Tournament Guidelines

Registration Opens April 16th

General:

  • Follow the TIME/DATE that your match is scheduled to play and NOT the order of the Match numbers. Matches are scheduled out of order on purpose.
  • Please check your schedule periodically throughout the day and an hour prior to your start time for any last-minute changes. Changes include forfeits, no-shows, moving courts around in case the ocean swallows it whole.
  • If you see a “Split” on your reffing assignment this means that you and your partner will be reffing on 2 different courts. Courts will be right next to each other.

Junior’s Format:

    • All junior teams including Quads and Parent/Child are guaranteed 2 days of tournament play, pool play on day 1 and bracket play on day 2.
    • For Parent/Child division, Child must be 14U and under.  Child can play with either mother or father but cannot sub. 
    • Junior Doubles will have pool play on day 1 and then straight into a modified double elimination on day 2. 
    • After pool play, Juniors will be broken down to a maximum of 16 teams per bracket. For example; in a 64 team division, there will be four 16 team brackets (Gold, Silver, Bronze and Diamond). Less than 64 teams may vary. Prizes may vary!
  • Boys will NOT be allowed to play in a Girl’s Division. Girls can play in any Boy’s Division following Age Requirements.

  • Format for all Junior Doubles division UPDATED 8/6/24:

    3 team pools are 3 sets to 21 (no cap), play all 3 sets regardless
    4 team pools match play 21, 21, 15 (no cap), third set being the deciding set if needed
    5 team pools 2 sets to 15 (no cap), NO 3rd set
  • All Bracket matches will be best of 3 games at 21, 21, 15 no cap (tournament directors have the right to change the games depending on how much daylight is left).
  • Junior brackets are Modified Double Elimination depending on team turnouts.
  • Minimum of 5 teams per division (Divisions with 4 teams or less will be combined with the next level up, example: 14U B will be combined with 14U A or 16U B will be combined with 16U A).

Adult’s Format: UPDATED AS OF AUG 3RD, 2024!

  • Men’s and Women’s Open division will be managed and scheduled by Seaside.
  • All other adult double’s divisions will have pool play on day 1 and straight single elimination on day 2. All teams make it to bracket play on day 2. NOTE: Moving forward there will be NO North and South bracket.  ALL divisions will go into their own single elimination bracket. 
  • All bracket matches will be best of 3 games at 21, 21, 15 no cap. Tournament directors have the right to change the games for Saturday and Sunday depending on how much daylight is left.
  • 3-team pool games will be 3 games to 21, 21, 21, capped at 21. Play the 3rd set regardless. Exception Open and Dino.
  • 4-team pool games will be best of 2 games to 21, 21, capped at 21 (NO 3rd set). Exception Open and Dino.
  • 5-team pool games will be 2 games to 15, 15 AND capped at 15 (NO 3rd set). Exception Open and Dino.
  • All Bracket matches will be best of 3 games at 21, 21, 15 no cap (tournament directors have the right to change the games depending on how much daylight is left).
  • Minimum of 5 teams per division (Divisions with 4 teams or less will be combined with the next level up, example: B moved to BB or Masters 55 moved to Masters 45 or AA moving to Open)

Adult Prizes: 

  • All Cash prizes, Open and Masters will depend on the number of registration with a minimum of 1st, 2nd, 3rd or Tied 3rd paid out. 
  • All NON-CASH division prizes will be awarded for 1st, 2nd, Tied 3rd pending number of registrations. 

Scheduling:

  • All matches (first serve) are required to start on the scheduled time.
  • Please arrive 45-60 minutes to the court you’re scheduled to play on.
  • Penalty of 1 point per minute will be applied at the START of the scheduled time.
  • If a team does not show up 15 minutes after the scheduled time, it is an automatic forfeit.
  • If a previous match finishes early and both the playing teams and reffing team of the next match is present and ready to start, then they are allowed to start early.
  • If a match runs late then the next match must start right after. Previous teams should use the time waiting to warm-up.
  • If a team does not show up to ref, it will be an automatic forfeit of their next scheduled match.
  • If you do not ref after your last losers match, you will not be allowed to play the following year.