2013 Winter Interclub Draw & Documents

Here are the draws for the Premier and Division grades. (Premier is analogous to Premier 1 last year while Divisions 1, 2, and 3 are analogous to last year’s Premier 2, 3, and 4.)

A note for the Division grades is the scoring system (points per team for each night) which are noted at the bottom of the draw sheet:

Division Points:

• 11-0 & 10-1 Winner 5 pts / Loser 0 pts
• 9-2, 8-3, 7-4 Winner 4 pts / Loser 1 pt
• 6-5 Winner 3pts / Loser 2 pts

NB: If a team wins all seven of their contests, and hasn’t had points taken off for disciplinary reasons, they will win the grade even if another team has accrued more points overall.

For Premier it is simply 1 point for a win, 0 for a loss.
Refer to the documents for full details.

For the Division grades there is one series of 7 weeks, then a grade champs, then a second series – teams are re-entered for the second series so there could well be differences in teams from series 1 and series 2. For the Premier grade, there are three rounds with the same teams throughout.

Draw: Premier
Draw: Division 1 – Series 1
Draw: Division 2 – Series 1
Draw: Division 3 – Series 1

And the Rules & Code of Conduct. Please look through these, these are affective from the start of 2013 winter interclub.
2013 Winter Interclub rules
2013 Code of Conduct

Let the games begin!

Blast from the past – Wgtn A-reserve interclub 20 years ago

Malcolm Wong has a lot of old records and sent in a story about the interclub grade he was involved in 1993, 20 years ago (pre-merger with Hutt Valley so it is only the Wellington teams). For those of you who have been around long enough some of the names will be recognisable and many are still playing today!

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Blast from the Past

1993 Wellington A Reserve Grade remembered.

There were ten teams representing seven clubs, with Titan providing three teams. After the first round the top six teams qualified for Divison 1 and the bottom four teams for Division 2. Team results, and individual averages attached.

The first round was won by Onslow A (22 points) ahead of Karori (20) and Te Rama (19). The Onslow A team were all juniors. Their top player was Jamie Lennox, who had won the NZ under 13 Boys Doubles (1992). He would be selected for the New Zealand under 17 Boys Team (1995-96). Jonathan Armstrong was to win the NZ Under 21 Men’s Doubles (1996). Andrew Wiggins was the Wellington Secondary School’s Boys Singles winner that year.

Karori had the veteran, Ken Hindson, and two juniors, Simon Reed and Mark Jurgeleit. Ken had won the Te Rama Club Singles (1989) and would be in the Te Rama Team (with Matthew Hobbs and Malcolm Wong) that would win Division 2 at the Manawatu Teams Tournament (1996). Simon would be later involved in coaching Wellington Junior teams (1998-2001) and was the Manager/Coach of the Wellington Under 19 Boys Team that won the NZ Under 19 Boys Teams Title (2000) beating Canterbury 5-4 in the final.

Te Rama had an experienced team. Malcolm Wong and Martin Young were in the Te Rama Team had won the A Reserve Grade (1991) with David Robinson. Malcolm was in the Te Rama Team that won the C Grade (1986) and B Grade (1989). He has won 9 Te Rama Club Singles and also the Titan Club Singles (1995). Martin was in the Ling Tse Team that won the C2 Grade (1987) and C Grade (1988). He has won 15 Te Rama Club Singles. Brian Neale had played A Grade for Victoria University and Newlands. He was in the Newlands Team that won the A Reserve Grade (1971,1986 & 1989). He has won 10 Newlands Club Singles.Brian was in the Victoria University Team that won the NZ University Teams Tournament (1963) and he was runner up in the Men’s Singles.

Another good junior was Graeme Windley (Onslow B) who played mainly B Grade that year. He was NZ Under 17 Boys Singles runner up (1995) and won the NZ Under 19 Boys Doubles (1996) and NZ Under 21 Men’s Doubles (1999).

Other players still involved today were Kevin Haines (Onslow B), Bob Bell (Newlands)[recently moved to Napier] and Matthew Hobbs (Titan C). Bob won the Newlands Club Singles (1996) and Onslow Club Singles (2011). Matthew won the Onslow Club Singles (2012).

In Division 1 Te Rama won all their matches. There were 2 crucial matches. In the third round Te Rama beat Karori 6-5 despite Ken Hindson winning his 3 singles. Then in the penultimate round Te Rama played the leaders Onslow A, who were leading by 2 points. Te Rama needed to win by 7-4 or more to gain 3 points and move into the lead. Onslow started well and lead 4-2 only for Te Rama to win the last 5 matches. Malcolm Wong won all his 3 singles for Te Rama. In the last round Te Rama beat Titan A 9-2 to win the Grade. Division 2 was won by Titan B.for whom Ross McFarland starred.

