26/07/2026
🎉🏓 PICKLENATION’S 1ST TOURNAMENT — A CELEBRATION OF COMMUNITY, INNOVATION, AND GOD’S FAITHFULNESS 🏓🎉
Last July 25, 2026, PickleNation took a significant step forward as we held our 1st PickleNation Tournament at the beautiful Timberland Highlands Resort.
What began as a dream to build a community that brings people together through pickleball became a memorable celebration of friendship, sportsmanship, innovation, and faith. 🙏💙
This tournament was made even more special because of how we brought technology and automation into the entire tournament experience. From registration and check-in, player matching, and tournament management, to umpire scoring through their respective mobile phones, every game was connected to our live score board broadcasting system, allowing scores to be updated and displayed in real time — all powered by PickleMeet. 📱🏓📊
We are grateful that we were able to create an experience that was not only competitive, but also organized, seamless, transparent, and enjoyable for everyone.
And what better way to welcome our 64 players, umpires, and organizers than with refreshing fresh juices prepared by Healthy Lemon! 🍋🥤
Served at the gazebo entrance of the Pickleball Camp area, the fresh juices helped refresh everyone, lighten the mood, and set the tone for a joyful day of competition and fellowship. 💛
To all our major sponsors Foot Zone Spa, Healthy Lemon, Amazink Corporation and The Timberland Highlands Resort, thank you for believing in PickleNation and for saying yes to us as we begin this tournament journey. Your generosity and support helped make this event possible. We also want to extend our deepest gratitude to our other sponsors namely Crossmix Event Services , Carter Sports, The Law Office of Lequin and Mercado, Isuzu Meycauayan, Flores Builders, Bastiste, Lemon Square, Zark’s Burger, Palakol, DenKen Rice Center and Technocom Systems. We deeply appreciate every single one of you. 🙏
To our players, thank you for showing up, competing with heart, celebrating one another, and making the tournament truly memorable. Your energy, sportsmanship, respect, and enthusiasm brought life to the entire event. 🏆👏
To our umpires, thank you for your professionalism, patience, fairness, and commitment to ensuring that every match was conducted properly and respectfully using your respective mobile phones.
To our suppliers, Wear Me Happy for our players and organizers’ uniforms, Tin Teo Tivi for our medals, tote bags, foldable disc fan and umpire uniforms, thank you for helping us bring every detail of this tournament to life.
To our organizing team, our deepest gratitude. From planning and preparation to registration, player concerns, match management, scoring, technology, safety, logistics, and the countless details behind the scenes — you served with excellence, professionalism, and dedication. This success is also your success. 💙👏
To the Timberland Highlands Resort staff, thank you for your warm hospitality, assistance, and support in helping us create a safe, beautiful, and memorable venue for our first tournament.
And to the entire PickleNation Community, thank you for your unwavering support. From the very beginning, you have helped us build something more than just a pickleball group. You have helped us build a community. 🏓💙
Most importantly, we dedicate this event to our Almighty God. 🙏
We believe that PickleNation is more than just a place to play pickleball. It is a community where we can lift one another up, respect one another, encourage one another, and celebrate one another.
As we continue to grow, our prayer is that PickleNation will always be a community that reflects kindness, humility, unity, excellence, and gratitude — and above all, a community that gives all glory and honor to God.
It was a testimony of what can happen when people come together with a shared passion, a willing heart, a spirit of service, and faith in God. 🙏💙
Thank you, PickleNation Family 🤗. Thank you to everyone who made our first tournament possible.
This is just only the beginning. 🏓✨
To God be all the glory! 🙌
