Call for Awareness and Action | Corruption and Fraud at ITTF/WTT

[Tony's Table Tennis]

We understand that creating a new account might raise some eyebrows, but the members of our group preferred not to use their personal social media profiles to post this. Hopefully, that's understandable.

credibility loss.
we can all hide behind fake names and talk fake to each other all day long and nobody will take anyone serious.

as I told everyone who have grief, go through official channels.
Challenge the national federations that represent you and your groups of friends.
If each country federation gets challenged, they will challenge the international federations.

you are not the first and won't be the list fake account coming onto TTD to make noise.
I have seen very little support due to fake accounts and uncredibable accounts.
And even of TTD members comes to your support, you think there are national federation people involved to really make a difference?

I got my wish into the eyes and ears of friends within WTT/ITTF and I'm happy in 2025, few of my wishes did materiliaze.
PS. I have made a lot of insults towards them, but I befriend them on a personal level too. Just like I befriend people within CNT and people here some times think I am anti CNT because I just like to talk what comes to my mind, especially when things are wrong.

Take your facts into all the MA.
learn to make friends

my 2 cents

 

[ThePongCommenter]

It's been said already but nobody is going to take your revolution seriously just because of the strange messaging right off the bat. Your plan as defined in OP is to "spread awareness" (you haven't really posted anything that is a surprise to anyone) and to "contact authorities" which you don't even know who they are. Probably should have figured that out before going public on your mission.

Also weird to intentionally not change the "Krobel" after the mod pointed out and openly admit you won't even list your real setup or change it...not helping your credibillity.

 

[zeio]

I'd give them the benefit of the doubt for filing the annual return late. They admitted in early 2024 that FY 2023 was a challenging year.

FWIW, WTT has applied for an "Extension of Time for AGM/Annual Return" (up to 60 days) in 2022, 2023 and 2024.

ITTF Finance Forum 2024
https://www.ittf.com/2024/02/25/ittf-finance-forum-2024/

The Finance Forum commenced with a detailed report on the 2022 Financial Statements, offering insights into the financial statements at a consolidated level and across the different organizations within the ITTF Group – ITTF, World Table Tennis, and ITTF Foundation. The 2022 Financial Statements are up for approval at the ITTF AGM scheduled for February 27, 2024.

An update on the 2023 finances was also provided, noting that they are yet to be audited and that the figures presented were management accounts. 2023 is expected to be a challenging financial year for the ITTF, with ambitious growth plans following the emergence of COVID-19 not materialising as quickly as anticipated.

Efforts have been made to mitigate the impacts of the challenges faced in 2023, and while the adjustments made in the latter half of the year are not fully reflected in the 2023 finances, the forecast for 2024, as well as the budgets for 2025-2028, indicate a conservative and improved financial position for the ITTF.

The presentations also included an overview of the Risk Management work currently underway, following a Risk Management Project undertaken in late 2022. The ITTF continues to monitor key risks that pose the greatest impact on the operational management of the Federation, taking a proactive approach toward risk.

Additionally, an introduction was made during the Forum by the new auditors, PwC, appointed as the ITTF auditors from 2023. Interim work for the 2023 audit took place during the fourth quarter of 2023.

 

[ThePongCommenter]

Someone commented on the Reddit post that maybe the practices of WTT and ITTF are exactly what the table tennis community deserves. At this point, we’re starting to feel like that might be true.

As fans of the sport with absolutely no economic interest in this, we’ve spent hours reading documents, writing to authorities, and working toward a simple goal: promoting awareness and advocating for transparency and better governance at ITTF and WTT. And how has the community responded? The most liked reply in this thread is from UpsidedownCarl, who called us spammers, followed by a meme mocking our claims. It makes us wonder—has anyone actually read through the analysis before dismissing it and turning it into a joke?

We don’t regret the time we’ve spent advocating for a better future for table tennis, but perhaps it’s all meaningless after all. The very existence of WTT and its popularity already seems to reflect what the community wants, its values—and maybe what it deserves.

Alienating the community you came to for help just because someone raised questions about your credibility, and getting defensive about those questions, is certainly a decision.

What has your advocacy done to date? You mention you have contacted ITTF officials. Did you get a response? If so what was it? What are the relevant "laws" you mention that require them to release their financials? Might be good to include that in OP.

What exactly do you expect people to do? Start spamming their entire socials and spreading the news at their clubs about this anonymous post on TableTennisDaily? Most people are well aware WTT and ITTF are shit and have been shit for a long time, but you might overestimate how much people really care. I am guessing not everyone is interested in assembling an Avengers crew of internet sleuths especially when most of the information you've presented here is something most passionate table tennis fans are already well aware of.

