Intermediate Round Robin Events
What are Round Robin events? In an 8-person Round Robin event, each participant plays 7 games, partnering with each of the other 7 participants once. This will take about 2 hours. Scores are recorded. No one will sit out any game. Any participant is committed to play all 7 games.
Court #2 is reserved for these events. This court holds four pickleball courts. An 8-person RR uses only two courts at a time. Therefore, two 8-person RRs can be held simultaneously. For any RR event, 16 players will be invited. They will be randomly divided into two groups of 8 each. Then each of these groups will have their own 8-person RR event.
Who may play? Intermediate players who would like competitive play and who do not already belong to a competitive league. It is intended to provide competition for players who don’t have other options.
Protocols
Initially, RR events were held on Friday, starting at 4:00 pm. Change from this day and time depend on feedback from players, availability of courts, season, etc.
For an RR event, the coordinator emails invitations in a well-structured order. Participants who did not play in the previous week’s RR are invited first. Participants who did play in the previous week’s RR are invited last. An invitee can hold a spot by responding by email within 24 hrs of their invitation. The first invitations for each event are sent out by 7:00 pm five days before the event.
Several sets of invitations are sent out, each separated by 24 hrs, until 16 participants have accepted. Then a confirmation email is sent out to all 16 participants, which includes the names of the participants.
Note that for any event, only those people invited will get bugged by emails and it will be only two emails. The first will be the invitation and the second will be the final confirmation when the event is set up. Those who are not invited will net get bugged at all.