Here are the complete team and individual statistics for the competition up to and including week 5 (last week). Thanks to Roger Watkin for collating all the results! Please pass on any corrections to Roger so that they can be incorporated for the following week.
2012 Winter Interclub Teams (Week 5)
2012 Winter Interclub Individual (Week 5)
NB: The draws are here.
Junior results next…
The spreadsheet is a WIP but here are the sheets for the play-by-play:
Premier 1: TTW 2012 Winter Week 2 Premier 1
Premier 2: TTW 2012 Winter Week 2 Premier 2
Premier 3: TTW 2012 Winter Week 2 Premier 3
Premier 4: TTW 2012 Winter Week 2 Premier 4
NB: The draws are here.
Thanks to Reg from Karori club for forwarding on these pictures from Wednesday night:
… are in the pipeline but for those die-hards who like to analyse everything here are the score-sheets from Tuesday and Wednesday: Part 1 and Part 2 (part 2 is a re-scan of a couple of sheets unclear in the first scan).
The team count by clubs is:
Empire 11
Belmont 7
Waterloo 5
Karori 3
Onslow 2
Titan 1
Johnsonville 1
Draws were tweaked a little including some name changes and the extra team added to P4, I updated the links to the draw on the original post here.
Hot off the press the draw and rules are now available below. Enjoy the competition!
Information & Rules: TTW 2012 Winter Interclub Rules
Premier 1: Premier 1 draw
Premier 2: Premier 2 draw
Premier 3: Premier 3 draw
Premier 4: Premier 4 draw
Timetable
May 15 Premier 1 & 3 grades commence (Tuesdays)
May 16 Premier 2 & 4 grades commence (Wednesdays)
May 30/5 Junior Grade Commences
June 28 – July 16 School holidays (no interclub play, Junior Nationals)
July 17 Premier 1 & 3 grades continue
July 18 Premier 2 & 4 and Junior grades continue
Sept 4 Grade champs for Premier grades (1st vs. 2nd teams in each grade)
Remember Junior Interclub dates per above.
Tournament
Also remember the Wellington Autumn Open – May 19/20 – entries close May 15!
Winter interclub dates are announced (see below) so talk to your club about getting into a team. There are multiple grades covering all levels of play.
All entries are through clubs (and you need to belong to yours) but I’m attaching the entry form here for your reference on the details:
Junior grade interclub starts two weeks after the Premier grade and runs on Wednesdays.
Interclub grades are called Premier grades and Junior grades. One difference this year for Premier grades is that the target for each Premier grade will be 6 teams per grade which means that there will be an extra fourth Premier grade. It means closer competition within each grade (and grades will be stronger overall) but also that many people will end up in a lower ‘named’ grade than last year but realize that a lot of people will be in the same situation and you will still be playing against five teams of similar ability.
I know that some like to play against players of much higher ability all the time but mathematics being what it is, the other side of that same coin is the other player playing against someone of a much lower ability. Reducing the team count in the grades keeps competition more even.
May 3 Entries close for all Premier grades (May 25 for Junior grades)
May 8 Grading night if required
May 15 Premier 1 & 3 grades commence (Tuesdays)
May 16 Premier 2 & 4 grades commence (Wednesdays)
May 30/5 Junior Grade Commences
June 28 – July 16 School holidays (no interclub play, Junior Nationals)
July 17 Premier 1 & 3 grades continue
July 18 Premier 2 & 4 and Junior grades continue
Sept 11 Grade champs for Premier grades (1st vs. 2nd teams in each grade)
All matches will be played at the Empire Stadium, Marine Parade, Petone. The stadium will be open from 6:30pm each interclub night and interclub matches are scheduled to start at 7:00pm for Premier and 6:45pm for Junior.
The full result spreadsheet is here: 2012 Summer Interclub 0404 Final. Refer to the spreadsheet for the details but the winning and runner-up teams in each grade were:
Grade A:
Winner: Belmont Blast (Heath Murdoch & Callum Rusbridge) 3-2 over Empire Amber (John Gan & Depak Patel).
(All the X position vs. X position section vs. section playoffs in grade A on the Finals night were 3-2 results!)
Grade B:
Winner: Empire Palladium (Chris Williams & Richard Dalziel/Bruce Connolly) 3-2 over Belmont Bumble Bees (Frank Fu & Hui-Ling Vong).
Grade C:
Winner: Belmont Bandits (Matt Gill & Ramnick Tiwana) 4-1 over Empire Silver (Vladimir Vysotskiy & Alex Safronov).
Looks like it was Belmont and Empire fighting it out in the top of every grade on finals night with Belmont taking 2 out of 3 grades.
Congratulations all winners and thanks to all for playing in the summer interclub competition. There is a break before winter interclub which typically starts later in May.
Photos by Gareth Telfer:
Next week (April 4) is the last week – summer interclub finals night with playoffs based on position as of now.