Say your mission works and WTT gets subjected to legal and financial turmoil, is that good for table tennis? Or will it set us even back further into the stone ages?

 

[UpSideDownCarl]

Thanks for your detailed response. Based on the information provided in your post, may I confirm if this reply is from the official TTD team?
Also some questions to you and your team:

1. You mentioned that this IP address is flagged as belonging to a spammer. Could you please provide evidence supporting this claim? This is the first time I, as the person posting on behalf of our group, have ever registered on TTD. I’m curious to know what IP address is showing on your end that would lead to this accusation. Simply labeling someone as a spammer after removing their posts feels dismissive and too convenient.
2. Until yesterday when we reposted with the note of contacting Dan, our account showed zero posts, and this is 4 days after our initial posts attempt here. How is that not considered "posts being removed"? So posts disappearing from users' account is not because they were removed but because their IP are spammers IP? Isn't that too convenient for the community mgmt?
3. Regarding your assertion that the initial post was removed due to containing links, this is incorrect. The original post is the same as this one and did not include any links. After it was removed without notification, we posted a blank post with a Reddit link, as the content there had garnered meaningful discussions, and that post was removed also. Can you clarify which post you’re referring to? If it’s the second one, it still doesn’t explain why the initial post, which contained no links, was removed.
4. You stated that we posted three times, implying spamming behavior. To clarify, the first two posts were made separately in the General Talks and Interviews sections because the one in General Talks received no views after an hour. The 3rd post with the reddit link was posted a few days later than the initial two posts. You seem to try accusing us of spamming, which again is not true.
5. You advised us to merge our content with other posts. We’ve conducted thorough analysis based on publicly available information, and we believe our findings warrant a standalone post. If there’s an existing post that covers similar analysis, kindly direct us to it, and we’ll be happy to merge or delete as needed.

Here is a photo of the IP address:

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Here is a photo of the location of that IP address:

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I didn't think to make a screen shot of the spam software pulling you back into the approval queue. I approved you the first time. When you made your profile, I saw it said Krobel and approved you noting that it was likely a typo but that a lot of spam accounts will list exactly what you listed. Those are popular blades and rubbers. So spammers who try to get there account approved often choose exactly what you chose and often they will post with typos since they don't know the equipment. Still, I approved you when you got approved. The anti-spam software pulled you back and tagged both your first post and your second post.

I assure you, if it pulls you into the spam software again, I will take screen shots of it.

When someone gets pulled into the spam filter, any posts that are flagged get pulled in. If the post that is pulled into the spam filter is a first post on a thread, all the other posts show up as not existing. I can see them. Just like I can see the posts you delete. But they are not public. So, since all your posts were in this one thread (well, three threads merged into one) they got listed as not being there.

If your first post in this thread gets pulled into the spam filter again, our system would, again, show any posts in the thread not being there.

By the time you posted the thread/post where you made a note that your content was pulled, it was back on or you would not have been able to post. If you had looked, you would have seen it.

There are other people who get pulled into the antispam software who are not spammers and I pull them out. It happens. The spam software is not perfect. It is just like how, sometimes junk email gets to your inbox and valid emails get sent to your junk folder and then you correct it.

But you seem like you like coming up with conspiracy theories and you clearly don't know how to use the forum yet or you would have known some of the information above and you would have seen that it my profile lists me as something. Have a look and see if my profile says I have an official capacity on the forum.

I did not advise you to merge anything. I merged your three threads with almost identical content so all the posts are just in one thread. That is called merging threads. You cannot do that. Only a moderator can. You can see that post # 1, post # 2 and post # 7 in this thread are basically identical content with slightly different attachments. That is because I merged the threads and those posts appear in the order they were posted.

If you want to see what me merging posts would look like, feel free to make one post that says Test #1 and a second post that says Test #2 and I will show you what it looks like when I merge posts instead of merging threads.

Feel free to do that.

Anyway, if you get pulled back into the spam filter, I will take a screen shot and I will pull you out. I am going to send you an email so that if it does happen, you can contact me directly.

In the meantime, if you do want people on the forum to get to know you, I would recommend you look through the forum and make some posts so people can get a better sense of who you are and what you stand for than has happened as a result of some of the posts and accusations in this thread.

 

[UpSideDownCarl]

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I don’t actually use a Korbel blade or Rozena rubber.

