. We will have Food Trucks on site on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and we encourage you to visit our sponsor booths and sample their offerings/giveaways. Please note: player snacks are for playing participants only.

Junior Showcase:

Our Junior events are given more focus and more court time on their own day, Saturday, May 10th, at Flyte Racquet Club, San Rafael, CA. The Showcase will take place on 8 outdoor courts at Flyte, and we will use round-robin formats with play-offs to give youth players the most play possible. Saturday, May 10, 12-5pm. Cost: $25. Ages 10-18. Register via this google form: https://forms.gle/G9fAKerHEdVA898A9

Our nonprofit donation partner for this tournament is the Pickleball Legacy Scholarship Foundation. We invite registering players to add a Donation Amount at checkout to this worthy cause. We will be donating a portion of our proceeds to PLSF as well. The PLS Foundation gathers funds and donations, and awards scholarships to qualifying youth athletes to use toward tuition at approved and accredited educational institutions in the USA. More information at www.PBLegacy.com.

Referee Workshop:

If you're interested in learning more about Refereeing, please note we are hosting a Referee Workshop for interested northern California trainees, Saturday, February 22, 2025, 11:00am-7:00pm, at Flyte Racquet Club, San Rafael. Workshop is free, with a materials fee of $20. Details on the sign-up form here: https://forms.gle/v9mjgn8rxAjb3qrF9. Advance signup required. Also, you must be a USAP (Champion level) member to take the workshop. Any questions, email Adam at adammackinnon@gmail.com. If you missed it this time, please use the form to indicate interest to go on our mailing list to be informed of future Workshops.

• Up thru Registration Close (Apr 20, 2025): Full Refund less $25 processing

• After Registration Close (Apr 20, 2025): No refund

• We are making a commitment in advance to give a Full Refund (minus a basic processing fee of $25 to offset our considerable upfront costs) in the event of on-the-weekend cancellation due to rain or unhealthy air quality. (If you are registered for multiple events and only one is impacted, then the refund would be for the event fee only.)

Please see our standing Air Quality policy for ‘PB4ALL’ tournaments:

If the AQI > 150 we will go forward with tournament play, but we’ll happily offer a full refund (registration plus event fees) to anyone who does not feel comfortable playing in that environment. If you are registered for multiple events and only one is impacted, then the refund would be for the event fee only.

If the AQI > 200, then the tournament will be postponed until the AQI falls below 200. We will notify players via text on an hourly basis with an update as to the plan. Formats may need to be adjusted if play resumes on the same day. However, each day will run the currently scheduled brackets (ie: it is not practical for us to defer suspended play to a subsequent day.) An air quality update will be included in our final player email to be sent out in the last few days prior to the tournament.

We will be using PurpleAir.com, with the US EPA 2.5PM filter, with No Conversion (this is the most conservative way to read part per million data.). This is NOT what the government and airnow.gov use, which allow people to be out in worse air.

Prize Money is offered for our Open and Senior Open doubles events:

8+ teams registered: Gold $500 per player; Silver $180 per player; Bronze $100 per player

4-7 teams registered: Gold $150 per player; Silver $90 per player; Bronze $50 per player

under 4 teams: No prize money awarded.

UPDATE 4/8: Mens Singles 5.0 division - prize-money now offered for Gold medal winner only: $300

(If 4-7 players registered, $150 for Gold medal winner only).

Prize money checks will be awarded at the medal ceremony, along with medals. Bronze medallists should stick around!

INCLEMENT WEATHER POLICY

This is an outdoor tournament. If weather is a factor, we will do all we can to play matches on the scheduled day (with modified formats if necessary), or, in exceptional circumstances, carry over the finish of a bracket to the next day. In the event of rain or smoke, all efforts will be made to move brackets indoors rather than cancelling.

Unlike other tournaments, we do make a commitment in advance to give a Full Refund (minus a basic processing fee of $25 to offset our considerable upfront costs) in the event of on-the-weekend cancellation due to rain or unhealthy air quality. (If you are registered for multiple events and only one is impacted, then the refund would be for the event fee only.)

We ask that if you're feeling sick or have a fever, please do not participate (or attend as a spectator). If you have been exposed to an illness, please check your symptoms before attending. Thank you!