Announcement of Annual CCCTO Table Tennis Tournament for 2014

Announcement of Annual CCCTO Table Tennis Tournament for 2014 Purpose

To promote mutual-understanding and friendship among fellow Christians and people of local Chinese community, to enrich the activities of CCCTO and local community, and to encourage the participation of physical exercises for all, CCCTO will hold its annual Thousand Oaks Chinese Table Tennis Tournament. All local Chinese and table tennis lovers are welcome to join and compete in this tournament. Team Format

In order to encourage wide participation, teamwork, and coordination among team members, the tournament will hold only team competitions. The active CCCTO members should construct their teams based on CCCTO fellowships. All other players, who don’t belong to any fellowships, should join a team of a particular fellowship, or the tournament will assign the player(s) to teams. Every team should have five to six players, including at least one female player. A fellowship can have more than one team if it has enough interesting people to form multiple teams. Similarly, multiple fellowships can have a joint team if each of them does not have enough players. Each team should have a captain and couch who is in charge of all aspects of the team during the tournament. Game Regulations

Preliminary Round: All teams will be divided into groups. Each group will have four teams. All teams play round robin matches within their groups.

Final Round: The top two teams of each group of preliminary round will compete for championship of Level A. The bottom two teams of each group of preliminary round will compete for championship of Level B. Within each group, all the teams will be divided into two groups. All teams will play round robin matches within their group. The top two teams of each group will meet in semi-finals of their level and winners will advance to final.

Every meet between two teams has two single matches and three double matches in the order of double, single, mixed double, double, and single. The team that wins three matches first is the winner. All teams will be divided into four groups and play round-robin within their group in the preliminary phase. The number one and number two teams advance to playoff, which is eliminating phase.

Each match has up to five games. Each game has eleven points. The player(s) who win three games first are the winner of the match.

Two single matches have to be played by different players. Any particular player can not represent his/her team twice in the first three matches. Any particular player can not represent his/her team more than twice. All three doubles have to be played by different combinations of players. In order to make the games more attractive and encouraging to female players, the scoring of each game has been altered as following (This rule will not apply if any of the female players are seed players).

Match Player(s) Starting Scores Single Female vs. male 2 : 0 Female & female vs. male & male 2 : 0 Double Female & female vs. female & male 2 : 0 Female & male vs. male & male 2 : 0

The captain of each team has to submit the order of players to the referee three minutes before the meet. Registration and Schedule

Please ask Nelson Poon or Chen Yong for team registration forms and return the completed forms to either of them no later than March 30th, 2014.

The preliminary round of the tournament will be held on April 12th (Saturday) from 9:00AM to 5:00PM. The final round will be held on April 26th (Saturday) from 9:00AM to 6:00PM. Both events will be at CCCTO. Rewards and Sponsorship

The championship teams of both level A and level B will be rewarded the CCCTO championship trophies and keep them until the next tournament.

The expense of the tournament will be covered by the donations as well as sponsorship of CCCTO. Also, there will be registration fee of $30 for every participated team. The budget will cover the following areas.

 Decorations for this event  Equipments and rewards  Substitute of worn-out tables and new paddles for new players and children

The tournament also needs volunteer referees and helpers. Training and Practice CCCTO is offering open practice to all players and beginners on Monday and Thursday evenings from 7:30PM to 10:30PM.

Tournament Contact

Nelson Poon for English and Cantonese, (805)577-0520, [email protected] King Lee for Conejo Valley Chinese Christian Church, (805)428-0103，[email protected] Yudong Li for Mandarin, (805) 494-5106, [email protected] Meisheng Jiang for Mandarin, (805) 300-8888, [email protected] Jimmy Chang for Simi Valley (818)451-3793, [email protected]

Please let us know should you have any comments and suggestions.

May God bless this tournament!

References: Committee members and contact information

General Managers： Changming Liao, Scott Si, Yudong Li, Houshi Li and Jimmy Chang Registration： Houshi Li, Yong Chen, Nelson Poon, Changming Liao, Jiang Wang, Bowen Rao and King Lee Practice： Eric Wang, Grace, Scott Si, Yong Chen, King Lee Technical： Scott Si (Referee in Chief), Nelson Poon, Zhihao Lao, Eric Wang, Liyang Zhang, Xiaofeng Liu Treasure： Wendy Guo Awards： Meisheng Jiang, Liyang Zhang, Eric Wang, Eric Wang, Grace Zhou, Wuyi Wang and Jianhua Zhang Service： Andy Zhou，Grace Yee, Shiwen Zhang, Jianhua Zhang and Yudong Li

Name Phone No Email Changming Liao 805-499-3482 [email protected] Yong Chen 818 889-9239 [email protected] Scott Si 805 480-9280 [email protected] King Lee 805-428-0103 [email protected] Meisheng Jiang 805 497-6208 [email protected] Jianhua Zhang 805 987-0985 [email protected] Jimmy Chang 818-451-3793 [email protected] Wuyi Wang 805-559-0487 [email protected] Shiwen Zhang 805-484-8136 [email protected] Nelson Poon 805 577-0520 [email protected] Zhihao Lao 805 384-8589 [email protected] Yudong Li 805 494-5106 [email protected] Eric Wang 805-807-0873 [email protected] [email protected] Liyang Zhang 818 915-2031 Wendy Guo 805 497-6208 [email protected] Grace Yee 818 706-2093 [email protected] Houshi Li 805-852-1192 [email protected]