How about an extra player at 10? Alan R

Players! We are celebrating our largest community size to date, with full courts, lots of laughter and good solid pickleball happening at GMCF. This season we have been pressing hard to refine our schedule, institute DUPR guidelines and generally find cohesiveness across all of our open play sessions. Today we make a final major change to solidify what we consider to be a quality schedule. As of now you will see some label changes to sessions indicating new DUPR ranges, as well as some recoloring of certain levels, and times on certain days.

This change has come from careful observation of each group, along with our push to get our players to hold a DUPR rating that reflects their level of play. The new labeling scheme more accurately describes those that are participating in each of the sessions. It is awesome that there are groups that love playing with one another and we absolutely don't want to disrupt that organic chemistry, so there should be almost no changes that happen in your weekly games based on these new labels. We have also extended the DUPR rating range to include a .2 overlap between levels so folks on the top end or bottom end of a range don't feel forced to move.

As a reminder, as much as we love playing with our regular peeps, it is always encouraged to play some occasional games up a level as well as down a level. This can serve to expose you to new elements to the game, and to pay it forward by bringing your skills to a game that would like to feel what that next level looks like. This cross-pollination is paramount to a healthy community, and we expect all of these members to readily accept this forays up and down by players with open arms and welcoming gratitude that our community does not thrive in silos. You will notice a change on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons with the removal of the COMP designation to allow for these "level up" games to occur.

Thanks to all of you for flexing with the adjustments. Our club has way more open play than any other club I have experienced (most are reservation-focused with fewer open plays), so it's really important that we get this right, and I think we have!

Nick