TEAM ROSTERS
TEAM/PLAYERS SUBJECT TO CHANGE (FINAL ROSTERS WILL BE PUBLISHED MAY 25, 2022)
RATINGS AND TEAM RANKINGS AS OF MAY 22, 2022
Division I
| Seed | Points | Team Name | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 | Player 4 | Player 5 |
| 1 | 8251 | Team 888 | Kanak Jha (2780) | Wenzhang Tao (2740) | Rajko Gommers (2731) | Nikhkil Kumar (2701) | |
| 2 | 8250 | Team England | Liam Pitchford (2850)* | Paul Drinkhall (2750)* | David McBeath (2650)* | ||
| 3 | 8173 | PingPod 1 | Marcos Madrid (2768) | S. Ouaiche (2735) | Andrea Landrieu (2670)* | ||
| 4 | 7970 | French Connection | Bastian Rembert (2670)* | Jules Rolland (2650)* | Vincent Picard (2650)* | ||
| 5 | 7940 | Equipe PingPod/888 | Quentin Robinot (2670)* | Benjamin Brossier (2650)* | Lilian Bardet (2620)* | Quentin Pradelle (2500)* | |
| 6 | 7751 | PingPod 2 | Yahao Zhang (2608) | K. Makanjuola (2592) | Romain Lorentz (2551) | ||
| 7 | 7678 | Unretired Scrubs | Jiwei Xia (2613) | Tim Wang (2562) | Krish Avvari (2503) | Bryant Lin (2467) | Jonathan Ou (2444) |
| 8 | 7613 | TTA TAD | Pu Zheng (2598) | Tianrui Zhang (2523) | Darryl Tsao (2492) | Aditya Godhwani (2361) |
Division II
| Seed |
Points |
Team Name |
Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 | Player 4 | Player 5 |
| 1 (9) |
7480 |
Team 888 III |
Seyeong Moon (2540)* | Daniel Tran (2537) | Joshua Mak (2403) | Eliel Sosis (2391) |
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| 2 (10) |
7463 |
Team 888 II |
Minwoo Kim (2570) |
Jensen Feng (2440) |
Tyrese Knight (2453) |
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| 3 (11) |
7444 |
ICC DAWS |
Ye Tian (2630) |
Kai Zarehbin (2410) | Ved Sheth (2404) |
Aziz Zarehbin (2404) | |
| 4 (12) |
7299 |
TTA Lethal Weapons | Mingwei Ju (2657) | Tiffany Ke (2333) |
Leo Huang (2309) | Dong Liu (2175) |
Lang Deng (2151) |
| 5 (13) |
7122 |
ICC Oski |
Kiranjoy Pushilal (2487) | Ashwin Sankurati (2326) | Xianyao He (2309) | Emily Tan (2195) |
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| 6 (14) | 7072 | Team ALTO-tude | Earl James Alto (2423) | John James Alto (2380) | Keenan Zhou (2269) | ||
| 7 (15) | 6858 | Team 888 IV | Victor Xie (2317) |
Ethan Liu (2295) |
Ryan Wu (2246) |
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| 8 (16) | 6829 | Team 888 VII | I. Mahendrakar (2312) |
Raymond Zhu (2264) | Handson Li (2253) |
Division III
| Seed | Points | Team Name | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 | Player 4 | Player 5 |
| 1 (17) | 6767 | Team 888 VI | Nathan Lee (2265) | Jonathan Hu (2263) | Priyan Jindal (2239) | Alirez Khatibi (2205) | |
| 2 (18) | 6738 | Matcha | Jordan Yee (2392) | Anthony Chu (2219) | Tony Ma (2127) | Emmy Cheng (1996) | Kary Fang (1994) |
| 3 (19) | 6728 | Quebec | J. Desmeules (2322) | Kenny Ly (2239) | L. Jutras-Vigneaul (2167) | ||
