Ladder League (LL) Instructions:
❖ Courts: Use Courts #4, #5, and #6 at Mulligans Hollow. Be ready to play at your league start time. No warm ups after the start time!
❖ Format: LL will use a King/Queen of the Courts format. Each week players at the beginning of the LL will be randomly assigned a court. When everyone is ready a signal will be given to start.
❖ Games will be played to 11 win by 2
❖ “Two Done”: When 2 games have been completed. Players announce “two done”. The third game stops immediately when the serving team is ahead. When the serving team is behind they are given an opportunity to serve (both players) until they are in the lead or until they lose their serve. If the serving team did not score enough points to go ahead the receiving team is declared a winner.
❖ Partners Split: Once 3 games are done the Winners split and move up a court. Losers split and move down a court.
❖ Ladder Captain: We are asking one player from each league to volunteer as Captain. They will be in charge of getting the pickleballs out of and back into the shed. The Captain will also be The Keeper of the Cards and roster.
❖ Beginning Court Assignments: Before play begins players will be asked to draw a card from the 12 offered by the Captain. These 12 cards are in a 3 card sequence. After the draw is complete players will find and group together with like cards by number and color. Example: For the first game of the night, the 4 players holding x’s will play together. The 4 players holding y’s will play together. The 4 players holding z’s will play together. Your partner is the person who has the card with a matching color. The lowest denomination of cards always start on court #4, next highest cards in sequence match colors and move to court #5. Highest cards in the sequence match colors and start on court #6.
❖ Substitutions : Please contact someone from the sub list if you know you will miss a night of play. Let your Ladder Captain know which sub will be playing for you in case they need to contact them. If no one from the sub list can fill in for you, you can arrange for someone of similar skill level outside of the ladder to sub for you. It is your responsibility to find a sub so the ladder will always have 12 players!
❖ Weather In case of rain/wet courts Captains will notify their group that play is canceled for that night. There will be no rain make ups
For Rules of Play follow “Official Rulebook USA Pickleball 2025”
