In southern Delaware, Factory Sports and Lighthouse Pickleball are offering an innovative new type of ladder experience that actually uses your rating in DUPR as the ladder that you climb! Your rating in DUPR is updated after every game you play, and it dynamically affects your court assignment for your next game. Partners and opponents are assigned automatically.
If you don’t have a rating in DUPR yet, you will play by using your self-rating just for your initial ranking, and then you will get an actual rating in DUPR as soon as the scores from your first game are entered. Let me know and I will add you to a ladder event to bypass the registration restriction that requires players to have a rating in DUPR.
Ladder events are offered on Saturdays at 10:30am indoors at Factory Sports in Frankford, DE.
These ladder events are fully automated by using the DuprPlay™ event software which handles time-keeping, scoring-keeping, submitting scores to DUPR, assigning byes to players based on their Stamina preferences, and informing each player if they have a bye, or informing them of their assigned court, partner, opponents, and serve/receive/side details.
Registration
Here are the steps to register. For help, contact [email protected]
- Install the DUPR app on your phone from the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store
- In the DUPR app, click on the “Clubs” tab, search for the “Lighthouse Pickleball” club, and join it
- Join the Lighthouse Pickleball network within the GPN web app
- In the GPN web app, click on your “Account” button in the upper-right corner, click on “Settings & Privacy“, look for the “Connect to DUPR” settings, and use the button there to link your GPN account to your DUPR account
- Join the Regional Ladder Invitees group in the GPN web app
- View the Events Calendar within the GPN web app, and look for ladder events
Event Details
- Play games only with the players who have DUPR ratings close to your own rating
- Courts, partners, and opponents are assigned automatically to create skill matched games with varying partners
- Scores are entered into DUPR as club matches, which count fully, the same as tournament matches
- Win games to improve your rating in DUPR and climb the rating ladder to play up
- Choose your own Stamina preference so you can get a break when/if you need it
- Play using rally scoring to 25, win on your serve by at least 2, switch sides at 13
- Regardless of who served, the team that wins a rally will get a point and serve next
- There are no freezes, so the score will always change after every rally
- You can only win on your serve, so your score could go well above 25 before you win by at least 2 on a rally that your team served
- The partner who starts on the right will stay on the right and serve whenever their team’s score is even, while the partner who starts on the left will stay on the left and serve whenever their team’s score is odd
- Partners can switch (left/right) during the side change at 13 or during a time-out
- Each team gets one time-out per game (30 seconds or less) and the game clock does not stop for a time-out, so keep it short
- Each game is limited to 17 mins, followed by a 3 min break, so if the game timer runs out, then complete the current rally (don’t stop mid-rally)
- If tied when the game timer runs out, play just one more rally, which will decide the game winner
- Both volley serves and drop serves are legal
- If a serve touches the net and then lands in the correct box, then consider that a “let”, and replay that serve