| 4 (20) | 6686 | ICC AMPS | Purvi Soni (2244) | A. Khinvasara (2227) | Muskan Gupta (2215) | Sarthak Pradhan (2132) | |
| 5 (21) | 6652 | KATTA | Mitchell Chang (2252) | Kevin Duong Au (2243) | Kenneth Pinili (2157) | V. Benedicto (2101) | Kenny Au ( 2072) |
| 6 (22) | 6615 | PingPod 3 | S. Granaturov (2357) | Tiancheng Wang (2192) | Yuchen Ding (2066) | ||
| 7 (23) | 6606 | Team 888 V | Avishy Schmidt (2263) | Ramon Maxwell (2188) | R. Padamanur (2155) | Kef Noorani (2109) | |
| 8 (24) | 6591 | Pips Mafia Plus | George Siu (2253) | George Guo (2240) | Shing-Li Sung (2098) | Wai M. Wong (2056) | Jim Chai (2054) |
Division IV
| Seed | Points | Team Name | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 | Player 4 | Player 5 |
| 1 (25) | 6485 | AntiPipsInverted | M. Karthikeyan (2230) | Vinay Chandra (2128) | Loi Pham (2127) | Vivek Kini (2113) | S. Barigidad (2028) |
| 2 (26) | 6471 | Team 888 VIII | Hannah Song (2191) | Nathalie Chan (2171) | Kayla Goodwin (2109) | Angelica Arellano (2085) | |
| 3 (27) | 6462 | California TTC | Crystal Liu (2277) | Ryan Lin (2151) | N. Hwang (2034) | ||
| 4 (28) | 6411 | PingPod 4 | Yasiris Ortiz (2216) | Chase Womack (2164) | Farhad Dalvi (2031) | Max Kogler (1945) | |
| 5 (29) | 6228 | Boom Squad | Kash Noorani (2135) | A. Rajesh Kumar (2107) | Kyle Jao (1986) | Brendan Ross (1902) | |
| 6 (30) | 6030 | Team Lots of Spin | Jirui Wen (2017) | Yi Ma (2015) | Yuyang Ying (1998) | Man Wai Yeung (1893) | |
| 7 (31) | 6022 | Team TSOS | Emilian Mihet (2084) | Sergy Tsvor (2035) | William Waltrip (1903) | Bogdan Nyzhnyk (1800)* | George Seicean (1744) |
| 8 (32) | 5960 | JiangHu | Roy Lee (2112) | Jinchang Chen (1987) | Jiazhou Wang (1861) | Minhua Zhu (1756) | Jian Wen (1590) |
Division V
| Seed | Points | Team Name | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 | Player 4 | Player 5 |
| 1 (33) | 5895 | Rocket the Racoon | Jayden Diep (2016) | Michael Levin (1939) | Tom Ruan (1940) | Sasha Parfenov (1880) | Ali Shafai (1828) |
| 2 (34) | 5851 | Eastern Connection | Suguru Araki (1969) | Kiwi Yang (1930)* | Henry CH Wu (1952) | Arun Sharma (1832) | |
| 3 (35) | 5846 | PingPong Weekend | Ayano Takeda (1998) | Brian Min (1932) | S. Pougatchev (1916) | Misael Duran (1803) | C. Chen (1770) |
| 4 (36) | 5839 | Team 888 X | Tre Riley | Bosman Botha (1954) | Nikhil Chawla (1905) | ||
| 5 (37) | 5739 | Team 888 XII | Felix Li (2017) | Ben Zhang (1907) | Justin Liu (1815) | Nishi Kumar (1653) | |
| 6 (38) | 5637 | Kewl Boys | T. Balamurugan (1888) | Vishal Sivakumar (1882) | Diyan Shah (1867) | ||
| 7 (39) | 5554 | TTA Team | Dana Yeoh (1982) | Irene Yeoh (1855) | Stuti Kashyap (1717) | ||
| 8 (40) | 5260 | Team 209 | W. Lovebird (1812) | Ken Au-Yeung (1737) | Anthony Cavazos (1711) | Mike Sturtevant (1647) |
Division VI
| Seed | Points | Team Name | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 | Player 4 | Player 5 |