In the grade match against Hutt Valley (8 August) two A Reserve Grade teams were selected. A Reserve 1 (Malcolm Wong, Martin Young and Hamish Rennie) and A Reserve 2 (David Buckrell, Nick Julian and Matthew Hobbs). The Hutt Valley A Reserve 1 Team (Staff Marshall, Stan Joe and Brett Pottinger) won 7-4 and their A Reserve 2 Team (Jeremy Evans, Steve Westmoreland and Darren O’Brien) won 8-3

In the A Reserve Grade Chanpionships (25 August) Te Rama had more success. Martin Young won the Singles against team mate Malcolm Wong (1990 & 1991 winner). In the Doubles Malcolm Wong and Martin Young won for the third successive year when they beat Jonathan Armstrong and David Buckrell.

Statistics from this grade in 1993: 1993 WTTA A-reserve Interclub.

Te Rama’s 1993 A Reserve Champion Team reunite after 20 years: Malcolm Wong, Brian Neale and Martin Young.

Summer Interclub Round 2 Results Week 5 May 1

The last results for the summer interclub competition. Hope everyone enjoyed it and had fun!

SI R2 week 5 Individuals

SI R2 week 5 Teams

Again there is a detailed results chart with the scores from each game.

Detailed Team Results R2

Summer Interclub Round 2 Results Week 2 April 10

Hello people, the results for week 2 of round 2 of summer interclub are done!

SI R2 week 2 Individuals

SI R2 week 2 Teams

Summer Interclub Results – Round 2 Week 1 April 3

Hi folks, here are the first results from round 2 of Summer Interclub. Apologies for the delay, as i have been working on a school project pretty much all the time for the last week!

SI R2 week 1 Individuals

SI R2 week 1 Teams

2013 Summer Interclub – Round 2 Draw

Hi folks, here is the draw for Round 2. Thanks to Gareth for continuing to provide the updated stats (round 1 latest is here) – great job!
TTW 2013 Summer Interclub Round 2 Draw as of Apr 3 2013

Summer Interclub Results – Week 5 March 20

The final results from the first half of the Summer Interclub tournament!

A reminder that there is no interclub on the 27th of March, but it will resume again on the 3rd of April.

Summer Interclub 2013 Results – Individuals, wk 5

Summer Interclub 2013 Results – Teams, wk 5

Also this week there is a table of detailed team results, with the scores from each week’s matches.

Detailed Team Results

Summer Interclub Results – Week 4 March 13

The results for week four of Summer Interclub. Bound to be some interesting matches next week, particularly division two with three players on 100% facing each other!

Summer Interclub 2013 Results – Individuals, wk 4

Summer Interclub 2013 Results – Teams, wk 4

* Updated with some pictures from recent weeks – thanks Reg Feuz! -Mat

Summer Interclub Results – Week 3 March 6

Hello all, here are the results for week 3 of summer interclub. Hopefully all errors have been fixed now!

Summer Interclub 2013 Results – Individuals, wk 3

Summer Interclub 2013 Results – Teams, wk 3

Summer Interclub Results – Week 2 Feb 27

Hi all, the second lot of results for Summer Interclub are here!

Can I remind you all that when you write in your sheets please fill in your full names! It makes this job much easier, thanks.

Summer Interclub 2013 Results – Individuals, wk 2

Summer Interclub 2013 Results – Teams, wk 2

Summer Interclub Results – Week 1 Feb 20

Here are the first week’s results for summer interclub!

Summer Interclub 2013 Results – Individuals, wk 1

Summer Interclub 2013 Results – Teams, wk 1

2013 Summer Interclub – Draw

Hi folks, the 2013 Table Tennis Wellington Summer Interclub draw for Round 1 (of 2) is here: TTW 2013 Summer Interclub Round 1 Draw as of Feb 18 2013.

Let me know of any name spelling corrections at interclub. The first night is this Wednesday, see you there!

Team Listings

Division 1

Belmont A: Callum Rusbridge & Martin Murdoch
Empire A: Depak Patel and Paul Brown
Empire B: Chris Talbot and Ian Talbot
Belmont B: Cath Zhou & Larn Sweeney
Empire C: Raewyn Young and Sabine Westenra
Empire D: John Gan and Jason Giles

Division 2

Empire E: Bryan McConnochie and Tony Rutledge
Belmont C: Frank Fu & Chun-Kiet Vong
Empire F: Martin Young, Paul Solt and Harry Chen
Waterloo A: Gareth Telfer & Sean Hanson
Waterloo B: Scott Higham & Adam Xiong
Empire G: Matthew Hobbs & Russell Buchanan