I recommend that you do actually put the equipment you actually use rather than something generic and popular. That would also allow people to get to know you. You may even consider posting some footage of yourself playing. I think that would do more to get people to feel they know you than anything you can post in words.

But at least, since you know there is a typo in the blade, fix it. As of now, as I am typing, even though you know, it still says Krobel on your profile.

 

[UpSideDownCarl]

Call me old fashioned, but I highly doubt challenging the mods and generally being argumentative is going to win you many allies regardless of the conduct of your target. Like UDC said, post in some other topics and let folks get to know you.

It is a good point. But I do want to make it clear, my only goal here is to get things back on the right track.

It is interesting to me that, my explanation of things lead to a string of conspiracy theories. But, if TableTennis Fans is a TT player in NYC, there is a good chance I actually know him in person. I also feel like a lot of the stuff that has made things more confusing would be easy to clear up if TableTennis Fans and I were in a room together and could have a simple conversation.

If he does not accept my explanation of what actually happened, I can't do much about that. But, being able to see behind the scenes, I do actually know what happened.

In the end, if TableTennis Fans becomes a TTD member who has useful things to contribute to the forum, that will be great. If what he is doing helps get the ITTF/WTT to take the needs of the players more into consideration and stop fining players for not going to competitions they don't want to participate in, I think that will be a real win no matter how it happens.

That TableTennis Fans has posted on Reddit accusing TTDaily of censoring him without actually understanding how a world wide TT forum needs to operate to keep the forum as close to spam free as possible, well, I am sorry that is the case. But there are plenty of you who have been on the forum when we got bombarded with spam. And you guys know who took care of that. I have explained a little of how I have taken care of that. But there is more to it than me individually approving EVERY SINGLE NEW MEMBER and me constantly monitoring the spam filter and approval queue.

 

[TableTennis Fans]

Here is a photo of the IP address:

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Here is a photo of the location of that IP address:

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I didn't think to make a screen shot of the spam software pulling you back into the approval queue. I approved you the first time. When you made your profile, I saw it said Krobel and approved you noting that it was likely a typo but that a lot of spam accounts will list exactly what you listed. Those are popular blades and rubbers. So spammers who try to get there account approved often choose exactly what you chose and often they will post with typos since they don't know the equipment. Still, I approved you when you got approved. The anti-spam software pulled you back and tagged both your first post and your second post.

I assure you, if it pulls you into the spam software again, I will take screen shots of it.

When someone gets pulled into the spam filter, any posts that are flagged get pulled in. If the post that is pulled into the spam filter is a first post on a thread, all the other posts show up as not existing. I can see them. Just like I can see the posts you delete. But they are not public. So, since all your posts were in this one thread (well, three threads merged into one) they got listed as not being there.

If your first post in this thread gets pulled into the spam filter again, our system would, again, show any posts in the thread not being there.

By the time you posted the thread/post where you made a note that your content was pulled, it was back on or you would not have been able to post. If you had looked, you would have seen it.

There are other people who get pulled into the antispam software who are not spammers and I pull them out. It happens. The spam software is not perfect. It is just like how, sometimes junk email gets to your inbox and valid emails get sent to your junk folder and then you correct it.

But you seem like you like coming up with conspiracy theories and you clearly don't know how to use the forum yet or you would have known some of the information above and you would have seen that it my profile lists me as something. Have a look and see if my profile says I have an official capacity on the forum.

I did not advise you to merge anything. I merged your three threads with almost identical content so all the posts are just in one thread. That is called merging threads. You cannot do that. Only a moderator can. You can see that post # 1, post # 2 and post # 7 in this thread are basically identical content with slightly different attachments. That is because I merged the threads and those posts appear in the order they were posted.

If you want to see what me merging posts would look like, feel free to make one post that says Test #1 and a second post that says Test #2 and I will show you what it looks like when I merge posts instead of merging threads.

Feel free to do that.

Anyway, if you get pulled back into the spam filter, I will take a screen shot and I will pull you out. I am going to send you an email so that if it does happen, you can contact me directly.

In the meantime, if you do want people on the forum to get to know you, I would recommend you look through the forum and make some posts so people can get a better sense of who you are and what you stand for than has happened as a result of some of the posts and accusations in this thread.

Oh wow, so instead of sharing the spamming software you claimed caught my IP address and led to our posts being removed, you decided it was better to explain the situation by posting the IP address of my location? This shows specific location of me, which is private info that I did NOT authorize you to share, but it doesn’t prove anything about spamming.

