A Fall edition of our all-ages, USA Pickleball sanctioned tournament to meet the demand from competitive players in our area—we hope that another successful event will further demonstrate the need for a purpose-built, high-quality, large-scale Pickleball complex in Santa Rosa.

Like our Spring edition, we have received MMP sanctioning approval for this tournament which includes refereed pre-medal and medal matches. Additionally, we intend to referee as many matches as possible.

Please be assured that the format and bracket arrangements will be similar to our Spring event. For now, events are displaying in broad skill categories. We have added age breakdowns where clearly anticipated, but more will come later to follow demand. We have provisional waitlist caps on many brackets merely as a way to retain space for all ages and skills until we see exactly what the demand is during registration. If you see a waitlist for an event you want to sign up for, please do go ahead and sign up. Your date and time of registration will be logged and given priority when we get into the fine details of seeing how many teams we can accommodate for each bracket within our overall daily capacity.

Friday - Gender Doubles 60+, Singles, Mini (Skinny) Singles

Saturday - Mixed Doubles - all ages; Junior Showcase (ages 12-16) in the late afternoon

Sunday - Gender Doubles - all ages

Registration and event fees are per player.

Friday - Pizza served including veggie option

Saturday - Taco Bar - chicken or veggie option

Sunday - BBQ - hamburgers, cheeseburgers, veggie burgers

Please note: Bracket 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. For planning purposes, players should assume their bracket could start as early as 8am, 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!)

Please note: if an event becomes a Round-Robin, there will most likely 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!

Our "Open" events are intended for our highest level players with a rating of 4.0 and above and will be set as the minimum rating for registration into these events.

Please note that for Friday events (which include 60+ gender doubles, Singles, and Mini 'Skinny' Singles) you may only sign up for ONE event per day

Brackets may be 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!).

As this is an MMP sanctioned event, we will have several Certified Referees present at the tournament and are encouraging Trainee Referees to participate as well as learn from and shadow the experienced refs. Please note, there is a free Referee Workshop coming up on Saturday, September 16, from 11:30-5:30pm in Santa Rosa to prepare interested trainees. We want to build a stronger presence of Certified Refs in Northern CA!

Tournament Directors:

Linda Hoffman (USA Pickleball Ambassador for Santa Rosa) and Adam MacKinnon ('Advance with Adam' Pickleball Coaching)

Questions: orgpbplay@gmail.com

• Up thru Registration Close (Sept 27th): Full Refund less $25 processing

• After Registration Close (Sept 27th): 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 cancellation due to rain or unhealthy air quality.

After last week’s local bad air and both of us experiencing very difficult conditions of play in Bend, OR in July, we have decided to be clear in advance of our tournament air quality policy.

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.