🚨 Big moves in the #MLP world! 🚨 The Columbus Sliders are shaking things up, sending Connor Garnett to the Utah Black Diamonds in exchange for Jay Devilliers. 💥 This is their second roster change today—earlier, they traded Brooke Buckner to the Carolina Pickleball Club for Andrea Koop. 🔄 #Pickleball #News

#MLP clubs are making temporary roster changes before play begins in Michigan. 🏅💰

🚨 Arizona Drive: AJ Koller in for Andrei Daescu (suspended). 🔄🚫

🌟 Los Angeles Mad Drops: Emily Cederquist for Parenteau, Blaine Hovenier for Wilson. 🔄

🔥 Bay Area Breakers: Jill Braverman for Rettger, DJ Young for Kawka. 🔄

🐻 California Black Bears: Susannah Barr for Emily Cederquist, Brandon French for DJ Young. 🔄

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The Texas Ranchers used their No. 1 overall waiver pick to replace Martin Emmrich with Quang Duong. #MLP #Pickleball #News

🏓 The D.C. Pickleball Team is acquiring Vivian Glozman from the Bay Area Breakers in exchange for Allyce Jones a monetary amount of $100,000. 💰

🤠 The Texas Ranchers are sending Pablo Tellez to the Brooklyn Aces in exchange for Martin Emmrich, another lefty. 🎾

💵 Sources have confirmed that Texas paid the Utah Black Diamonds $100,000 for the top pick in the first round of Waiver Period 1. Utah will receive Texas' No. 7 overall pick slot. The Ranchers will most likely use this pick to replace Emmrich with Quang Duong. #MLP #Pickleball #News

The weekend event in D.C. 🎉, the second competition of #MLP’s 2024 regular season, was the first professional pickleball function in the nation’s capital 🇺🇸. League officials said they welcomed between 10,000 and 12,000 people from Thursday to Sunday.

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New Power Rankings are out. The NY Hustlers lead the #MLP after their win in Washington DC! 🗽 They racked up a whopping 15 points with 3 regulation wins and 3 Dreambreaker victories. 💥🚨

Meanwhile, the Dallas Flash stole the show on the individual side. 🏅 JW Johnson, Jorga Johnson, and Augie Ge dominated the court, going a crazy 19-5 combined! 🤯🚨 Don't forget Hurricane Tyra Black who brought the heat for Dallas with 5 wins out of 8 games. 🌪️🔥🚨

Even the Texas Ranchers' new guy, Quang Duong, made a splash with 4 wins in 10 games. 🌟🚨

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The Seattle Pioneers are relocating to Carolina and rebranding as the Carolina Pickleball Club. 🏞️🎾

The squad - which consists of Ben Johns, Collin Johns, Jessie Irvine, and Andrea Koop - will debut at #MLP Washington D.C. later this week. 🌟

The Pioneers were formed in 2023 by Tom Dundon. #Pickleball #News

#MLP announced upcoming rules changes and clarifications 📢

Teams must once again win on their serve. 🏓

If all players are not present within five (5) minutes of starting, that team loses ALL of their coin toss considerations ⏰

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NextShark is the leading source for Asian and Asian American news 🌏📰. They are now a part owner of the Bay Area Breakers, a team in the Challenger level of #MLP .

Formed in 2022 by Mimi and David Mercado and Ritchie Tuazon, the Bay Area Breakers drew notable investors like Geoffrey Nguyen, Wayley and Kathleen Louie, Jeff and Stacey Nishi, and former NBA star Jeremy Lin 🏀.

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#MLP by Margaritaville announced the schedule for the 2024 season, which begins this Thursday, May 9, with MLP Atlanta.

The 2024 MLP will consist of 11 total weeks of events, hosted across nine different states and Washington, D.C., featuring:

Eight (8) Regular Season events (May-October) 🌞
2024 Mid-Season Tournament (July) 🏆
2024 MLP Playoffs (broken up over two different weeks in November) 🎉

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According to various sources, we do know that several notable players have withdrawn #MLP in 2024: 📰

A contract issue is preventing the "Johnson Five" – JW Johnson, Jorja Johnson, Dylan Frazier, Gabe Tardio, and Milan Rane, from playing MLP. 🤝

Julian Arnold, Lauren Stratman, Matt Wright, Lucy Kovalova, Jill Braverman, Susannah Barr, Megan Fudge, Ryler DeHeart, and Yana Newell choose not to play. 🚫

Rob Nunnery announced that he is not playing MLP in 2024 to focus on his injury recovery. 🤕

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#MLP announced the dates and formats for the upcoming 2024 Premier and Challenger Level Drafts. 🎉

