Description
Welcome to the 2024 New Hampshire Lakes Region Pickleball Tournament!
This is a USA Pickleball Sanctioned Tournament. That means that all results will be reported to USA Pickleball. Some matches, but not all, will be refereed. All referees are USA Pickleball officials. The head referee is Joseph L. Santoro, who is both a USA Pickleball Certified Referee and the USA Pickleball Referee Training Coordinator for New England.
This year's event is also a World Pickleball State Championship event qualifier for the National State Championships to be held in Dallas TX in November. All medalists will receive discounted registration fees at the United Pickleball State Championship events as follows:
Gold Medalist -- 100% discount [free registration]
Silver Medalist -- 50% discount
Bronze Medalist -- 33% discount
This year's event takes place at Foss Field in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, on 20 courts. Registration is limited to the first 350 players to fully pay the registration fee.
Note: A player who registers but without full payment, or a team that registers with one or more players who are not fully paid, can be displaced by a fully paid team if a bracket has reached full capacity.
Example: Assume a bracket has a maximum allowance of eight teams. Assume that seven teams have fully paid, but the eighth team [Team X] has at least one player who has not paid the registration fee. Should another team [Team Y] register and fully pay before Team X fully pays, Team Y may claim the eighth and final place in the bracket, while Team X is then moved to the wait-list.
The dates and events are:
Friday, September 6: Men's Singles
Women's Singles
Men's Mini-Singles
Women's Mini-Singles
Saturday, September 7: Women's Doubles
Men's Doubles
Sunday, September 8: Mixed Doubles
As a bonus event, once again there will be an opportunity to have Pickleball Lessons with Skill Level 5.0 National Award winner Clare Grabher. Those lessons will be on Thursday, September 5, 2024.
9:00 AM Classes for Skill Level 2.5/3.0
11:15 AM Classes for Skill Level 3.5/4.0
1:30 PM Classes for Skill Level 3.5/4.0
Each class is limited to four students.
Tournament Event Format
All games will be Round Robin. Based upon the bracket size, the games will be 1-15 points, winning by 2, or 1-11 points, winning by 2. In a Round Robin format, each team plays every other team in that bracket at least once. For example, in a bracket with eight teams, each team will play seven games.
All brackets are limited to a minimum of three teams and a maximum of eight teams which will play as follows:
-- Brackets with 3 or 4 teams will play a double Round Robin to 15 points.
-- Brackets with 5 teams will play a single Round Robin to 15 points.
-- Brackets with 6, 7, or 8 teams will play a single Round Robin to 11 points.
All brackets are formed first by Skill Level, such as 2.5, 3.0, etc., and then by Age in five year increments, such as 50-54, 55-59, etc.
The Tournament Director reserves the right to merge brackets when there is an insufficient number of players within a bracket to make for meaningful play. The Tournament Director also reserves the right to change the format should circumstances, such as adverse weather conditions, necessitate expediency. However, medals will be awarded for merged age brackets.
For example, assume that for Skill Level 2.5 there are two teams for Age Group 50-54, two teams for Age Group 55-59, and two for Age Group 60-64. If the Tournament Director chooses to combine the three age groups into one bracket, medals will be issued for the Comprehensive Age Group 50-64.
Other Notes:
1. The registration fee includes a souvenir tournament tee-shirt.
2. Individual events (such as mixed doubles) can be added to the registration for a separate fee.
3. This is an out-door tournament with no back-up dates. Thus, each registrant assumes
the risk that adverse weather could create scheduling delays, abbreviated play, or
event cancelation.
4. There is a no-refund policy. However, any request to withdraw received by August 24, 2024,
entitles the player to a refund not to exceed $ 45.00.
Additional Information
Wolfeboro. New Hampshire is the oldest "summer resort" community in the United States, and within a two hour drive from four major airports: Portland, Maine; Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Manchester, New Hampshire, and Boston, Massachusetts.
Players should bring their own chairs, equipment, hydration products, medical supplies, and food.
Several sandwich shops and restaurants are within a five minute walk from the courts.
Players who intend to stay over-night in a motel or hotel are encouraged to make reservations immediately as many of the Year 2023 players made their September 2024 reservations before leaving town. Thus, the number of available rooms is limited.
Refund Policy
This tournament is an outdoor event with a no-refund policy.
Each player assumes the risk of inclement weather forcing tournament cancellation.
A player having paid the registration fee has until August 15, 2024, to request a refund.
The maximum refund is $ 45.00. When a refund is requested, the player must send an
email that includes the complete name and mailing address to which the refund check is to be sent.
After August 14, 2024, there are no refunds.