Pickleball has gone big league! Wednesday, May 25, Major League Pickleball (MLP) rang the bell on the New York Stock Exchange as it kicked off draft season for the new league. To make an even bigger splash, MLP brought several of its best players to New York to play an exhibition game in the NYSE Boardroom.
The league kicked off its first season earlier this month with a 3-day competition at Dreamland in Dripping Springs, Texas. Soon the league hopes that fans will be able to regularly follow their favorite teams through TV broadcasts.
Major League Pickleball includes 12 teams, 48 players, and a total prize pool of more than $750,000 for the season winners. Each team is composed of four players—two men and two women.
Matches consist of women’s doubles, men’s doubles, and two mixed doubles games. If two teams are tied after these four games, a unique tiebreaker is played, which involves a singles rotational system involving all four of the team’s players.
You can learn more about Major League Pickleball at www.MajorLeaguePickleball.net and by following the league on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/MajorLeaguePickleball/.
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