| 1 (41) | 5206 | We….It Was Backspin | Jonathan Li (1763) | Austin Duenas (1727) | Jane Chong (1716) | Milan Kovac (1519) | |
| 2 (42) | 5070 | BISV TT Elite | Amy Zhang (1951) | Jingfan Feng (1853) | Laura Zhang (1266) | Margaret Lu (1208) | |
| 3 (43) | 4962 | ICC Team JYSS | Joe Zhang (1786) | Sophia Chen (1634) | M. Y. Musthafa (1542) | S. Krishnaprasad (1507) | |
| 4 (44) | 4812 | PingPod 5 | Mikhail Popov (1749) | David Silberman (1697) | Timothy Cudjoe (1366) | ||
| 5 (45) | 4543 | Slapping Plastic | Alan Wang (1742) | Nicholas Neuer (1517) | C. Zutler (1284) | ||
| 6 (46) | 4261 | Team 888 XI | M. Arivazhakan (1834) | Nathan Yu (1296) | Vincent Guan (1131) | Aditya Singla (1030) | |
| 7 (47) | 4235 | Godzilla Choppers | David Flores (1506) | Scott Potereiko (1379) | Zain Kahn (1350) | Michael Yoder (1035) | |
| 8 (48) | 3306 | ICC Team MASSK | Manant Kochar (1599) | S.B. Saravanan (947) | Shloak Hiremani (760) | Vibhu Bharatwaj (753) | Keshav Sridhar 756) |
Division VII
| Seed | Points | Team Name | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 | Player 4 | Player 5 |
| 1 (49) | 3119 | Pip Pip Hooray! | M. Abramson (1172) | Lex Lacson (1088) | Yongzan Liu (859) | Riley Woo (722) | |
| 2 (50) | 2873 | Minecraft Monkeys | Ananya Khuntia (987) | Varin Chandra (954) | Vivaan Chandra (932) | ||
| 3 (51) | 2442 | Spin Doctors | Ravi Epuri (882) | Sanjay Prasanna (809) | Iman Lakhani (751)* | Patrick Fowler (750)* | |
| 4 (52) | 2293 | Pong on the Planet | S. Ramachandran (869) | Kaden Hu (750)* | Aiden Zhang (674) | Jake Hu (650)* | Kelvin Gao (650)* |
| 5 (53) | 2038 | Pork Belly V1 | Simon Ip (920) | Stephen Koh (618) | Thomas Zheng (500)* | ||
| 6 (54) | 1879 | Pork Belly V2 | Changching Chan (1077) | Tyrus Zhang (202) | Guanghui Yi (600)* | ||
| 7 (55) | 1519 | Team 888 XIII | Ethan Guo (786) | N. Goncalves Pedro (405) | Calista Zhang (328) | ||
| 8 (56) | 759 | Team 888 XIV | Rishab Rao (570) | Eliana Chan (94) | Ilenia Zhang (95) |
TIME SCHEDULE (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)
FRIDAY, MAY 27
3:00pm Facility Open for check-in and practice
6:30pm Player’s Party (free for all players and coaches)
SATURDAY, MAY 28
7:30am Facility Open for check-in and practice
8:15am Mandatory Team Captains Meeting
9:00am Preliminary Round (all teams except top-4 and bottom-4 seeds)
10:45am
12:30pm Divisional Play Division 1, Round 1 Division 2, Round 1 Division 3, Round 1
2:15pm Divisional Play Division 4, Round 1 Division 5, Round 1 Division 6, Round 1
4:00pm Divisional Play Division 1, Round 2 Division 2, Round 2 Division 7, Round 1
5:45pm Divisional Play Division 3, Round 2 Division 4, Round 2 Division 5, Round 2
7:30pm Divisional Play Division 6, Round 2 Division 7, Round 2
SUNDAY, May 29
7:30am Facility Open for check-in and practice
9:00am Divisional Play Division 1, Round 3 Division 2, Round 3 Division 3, Round 3
