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Ball for Play:
The Franklin X40 ball will be used for tournament game play.
Coin Toss:
Whoever wins the coin toss, there are three options to choose from. Once the winner of the coin toss makes a choice, the other team captain will make their choice and then back to the winner of the coin toss, etc. until all choices have been made.
- Choose Home (home team reacts to visitor team’s mixed lineup)
- Choose Away (away team reacts to home team’s singles dreambreaker lineup)
- Choose Serve, Side (aka which end of the court to start on) or Receive
Scoring:
2 Rules to Win:
- You must have SERVED to win the game.
- You must win by two.
There is no “freeze” at any time. The only time a team does not score is if the
receiving team wins the rally and it would give them the point to win.
Review of Rules:
- This is TEAM Pickleball! It’s time to have fun, cheer, high five and engage with your team. However . . . read rules 2-4.
- Only players on the court may have player communication, call faults and in/out calls. No teammate, coach or spectator may influence line or fault calls or any actions of a rally.
- Coaching and cheering is allowed only IN BETWEEN rallies. Coaching is not allowed while the ball is live and in play. Coaching may not delay the game, otherwise, a time out shall be called.
- If a player, coach or fan influences a rally by coaching, yelling in or out, or influences a playing player while the ball is live and in play, that team will lose said rally.
Format Review:
- Regardless of outcome, all 4 games in a match are played in Round Robin. (both gender doubles and both mixed games). If there is a tie and the teams go 2-2 in the match, then a Dreambreaker is played to determine the match winner. Remember, each team only has ONE minute to determine their singles line up and only TWO minutes of warm up time.
- Once BRACKET PLAYOFFS start, if a team wins the first 3 games, that match is completed. A team that wins 3-0 shall not play the 4th game.
- All games are played sequentially: women’s, then men’s, then 1st mixed, then 2nd mixed all on ONE court.
- 1 timeout per game, per team in addition to the end change timeout. Timeouts are ONLY ONE MINUTE LONG.
- Once a match starts, there are ONLY TWO minutes in between all games. No additional warm up times are allotted.
- Stay on TIME. Move games along.
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