Welcome to the Western Australian State Championships Tournament on April 21-23, held at the Nollamara Tennis Club.

Nollamara Tennis Club is a licensed venue and they have a kitchen so food and drinks are for sale.

This tournament will use the current USA Pickleball Official Rules 2023. They can be found at: USA Pickleball (https://usapickleball.org/what-is-pickleball/official-rules/).

This tournament is a PAA Sanctioned event.

Specific details are listed below:

REGISTRATION

- To register you will need to create a free Pickleball Brackets login and profile. Profile must contain your contact number, email & PAA ID number.

- Opens: February 18th @ 8:00 am for PAWA/PAA members only.

- Registration Closes: April 10th @ 8.00pm.

FEES

- Western Australian residents registering must be a PAWA Ordinary member, or PAWA Junior member including PAA membership.

- Registrants from other Australian states, or international must hold current PAA membership.

- Entry Fee: $35.00 per player

- Event Fee: $15.00 per event / $5.00 per event for Juniors (Your first event is included in the registration)

EVENTS

- Qualifying games will be a round robin format and finals will be elimination

- You can play in more than one event during the tournament but a max of 2 events on each day.

- Qualifying matches will be 1 game to 15.

- Medal finals matches will be best out of three games to 11.

- Players are guaranteed three games.

- Medals will be awarded to Gold, Silver and Bronze winning competitors for each bracket.

PLEASE NOTE:

- When registrations are closed, any event with insufficient numbers for a competition will need to be collapsed and combined with another event. Competitors in the collapsed event will be notified so they can decide if they still want to play.

- The tournament director reserves the right to cancel or modify the events and/or schedule as needed pending influences beyond our control (eg. Insufficient numbers in Events, Weather, etc).

At this point of time in Western Australia our members ratings are not yet at a mature point therefore we have named the skill in events as "Novice", "Intermediate" and "Advanced".

A general guide to this would be;

Novice = 1st time players <2.5

Intermediate = 2.5 - 3.5

Advanced = >3.5

The Tournament Officials will know the majority of players and will reserve the right, with consultation, to reallocate players into skill levels that reflects their skill level.

PLEASE NOTE:

- Skill Levels: For doubles, you must sign up at the skill level of the higher rated partner.

- Players with a Pickleballbrackets.com rating must use that rating

Refunds are available up until the close of registration but will incur a $5 service fee.

No refunds will be offered once registration is closed.