Paddle with a purpose
About the Event
The FourPoint Pickler started with the idea to get our employees all involved in something we could do together as a team. In the past, we’ve volunteered together many times and held food and toy drives, but we wanted to create something that we owned that would hopefully be able to continue every year, with the ultimate goal of helping a cause we all found important. After much research and many surveys to our employees, we all agreed Colorado UpLift was a cause we wanted to support.
Colorado UpLift’s mission is building long-term, life-changing relationships with urban youth, equipping them to thrive and contribute to their community. They help children build life skills in school, grow through challenging adventures, develop leaders with their leadership program and help them plan for the future with the ultimate goal of giving children a chance to be a well-rounded adult, who otherwise may have had many hardships growing up.
At FourPoint, one of our values is Compassionate Stewardship, and we think it’s very important to give back, especially in our own community. We invite you to participate in our first annual Pickleball Tournament for a day of summer fun to support Colorado’s urban youth.
Timing and Location
Networking Cocktail Hour
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Del Frisco's Grille
4:00 PM
Pickleball Tournament Date & Time
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location
Gates Tennis Center
3300 E Bayaud Ave, Denver, CO 80209
Join us to kick off this exciting event with a networking cocktail hour at Del Frisco's Grille on Tuesday, June 17 sponsored by FirstBank.
For our Charity Pickleball Tournament, FourPoint Energy has partnered with Gates Tennis Center, a Denver mainstay for the last 46 years, to bring you our first annual pickleball tournament. Gates Tennis Center is located in Cherry Creek, just blocks from the FourPoint Energy Office.
The FourPoint Pickler will begin at 8:00 AM on Wednesday, June 18, 2025. The tournament will run throughout the day with our awards ceremony being held at 4:00 PM.
Tournament
Details
Format
- Pool play
- Even number of teams per pool
- Each team within a pool plays all other teams within pool
- 2 best teams from each pool will advance to playoff bracket
- Single games throughout pool play – games to 11, win by 1
- Playoff Bracket single elimination – games to 15, win by 1
- Championship match – Games to 11, win by 2, best of 3 games
Game Rules
- A player or team can only scores points when serving
- The serve must be underhand with the ball contacted below the waist. Serves must travel diagonally and land between the non-volley zone and the baseline of the service court opposite of serving player. Both feet must remain behind the baseline until after ball is struck.
- Players must announce the score prior to serving
- At the start of each new game, only one player on the first serving team is allowed a service turn before giving up the ball to the opponents. Thereafter both members of each team will have a service turn before the ball is turned over to the opposing team.
- In doubles, the player on the right at the start of a service turn will be the first person to serve for their team and will continue to serve until he or she does not win a point. Then his or her partner will serve until he or she does also does not win a point. Then it is the other teams turn to serve.
- When the serving team scores a point, the server moves to the other side of the serving team’s court. The receiving team should never switch sides
- For the full set of rules, please visit the USA Pickleball website or watch the video below:
