Major League Pickleball heads to Randall’s Island with 11 teams
MLP’s New York stop packed 11 teams onto Randall’s Island, with Brooklyn chasing a home-market run and every match streaming on PickleballTV.
Major League Pickleball brought 11 teams to SPORTIME Randall’s Island in New York City from June 25-28 for MLP New York, presented by Cleary Gottlieb. The Brooklyn Pickleball Team hosted the stop at the John McEnroe Tennis Academy complex at 1 Randall’s Island, just minutes from Manhattan, and the event ran Thursday through Sunday on two courts. Every match was shown on PickleballTV and the PickleballTV App, giving the league’s New York showcase a broadcast-heavy feel from the start.
The field was split into Group A and Group B. Group A included the Chicago Slice, Las Vegas Night Owls, New Jersey 5s, SoCal Hard Eights and Texas Ranchers, with New Jersey looking like the class of the group. Group B brought the Bay Area Breakers, Brooklyn Pickleball Team, Carolina Hogs, Dallas Flash, Florida Smash and Palm Beach Royals, and Brooklyn carried the hometown storyline while Dallas looked like the other team most capable of controlling the group.
MLP’s schedule release set all match times in Eastern Time and had every team play every other team in its group on Days 1-3, with group standings determined by those results. That structure made the opening rounds matter immediately, because the top four teams in each group advanced to Super Sunday. PickleballTV’s schedule also listed live MLP New York coverage for Day 3 and Super Sunday, and the event sat inside MLP’s 2026 calendar, which runs through nine regular-season events, the Mid-Season Tournament and an expanded three-week playoff before Championship Weekend at CityPickle at Wollman Rink in Central Park on August 28-30.
NYC Tourism framed the stop as a four-day competition on Randall’s Island, with the hometown Brooklyn team chasing a playoff berth against 10 other squads, and pointed fans to promo code MLP15BKPT for 15 percent off tickets. On Randall’s Island, the appeal was clear: a tight New York venue, a local host in Brooklyn and a bracket built to keep the weekend moving until Super Sunday.
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