U.S. Open 87 days away

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.

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 

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 apology.

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.

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

Crazy.

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.