Division 3

Empire H: Isaac Noanoa and Graham Sole
Waterloo C: Martin Xiong & Ellen Xiong
Empire I: Vladmir Vysotskiy, Mo Whare and James Stewart
Empire J: Merv Allardyce, Arindom Choudhury and Darren O’Brien
Belmont D: Abram Goh & Hui-Ling Vong
Waterloo D: Jacob Gates & Reuben Reid

Division 4

Belmont E: Jason Zhao & Allan Carson
Belmont F: Charlie Waddy & Shikhar Parijat
Empire K: Reg Feuz & Ian Grace
Waterloo E: Chris Sutton & Ian Thomas
Belmont G: Jeremy Traub & Nicholas Baucke

Division 5

Waterloo\Empire: Marius Lukkonnen & Jimi Nelson
Belmont H: Angus Horan & Regan Craig
Belmont I: Alex Tam & William Tam
Empire L: Tyler Guthardt & Mason Tangatatai
Empire M: Chris Beeston & Jacob Rattray
Empire N: Adam Archibald-Mason & Hugh Pawson

2013 Summer Interclub

Notices for the upcoming Summer Interclub were sent out to the clubs and players lists last week (if you are not on the players list, and want to be, let me know), the details are below. Let your club contact know you are available to play!

In a nutshell:

• 2-player teams entered by clubs
• 7pm Wednesdays from Feb 20 until May 1 with a break on March 27.
• 5-match format to 11 with singles best of 7 and doubles best-of-5.
• Flat fee $7/player.
• Entries to be submitted by clubs in (to me) please by Feb 13.
• Players help your club out by helping wrangle your friends together and pass on the names to your club contact.

Composite teams (players from separate clubs in the same team) are fine just be sure to have both clubs know about the team and have it be entered by one of the clubs. (Check with your club contact.)

The full 2013 TTW Summer Interclub Entry Form is here as a doc or a pdf.

Location:

Empire Table Tennis Club Hall

2012 – a lot of Table Tennis played!

Best wishes from TTW to all players for the holidays and the New Year.

Last week (12/12) saw the second of the one-off trial 2-player handicap-teams events (the first was here). This followed the previous week’s December 5th end of the spring composite teams interclub.

We had more people for this second event where we combined with some juniors and had 10 teams playing
a couple of consecutive rounds on the night. Like before, not a full competition but just a good excuse for some competition and to allow the handicap system to provide some close matches between players who might not normally get to play against each
other in competition.

Results were well balanced with a number of lower-ranked players taking advantage of their points
lead to beat higher-ranked players with a number of 5-set finishes.

There were only two unbeaten teams on the night:
Graham Sole & Issac Noa
and
Frank Fu & Gareth Telfer

Spring Composite Teams – Final Results

Wednesday (7pm @ ETTC on 12/12/12) – handicap teams event to finish off the year – just turn up and we’ll slot you into teams and assign you a ‘handicap number’ and away you go. At least 4 singles 2 doubles each. More details here.

Final Individual Results: TTW 2012 Composite Intercub Final Dec 5 Individuals

Division One

Playoff for positions 1 & 2 Lions beat Pumas 6-5
Playoff for positions 3 & 4 Tigers beat Cheetahs 7-4
Playoff for positions 5 & 6 Panthers beat Cougars 6-5
Playoff for positions 7 & 8 Leopards beat Jaguars 8-3

With the top two teams finishing the round robin separated by only half a point, a close final was anticipated and duly eventuated. The final match between the two number three players determined the outcome with Brendyn Shaw coming out the victor.

Catherine Zhou and Callum Rusbridge shared the individual honours showing consistent form. Several promising performances were recorded by some younger players, suggesting interesting Premier One and Two grades in prospect for 2013.

Division Two

Playoff for positions 1 & 2 Jackals beat Dingos 9-2
Playoff for positions 3 & 4 Hyenas beat Wolves 9-0
Playoff for positions 5 & 6 Terriers beat Foxes 7-4
Playoff for positions 7 & 8 Coyotes beat Hounds 7-4

Early and late withdrawals and no-shows reduced the impact of the playoffs with some interesting contests not materialising. Jackals, which was the most consistent team in the Division comfortably beat Dingos to cement their top placing.

Thanks to all those, in both Divisions, who played in this completion which, at the end of the day is designed purely to provide table tennis for players who seek regular play, whether for enjoyment, improvement or both. Thanks also to those who willingly (and occasionally grudgingly!) filled in to enable to competition to continue.

-Kevin

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Spring Composite Teams – Week 7 Nov 28

Results: 2012 Spring Week 7 Individuals and Teams

NB: The draw is here. Next week (Dec 5) is the finals night. Following that (Dec 12) is a repeat of the Handicap teams night – this will again be based on random teams formed on the night in the order that people turn up so come along and join in, you don’t have to have played in the first night.

