2024 Tasmania Pickleball Championships

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Welcome to the 2024 Tasmania Pickleball Championships on 1-3 March, 2024 in Hobart.

Registration Opens: 1st December, 2023 @ 8am
Registration Closes: 5th February, 2024 @ 5pm

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MAXIMUM ENTRIES NOW CAPPED AT 300

The number of registrants in the Tasmanian Pickleball Championships has far exceeded our expectations. We have already hired an extra venue to cope with the demand.
To ensure that we can still provide a quality event, we are capping entries to a maximum of 300 players.

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*** DUE TO HIGH NUMBER OF ENTRIES WE ARE NOW USING 2 VENUES ***
Skinny singles will be played at the Moonah Sports Centre 17 Gormanston Road Moonah starting at 11:00am
All Other events at the Kingborough Sports Centre 10 Kingston View Dr, Kingston

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This is a Pickleball Australia SANCTIONED tournament. It will use the current USA Pickleball (USAPA) rules. They can be found at: https://usapickleball.org/what-is-pickleball/official-rules/

ENTRY FEE
- Early Bird Before 11:59pm 3rd Jan 2024 $40.00/player including First Event. Second & Third Events are $15.00 each.
- After 11:59pm 3rd Jan 2024 $50.00/player including First Event. Second & Third Events are $15.00 each.

TOURNAMENT FORMAT
- Events will start with round robins and move to elimination - formats for these will be finalised once all registrations are received.
- Specified skill and age categories will run as combined round robin and elimination events, with games to 15 (pools with up to 5 players/teams) or games to 11 (pools with 6 or more players/teams).
- You can play in more than one event during the tournament but all events need to be in a different categories e.g. Mixed Doubles, Doubles, Singles OR Skinny Singles, and hybrid.
- Gold Medal matches will be best out of three games to 11 with a win by 2.
- Players are guaranteed minimum three games per event.
- Medals will be awarded to gold, silver and bronze winning competitors for each bracket.
- There are new age groupings this year: Junior, 19+, 35+, 50+, 60+, 70+. This is going to be standardised by Pickleball Australia across all sanctioned State tournaments in 2024. Your age group is your age as at Dec 31 2024.

START TIME
The Tournament will commence with an address to all players at 8.00am on Saturday 2nd march 2024. Play will start at 11:00am Friday, 8:00am on Saturday and 8:00am Sunday.

The exact format and structure of all events will be finalised on close of registrations.
As balls will be yellow, please avoid wearing yellow clothing during play as per USA Pickleball Official Rulebook 2023.

Additional Information

DIRECTOR'S DISCRETION
The tournament director reserves the right to:
- review, and possibly alter the rating of players who self-rate below or above their actual rating.
- move players and teams between skill level brackets if on verification the wrong event has been entered.
- merge or split brackets based on event registration. Any event with fewer than 4 entries will be combined with another event of closest possible standard.
- change start times to facilitate smooth running of the tournament
- The tournament director reserves the right to modify the events and/or schedule as needed pending influences beyond our control (ie. Fire drill, Covid restrictions).

REGISTRATION
A registration is considered complete when the Team is complete. BOTH players must register for the entry to be complete. If you do not have a partner, you can look under 'Players Needing Partners' to find a partner. (Click on the large button next to the logo on the Home page of the tournament website). It is the entrant's responsibility to use this facility to find themselves a partner if they cannot enter with a friend.

All participants must be members of Pickleball Australia. Anyone who is a member of their state association (such as Pickleball Tasmania) or a club (such as Kingborough), is automatically a member of Pickleball Australia. You will need to know your Pickleball Australia membership number to register.

PLAYER RATINGS
If you already have a Pickleball Bracket rating, this is the official Pickleball Australia
sanctioned rating system that will be used.
If you have not entered a tournament before, and do not have a Pickleball Brackets rating
you will need to self-rate. Previously rated players of past tournaments have a Pickleball
Bracket rating which cannot be changed.
PLEASE NOTE: The 2.0-2.49 bracket is for players who are still developing basic skills and not
for those wanting an easy win. The skill level covers the ability to:
- Sustain a short rally with players of equal ability.
- Demonstrate the basic shot strokes forehand, backhand, volley, overhead and the
serve, but with obvious weaknesses in most strokes and lacks consistency.
- Familiar with court positioning in doubles play.
To enter the 2.0-2.49 bracket you must register your rating as 2.0 so that the tournament software
does not automatically enter you into a higher bracket.
DUPR – Players who only have a DUPR rating can use this as a guide to self-rate however if
you are an Advanced Beginner to Early Intermediate, you should be entering into the 2.5-
2.99 bracket.
Don’t hesitate to ask tournament directors and Pickleball Tasmania committee members for
advice on entry level.

REFEREES
We will endeavour to provide, if available, referees on the gold medal match. To discover some of the characteristics of playing with a referee go to the PANSW website and open the 'Playing with a referee' document.

DELAYS
If you are unavoidably detained and it appears that you will not arrive in time for your game/match, please contact the Tournament Director. We can update you on the schedule and consider options but your game may result in a forfeit.
If you are more than 10 minutes late for your game your result may be a forfeit!

VOLUNTEERS
If you have a partner or friend attending the tournament with you, or if you are not playing in all 3 events, you, or they, may have some time available to help out as a Volunteer. Any help would be much appreciated as this event relies on volunteers to run smoothly. Please click on the Volunteer button when completing your Registration.

ACCOMMODATION
There is no accommodation within walking distance of the stadium. The closest hotel is the Kingston Hotel 0362296116 ask for Robyn or Anna. There are 6 double rooms and 4 triple rooms. The rooms have been set aside for us from 29th Feb to 4th March. Otherwise there is a lot of accommodation in Hobart City, about 14km from the stadium.

The Old Woolstore are offering a 10% discount* off the nightly rate to attendees of the Tasmanian Pickleball Open. It is centrally located just a block away from Hobart’s waterfront, offering spacious accommodation including self-contained apartments. Further information can be found on www.oldwoolstore.com.au

To make your reservation, enter the promotion code ‘PICKLE’ on our website or copy this link: https://www.simplebooking.it/ibe/hotelbooking/search?hid=5915&lang=EN#/offer&offerId=151121&coupon=PICKLE
*Discount valid for stay dates: 28th February – 06th March 2024

Parking is available on-site at an additional charge, subject to availability at the time of booking. To guarantee your space, please reserve at the time of booking by adding a special request, or by contacting the Reservations Team on 1800 814 676 or by email reservations@oldwoolstore.com.au

PRACTICE COURTS
Practice Courts may be available on Friday 1st March. Further details to follow. Cost is $5 per person payable in Cash on the Day.

Refund Policy

Player requests for withdrawals will be accepted until Sunday, 25th February, 2024 at 6pm, with a full refund less a $10 administration fee.

After 25th February, 2024 at 6pm, there will be no refunds provided. Only exception would be hospitalisation.

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