The Sequim Picklers have announced that the Sequim Fling Pickleball Tournament will be held June 26-29 at Carrie Blake Park Courts, 202 N. Blake Ave. This year’s Fling will premier two new tournament formats.

The Minor League Pickleball (MiLP) event will feature teams, each with two men and two women, grouped by aggregate rating (total score of all four players’ ratings). Anticipated brackets range from an aggregate of 12 (average 3.0 per player) to 18 (4.5 per player) with open and senior (50+) divisions.

The Sequim Fling is part of the regional and national qualifying circuit allowing teams to earn qualification points towards both the Northwest Regional MiLP Championships and the National MiLP Championships. For local players not interested in the broader circuit or the regional championship, it is not necessary to enter any other tournaments in the circuit in order to play in this one. To register for the MiLP event, visit SwishTournaments.com.

In addition to the MiLP events at the Fling, there will be a Scramble format for both men and women. In this format players register as individuals — no partner required. In the preliminary rounds, players are randomly paired each game with another registrant in their pool (grouped by age, gender, and skill level), and they play doubles against another randomly paired team.

Players gain points individually in the pool standings based on the outcome of each game. At the conclusion of the preliminary rounds, the field is cut based on those point standings. Of those remaining, players from the top half select an ongoing partner from the bottom half to compete together in a playoff bracket leading to the traditional gold, silver, and bronze medals for the respective teams.

These will be scheduled so that players can compete in both a Scramble and MiLP event during the run of the tournament. To register for a Scramble event, visit PickleballTournaments.com (formerly PickleballBrackets.com).

The Sequim Picklers are partnering with area hotels, restaurants, and food trucks to give participants and spectators a full taste of Sequim while they are here for the event. The Picklers gratefully thank local tournament sponsors as follows: Swag Bag sponsor Dream Vacations; Gold sponsors Puget Sound Express, RNR Electrical, Marigold Studios, Emerald Coast Builders, and Lori Pierson (in memory of Bob Sester); Silver sponsor Paddletek; Bronze sponsors Acrisure Insurance, Jan Canale, Richard Cary, Janie Dicus, Cyndi and Larry Hueth, Char and Steve Reeves, and Gail Sumpter, with additional generous support from the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe.

For more information, see the Sequim Picklers website sequimpickleball.com.