tournaments & competitions

Too late to enter the competition now, but tickets are available. Best part is that it’s happening in Fremont. We don’t yet know the competitors list, but USA Olympian, Lily Zhang, will be there (it’s at Table Tennis America, her club).

Not sure why they decided to keep calling it Tokyo 2020, but here we are in 2021. I think the best page to see the TT schedule. I’ll be rooting for USA, but our team will be outmatched most of the time. The Men’s brackets list is here. Looks like the best place to watch online or find out where to watch would be nbcolympics.com. Discovered that Hulu has a week-long free trial which let’s you see a lot of the games without paying (just don’t forget to cancel at the end of the week). If anyone has other options, let me know. I’m hoping that the best games will appear on YouTube, but who knows.

2019 SWAN Warriors December Open

(December 7-8, 2019)

$3,000 Prize Money

Registration Deadline Extended To: Wednesday, November 27, 2019

75 Players Registered
USA Table Tennis 2-Star Sanctioned Tournament

Contact: Meng-Yu Wang, , 217-377-9326
Venue: Swan Ping Pong, 1257 Tasman Dr, Ste. C, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089

Entry Form: https://www.omnipong.com/EntryForms/1039-46.pdf

2019 Ultimate Fieldhouse December Open
(Sat, Dec 14)

2019 Ultimate Fieldhouse Year-End Open
(Sun, Dec 29)

Walnut Creek, CA – 2-Star
$400 Total Prize Money

Register Online Here: https://omnipong.com/members.asp
Sat, Dec 14 Entry Form: https://omnipong.com/EntryForms/1039-47.pdf
Sun, Dec 29 Entry Form: https://omnipong.com/EntryForms/1039-48.pdf

Thanks to Harvey Gotliffe for sending me this info.

This is a good link to have to automatically see what table tennis competitions are happening in the near future in California.

The next big one is in Sacramento. Note the deadline for entry is May 9.

This was a super fun league night with a lucky 13 doubles teams playing on four tables and our first mixed-doubles event and first double-elimination format for tables with three teams.

A little housekeeping: if you are not receiving the club emails, please send me your email address at jim @ jimlangley dot net

I want to give a big thanks to David Bergevin for preparing the beautiful match sheets for all the tables and Jane for bringing some tasty treats. And mega thanks go to Wireless who actually didn’t have a teammate to play doubles with – yet still went to the trouble to (I’m still not sure how he did this) bring a large-screen laptop to the club and somehow stream live the first Warriors game! It was awesome having our own little doubles world championship while being able to watch the Warriors play in theirs!

Table 1 consisted of the best 3 teams: PD and Shrikant from the Monterey/Seaside club, Steve (also from the M/S club with Mickey, and Joey and Victor.

Table 2 (Coed-Division) saw Pat and Barry, Suzanne and George, Crystal and Ari and Sharon and Jane battling it out.

Table 3 was Craig and Jim versus Bob and Ron and Ed and Ray. Great to have Jon back in the house!

Table 4 saw some exciting action with Max and Paco, Sebastian and Willie and Thom and Charlie driving down from their secret Bonny Doon ping pong training camp.

Because I was playing I didn’t get to watch enough of the matches, but I did see that Ari and Crystal had an epic match with Sharon and Jane that went to deuce in the 5th with Sharon and Jane coming back from down 8-10 to winning.

On table 1, I enjoyed a Victor/Joey vs PD/Shrikant game, where, with a series of perfect Victor chops and Joey loops, their team came back from a 0-8 deficit to tie it up before PD and Shrikant rallied to take control.

Meanwhile on table 4, the Dooners Thom and Charlie were the only teammates with cool matching ping pong shirts and most of the matches went 5 games with Sebastian showing his stellar placement skills from all his tournament play.

On our table (3), it was great having Bob and Jon back after injuries have kept them from playing for some time. They both hit some nice winners.

Champions on the night were:

Table 1: PD & Shrikant

Table 2: Pat & Barry

Table 3: Craig & Jim

Table 4: Max & Paco

Thanks to everyone who participated!

Last night we filled 6 tables, had our first women’s mini tournament on table 5 (congrats Pat, Sharon and Suzanne!) – and we tried Dave’s alternative for 3-player tables to give everyone more matches to play (thanks Dave!). Appreciate everyone monitoring their own tables and keeping score, which allowed me to play. Also, it was nice of everyone to let latecomers Ari and Dave squeeze into the round robins.

RESULTS

Table 1:

Charley
Joey
Shrikant
Mickey

Table 2:

Jim
Steve
Victor
Wireless

Table 3:

Craig
Could not read score sheet to pick other places – sorry

Table 4:

Harvey
Max
Ed
Eric

Table 5 (First Women’s Tournament):

Pat
Sharon
Suzanne

Table 6:

Barry
Jack
George
Ari

League Report

Thanks everyone for another super fun league night – official league photo attached!! Don’t we look marvelous? Feel free to share on your channels.

High fives to Dave Bergevin for the design work and printing of our amazing match sheets (they even show which player scores each match – and soon we will have enough score cards for every table). Dave also bought and brought all the tasty treats. Wow, thank you Dave!!

More thanks to all who arrived early to setup and for everyone who came to watch and cheer us on.

I appreciate everyone handling their own table last night, which allowed me to play. That was great and I hope it didn’t cause any issues for anyone. If so, let’s talk about it. If anyone has ideas or questions or improvements for next time (date to be determined later but it will be more than 2 weeks this time), please pass them along. Let’s keep the league fun for everyone.

ONE CHANGE we will try to implement is to make sure we have at least 4 players per table. The 3-player tables last night ended too quickly and I think players would have liked more matches.

Congratulations to all players. The matches were fiercely competitive.

Our league champions for 4/28 are… (much applause and fanfare heard throughout pingpongdom)

T1: PD
T2: Mickey
T3: Victor
T4: Bob
T5: Paco
T6: Jane

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Thanks to Jim Langley and most of the SCTTC club, the first monthly tournament was a great success! I had a great time after getting over the nervousness of “competing” for the first time. For those who didn’t see Jim’s email:

Thanks everyone for attending the league and making it so much fun. We had a total of 20 players on 5 tables and every match and table was competitive. In fact, after everyone left, David Bergevin – who has run lots of volleyball round robin tournaments – and I, had to put our heads together to figure out the results on some of the tables because we had 3-way ties on several of them. That shows how competitive each round robin was.

Table Winners for our first league were:

Table 5 – Eric
Table 4 – Ray
Table 3 – David Bergevin
Table 2 – Shrikant
Table 1 – Steven Alfred

I want to repeat that most of the tables were so closely contested that only a few points would have changed the outcome, so you all are winners. We did not calculate 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th place. We only figured out who had the most wins and most losses on the tables so that we would know who changes tables next time.

Next League Night

We are closed the first week in May, so the next league night will be Thursday, May 12^th.

Entry with check due by Fri 5/3. See link for PDF entry form.
http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Table-Tennis/Events/2013/May/11/Sacramento-Spring-Open.aspx