DUPR and the UPA are joining forces to elevate collegiate pickleball even higher with the launch of the Collegiate Pickleball Tour (CPT)! Everything you’ve loved about DUPR Collegiate Pickleball is now enhanced with opportunities to play and showcase college talent at PPA and MLP tournaments.

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With new events, and more paths to pro, players will have every opportunity to grow in collegiate pickleball. Read below to see what the Collegiate Pickleball Tour has in store for 2025!

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MLP Mid-Season Tournament

Your chance to prove yourself against the best pickleball teams in the world is here! The two finalist schools of the 2025 Collegiate National Championship will be invited to compete in the 2025 Major League Pickleball Mid-season Tournament in Grand Rapids, Michigan. There, they will play in the challenger bracket against MLP teams, and are eligible to win prize money and represent their school at the highest level.

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Collegiate World Championship

Collegiate pickleball is going worldwide! Launching in Fall of 2025, collegiate players from all countries across the world will have the opportunity to represent their country at the Collegiate World Championships (CWC). This two day team event will be held the weekend before UPA Worlds and will showcase the top international talent to ultimately crown the first ever Collegiate World Champions. 

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Here are the registration details to know:

• All collegiate pickleball players from all countries are invited to compete
• Your team must have 2-3 male and 2-3 female players on it
• All players from your team must be representing the same country
• You are allowed to team up with players from different universities
• You can either represent the country your university is in, or the country you were born in

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To determine the World Champion, we will have group play matches on Saturday that will feed into playoff brackets on Sunday. The top performing team from each country from group play will represent the country in the championship playoff bracket on Sunday. More details will be released as we get closer to the date!

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Collegiate National Championship

After an electrifying Nationals tournament in 2024, we’re excited to announce that the 2025 Collegiate National Championship (CNC) will be held at Life Time Peachtree Corners in Atlanta, GA! We’ll be using the same 64 team format as last year, plus introducing a 32 team bracket for 2nd teams and schools without a bid! Here is the link to register!

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64 Schools - 1st Team Bracket

In order to compete in this bracket, your school must have earned a bid through one of these ways:

• Earned at the 2024 Collegiate National Championship (24 given out)
• Earned at a Super Regional (4 given out at each, 4 Super Regionals)
• Earned at a Campus Regional (1 given out at each, 18 Campus Regionals)
• Earned through Dual Matches (2 given out)
• Given a Wildcard bid (4 given out)

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The 64 schools that receive a bid will be sorted into 16 groups of 4 teams, with all groups having an equal amount of DUPR. After group play finishes, all 64 teams will then be sorted into the 64 team single elimination bracket (here is the 2024 bracket). In order to become the National Champion, you’ll have to win 6 elimination matches in a row!

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Scholarship Money Breakdown: (1st team bracket)

• 1st: $15,000
• 2nd: $5,000
• 3rd & 4th: $2,500
• 5th through 8th: $1,250

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32 Schools - 2nd Team Bracket

This bracket is open to both 2nd teams from schools that have a bid, or the 1st team from schools that didn’t get a bid. 

• If your school has a bid, you can sign up for the 2nd team bracket immediately
• If your school doesn’t have a bid, you can sign up the 2nd team bracket after March 9th if there are still open spots
  
  • If your school earns their bid after you already signed up for the 2nd team bracket, you will be promoted into the 1st team bracket
• The combined DUPR of your top 2 male and top 2 female players must be higher on your 1st team than your 2nd team
• If you have a bid, you must play in the 1st team bracket, you cannot opt to only play in the 2nd team bracket

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Scholarship Money Breakdown: (2nd team bracket)

• 1st: $3,000
• 2nd: $1,000
• 3rd & 4th: $500

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Challenger Bracket

The Challenger Bracket will be split into Men’s Doubles, Mixed Doubles, and Women’s Doubles. Depending on the registrations, more splits will be made based on DUPR to create high-quality games for all Challenger Bracket players. 

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Scholarship Money Breakdown: (Challenger bracket)

• $1000: School that brings the most players to the tournament
• $1000: School that brings the best performing challenger teams (min. 3 teams)
• $500: For the winner of each challenger bracket

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Super Regionals

The lifeblood of collegiate pickleball, Super Regionals provide regional opportunities for teams to earn a bid to the Collegiate National Championship, as well as some scholarship money! Each Super Regional gives out 4 bids to Nationals and $6000 in scholarship money to the top performing teams. The Georgia Super Regional on February 1st-2nd this year is the largest collegiate regional of all time, with 272 players from 25 schools! Here are the Super Regionals for the 2025 spring semester:

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• February 1st-2nd, Georgia Super Regional, Pickle & Social in Atlanta, GA
• February 8th-9th, Ohio Super Regional, Paddle Taps in Columbus, OH
• March 1st-2nd, New Jersey Super Regional, Robbinsville Pickle House in Robbinsville Twp, NJ
• March 8th-9th, Arizona Super Regional, The Picklr in Scottsdale, AZ

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Super Regionals for the 2025 fall semester to 2026 spring semester season are still being scheduled. 

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Showcase Matches

We’re bringing the college action under the lights on championship court at PPA tour stops in 2025! Showcase Matches will feature college teams competing in dual matches against each other on PPA livestream. Certain stops will showcase top teams playing against and with PPA Pros and the top PPA Juniors talent. Matches played between schools will be counted as official dual matches. For more information about dual matches, read our blog post here. 

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• February 22nd, Carvana Mesa Cup, Arizona Athletic Grounds in Mesa, AZ
• March 8th, Veolia Cape Coral Open, Lake Kennedy Racquet Center in Orlando, FL
• March 15th, Texas Open, The Courts at McKinney in McKinney, TX
• March 26th, Red Rock Open, Little Valley in St. George, UT
• April 5th, North Carolina Open, Cary Tennis Park in Cary, NC

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