7th Annual Fall Classic Pickleball Tournament

Sunrise Recreation and Park District is pleased to announce our 7th Annual Fall Classic Pickleball Tournament! We are excited to offer this tournament with a NEW format to our ever growing pickleball community!

Location: Rusch park Pickleball Courts

7801 Auburn Blvd. Citrus Heights, CA 95610

Dates: 11/10-11/12*

*Rain Out Dates Scheduled for 11/17-11/19

Fee: $30 per person ($120 per team)

Team of 4 (2 men, 2 women)

**Manager Pays team fee

Format: Modified MLP Team Event

EVENT FORMAT

Six team round robin – play the other five teams in your group. The winner is the team with the most match wins, followed by head-to-head and then point differential. Note: the point differential does not include Dreambreakers (the tag team singles tiebreaker).

Brackets of less than six teams will have playoffs.

MATCHES

A Match consists of four games, starting with men’s and women’s doubles and then two mixed doubles games. If two teams are tied after these four games, a singles DreamBreaker is played, with a rotational system involving all four players.

Dice Roll

At the start of each Match, there will be a roll of the dice and the winner will choose to be the Home or Away team.

HOME: The Home team will choose its mixed doubles teams last, and they must declare first during the Dreambreaker. The Home team will serve from the south end in men’s and women’s doubles and receive from the opposite end in mixed and in the Dreambreaker.

AWAY: The Away team must declare the mixed doubles teams first but gets to go last on the Dreambreaker player choice. They will receive from the north end in men’s and women’s doubles and serve from the south in mixed and in the Dreambreaker.

GAMES

Each Game will be played with modified rally scoring to 21 points (win by 1). Players will change ends when one team reaches the score of 11. Rally scoring will be played until a team reaches 20, at which time the team reaching 20 is subject to a freeze on rally scoring and must score the game winning point while serving. If the opposing team reaches 18, their score also freezes and they can only score points while serving.

PLAYER CHANGE OF SIDE/SERVE:

During rally scoring, players do not switch sides after winning points. Player A for each team serves and receives on the right side when the score is even, and Player B serves and receives on the left side when the score is odd. A team may choose to switch player sides during a time-out or end change. If the time-out team decides to switch positions, the only way the other team may now switch is by calling a time-out. If that team doesn’t have a time out left, they may not switch positions.

PLAYER INITIATED TIME-OUTS

Teams will each be allotted 1 time-out per game (up to 1 minute per time-out).

DREAMBREAKER TO DETERMINE WINNER

If two teams playing a Match are tied 2-2 after the doubles and mixed doubles Games, a Dreambreaker will be played. A Dreambreaker is a Game to 21 (win by 1) with modified rally scoring, where each team must rotate its 4 players for 4 singles rallies in a set order until the Dreambreaker is completed. Immediately following the completion of the mixed doubles Games, the Home Team will declare the order of rotation of its 4 singles players for the Dreambreaker to the Away Team. The Away Team will then declare their order of rotation. The Dreambreaker will use the same rally scoring used in Games as described above. All team members will rotate in 4-rally rotations until the Dreambreaker is concluded (Player 1 plays 4 rallies, then Player 2 plays 4 rallies, then Player 3 plays 4 rallies, then Player 4 plays 4 rallies, and then the rotation repeats in the same order). In terms of sides, singles players will serve from the side (left/right) of the court, based on their team score, as is typical in singles. The player will serve on the right side when that player’s team score is even, and when the team score is odd, the player on that team will serve from the left side of the court. During the Dreambreaker, each team will be allotted one time-out. Teams will change ends when one team reaches the score of 11. When a team reaches 20 points, they can only win while serving. The opposing team can only score while serving when they reach 18 points.

TEAM FORFEITS

If a team becomes short a player, they can continue with any play involving the player being either a game forfeit or loss of points.

Instructions for Registration

Manager Instructions

Click on desired event below.
Click on green "Team Registration" button
Sign-In or create account with Sunrise Recreation and Park District
1. If you created a new account, you will receive an email to verify your email address (this must be done prior to registering for anything)
Once signed-in you should be re-directed to the registration page for the selected event.
1. If this is not the case, you may have to come back to this page and select the event again from the list below. You will then have to click the green "Team Registration" button again.
Once on the registration page for the selected event, select yourself as team manager from the drop down
Enter team name
Enter 4 as the maximum number of team members
Type in a registration code
1. This code is really a password that you create that can be shared with your team mates when they register.
2. It ensures that only people you share the code with can register for your team
Click green "Join Now" button
Select yourself as participant
Select your skill level
Click green "Add to cart" button
Acknowledge waiver and check-out

Team Member Instructions

Follow Steps 1-4 above
Click "join existing team"
Select yourself as participant
Select team that you wish to register with
1. A box will appear once team is selected asking for registration code. Type in the code that your manager shared with you.
Add to cart
1. You will notice a balance of $0.00, you will not be charged. The manager pays all team member fees.
Acknowledge waiver and check-out

Event List

This list will be updated twice a day. Once in the morning and again in late afternoon
The link will only become clickable once players begin to register.

Sunrise Recreation and Park District is pleased to announce our 7th Annual Fall Classic Pickleball Tournament! We are excited to offer this tournament with a NEW format to our ever growing pickleball community!

Location: Rusch park Pickleball Courts

Dates: 11/10-11/12*

Fee: $30 per person ($120 per team)

Format: Modified MLP Team Event

Instructions for Registration

Manager Instructions

Team Member Instructions

Event List

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