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Red Deer Open Pickleball Tournament
Thursday August 8 2024 - Sunday August 11 2024
The Red Deer Pickleball Club is pleased to invite you to our 9th Red Deer Open Tournament August 8-11 2024 on our beautiful outdoor 20 courts in Red Deer, Alberta! We planned the the tournament categories to be setup including Mens and Ladies doubles, Singles and Junior events, with age categories (depending on the number of registrations). Events will include age categories from junior (18 and under) to 70+, with skill level competitions 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5 and open (open events are restricted to players of 4.5 or greater tournament rating). Should both players choose to, they may play up ONLY a 0.5 rating level from their current CTPR. The only exception is for 4.5+ or Open events, where all players must have a minimum 4.5 CTPR rating to play in that event.
Event Dates:
08/08/24 - Women's Doubles and Men's open Division
08/09/24 - Men's Doubles
08/10/24 - Mixed Doubles
08/11/24 - Women's & Men's full Singles
The registration fee is $60 for early bird registration, $75 for regular registration, or $90 for late registration plus $15 for each event entered. Registration opens May 10, 2024 at 7PM. A registration is considered complete when the team information is complete and paid in full. For doubles events both players must register within 7 days of the first player's registration, or the team will be moved to the waitlist.
Format:
All events, including singles, will offer a Round Robin pool-play format. If there are not enough teams for pool play, then a single round-robin bracket will be played.
The top-two teams from each pool or Top 4 for single round-robin bracket will move forward to the next round. If there are 3 pools the first and second team will get a buy.
All pool-play matches, as well as all pre-medal matches, will be one game to 15, win by 2 points. The gold medal matches will be best two-out-of-three games, Games to 11 win by two points.
This is a Canadian Pickleball format with our goal to have referees for all matches.
We hope to have youth brackets but youth may play in the adult group if not enough junior's.
Skill levels are 3.0 to open division
If you are wait listed we will try our best to accommodate your team, please be patient.
Ratings are based on the following from Pickleball Canada:
https://pickleballcanada.org/ratings/ratings-2023/
We reserve the right to refuse service at anytime.
