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📢 PB COURT REMINDER 🏓

Barangay policy: RESIDENTS FIRST + BRGY. ID required.

When open play reaches 24+ players on 3 courts and resident wait time exceeds 1 game (10–15 mins):

• Residents: priority on open-play slots.
• Guests: may play only while resident priority is not affected.
• Once resident waiting exceeds 1 game, guests must yield the next open-play slot to residents.
• Resident hosts, please inform your guests before they join so walang biglaang abala.

Please keep your Brgy. ID ready when requested by Barangay Security.

Pakiusap: Let’s follow the policy kindly and consistently so everyone knows the rules before playing.

Thank you! 🙏🏓

I’m helping manage a community pickleball group for an HOA with half a dozen open-play venues.

Yesterday another admin and I disagreed about whether I should personally invite some residents from another pickleball group to join our community.

His position was:

• The group is supposed to represent the HOA’s pickleball community not any individual admin.
• Any HOA resident who plays pickleball should feel welcome.
• Since the group was renamed/restructured people from the old groups should receive a fresh invitation.
• If people feel excluded it can eventually create the perception that the group belongs to the admin rather than the whole community.

My position:

• I already invited everyone multiple times through four older groups I personally created both before and after the group was renamed.
• Many of the people in question had already left those groups.
• The new community is open to everyone. Nobody is being blocked or removed.
• If someone has already seen multiple invitations and chooses not to join I don't think the admin needs to personally chase them down.
• There is also some history from 2024–2025 involving court behavior, congestion, misunderstandings and conflicts with other court users. A lot of newer players and admins who only started playing in 2026 don't know that history.
• Because of that history I have deliberately chosen not to personally re-engage with certain people. That's not the same as excluding them from the community.
• I eventually told the other admin that he has my blessing to invite them himself if he feels strongly about it. I simply don't want to spend my personal time doing something I don't consider necessary.

There is also an important distinction. This isn't really about whether those people deserve to be in the group. They do if they're HOA residents and pickleball players. The question is who has the responsibility to invite them after they've already been invited multiple times.

USA Pickleball's guidance emphasizes inclusive social play and fair rotation while also recognizing that facilities can establish their own open-play guidelines.

So from an HOA/open-play management perspective:

Which approach makes more sense?

A. The admin should personally re-invite everyone because the group represents the entire HOA pickleball community.

B. The admin has already made reasonable efforts to invite everyone and after that participation is the individual's choice. If another admin thinks additional outreach is necessary they can do it themselves.

I'm particularly interested in opinions from people who have actually administered HOA, club or community open play.

I’m helping manage a community pickleball group for an HOA with half a dozen open-play venues.

Yesterday another admin and I disagreed about whether I should personally invite some residents from another pickleball group to join our community.

His position was:

• The group is supposed to represent the HOA’s pickleball community not any individual admin.
• Any HOA resident who plays pickleball should feel welcome.
• Since the group was renamed/restructured people from the old groups should receive a fresh invitation.
• If people feel excluded it can eventually create the perception that the group belongs to the admin rather than the whole community.

My position:

• I already invited everyone multiple times through four older groups I personally created both before and after the group was renamed.
• Many of the people in question had already left those groups.
• The new community is open to everyone. Nobody is being blocked or removed.
• If someone has already seen multiple invitations and chooses not to join I don't think the admin needs to personally chase them down.
• There is also some history from 2024–2025 involving court behavior, congestion, misunderstandings and conflicts with other court users. A lot of newer players and admins who only started playing in 2026 don't know that history.
• Because of that history I have deliberately chosen not to personally re-engage with certain people. That's not the same as excluding them from the community.
• I eventually told the other admin that he has my blessing to invite them himself if he feels strongly about it. I simply don't want to spend my personal time doing something I don't consider necessary.

There is also an important distinction. This isn't really about whether those people deserve to be in the group. They do if they're HOA residents and pickleball players. The question is who has the responsibility to invite them after they've already been invited multiple times.

USA Pickleball's guidance emphasizes inclusive social play and fair rotation while also recognizing that facilities can establish their own open-play guidelines.

So from an HOA/open-play management perspective:

Which approach makes more sense?

A. The admin should personally re-invite everyone because the group represents the entire HOA pickleball community.

B. The admin has already made reasonable efforts to invite everyone and after that participation is the individual's choice. If another admin thinks additional outreach is necessary they can do it themselves.

I'm particularly interested in opinions from people who have actually administered HOA, club or community open play.