Division One

Tigers beat Cougars 7-4
Panthers beat Leopards 6-5
Lions beat Jaguars 7-4
Pumas beat Cheetahs 8-3

Division Two

Jackals beat Hyenas 10-1
Terriers beat Coyotes 6-5
Dingos beat Hounds 7-4

Not too many surprises in Division One this week with the last of the round robin fixtures. The top teams and top players all maintained their status heading into the playoff round next week.

The Hobbit seemed to affect a number of players in Division Two, causing a shuffling of some players between teams and one match being cancelled, but all that were available still had games.

Best of luck to all players for next week.

-Kevin

Spring Composite Teams – Week 6 Nov 21

Results:
2012 Spring Week 6 Individuals and Teams

NB: The draw is here. Next week is the last of the round-robin with the week after being a finals night.

Division One

Pumas beat Leopards 6-5
Tigers beat Jaguars 6-5
Panthers beat Cheetahs 6-5
Lions beat Cougars 8-3

Division Two

Coyotes beat Hounds 6-5
Jackals beat Wolves 6-5
Terriers beat Dingos 6-5
Hyenas beat Foxes 6-5

A night for the handicapper as most results ended up a photo finish. The top teams kept their positions with one more week in the round robin stage.

Individual positions changed a little with some performing above or below expectations and the top group in Division One maintain their form with consistent performances.

Mention of the week goes to Paul Solt, filling in for Division Two on condition he played left handed, still managing three singles wins. Perhaps a one off “wrong hand” competition could be intriguing.

-Kevin

Spring Composite Teams – Week 5 Nov 14

Results:
2012 Spring Week 5 Teams
2012 Spring Week 5 Individuals

Division One

Cheetahs beat Tigers 6-5
Jaguars beat Panthers 6-5
Pumas beat Cougars 7-4
Lions beat Leopards 7-4

Division Two

Jackals beat Hounds 9-2
Dingos beat Hyenas 9-2
Terriers beat Foxes 8-3
Coyotes beat Wolves 6-5

A bit of movement in positions this week, partly caused by replacements but also through some good results. In Division One, Chun-Kiet celebrated selection in a National training squad with three wins, helping Jaguars to a first win. Cougars had a first loss dropping from top spot to be third behind Lions and Pumas, who in turn are only separated by the number of wins.

In Division Two, Wolves without lead player Zhidong, also experienced a first loss, allowing the Jackals to take over top spot. Reuben Reid and Chris Sutton improved already good records with three wins each and Charlie Waddy showed form with a good win over Isaac Noanoa.

With only two weeks of the round robin remaining competition for play off positions remains tight, although both Divisions have sorted out top and bottom groups of four.

Following the last round robin night on 28 November, playoffs between teams 1v2, 3v4, 5v6 and 7v8 will take place on 5 December to determine final positions.

-Kevin

Spring Composite Teams – Week 4 Nov 7

Results from last night:
Teams: 2012 Spring Week 4 Teams
Individuals: 2012 Spring Week 4 Individuals

Division One

Tigers beat Leopards 8-3
Pumas beat Jaguars 6-5
Lions beat Cheetahs 7-4
Cougars beat Panthers 7-4

Division Two

Wolves beat Dingos 6-5
Jackels beat Terriers 7-4
Hyenas beat Coyotes 9-2
Foxes beat Hounds 6-5

Division One is starting to see three teams moving away from the pack, with Pumas registering their fourth 6-5 victory while Cougars “spoilt” their record of three 6-5 wins with a 7-4 victory in taking over the sole lead position. Lions also kept up with the pace, remaining unbeaten.

A good team effort by Dingos in Division Two held front runners Wolves to a close result with the second doubles proving crucial. Based on the number of sets played, the fixture between Terriers and Jackals was the most closely contested with age, experience and cunning probably being the difference.

-Kevin

Spring Composite Teams – Week 3 Oct 31

Results from Wednesday:
* 2012 Spring Week 3 Teams
* 2012 Spring Week 3 Individuals

Division One

Pumas 6 Lions 5
Cougars 6 Leopard 5
Panthers 9 Tigers 2
Cheetahs 8 Jaguars 3

Division Two

Hyenas 6 Terriers 5
Jackals 6 Coyotes 5
Dingos 6 Foxes 5
Wolves 8 Hounds 3

A number of close games this week, noticeable in particular for the closeness of the doubles with the wins being shared in seven of the eight matches. Next week sees the competition moving beyond the mid point of the round robin phase so a better guide to team fortunes may start to become more apparent.

-Kevin