{"id":26191,"date":"2022-06-28T09:47:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T14:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=26191"},"modified":"2022-06-28T09:48:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T14:48:49","slug":"dream-team-doubles-at-riverside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=26191","title":{"rendered":"Dream Team Doubles at Riverside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dream Team Doubles, 5\/21\/2022\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XEPMHUrDj5k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Last month we held our first Dream Team Doubles pickleball tournament at Ralph Wulz Riverside Tennis Center. We ended up with six teams of four &#8212; two men and two women &#8212; to complete for the title of ultimate team champion. It was my first time running a mini tournament with this specific format (women&#8217;s doubles, men&#8217;s doubles, and two mixed doubles) and I was so proud of myself for staying right on schedule.  I think I&#8217;m starting to get the hang of this! <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/52179551313\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"  title=\"Dream Team Doubles 20220521\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52179551313_29fb9be7d1_z.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Dream Team Doubles 20220521\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the Excel template that I created specifically for the round robin portion this event. After five rounds of play, which gave everyone a chance to play against all the other teams in the tournament, we did a single elimination bracket. <\/p>\n<p>Personally, I like the round robin + single elimination format compared to a double elimination format because if you have a rough day then you could go 0-2 (meaning play twice, lose twice and be out) and only play a couple of matches. The round robin + single elimination ensures everyone gets to play lots of games, which in turn is way more fun. Even if you do end up finishing last, you still got to play a ton. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/52089002027\/in\/album-72177720299143340\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52089002027_428e769dc9.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These were the two teams that made it to the championship round &#8212; Team Topps (Antwome Topps, Jody Vinson, Lesli Toubassi, and Chris Wilson) and 1 Right 3 Wrongs (Caesar Naftzger, Cindy Egan, Vickie Hancock, and Cory Sager). It was a really tight match. Actually, all of the matches were super close and some matches even came down to a point or two. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/52090029396\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52090029396_f97f02c297.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Team Topps prevailed that day with their solid play. Congratulations to all! Can&#8217;t wait until we do this again. Noi?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month we held our first Dream Team Doubles pickleball tournament at Ralph Wulz Riverside Tennis Center. We ended up with six teams of four &#8212; two men and two women &#8212; to complete for the title of ultimate team champion. It was my first time running a mini tournament with this specific format (women&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2385,3419],"tags":[3486,3137,3463,3487,3409],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26191"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26196,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26191\/revisions\/26196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}