CTTC Fall League Awards and Free Handicap Tournament, January 23, 2025

[Columbus Table Tennis Club]

The Fall 2024 CTTC Table Tennis Singles Team League awards will be presented on Thursday January 23 at 7:00 pm.  The award winners are listed below.

FREE !! Handicap Tournament!!

There will be a free handicap tournament on awards night.  The tournament is free and open to all but players must be club members or pay the daily fee to play ($10 for adults or $6 for students).

In a handicap tournament, each match consists of one game of 31 points.  The lower rated opponent starts with a number of points based upon the difference between the player’s ratings to even the competition against the higher rated player.  This allows players with widely different ratings to be competitive in the same tournament.

Each player will compete in a round robin with 3 other players which guarantees that everyone plays at least 3 matches.  The groups are created randomly, so it is very likely that each group will contain players with widely varying ratings.  The top 2 winners of each group will then compete in a knockout bracket.  Trophies will be awarded to the top 3 winners.

League players and substitutes will use their league ratings for the tournament.  Others will use an average of their recent USATT and club Round Robin ratings.  If you do plan to play and do not have a recent club or USTTA rating, please let me know so that we can assign a rating for the tournament.  Reply to:

colum...@gmail.com

Players must sign up for the handicap tournament in person at the club by 7:00 pm on January 23.  The handicap tournament is  open to all, it is not limited to league players.  However, it is limited to the first 64 players to sign up.

There is no pre-signup, players must sign up for the handicap tournament in person by 7:00 pm on January 23.  The tournament will start at 7:30 pm or as soon as possible after the league awards are presented.

It has always been fun to play this league season ending handicap tournament.

Congratulations to the 2024 Fall Team League award winners:

1st Place Team: Team 1 -  Dinesh Navalurkar, Josh Ott, Dave Redmond

2nd Place Team: Team 5 -  Lowell Bletz, Andres Walliser, Lynn Wang

3rd Place Team: Team 4 -  Odi Dia, Saif Khan , Mahbuba Yeasmin

 

Best A Player: Dinesh Navalurkar

Best B Player: Saif Khan

Best C Player: Tohidul Sohel

Best A/B Doubles:  Dinesh Navalurkar & Josh Ott

Best B/C Doubles: Josh Ott & Dave Redmond

Best A/C Doubles: Dinesh Navalurkar & Dave Redmond

Most Improved Player: Josh Ott

Many thanks to the players that supported the team league.  It helps to support the club and attracts new members. 

Stan & Sam

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
--Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)