Chinese A League

jonurkel · May 26, 2015

The A League is the second League only below the Super League in China. Quite a few Chinese National Team members are playing in it. In fact, even top 100 players Adrian Crisan also plays in it this year. There are 32 teams each for Men's and Women's. Four foreign teams are accepted to complete in the league. Kanak is in team Seamaster-Edgeball Universal. The first stop of the A League is from May 25 through May 29 in Chongqing.

Here you have some photos:

In this last photo you can see that Elias Ranefur and Anton Kallberg from Sweden are also playing in the A League.

What do you thing about this league? It would be great if we also followed this league, as it's level is really high!

Tony's Table Tennis · May 26, 2015

Imo this league format should replace all those long leagues (amateur league) which covers 20 weeks + in a year.

The Jia A and lower all uses "tournament format" league schedule - whole country get together for a few days and conduct the league matches - few times a year.

So the other time? - focus on training!!

jonurkel · May 26, 2015

Tony's Table Tennis said:
Imo this league format should replace all those long leagues (amateur league) which covers 20 weeks + in a year.

The Jia A and lower all uses "tournament format" league schedule - whole country get together for a few days and conduct the league matches - few times a year.

So the other time? - focus on training!!

I agree with you in the sense that playing the whole league in a few weeks would make things easier for everybody in terms of travelling... and it would also give the players more weeks to train and prepare for the league.

On the other hand, I think that with the league format that you propose, there would be too much weekends without competition, and they would be a bit boring, don't you think so?

Tony's Table Tennis · May 26, 2015

jonurkel said:
I agree with you in the sense that playing the whole league in a few weeks would make things easier for everybody in terms of travelling... and it would also give the players more weeks to train and prepare for the league.

On the other hand, I think that with the league format that you propose, there would be too much weekends without competition, and they would be a bit boring, don't you think so?

No
The league is a national league
There is other tournaments in between - and defiantly possible in the countries that I visited (19 countries)
In fact, some countries don't really do "league" but rather tournaments - which consist of ranking, so it like what I said, a league tournament system

jonurkel · May 26, 2015

Tony's Table Tennis said:
No
The league is a national league
There is other tournaments in between - and defiantly possible in the countries that I visited (19 countries)
In fact, some countries don't really do "league" but rather tournaments - which consist of ranking, so it like what I said, a league tournament system

I agree with you. Moreover, I would love that system, as I love tournaments where you play a lot of matches! I really don't like to travel for several hours in order to play 2 matches (that's what happens with the league system).

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