2024 COWA Pickleball Extravaganza

Join the Colorado Wireless Association in Wheat Ridge on May 2nd for the COWA’s 2nd annual Pickleball Extravaganza. The COWA Pickleball Extravaganza will be hosted at 3rd Shot Pickleball indoor facility in Wheat Ridge. This event is open to all wireless industry professionals!

For first-time beginners and seasoned pickleballers alike, join industry peers and other professionals for a fun day of playing pickleball and networking. The event will kick off with a taco bar lunch and a pickleball clinic to go over basic tips, standard rules, and the day’s format. Following lunch, we will kick off the tournament, which will be a team-challenge format where teams are comprised of 4 players competing in a ladder tournament format.

Register as an individual and we'll pair you up with your team based on ability! Interested in playing AND sponsoring? Check out our sponsorship levels, as some include player spots! Bring your own equipment or use a loaner paddle provided by the facility. Not interested in playing but want to come hang out and have lunch and network? We got that covered, too!

We look forward to seeing everyone in for what is sure to be a bopping good time!

Event Format:

How We’ll Play A Ladder Tournament

We will be dividing the 12 courts into three separate skill levels + 1 for teaching/warmup. This could be 4 beginner, 4 intermediate, and 4 advanced. We will then set up a river or ladder style of gameplay on each grouping of 4 courts independently. This allows everyone competitive games that mix and match with the other players in their group - so the 4 beginner courts will play with one another, the 4 intermediate courts will play with one another, and so on.

Within each grouping of 4 courts we will determine a 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place court. 1st Court is the top court or most competitive level of play and 4th Court is the least competitive court. Players should choose their preferred level of court (or we can assign them) and then play a pickleball game to 11 points, win by 2 points. Once the games are over on all 4 courts, players will move to a new court based on whether they won or lost.

That movement will look like this:

● 1st Court - The winning team will stay on 1st Court and split up as a team to each partner with a winner coming up from 2nd Court. The losing team will go down to 2nd Court and split up as a team to each partner with a player coming up from 3rd Court.

● 2nd Court - The winning team will go up to 1st Court and split up to each partner with one of the players still on 1st Court. The losing team will go down to 3rd Court and split up as a team to each partner with a player coming up from 4th Court.

● 3rd Court - The winning team will go up to 2nd Court and split up to each partner with one of the players coming down from 1st Court. The losing team will go down to 4th Court and split up as a team to each partner with a player still on 4th Court.

● 4th Court - The winning team will go up to 3rd Court and split up to each partner with one of the players coming down from 2nd Court. The losing team will stay on 4th Court and split up to each partner with a player coming down from 3rd Court.

If players find they’ve entered the wrong skill level and want to move up or down - it’s easy to swap them out with another player that wants to do the same. Players that are perennially winning on a top court or losing on a bottom court may be good candidates to move up or down.