Results from 28/3 are here (open this to see who you are playing on 4/4): 2012 Summer Interclub 0328
Here are some recent pictures. Picasa 3 has added some new style options which I will now inflict on you…
Sorry for the delay, I was out of town and got back tonight, here is the current set of results: 2012 Summer Interclub 0321
I will add some pictures soon so watch this space…
Results are here: 2012 Summer Interclub 0314.
Three more weeks left, two more left of the teams round robin followed by the finals night on april 4. For A and B grades that will be section 1 vs section 2: 1v1, 2v2, … 5v5, for C it will be 1v2, 3v4, 5v6.
NB: the draw was posted here.
Results are here (thanks Chris): 2012 Summer Interclub 0307
Lots of action on the full tables this week and not too many creaks and groans, so you must all be ironing out those early-season wrinkles.
NB: the draw was posted here.
… are here: 2012 Summer Interclub 0229. Thanks to Chris Williams for again putting the results together for summer interclub.
A good night, the first competition night of the year for most. I’m still recovering…
Hi folks, after the usual late rush of entries and fiddling to get seedings near-enough, here are the actual draws for Summer Interclub from Wednesday February 29 through April 4. Thanks to Bruce for getting it all together.
Grades A and B are split into two sections with a playoff between them on the last night. Grade C has a 1v2, 3v4, 5v6 playoff on that last night.
2012 TTW Summer Interclub draw A Grade
2012 TTW Summer Interclub draw B Grade
2012 TTW Summer Interclub draw C Grade
Refer to the earlier 2012 Summer Team Interclub blog entry for more details.
See you all Wednesday at the Empire Table Tennis Club stadium.
Contact your club for entry, refer to the doc attached for full details: 2012 TTW Summer Interclub Entry Form.
Clubs are invited to submit entries for the 2012 Summer Interclub event being run from 29 February to 4 April (dates subject to change depending on entry numbers).
Timetable
Wed 22 February: Entries close for all grades
Wed 29 February: Grades commence
Wed 4 April: Playoff round (dependent on format and entries)
Venue & Start Time
All matches will be played at the Empire Stadium, Marine Parade, Petone. The stadium will be open from
6:30pm each interclub night. Interclub matches are due to start at 7:00pm. Players should pay their night fees to
the duty official by 7:00pm and the score sheets will be available from the control table.
Teams
Teams in all grades will consist of two players.
Teams are to be entered by clubs and must be affiliated members of TTW.
Teams with three players or four players can be submitted with any two players playing each week. In such
cases it is up to the club to ensure two players turn up each week.
If a team (one or both players) fail to turn up without giving 24 hours notice to the Interclub Convenor, they will
be liable for the match fees of both teams in their contest for that week.
Please enter team names on the entry form.
Format
Assuming six teams in each grade: Grades will be played as a single round of 5 weeks and a finals/playoff night
in the sixth week.
Teams will play 1 contest each week, consisting of 5 matches; two singles for each player and one doubles for
the team. Matches will be best of seven games to 11 points except for the doubles which will be played as a
best of 5 games.
[… refer to that attached document above…]
Final results are here (sorry, I was sitting on this for a few days): REVISED: 2011 Composite Interclub 1207 Final Revised
It was a 3-way tie for first in division 2 (Bobcats, Caracals, Ocelots) but on countback Ocelots win (Chun-Kiet Vong, Adam Slocombe, Chris Sutton)! The Cheetahs win division 1 (Ian Talbot, Paul Brown, Craig Gear). Congratulations to Ian Talbot for topping the division one %s and Chun-Kiet Vong for topping the division 2 %s. Thanks to Chris for all the work with the spreadsheet this year.
Congratulations to all players and thanks for coming. Have a great break and see you all in 2012. Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year from TTW to you.
Some pictures from at the end of the last night…
Sorry for the delay results are here: 2011 Composite Interclub 11/30.
Last night tomorrow!
Results are here: 2011 Composite Interclub 1123.
Hmmm, I need to remember to bring the camera next time to make this a more interesting posting!
On that front, I have a couple more posts from Malcolm in my inbox – one a Titan club champs report and the other yet another great player profile – coming soon, stay tuned.
Also the Empire club dinner was on Saturday and awards were announced and presented, when the newsletter comes out I’ll crosspost here.
Forward to me any end of year results from your club and pictures too if you have any would be great: secretary [at] ttwellington.org.nz
Hot off the press, the results from Chris are here: 2011 Composite Interclub 1116
Next week’s draw (round 3, Nov 23):
Division 1:
Tigers vs. Cougars
Jaguars vs. Leopards
Lions vs. Cheetahs
Division 2:
Servals vs. Bobcats
Ocelots vs. Caracals
On the TTNZ site the 2011 Rankings are available, click here. The (W)’s in there are:
OPEN MEN
8. Thom Nguyen 
OPEN WOMEN
7. Sabine Westenra
U18
3. Thom Nguyen
U15 Girls
9. Angela Chapman
Congratulations to Thom, Sabine, & Angela!
