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Cedar Hill Pickleball Club
Courtside · Court 3-4 fence
6:12 PM72°F clearLights out 10:00 PM
Tonight at Cedar Hill
Open play is posted, three of four spots are signed in, and the fourth is yours to take.
Open Play
LEVELS 3.0–3.5
3 of 4 in
Tonight 6:30 PM · Courts 3 and 4 · Cedar Hill Park, Cedar Hill, Texas · starts in 18 min
$5
DROP-IN AT THE GATE OR IN THE APP
Four to a court, two games then winners rotate off, everyone plays.
GAME ON
The board you are reading is the one bolted to the fence at Court 3. It posts the week every Sunday at 6:00 PM, matches players by level, and closes each session when the fourth spot goes. Claim it here and the courtside tablet, the app, and the three players already signed in all see the same thing at once.
The board
One board runs the whole evening
Every session tonight is a row on this tablet. Tap a row to see who is in and what it costs. The row you belong to lights up once you have told the board your level, two screens down.
Lightning hold, 8:40 PM. The board clears the courts when the first
strike is inside eight miles. Tonight's 8:00 session would move to a rain credit on your account, and the 8:45
kitchen games would not start at all.
How the matching works: you sign in on this tablet or in the app, the board reads the level on your profile, and it will not put a 2.5 into a 4.0 row. If your level's session is full, the board offers the next one with room, or holds your name for a cancellation, and it texts you the minute a spot reopens.
Your level
Pick your band and the board shows your night
The club uses the usual 2.5 to 4.0 bands, and every session on the board is tagged with the bands it fits. Choose yours and watch tonight's rows react.
3.5 · you play to win the point, not just to keep it alive
You get most serves in with a purpose, you drop into the kitchen on purpose, and you know what a third shot should do. You still lose to the 4.0 crowd, and you know exactly why.
Your session tonight: 6:30 PM open play on Courts 3 and 4, three of four in.
Costs
Five dollars a night, twenty-nine a month, nothing else
The gate takes the fee when you sign in. There is no booking charge, no service fee, and no annual anything.
Open play, drop-inany session tagged open play, tonight or any night
$5 a night
Club membershipevery open-play session, every week, court fee included
$29 a month
Skills and drillscoach-led, eight spots, all levels
$8 a night
Paddle rentalif yours is in the car or in pieces
$3 a night
Private lesson with Coach Ibarraone on one, booked off the board
$45 an hour
Included every time
- Court time on the session you signed into, four to a court, rotated so everyone plays
- Balls, the outdoor ones that survive wind, replaced weekly
- Level matching, the board will not stack a beginner into a 4.0 row
- Rain credit, every rained-out night comes back as a free drop-in
Not included
- Paddles, though the rental bin at the gate has forty of them at $3
- Lessons, the coach books those separately off the same board
- Tournaments, the club runs two a year and those have their own entry
- Guests beyond one per member per night, $8 at the gate
Weather and limits
Outdoor courts, so the board tells the truth about the sky
Cedar Hill is eight lit outdoor courts with no roof and no apology. The board watches the weather the same way you do, and it closes honestly.
Wind
6 mph from the south
Lights
On until 10:00 PM
Tonight's call
All sessions on
Rain and lightning close the courts
First strike inside eight miles and the board holds everything, amber, until fifteen minutes of clear sky. Every rained-out drop-in becomes a credit, not a refund.
Lights out at 10:00 PM
The park's permit ends at ten sharp. The last session that can start is 8:45, and the kitchen games end mid-rally if they have to.
Wind over 15 mph moves play
Court 1 sits behind the tree line, so windy nights the board moves the open sessions there first and says so on the row.
Full is full
Four to a court and no fifth wheel. When a session fills, the board opens its waitlist and texts the first name the moment a spot reopens, which on Thursday nights is often by 5 PM.
The tablet is the record
What is on this screen at the fence is what counts. The app mirrors it, but if the two ever disagree, the fence wins, because the fence is standing at the court.
Winter nights run short
November through February the 6:30 session moves to 5:45 to beat dark, and the fast court starts at 7:30. The board posts the change the week before.
Season log
What the board counted in October
The tablet has been on this fence since June. It keeps its own tally, and the club sees no reason to round it.
October · Cedar Hill
Nights posted22
Open-play sessions41
Games logged6,142
Games per player, full night9.1
Sign-ins in June60
Sign-ins in October214
Sessions lost to weather3
Counted by the courtside tablet, which was present for all of it.
I stopped organising open play out of a group chat in June. The board does the matching, the arguing and the texting, and I get to play again.
Dana Whitfield
organizer, Cedar Hill Pickleball Club
Eleven games last Thursday. Eleven. Under the old sheet I got six and spent the rest of the night standing around while somebody's friend took my court.
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Marcy Oduya
3.5, plays Tuesdays and Thursdays
The 8:00 fast court is the reason I kept my membership through winter. Four of us, level 4.0, two hours under the lights, and the board texts me if a Thursday spot reopens before I even think to check.
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Brett Talley
4.0, member since June
Start
Show up, sign in, play
There is nothing to set up before your first night. The whole system is the board, and the board is standing at the court.
STEP 01Come to a session
Tonight's board is up top. Pick the row that fits your level and just arrive; the tablet at the fence is where you sign in, and the gate takes the $5.
STEP 02Tell the board your band
Your first sign-in asks your level and your phone number. After that the board already knows which rows are yours and which nights your crowd plays.
STEP 03Let the board text you
Every Sunday at 6:00 PM the week's board posts, and you get the text before anyone driving past the park has a clue.
Run your club on Rallyboard
Cedar Hill runs on Rallyboard and so do 130 other clubs. Post the week's board, take the gate and the memberships, match by level, and get the same tablet for your own fence. Your players see exactly what you just used: the board, the spots, the weather, and nothing to explain.