10:45am Divisional Play Division 4, Round 3 Division 5, Round 3 Division 6, Round 3
12:15pm Divisional Play Division 7, Round 3 Division 1, Round 4* Division 2, Round 4
2:00pm Divisional Play Division 3, Round 4 Division 4, Round 4 Division 5, Round 4
3:45pm Divisional Play Division 6, Round 4 Division 7, Round 4 Division 1, Round 5*
5:30pm Divisional Play Division 2, Round 5 Division 3, Round 5 Division 4, Round 5
7:15pm Divisional Play Division 5, Round 5 Division 6, Round 5 Division 7, Round 5
MONDAY, MAY 30
7:30am Facility Open for check-in and practice
9:00am Divisional Play Division 2, Round 6 Division 3, Round 6 Division 4, Round 6
10:45am Divisional Play Division 5, Round 6 Division 6, Round 6 Division 7, Round 6 Division 1, Match M*
12:15pm Divisional Play Division 2, Round 7 Division 3, Round 7 Division 4, Round 7 Division 1, Match L*
2:00pm Divisional Play Division 5, Round 7 Division 6, Round 7 Division 7, Round 7 Division 1, Match K*
4:15 pm Division 1 Finals
*Division 1 will be played in two groups of four (for rounds 1-3). Group A: Seeds 1, 4,5,8; Group: Seeds 2,3,6,7.
Rounds 4-6 will be played to placement. Click here to see Rounds 4-6 for Division 1.
All other divisions (2-7) will play Giant RR format.
PRELMINARY ROUND SCHEDULE
All Preliminary Round matches at 9am on Saturday, May 28.
Results of the preliminary round will determine if a team stays in its original seeded position or moves up or down a division. Divisions will be re-seeded after the preliminary round based on team rating.
Preliminary round schedule:
D1 5 vs. D2 4 D1 6 vs. D2 3 D1 7 vs. D2 2 D1 8 vs. D2 1
D2 5 vs. D3 4 D2 6 vs. D3 3 D2 7 vs. D3 2 D2 8 vs. D3 1
D3 5 vs. D4 4 D3 6 vs. D4 3 D3 7 vs. D4 2 D3 8 vs. D4 1
D4 5 vs. D5 4 D4 6 vs. D5 3 D4 7 vs. D5 2 D4 8 vs. D5 1
D5 5 vs. D6 4 D5 6 vs. D6 3 D5 7 vs. D6 2 D5 8 vs. D6 1
D6 5 vs. D7 4 D6 6 vs. D7 3 D6 7 vs. D6 2 D6 8 vs. D7 1
Tournament INFORMATION
COMPETITION DATES AND TIMES
Saturday, May 28 9:00am – 9:00pm
Sunday, May 29 9:00am – 9:00pm
Monday, May 30 9:00am – 6:30pm
VENUE INFORMATION
888 Table Tennis Center
888 Hinckley Road
Burlingame, CA 94010
COMPETITION FORMAT
Division 1 will consist of 8 teams, divided into two groups. The top 2 finishers in each group will advance to a Championship round (pos. 1-4), and the bottom two finishers will advance to a Consolation round (pos. 5-8). Championship and Consolation rounds will play to placement (2 rounds).
All other divisions will consist of 8 teams playing in a giant
round robin format.
Teams will be a minimum of 3 and maximum of 5 players. Seeding is based on cumulative rating of the top-3 players.*
Only three designated players will play in each round. Teams will compete in a modified Olympic format, with best of 4 out of 7 matches (6 singles, 7th match will be doubles). All matches are 3 out of 5 games to 11 points.
