Fox Valley Table Tennis Club will be holding a 2 star tournament on Saturday, October 11th, 2014 at the Eola Community Center located at 555 S. Eola Rd. in Aurora, IL. The format will be giant round robin in groups of 8, which means that players will be sorted by their rating from highest to lowest and seeded (divided) into groups of 8. Each group of 8 will have 2 tables to play on. The tournament will offer $1,300 in prize money and trophies. Below is the table indicating the amounts.
Sponsors
This year’s Aurora Fall Open will be sponsored by ‘Table Tennis 1 on 1’ owner Meinhard Korte. If you like to learn more about coaching offered by Meinhard please visit his website.
Another sponsor is Newgy, Inc. who has sponsored many or our past tournaments. Thanks to Newgy’s support we will have 10 additional barriers and that will let us set up for the first time fully barriered courts. This will possibly make us the only 2 star tournament in Illinois to offer such great playing conditions. To find out more about Newgy’s robots, barriers and other products please visit their website.
Venue
I think we have finally arrived at an optimal layout with bleachers in the east side of the gym, accessible easily by a walking alley and additional seating on the west side of the gym. Courts are 16 ft x 40 ft.
The light strength has been measured on both sides of each table with a dedicated meter and it showed readings between 338 and 430 Lux with an average of 380. The flooring is a sports linoleum flooring with a fairly good grip and not too hard on your feet. You are welcome to bring a towel for wetting your shoe soles if you like.
There is generous parking around park district facility but if you can’t find the spot you can also park at the adjacent church parking lot.
Registration
Online registration is available here. If you would like to send in the traditional blank entry form you can download it from here. However, those who send their registration by mail are urged to send it early because the available spots may be taken by those who register online while the mail is in the system. Number of spots is limited to 96 so consider registering early. To see who registered so far please go to OmniPong website, select Tournaments page and click ‘Players’ button on the line for this tournament.
Tournament operations will be using OmniPong software so that you ratings will be updated on first Thursday following the tournament and published in a tournament report on this website.
Volunteering
If you would like to help with gym setup on Friday please contact me: Swavek Lorenc, 630-251-8860 swaveklorenc@yahoo.com.
Starting Times
Here are the starting times based on ratings as of Friday morning which includes the 9/27 Schaumburg tournament.
9 am starting times——————————— 2pm starting times
| Rachel Zhou | 1423 | Emad Barsoum | 2488 | |
| William Goodfellow | 1403 | Wojciech Wolski | 2338 | |
| Zexin Jiang | 1399 | Jeff Xiao | 2161 | |
| Arsen Gaysin | 1384 | Michael Wolski | 2116 | |
| Natalia Snigurskaya | 1363 | Attila Ratfai | 2114 | |
| Asif Rehmani | 1324 | Janusz Franeczek | 2109 | |
| Larry Sorensen | 1319 | Arkadiusz Zyworonek | 2072 | |
| Florin Precup | 1304 | Arcot Naresh | 2058 | |
| William Klase | 1299 | C. T. Pham | 2042 | |
| Stanislaw Zarycki | 1297 | Krzysztof Puchalski | 2020 | |
| Quinn Baker | 1284 | Lukasz Niewiarowski | 2009 | |
| John Zhong Liu | 1278 | Henry Polecki | 1980 | |
| Manikandan Nagarathnam | 1249 | Keith Offord | 1946 | |
| Ron Chin | 1231 | Krzysztof Szostak | 1945 | |
| Nicolae Ciofiac | 1230 | Sonny M. Henderson | 1945 | |
| Don Erickson | 1200 | Seon Ho Kim | 1936 | |
| Shawn Pjesky | 1194 | Ejaz Shah | 1936 | |
| Ramar Upshaw | 1166 | Marc Villanueva | 1933 | |
| Kung Chao | 1151 | Sasha Veljkovic | 1924 | |
| Stanislaw Glowik | 1141 | Jaroslav Stastny | 1918 | |
| Zigmas Vievesis | 1126 | Zbigniew Jablonski | 1914 | |
| Sam Adarkwa | 1047 | Ken Oh | 1901 | |
| Mark Nightingale | 900 | Jorge A. Vanegas | 1899 | |
| Raj Kagathi | 854 | Mariusz Merchut | 1870 | |
| Bud Wilson | 834 | Douglas R. Wruck | 1846 | |
| Nandan Naresh | 827 | Karol Baran | 1828 | |
| Grace Luo | 813 | John Brandt | 1818 | |
| Dale A Daguro | 802 | Cesar Mendoza | 1800 | |
| Samuel J. Kramer | 755 | Robert Douglass | 1740 | |
| Linh Nguyen | 700 | Peter Gerard Falcis | 1730 | |
| Maithreyi Parthasarathy | 699 | Kian Beyranvand | 1685 | |
| Brian Coons | 688 | Sid Naresh | 1665 | |
| Mohammed S. Zaman | 672 | James Stout | 1624 | |
| Madison Chao | 630 | Jang Won Kim | 1621 | |
| Tony Parayno | 600 | Choong Suk Lee | 1600 | |
| Tim Szot | 522 | Lawer Dixon Jr. | 1598 | |
| Rhon Daguro | 504 | Ganesan Mani | 1570 | |
| Shariq Zaman | 500 | Dusty Rabjohn | 1549 | |
| Remington Jennings | 500 | Jeffrey Liao | 1542 | |
| Faeq Zaman | 500 | Moshi Zhao | 1516 | |
| Brian Ngeunjuntr | 471 | Erdenebileg Myagmarsuren | 1515 | |
| Teja Gupta | 350 | Sarah Zhou | 1505 | |
| Moksh Shah | 300 | Mathew R. Morris | 1504 | |
| Ishan Shah | 300 | Adam Koziel | 1500 | |
| Rohan Munagekar | 300 | Eryk Emilianowicz | 1493 | |
| Tanay Vutukuru | 300 | Tomasz Szacilowski | 1465 | |
| Pierre Gabriell Falcis | 168 | Mike R. Baldwin | 1439 | |
| Bhavika Kagathi | 59 | Robert L. Tysl | 1437 |
Swavek Lorenc
Tournament Director
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