I put on many events (concerts, volleyball tournaments and lip sync contests) in California for 20+ years and always knew what facilities I was using and when.  Everything was booked 13 months in advance.  I could then announce at my current event when we would be back the following year.  It wasn't that hard.  I signed the contracts, but didn't need to put down the deposit until a few months in advance.  In some facilities I didn't need a deposit, I just paid in full the night of the event.

So make your plans now and come to see the greatest show on Gerflor (or some such rubber mat).  Look forward to seeing you all there.

Mark - Who is stll working on deals with several TT companies to not use their equipment at the Open.

If USATT announced a place , more bitching , it’s to far for this person , it’s too expensive for the other , there is always something. Remembered they cannot please everyone, when was the last CEO bring the WTTC to the USA ? This sport cannot grow because everyone has their own agenda. I happen to think USATT is better then before , I might not agree with everything, but I’m not going to bitch about a sport I love 

2. "Pong player are some of the stingiest people I seen" Agreed.

3. "Remembered they cannot please everyone, when was the last CEO bring the WTTC to the USA ?" I am not sure what this sentence means. The CEO who brought the Worlds to the US was not the current CEO, it was the previous one.

4. "I happen to think USATT is better then before" I would love to see how you think the USATT is improving.

At last years open they rented a facility that only had enough room for about 550 players, yet they let 750 players enter, knowing it would be a mess.  It was the worst organized tournament that I have ever played.  I emailed the USATT and asked how many tables they were going to use.  They told me that they didn't know.  How can you not know how many tables you're going to use at a major event.  The current location for this years is only big enough to hold 64-84 tables.  If you ask the USATT if they will limit the entries to 600 players, they will tell you that they don't know, another lie.  They will let 750 players enter and we will have another mess.  The only thing that might save them is the poor location that might limit the entries.  The disadvantage of trying to get as much money as you can, even if it means a bad experience for the players is that in the future players will not want to donate or help the USATT.  Give the players a good experience and they will want to help.

Credit to tournament director Mike Babuin and the volunteers for that after the 2021 US Open fiasco and subsequent https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Table-Tennis/News/2022/March/09/Message-to-the-Membership-Regarding-the-2022-US-National-Championship" rel="nofollow - apology .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPosYNh6GGU" rel="nofollow - 2022 US Open: Table 2 Day 3 : Session 2

Mark, the #3 seed in his 60 RR went undefeated beating the A & B 2000+ players.

I am noticing many defaults in the tournament.

Looks like everyone in Larry's group defaulted.

Should Mark change his username to sandbaggermjamja  ?

Got to have a long chat with Heavyspin.  I strongly encouraged him to bring his wonderful since of humor back to the forum.

I have O65 tomorrow.  Need to get at least 50 more rating points to make up what I will most likely lose in the U1900 and U1800 on Tue and Wed.

I think that was a first for me - a walkover round robin group of 4. Don't understand why the no shows. The scheduling has pretty much been on time. 

I'm not playing well at all. Perhaps I haven't recovered from my long flight. It seems to take longer these days to unravel from being an oversized contortionist in my window seat for 5+ hours. 

I played as well as I have in a while a few weeks ago at the Teams. When I returned from DC, I had a mild case of covid, tested positive for 10 days. That certainly affected my lack of practice heading into this competition. 

Is it just more tables (how many) or something else?

Crazy.

No action on Table 1 yet. Table 2 is suffering still from yesterday's stuttering.

And it will continue as long as whoever is running USATT mostly/only care/cares about self-promotion than actually about the organization and the sport. We are the laughingstock of the table tennis world! Utter incompetence over decades....

You'd think with all the comments and live chat messages mentioning the "slide show" quality of the video that someone would do something about it....but of course not. Nobody cares. 

https://www.youtube.com/@USATableTennis" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/@USATableTennis

The stream died in the middle of the match

And again on the second match.

As for sandbagging, I still have to play the U1800 tomorrow.  I could easily lose 150 points to an 850 player playing 1900, a 1100 player playing 2000, and a 1500 player playing 2050.  I have already seen these kind of upsets happening.  It would be just my luck to get such a draw when I have a chance to get my first ever 1900 rating.

Mark - Who if he was smart would simply default tomorrow and take his rating points home.  But no one ever accused mjamja of being smart so we will just have to see how it turns out.