Please help me understand—this information you posted here, in addition to leaking user privacy without authorization, how does it support your claim that the user (me) has a spamming IP?

What a low move. Shame on you, UpsidedownCarl. Really, shame on you.

Please don't retrieve back from this position and your comment, I would be extremely interested to hear how the founder of TTD (maybe that's you) responds to this and how does this not violating your community value and regulations.

And I’m pretty sure that posting a user’s accurate IP address online without their authorization is not only unethical, but it’s also a crime. UpsidedownCarl, I have enough reason to believe that you posted this specific IP address in an attempt to threaten us and to win the argument that you didn’t remove the posts—despite not having any evidence to support that claim the original post was sent via spamming IP.

 

[igorponger]

When the cat's away, the mice will play mischief!

It looks like ITTF did gave free reins for manufacturers, allowing short-living trashy rubbers a lot. Again, ITTF got now deeply involved in seeking for money and they little care about the increasing abundance of substandard materials as currently adopted by some manufacturers purposely for producing the "fancy" deceptive rubbers.

As the best remarkable illustration, LION anti rubbers were found to incorporate a variety of foamed plastics, known as substandard non-rubber material.

This all comes foremost for ITTF does lacking for educated personells to do the inspectorial works on the current rubbers in proper manner.

We certainly need a better President for ITTF, a proficient rubber engineer would make the very best candidate for presidency, we strongly believe.

 

[UpSideDownCarl]

Oh wow, so instead of sharing the spamming software you claimed caught my IP address and led to our posts being removed, you decided it was better to explain the situation by posting the IP address of my location? This shows specific location of me, which is private info that I did NOT authorize you to share, but it doesn’t prove anything about spamming.

Please help me understand—this information you posted here, in addition to leaking user privacy without authorization, how does it support your claim that the user (me) has a spamming IP?

What a low move. Shame on you, UpsidedownCarl. Really, shame on you.

Please don't retrieve back from this position and your comment, I would be extremely interested to hear how the founder of TTD (maybe that's you) responds to this and how does this not violating your community value and regulations.

Okay. Look. That information is stuff that is not private. That information is right on your profile. It does not prove your account is a spam account. Did you not read my explanation with the analogy about junk filters?

If you do want it removed, it is easily removed. I had already noted that you list your location as Nigeria and your IP says NYC.

If you want to turn everything into into a conspiracy theory, I can't really help with that. But, rather than trying to help the situation, you seem to be trying to make things worse and worse.

You have already posted your email. I don't think you will move to the step of getting people to support your cause with responses like this. Sorry, but, none of how you are behaving makes sense. Tell me you want me to remove those photos and I can. They were for you to see. Nobody else cares what your IP or your location actually is.

 

[TableTennis Fans]

Okay. Look. That information is stuff that is not private. That information is right on your profile. It does not prove your account is a spam account. Did you not read my explanation with the analogy about junk filters?

If you do want it removed, it is easily removed. I had already noted that you list your location as Nigeria and your IP says NYC.

If you want to turn everything into into a conspiracy theory, I can't really help with that. But, rather than trying to help the situation, you seem to be trying to make things worse and worse.

You have already posted your email. I don't think you will move to the step of getting people to support your cause with responses like this. Sorry, but, none of how you are behaving makes sense. Tell me you want me to remove those photos and I can. They were for you to see. Nobody else cares what your IP or your location actually is.

The specific IP address—traceable to a user's physical address—isn't private information? I’m curious if you, as a moderator on TTD, have any basic understanding of data privacy rules. Please stick to your position, and let's see what a lawyer says about whether it’s okay for a TTD moderator to post a user's accurate IP address without consent, especially for the purpose of proving the moderators did not remove posts.

If you do want it removed, it is easily removed. I had already noted that you list your location as Nigeria and your IP says NYC.

If you want to turn everything into into a conspiracy theory, I can't really help with that. But, rather than trying to help the situation, you seem to be trying to make things worse and worse.

What a funny statement. You leaked your users' IP, and now you’re asking what we want to do, while accusing us of conspiracy theories.

You sent your personal email and name to us via email, but we’re not as low as you. We won’t be publishing your name and studio as a counter threat to you.

 

[UpSideDownCarl]

The specific IP address—traceable to a user's physical address—isn't private information? I’m curious if you, as a moderator on TTD, have any basic understanding of data privacy rules. Please stick to your position, and let's see what a lawyer says about whether it’s okay for a TTD moderator to post a user's accurate IP address without consent, especially for the purpose of proving the moderators did not remove posts.