Summer Composite Round 1 had a few upsets on the night which augers well for an interesting series! The pdf with the team & individual stats is here: 2011 Composite Interclub 1109-Rd 1
As an overview on what table tennis is on and when during the summer period here is some information. (If you have any info to add please comment or let me know.)
Summer Interclub
Summer interclub (team competition, a bit more casual than the main winter interclub season) is broken into two distinct (unrelated) phases, first the Composite Interclub (see here and here). Second the ‘pre-season’ (late summer) summer interclub round with a format to be determined. For more details watch this blog or keep in contact through your club.
Your club
Some clubs remain open with a small break, others close for a summer break. Consider visiting a different club every now and again – chances are you’ll play people you’ve never played before.
For more details or for other clubs refer to the club contact information here.
Exercise
Summer is a good time to start and get into a regular fitness pattern, if you find one that fits your schedule and you can enjoy it, then you’ll be more likely to keep it up through the whole year (um, this is do as I say, not as I do). I remember talking to a veteran player who noted that he would tend to win more often as the winter wore on, as other people got less fit! A fair-weather runner like myself will be one of his easy victims come Composite Interclub…
Elite squad coach Stephen Hirst recommends:
“… it is always good in the off season to build your base fitness, i.e. lots and lots of cardio, skipping, running running and more running. As you get about 2 months out before the season starts I liked to taper off the running and start to replace that with more speed work like shuttle runs between two cones 20 metres apart. Start introducing more strength stuff with weights like squats for your quads. My favourite was jumping over a wooden bench traditionally found in schools 3 x 1 minute, it really kills you but gets you very explosive for the start of the season. Also continue this exercise throughout the season… This is all I used to do and can highly recommend it.”
My tip: paint the fence – if it worked for The Karate Kid it will work for you.
At least get out there and mow the lawn…
Helping
There are probably a hundred unpaid volunteers of some kind that help run and facilitate table tennis in the Wellington region. If you’re not already one of this bunch, think of something you enjoy doing that could contribute in any way. Put your name forward!
Web watching
Need a quick table tennis fix? Trawl the web looking for table tennis news, blogs and videos, but start with Win Ngyuen’s youtube channel and Matt Heatherington’s TT blog.
Your mate’s house
There is probably a table tennis table at one of your friend’s houses – go there and play and give them a lesson. Nothing will give you more pleasure. Just don’t forget to bring your own bat otherwise you’ll be battling to a 15-all deuce in the 3rd set against their 11 year old son because trying to topspin using their pimple-out no-sponge half-torn up left-in-the-sun fly-swatter only leaves you looping directly into the carpet at your feet.
The ulterior motive is that you could have some more people to bring along to your club. Lend them your real bat or a spare and open their eyes to what it is all about.
Summer project?
You might not have space for a table-tennis table in your own house but…
make a mini table tennis table… then become the best in the world.
More?
Other ideas? Just comment below!
Teams and schedule (SECTION 1 NOW UPDATED)… if you did not enter in a team but would like to be available as a reserve please let Bruce know.
REMINDER for those used to the Tuesday winter interclub grades… this is for WEDNESDAYS (7pm) at Empire!
TEAMS 1 Tigers Bryan McConnochie, Elias Villanueva, Ben Westenra 2 Jaguars Phillip McConnochie, Harry Chen, Russell Buchanan 3 Lions Sabine Westenra, Martin Young, Jeremy Evans 4 Cougars Chris Talbot, Paul Griffin, Brendyn Shaw 5 Cheetahs Ian Talbot, Paul Brown, Craig Gear 6 Leopards John Gan, Tony Rutledge/Paul Solt, Matthew Hobbs DRAW Round 1 9 Nov Tigers v Leopards Jaguars v Cheetahs Lions v Cougars Round 2 16 Nov Tigers v Cheetahs Jaguars v Lions Cougars v Leopards Round 3 23 Nov Tigers v Cougars Jaguars v Leopards Lions v Cheetahs Round 4 30 Nov Tigers v Lions Jaguars v Cougars Cheetahs v Leopards Round 5 7 Dec Tigers v Jaguars Lions v Leopards Cougars v Cheetahs
TEAMS
1 Servals Graham Sole, Jacob Gates, Lucas Westenra/Ian Thomas
2 Bobcats Gareth Telfer, Rod Weston, Hui-Ling Vong
3 Ocelots Adam Slocombe, Chris Sutton, Chun-Kiet Vong
4 Caracals Mats Olsthoorn, Vladimir Vysotskiy, Reuben Reid
DRAW
Round 1 9 Nov
Servals v Caracals
Bobcats v Ocelots
Round 2 16 Nov
Servals v Ocelots
Bobcats v Caracals
Round 3 23 Nov
Servals v Bobcats
Ocelots v Caracals
Round 4 30 Nov & Round 5 7 Dec - to be confirmed
FORMAT:
Round robin only – NO playoffs
Points: 2 for any win, 0 for any loss. You can lose points for disciplinary reasons as per 2011 Code of Conduct.
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