The Premier Level Draft is scheduled for Tuesday, April 2, at 6 p.m. ET ⏰

The Challenger Level Draft will be held on Wednesday, April 3, at 6 p.m. ET. 🏓

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🏓 Pacific Pickleball, in partnership with Major League #Pickleball , is kicking off the 2024 season with the launch of Pacific Pro Sydney at the Blacktown Tennis Centre Stanhope. 🎾

With 12 teams across Australia, New Zealand, and Asia, over $700,000 in prize money is on the table in 2024. 🌏 Home team Sydney Smash will be looking at retaining their event crown from last year, having recently secured team ownership with Australian Cricketing legend Steve Smith. 🏏

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All teams will play up to 40 regular season matches across their eight scheduled regular season events (individual team schedules will vary across MLP’s 15 regular season events) and participate in the Mid-Season Championship (July 11-14 in Grand Rapids, Michigan).

In both Premier and Challenger, the top six teams will qualify for the season-ending MLP Playoffs.

The top four Challenger teams in 2024 – determined by season-long results – will be promoted to Premier for 2025.

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Atlanta Bouncers
Austin Pickleballers
Bay Area Breakers
Brooklyn Aces
California BLQK Bears
Chicago Slice
Florida Smash
Frisco Pandas
Las Vegas Night Owls
Miami Pickleball Club
Milwaukee Mashers
SoCal Hard Eights

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Arizona (AZ) Drive
Columbus Sliders
Dallas Pickleball Club
D.C. Pickleball Team
Los Angeles (LA) Mad Drops
New Jersey (NJ) 5s
New York (NY) Hustlers
Orlando Squeeze
Seattle Pioneers
St. Louis Shock
Texas Ranchers
Utah Black Diamonds
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The season two Challenger Level can be summed up with three words: Socal Hard Eights. The bright pink jerseys and dice dominated the Challenger Level all season long. The Hard Eights finished with an undefeated record across all three events. #Pickleball #MLP #News

Chicago Slice, a team that could have been left out of the playoffs, beat the two defending champs (D.C. in Semis and Orlando in the Finals) to claim the season two crown. #Pickleball #MLP #News

Following a hard-fought match against the California BLQK Bears, the St. Louis Shock punched their ticket to tomorrow’s Challenger Level Championship against the undefeated SoCal Hard Eights. #Pickleball #MLP #News

The Orlando Squeeze defeated their rivals, the D.C. Pickleball Team, ensuring their spot in today’s Premier Level Championship. Facing single elimination, the Chicago Slice beat the Miami Pickleball Club in a crucial match. The day ended with a thrilling Dreambreaker match between Chicago and D.C., with Chicago ultimately making a comeback to earn the second spot in the Finals against Orlando. #Pickleball #MLP #News

Here we go! #MLP #Pickleball #News

The Season 2 Playoffs will be played December 4-5 in Southern California. The Premier Level will have 4 teams and the Challenger Level will have 3 teams.

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Making history ⭐️ in #MLP #Pro #News #Pickleball

Nothing can beat this feeling 🙌🏻🔥
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The Hard Eights did it again! They won the #MLP title for the second time in a row 🔥🏆#Pickleball #News

Congratulations to Riley Newman, Jackie Kawamoto, Jade Kawamoto, and Christian Alshon!DC is the new pickleball capital city 🙌🏻#Pickleball #MLP #News

➡️ In a new structure for 2024, the 24 #MLP teams will play a regular season schedule and be split into six divisions of four teams each. Teams will play at least 40 matches over the course of the regular season, facing every other team at least once. Division opponents will meet three or four times and teams will play everyone in their “rival” division two or three times. The two-week MLP Playoffs will follow the conclusion of the 2024 regular season.The various event types and stakes are as follows:✅ MLP Regular Season schedule will consist of 15 total events. 9 of these events will take place on the front end of the #PPA Tour Slams, Cups, or Opens and be played the first weekend of these combined nine-day pickleball extravaganzas. The remaining 6 events will be MLP Showdownsz🏆 MLP Playoffs will host two Championship events in 2024. Mid-Season Championship will see all 24 teams in action and Season-ending Championship will take into account teams’ performance across the regular season, culminating with a full-season 2024 champion.#Pickleball #News

Put it on your calendar: MLP DALLAS STARTS TOMORROW 🙌🏻🔥#Pickleball #MLP #News

🗓️ Thursday Challenger Group Stage (9 AM)🗓️ Friday Premier Group Stage Rounds 1 & 2 (10 AM)Challenger Quarterfinals (12 PM)Challenger Semifinal (4 PM)🗓️ Saturday Premier Group Stage Round 3 (10 AM)Challenger Final (2 PM)Premier Quarterfinal 1 (4 PM)Premier Quarterfinal 2 (6 PM)🗓️ Sunday Premier Semifinal 1 (8 AM) Premier Semifinal 2 (10 AM)Premier Final (1 PM)#Pickleball #MLP #News