What a funny statement. You leaked your users' IP, and now you’re asking what we want to do, while accusing us of conspiracy theories. You know what, Carl, I’ll leave that up to your judgment. If you think leaking our physical address/IP address will scare us, you couldn’t be more wrong.

What a joke and a shame. Carl, let me assure you, this won’t be over anytime soon.

You sent your personal email and name to us via email, but we’re not as low as you. We won’t be publishing your name and studio as a counter threat to you.

I can leave the screen shots or delete them. Feel free to ask me what you actually want rather than being obtuse.

 

[TableTennis Fans]

I can leave the screen shots or delete them. Feel free to ask me what you actually want rather than being obtuse.

What a coward. After posting people’s information without consent, you’re now asking for permission?

I leave that up to you—what you think is the ethical and legal move. It’s probably too late anyway.

Carl, please don’t try to use conspiracy theories to cover up what you did. You used your little, pathetic power as a moderator to post users' IP and physical address, trying to flex your power online. That’s really who you are.

If this screenshot you posted actually had evidence proving that our IP was caught by spamming software, we could understand that it was an oversight and you didn’t realize you were sharing our specific IP publicly. But it didn’t prove anything about spamming. You simply needed to gain an upper hand in an argument you couldn’t win, and that’s truly pathetic.

 

[TableTennis Fans]

Alienating the community you came to for help just because someone raised questions about your credibility, and getting defensive about those questions, is certainly a decision.

What has your advocacy done to date? You mention you have contacted ITTF officials. Did you get a response? If so what was it? What are the relevant "laws" you mention that require them to release their financials? Might be good to include that in OP.

What exactly do you expect people to do? Start spamming their entire socials and spreading the news at their clubs about this anonymous post on TableTennisDaily? Most people are well aware WTT and ITTF are shit and have been shit for a long time, but you might overestimate how much people really care. I am guessing not everyone is interested in assembling an Avengers crew of internet sleuths especially when most of the information you've presented here is something most passionate table tennis fans are already well aware of.

Say your mission works and WTT gets subjected to legal and financial turmoil, is that good for table tennis? Or will it set us even back further into the stone ages?

I think you meant well, so let me try to answer and share my thoughts.

We’re not trying to alienate the community, but this comment was sparked because our original posts here were deleted (three times), and the moderator, Carl, claimed they were removed due to a "spamming IP," which is not true. He has now posted the accurate IP (along with the physical address) of the sender from our group, which is another low and pathetic move.

To answer your questions, our original email was sent to a few ITTF officials along with member associations. We didn’t receive any response from ITTF, but we did receive several replies from people who said they got the forwarded email (presumably from the member associations).

What we think we can help achieve:

• Our goal is never to remove ITTF and WTT, but to increase transparency and governance. For both institutions to release their financials for public scrutiny and to assess whether they are adequately compensating athletes would be one step.
• In the responses we received, a few mentioned that ITTF will have a board election soon. Maybe this analysis can encourage them to take the reelection more seriously, forming a board with more balanced perspectives and fair representation from member associations. We believe WTT’s board needs more transformation (than ITTF), but any changes will likely need to start with ITTF.
• We’ve reached out to authorities, including tax and financial fraud authorities in Singapore, the IOC Integrity Committee, and the Court of Arbitration for Sport, among others. During this process, we realized that most sport-related authorities focus more on illegal betting and drug usage rather than financial fraud, as those have more direct impacts on sports integrity. However, we do believe that for any for-profit organization, governance and financial compliance need to be in place for it to be sustainable.

To be honest, we didn’t think our work alone would create any significant impact. It’s more about sharing the information we found, in the hope that member associations and people running for ITTF positions or the Board of Directors can leverage it as a way to advocate for better governance.

In hindsight, perhaps we should have focused more on reaching out to people working within the industry and relevant authorities. The sports fan community is generally more interested in the game itself than the issues behind it. Regardless, it was worth a try.

 

[TableTennis Fans]

credibility loss.
we can all hide behind fake names and talk fake to each other all day long and nobody will take anyone serious.

as I told everyone who have grief, go through official channels.
Challenge the national federations that represent you and your groups of friends.
If each country federation gets challenged, they will challenge the international federations.

you are not the first and won't be the list fake account coming onto TTD to make noise.
I have seen very little support due to fake accounts and uncredibable accounts.
And even of TTD members comes to your support, you think there are national federation people involved to really make a difference?

