Baytown Pickleball Tournament 2024 - Benefiting Baytown Meals on Wheels

Description

What's better than playing a lot of pickleball? Playing a lot of pickleball while supporting your local community!

Introducing the Inaugural Baytown Meals on Wheels Pickleball Tournament hosted at Lee College! All proceeds from this event will go to fund the annual Baytown Meals on Wheels campaign and provide needed support for their local clients.

This flighted competition will provide a condensed, guaranteed 7 games with players of similar skill levels.
Players will enjoy round robin pool play that advance to single-elimination brackets. Prizes will be awarded to top finishers in each flight and all players will receive a gift bag at check-in.

Pre-Tournament Clinic: April 26th - Friday
• 2:00 – 3:30 Pickleball Clinic Hosted by Gigi Spence - certified pickleball instructor and former professional tennis player

Tournament: April 27th - Saturday
• AM Flight (8 AM - 12 PM) = Competitive Flight (suggested 3.5+) (32 teams max)
• PM Flight (12 - 4 PM) = Recreational Flight (32 teams max)

In addition to a ton of pickleball play, we'll have a multitude of local vendors and food trucks present with food for purchase, helping make this truly a community event. A portion of these proceeds will support BT MoW campaign as well.

Hope to see you on the court!

Additional Information

Baytown Meals on Wheels is a 501c3 Non-Profit whose mission is to enable, promote and facilitate independent living to home-bound senior citizens/disabled (60 years or older) by providing a nutritious hot meal Monday through Friday.

All proceeds from the Baytown Meals on Wheels Pickleball Tournament will go towards our Annual Campaign.

You, the Baytown and extended community, have an opportunity to make an enormous difference to several hundred of your Baytown neighbors in need. Additional funds are needed now to cover the cost of food, delivery expenses, and the overall administration of the program.

Your gift will stay local and benefit Baytown-area recipients in need.

Additional information can be found at baytownmow.org



Detailed Tournament Description
• Doubles tournament, Coed teams - teams are grouped by ability, not gender and can be comprised of Mens, Womens or Mixed teams
• Round Robin --> Bracket
• AM Flight (8 AM - 12 PM) = Competitive Flight (suggested 3.5+) (32 teams max)
• PM Flight (12 - 4 PM) = Recreational Flight (32 teams max)

• 4 pools - 8 teams per pool, randomly assigned.
• Timed games - 25 min - 5 min court turnover+warm-up for next, ~20 min game time
• Play to 11 OR cap at max time (20 min) – whichever comes first.
• Everyone gets 7 games min (>2 hrs. of "game time")
• Expected total time: 2.5-3 hrs.
• The top 3 teams from each RR pool advance to single elimination brackets

Signing Up and Finding a Partner

This is a Doubles tournament only. Players can sign up with a partner or as an individual and designate "I Need a partner". Once signed up, you will be able to contact other players who have signed up and need partners as well. Once registration closes, players who still need partners will be randomly paired up by Tournament Director.

If you find a partner outside of the tournament entrant list after signing up, they will be able to designate you as their partner when they sign up.

Weather

Notice: All proceeds from the Baytown Pickleball Tournament go directly to Baytown Meals on Wheels! In case of force majeure including inclement weather that requires cancelling the tournament, Baytown Meals on Wheels appreciates your donation.

Refund Policy

If, after signing up, you need to withdraw and request a refund, you must send an email requesting to btwmow@baytownmow.com on or before April 13th, which is when registration closes.

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