Except the top-4 and bottom-4 seeded teams, all teams will play a qualification round on Saturday, May 28th at 9:00.
The top-rated player on teams with a rating difference of 400 or more points between the highest and lowest rated players must compete in at
least 20% of the matches after the preliminary round.
*The Tournament Committee may assign an estimated rating for an unrated player prior to the start of the tournament.
ENTRY FEE AND DEADLINE
$699 per team plus $10 per player registration fee.
Includes one free 888 TTC shirt per registered player
EARLY ENTRY BONUS! Enter and pay before April 24th and save $150 per team!
Entries not paid-in-full by the entry deadline will be removed from the draw. No exceptions.
Entry deadline is Sunday, May 15, 2022 (5:00pm PDT).
The Tournament Committee reserves the right to accept late entries based on availability, however there will be a $10 late entry fee.
All players must show proof of membership with USATT at the time of registration. Players not holding a current USATT membership must include their USATT registration or renewal fees along with their tournament event fees when submitting payment.
OFFICIALS, EQUIPMENT & REGISTRATION
Tournament Director: Yau-Man Chan
Referee: Yelena Karshtedt, IR/IU
Tournament Committee: Yau-Man Chan, Pieke Franssen, Yelena Karshtedt, Joerg Bitzigeio
Tables: Butterfly Centrefold (Blue)
Balls: Xiom Bravo ITTF 3* (White)
Flooring: Enlio ITTF Approved Purple, Wood subfloor
The venue will open for practice at 7:30am daily.
There is a mandatory captains meeting at 8:15am on Saturday, 5/28.
GUEST and SPECTATOR POLICY
The 2022 Silicon Valley Teams is a private event. All participants and guests must comply with 888 TTC’s COVID-19 Policies and Procedures, which can be found here.
At registration, each team will be given twelve (12) single-use guest passes, each of which can be used for daily entry into the facility.
Additional daily guest passes can be purchased by tournament participants for $15/each.
Spectator daily passes may be purchased by non-tournament participants for $20/each.
GENERAL POLICIES
All USATT regulations apply including dress code. No prizes awarded for splits, dumps, defaults, or no-shows. USATT approved tie-breaking procedures will be used.
Events may be modified at the discretion of the Tournament Committee. All decisions are final.
Unless otherwise modified by the Tournament Committee, there is a limit of 56 teams in the tournament.
Ratings as of May 22, 2022 will be used for seeding.
ALL entry fees paid are non-refundable as of Sunday, April 30, 2022. A $50 administrative fee will be deducted.
The Referee reserves the right to default a player not present at match start time for any event.
REGISTRATION; TEAM CAPTAINS MEETING
Team captains must register on-site at least one hour to the start of the tournament. The venue will be open at 3:00pm on Friday, May 27th and at 7:30am on Saturday, May 28th for registration.
AWARDS AND PRIZES
1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | |
| Division 1 | $5,000 | $2,500 | $1,500 | $1,250 |
Division 2 | $750 | $500 | $400 | $300 |
| Division 3 | $500 | $400 | $300 | $200 |
| Division 4 | $500* | $400* | $300* | $200* |
| Division 5 | $500* | $400* | $300* | $200* |
| Division 6 | $400* | $300* | $200* | $150* |
Division 7 | $400* | $300* | $200* | $150* |
Custom medals for 1st – 4th place in all divisions
*888 TTC Gift Card
HOW TO ENTER
Teams are encouraged to enter online at OmniPong.com.
You may also enter on-site at 888 TTC, 888 Hinckley Road, Burlingame, CA 94010. Download entry form here.
Mail-in entries will be accepted if received no later than 5:00pm on Sunday, May 15, 2022.
All entries must be paid-in-full by the entry deadline to be included in the draws. Please check the tournament page on OmniPong.com to confirm your entry (if entered by mail or in person).
