2022 USA Pickleball Southwest Diamond Regional

Registration Dates

• Open: 11/20/21
• Closed: 02/20/22

Tournament Dates

• Starts: 03/22/22
• Ends: 03/27/22

Cancellation Dates

• Cancellation Deadline: 02/20/22

Location

Bell Bank Park
1 Legacy Drive
Mesa, AZ 85212

Registration

• Player's age as of: 12/31/22
• Minimum Age of Player: 8
• Final Registration Deadline: 02/20/22
• Membership required as of: 03/28/22
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• Tournament Sanctioning: Sanctioned - MMP
• Registration, Ages: 19+ - $110.00
• Junior Registration, Ages: 8-18 - $25.00
• Registration includes: Dry Fit T-Shirt if registered by: 02/20/22
• When registering online, online waiver signature is used.
• Online payment via PayPal is available. PayPal also allows credit card payments.

Additional Info

• Primary Ball: Franklin X-Performance 40
• Surface: Concrete
• Net: Permanent
• Outdoor: Y

Tournament Description

Entry fee includes: up to 3 different events (i.e. not 2 mixed events), entrance to the venue, hydration stations, T-Shirt, and snacks (if allowed). There is a $10 entrance fee for spectators. Regional Championships will now culminate in the new Diamond Amateur Championship taking place December 1 - 7, 2022 at Pictona in Holly Hill, FL. Go to the OTHER INFORMATION PAGE for more detailed description.

Event Schedule

Competition Events

Player List

Event Player List

Food

Food trucks and a restaurant will be available on site. Players, referees, staff,  and volunteers will be allowed to be able to bring in nutrional food and drinks into the complex. No fast food will be allowed in. Legacy Sports has the right to change this rule if it is being abused.

Lodging / Accommodations

You may find lodging through Hotel Planner.

Other Registration Info

There are several important changes being implemented in 2022, including:

• The 12 Regional Championships will culminate in the new Diamond Amateur Championship taking place December 1-7, 2022 at Pictona in Holly Hill, FL. Gold Medalists from the Diamond Amateur Championship will earn pre-registration (Golden Tickets) to the following year’s National Championships in Indian Wells.
• Gold and Silver Medalists from the Regional tournaments will earn pre-registration into the Diamond Amateur Championship at Pictona.  All other participants from the Regional Tournaments will be eligible for the lottery into the Diamond Amateur Championship.
• Gold, Silver and Bronze Medalists from Regional tournaments will be entered into the lottery for the 2022 National Championships in Indian Wells.
• There will be no pre-registration (Golden Tickets) from the 2022 Regional tournaments to the 2022 National Championships in Indian Wells.

Looking ahead to the 2023 season, the following qualifying procedures for the National Championships in Indian Wells will be added:

• Gold Medalists from the 2022 Diamond Amateur Championship at Pictona will receive pre-registration (Golden Tickets) into the 2023 National Championships in Indian Wells.
• Silver and Bronze Medalists from the 2022 Diamond Amateur Championship at Pictona will be eligible for Phase 1 of the 2023 National Championships lottery. If openings remain after Phase 1, all Medalists from the 2023 Regional tournaments will be eligible for Phase 2 of the National Championships lottery.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION GO TO: USAPICKLEBALL.ORG-TOURNAMENTS-EVENTS

Players from the 2021 Southwest Regional who were registered and did not cancel their registration when the tournament was cancelled due to covid, will be eligible to pre-register. They will be sent an email with all pertinent information.

There is a $10 entrance fee for spectators. Text messaging will be available during the tournament, please be sure that you have your mobile number listed in your profile in the Text Number field of your profile on pickleballtournaments.com.

Partner Replacement Policy:

Cancellation Policy

TOURNAMENT PLAYER CANCELLATION / REFUND POLICY

Registration fees will be refunded in full to those players that withdraw from the tournament 60 days prior to the start of the tournament. 

A refund minus our costs, not to exceed $25/player will be given back to players that withdraw from the tournament between 30-60 days prior to the tournament start date.

There will be no refunds given after February 21, 2022.   Any consideration will be at the discretion of the Tournament Director.

NOTE1: This is an outdoor tournament.  If there is inclement weather, all will be done to play matches, but there will be no refunds or credits due to inclement weather.  There are no indoor back up options available or rain dates.

NOTE 2: WAITLIST PLAYERS THAT HAVE PAID THEIR REGISTRATION FEE

FEBRUARY 21, 2022 – Is the date your decision MUST BE MADE if:

1. If you are already playing in the tournament in an event and are on the waitlist for another event, and do not get into that event, there will be no refunds allowed.
   
    
2. Players will not be charged a processing fee and may remain on the waitlist throughout the duration of the tournament.  A full refund will be issued to players who remained on the waitlist but did not get into the tournament. 

TOURNAMENT CANCELLATION / RESCHEDULING / REFUND POLICY

  If our tournament has to be cancelled or rescheduled to a later date because of an unforeseen situation beyond our control (like the covid-19), from the time registration opened until the start of the tournament, players will have 2 options: 1) “opt out” and a refund minus our costs, not to exceed $25/player will be given back to players that withdraw, 2) "opt in” player will be automatically registered for the rescheduled tournament date, event/s selected and no additional funds will be required. 

NOTE 1: Other than weather, if we have to cancel the tournament once the tournament begins, all players will receive a refund minus our costs. (TBD based on when the tournament was cancelled beyond our control)

All refunds will be issued within 30 days from the completion of the tournament. 

Directions

Bell Bank Park
1 Legacy Drive
Mesa, AZ

Format

Weather Event Policy

Tournament Director reserves the right to change the format of play based on participation or weather conditions.

In the event of weather, the tournament team will make every effort to complete all matches.  However, it is an outdoor tournament and adjustments and/or cancellations are possible.  There is no provision to play indoors or have a makeup day beyond the current tournament schedule.

Brackets with Fewer than 3 players

Brackets with 1 or 2 players will be combined with another bracket to have a minimum of 3 players.  

DOUBLES EVENTS and SINGLES EVENTS

Double Elimination Brackets (8 or more teams)

Winner’s bracket – 2 out of 3 to 11, win by 2.

Loser’s bracket – 1 to 15, win by 2

Bronze medal matches – 1 to 15, win by 2.

Gold medal matches – 2 out of 3 to 11, win by 2.  If the losers bracket wins 2 out of 3 to 11, then another match will be played 1-15, win by 2 to determine the winner.
 

Round Robin: Minimum of 3 teams

3 Teams - Double Round Robin.  2 out of 3 games to 11 points.

4 Teams - Double Round Robin.  1 game to 15 points.

         5 Teams - Single Round Robin.  1 game to 15 points.

6 Teams - Single Round Robin.  1 game to 15 points.

7 Teams - Single Round Robin.  1 game to 15 points.

No medal matches.  Gold, Silver and Bronze medal winners will be determined in each age group following USAP tie-breaker rules listed in the Rule Book, 12.C.3 (2021 edition.). In case of a tie, the winner of the tied group is determined first and then excluded from the group.  The tie-breaking process is repeated with the remaining teams and iterated until all ordinal placements have been determined within the original tied group.

Since our tournament will be sanctioned MMP, the Round Robin results will be determined following the USA Pickleball Rulebook.