Info
- Singles will be Wednesday June 22, Doubles Sunday June 26.
- Pre-registration is required.
- No extra fee to enter the tournament (other than the usual season pass or drop-in fee).
- Doubles: Find your own partner. If can not find one, we will assign one at the tournament.
- All rated players are eligible and encouraged to participate in the tournament.
- Please come early to help set-up tables. We will be starting as close to 7:00 pm as we can. If you are going to be late, please send a note to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
- Format of play: Round-robin of 4-6 players in a group. Each group will have two winners.
- Players will be grouped based on ratings, instead of random drawing (like we used to do), so there will be no big gap in ratings, hence no huge points given/received.
- Current Rating from Rating Central will be used
Rules
- The match is best 2 out of 3 games. Each game is up to 21 points.
- A higher rated player spots some points to a lower rated player depending on their rating differences (to provide an equal win opportunity to all players).
- The higher rated player will serve first and the lower rated player will get to pick a side. For subsequent games, players alternate serving (the player or pair serving first in a game shall receive first in the next game of the match).
- In case of no rating difference or no points spotted, regular drawing of service should be used. One person would then pick to serve, receive or side of table and the other gets the other choice.
- 5-point change of service will be used. When the game starts, the player who served first will only serve until the points are divisible by 5.
- The Handicap Chart looks like this:
Handicap Chart for 21-Point Game:
| Rating Differences |
Number of Points Spotted by Higher-Rated Player |
| 0-12 | 0 |
| 13-31 | 1 |
| 32-56 | 2 |
| 57-87 | 3 |
| 88-124 | 4 |
| 125-167 | 5 |
| 168-216 | 6 |
| 217-271 | 7 |
| 272-332 | 8 |
| 333-399 | 9 |
| 400-472 | 10 |
| 473-551 | 11 |
| 552-636 | 12 |
| 637-727 | 13 |
| 728-824 | 14 |
| 825-927 | 15 |
| 928-over | 16 |
The first column in the table is the rating differences between the two players, and the right column is the number of points that the higher rated plater would spot for the lower rated player. For example, if Player A has a rating of 1500 and Player B has a rating of 1000, the match would start with 0-11 in favor of Player B.