Registration is now open for the Diamond Novice Championship. Register right here.
The 2023 USA Pickleball Diamond Novice Championship, offered by Fortune Tires, shall be held Dec. 3-10, 2023 and hosted by Pictona at Holly Hill in Florida—one of many nation’s most interesting amenities, that includes 49 courts. Diamond Novice Championship gold medalists will earn Golden Tickets—the flexibility to pre-register—for the 2024 Biofreeze USA Pickleball Nationwide Championship.
Registration Schedule:
Section 1: Pre-Registration for all Diamond Regional Gold and Silver Passport winners – October Sep 11, 2023
Registration may be discovered on Pickleball Brackets right here.
Section 2: Lottery for all Diamond Regional Match Members – October 13-15, 2023
Section 3: Open Registration: Begins October 17, 2023
USA Pickleball Diamond Novice Championship Qualification:
- All Gold Medalists from the 2022 Diamond Novice Championship in Pictona are eligible to register for the confirmed brackets of the 2023 USA Pickleball Nationwide Championships previous to September 8, 2023.
- All remaining gamers from the 12 Diamond Novice Regional tournaments in addition to the 2022 Diamond Novice Championships are eligible and might register for the 2023 USA Pickleball Nationwide Championships earlier than September 8, 2023 for lottery consideration.
- All gamers should pay on the time of registration to safe their spot on the non-confirmed record and be thought of for the lottery which can happen on September 8, 2023.
- ALL PLAYERS MUST BE CURRENT USAP MEMBERS
Further Participant Info:
- Mixed brackets within the Diamond Regionals will award medals, in addition to pre-registration for Gold and Silver medalists, for the Diamond Novice Championship inside every occasion that includes the mixed bracket.
- All gamers that take part in a 2023 Diamond Regional match prior to August 1, 2023 turn out to be eligible to participate within the lottery for the 2023 USA Pickleball Nationwide Championship. Gamers that take part in a 2023 Diamond Regional match after August 1, 2023 turn out to be eligible to participate within the 2024 USA Pickleball Nationwide Championship lottery.
- Likewise, mixed brackets within the Diamond Novice Championship will award medals. As well as, gold medal winners of all brackets, together with mixed brackets winners, will obtain Golden Tickets to the 2024 USA Pickleball Nationwide Championships.
- Gamers which can be registered to play in a 70+, 75+, or 80+ brackets in a Diamond Regional match and the bracket should be mixed as a result of an absence of groups, ALL gamers in mentioned bracket will obtain a Diamond Passport to the Diamond Novice Championships. That is to encourage extra participation in Diamond Regional occasions for 70 and above age teams.
- A doubles participant just isn’t required to play alongside the identical companion with whom he/she earned eligibility for Section I pre-registration. Nevertheless, if the brand new substitute companion didn’t additionally qualify for Section I pre-registration, the doubles crew will be unable to register till both Section II or Section III.
Format:
- All occasions, together with singles, will provide a pool-play format. If there are usually not sufficient groups for pool play, then a round-robin bracket shall be performed.
- The highest-four groups (from every pool or round-robin bracket) will transfer ahead to the following spherical.
- All pool-play matches, in addition to all pre-medal matches, shall be one recreation to fifteen, win by two factors. The medal matches shall be finest two-out-of-three video games, win by two factors.
- The gold-medal winners of every occasion will earn a Golden Ticket to the 2024 USA Pickleball Nationwide Championships.
This can be a MMP format with our aim to have referees for all matches.