I got my wish into the eyes and ears of friends within WTT/ITTF and I'm happy in 2025, few of my wishes did materiliaze.
PS. I have made a lot of insults towards them, but I befriend them on a personal level too. Just like I befriend people within CNT and people here some times think I am anti CNT because I just like to talk what comes to my mind, especially when things are wrong.

Take your facts into all the MA.
learn to make friends

my 2 cents

Appreciate the thoughts and suggestions. TTD is probably a more active community than we initially thought, so now we can understand that a new account posting sensitive information could be viewed as unreliable.

Our main focus is indeed official channels. In the original post we shared here, we included the email we sent to ITTF officials and member associations. No one from ITTF responded, but a few people reached out, and we assume they got the email forwarded by member associations.

We have also reached out to the authorities we can think of, particularly in Singapore, as that’s where WTT is incorporated. However, most sport-related authorities focus more on betting and drug usage rather than financial fraud. We believe the latter is the root cause and could also lead to the former.

Speaking of making friends—that's not our goal tbh, but maybe it should have been our tactic. Now, we don’t think we’ll pursue that, especially after the official moderator here Carl posted the IP of the post sender without our consent in an attempt to win the argument (and he failed to prove our IP is spamming even after leaking our privacy)

Again, we appreciate you taking the time. As long as more people start questioning if WTT has the right governance in place to be the most powerful league in TT, we’ve achieved our goal (at least partially) .

 

[UpSideDownCarl]

Well, you know what, I have just been informed that I am not supposed to post IP address. So I have removed it. I am sorry about that. I really only posted it for you to see. I am not trying to cause trouble for you.

 

[TableTennis Fans]

So, you want to keep the photos. You said so in your report of my post with the photos. I am okay with leaving it up. If someone else removes it, that is different. But if you want the photos to stay up, that is fine with me.

I think you, as the moderator, posting the IP address of user without their consent is unethical, and illegal. So that's what I think. And no, we, as everyone who have a presence online, do not allow our IP to be published on internet without our consent.

You can't even man up and admit that you made a mistake by posting a user's IP address to prove your point (which clearly failed). So I don’t think you’re asking for our permission or opinion—you’re just too cowardly to own up to the mistake you made, and to correct your mistake. That's what you are doing

 

[\_Kairos_/]

Here is a photo of the location of that IP address:
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...especially after the official moderator here Carl posted the IP of the post sender without our consent in an attempt to win the argument (and he failed to prove our IP is spamming even after leaking our privacy)

Those coordinates point to a public park in NYC right next to the City Hall and with a public wifi hot spot....
So unless the OP and his (imaginary?) friends live in a tent right next to the City Hall, then this is not a private location. I somewhat doubt that the posting of these coordinates is against the law. Also, lots of spam could (potentially) come from this area.
Furthermore, the style of argumentation kind of resembles someone well known (i. e. infamous) on tt forums. I would assume Carl knows who I'm talking about, but Carl probably knows better if OP and this person are actually the same.

 

[TableTennis Fans]

Those coordinates clearly point to a public park in NYC right next to the City Hall and with a public wifi hot spot....
So unless the OP and his (imaginary?) friends live in a tent right next to the City Hall, then this is not a private location. I somewhat doubt that the posting of these coordinates is against the law. Also, lots of spam could (potentially) come from this area.
Furthermore, the style of argumentation kind of resembles someone well known (i. e. infamous) on tt forums. I would assume Carl knows who I'm talking about, but Carl probably knows better if OP and this person are actually the same.

We have "imaginary" friends, and we apparently resemble someone you know. Geez. Meanwhile, Carl has been accusing us of being conspiracy theorists.

This has been truly eye-opening. Good for you guys. I’ll admit—I have no friends at all. But you, clearly have a BFF- Carl. You two definitely deserve each other. <3

 

[TableTennis Fans]

You should follow Magnus Carlsen steps. He is the world #1 chess player.

Magnus created the Freestyle Chess Players Club (FCPC) and the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour. It's a real threat to the World Chess Federation (FIDE).

This is a good idea and doesn’t conflict with what we’re advocating for better governance at WTT.

It will likely take a very long time for the TT ecosystem to develop competing leagues to WTT. Until then, their presence and practices will remain dominant in the sport.

The Valderner Cup a couple of weeks ago somewhat resembled Magnus' approach, I guess. While it was fun to watch and did attract attention beyond typical TT fans, it’s not yet something that can create a significant impact on the sport or its professional athletes—who likely prioritize rankings, access to major competitions, and fair compensation.