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Btw, how often do you participate in your tournaments? How often would an average aficionado participate, in your opinion?

Hello fellow Troublemakers, welcome Everybody in 2018!! I hope you had a good time. Just a few glasses of beer with friends in the town - one can ask for no more ... :) I read once Zhang Jike saying that "loosing is the path to winning" and I also remember Timo Boll thanking his opponents who...

Ok so i.e. you have 10 ranked players (player 1 - 1500pts, pl 2 - 1499pts, .. pl 10 - 1491 pts) and 4 unrated ones. You also have 2 teams A and B (lower league). How do you make the trick?

Seriously ... : ) But these 4 "top" players from each team can not mix in different leagues right? What if I add random 4 people to each team and those serious guys on "additional" list in every team too? Won't I have a "one band" to rule them all? : ) I thought the rule prevents one big club...

You make trouble with a serious crowd and this is what you get. This random picture taking might be an inspiration for generations to came and learn how little it takes to cause it ... Have you exchanged any troublesome words with LB? He likes it and makes it interesting as getting beating from...

Answers my question perfektní - thanks :) There might be a little trouble : ) in our league system, because there is a specific rule. Lets assume you are assigned to a certain club. Club has several teams playing in different league levels, say team A (2nd league), team B - 3rd and team C 4th...

You mean matches - right? It is 13 matches (first round) and additional 6 matches (second round). Team consists of 4 players and every match is 3 duels for a single player + one doubles.

Yeah, I have an impression the more professional a player is the more irritated he gets with topics like this one. Any change must somehow resets the player and his training process. In one of Dan/Tom's podcasts Gionis Panagiotis also didn't sound to happy about such an idea. Ok, I need to...

Carl, I have a feeling you are referring to me here ... don't you? ;) I think there are two things worth distinguishing and separating: One (less important) - ok in your eyes I sort of "haven't done the homework" and in a way I'm asking Dan to do it for me - sure - valid point. As you can see I...

Thanks. It's the US Open topic so just really quick : ) Would you explain how is it possible that everybody plays in his own league and yet ranking is general - for every league ... ? We chatted a little about such problem in the US - turns out to be a minor one because there are national...

Thanks : )

Ha ha ... you never let people get away easy Carl, do you ..? :) Yes they all play with pips, but ... I guess I'll have to organize somebody than - sure. Yeah the attempt was bold, but I was secretly hoping if Dan or Tom would get interested than it could start to be a real fun ... ok, ok...

Thanks, but you need to explain me a bit more about the league system, because I got confused - it's probably terminology. Like you northern neighbor : ) has One Superleague - whole country Two 1st divisions - north and south About 8-10 2nd divisions in different "combined" districts. Probably...

Leagues are usually conducted on a yearly basis, are they not? Ours starts ok ... end of September and lasts till end of May ... 8 moths at least. 14 teams, 2 rounds. Ok actually 1,5 round because after the first one the league is divided onto two groups.

... I know lots of you will probably hate me for bouncing this. I was playing with my friends yesterday and increased this god ... net height again. Yes I did ; ) I usually do this with my less experienced friends who are just starting the tt journey. This kind of play is not a good reference...

I guess guys it is quite hard to translate our experiences. What fits us the most depends how specific region is populated and what are the traditions. Cracow is not too big comparably and surrounding area is populated more evenly I'd say so there are tt centers in the surrounding smaller...

Oh sure, I've seen Miroslav live not too long ago, playing in the league. He is still in form. They actually are in the same team with Lucjan Błaszczyk (he participated in some events in the US. You may find his match against Zhang Yining on yt - he lost ... ; ) Who organizes those events where...

Ok ... so to compare Lesser Poland (Małopolska) Voivodeship which is like 120 by 150 km area. About 3.4M population. Just calculated from our league system we have 104 different teams. There are teams playing in women first league and men 1st to 6th (women can play with men of course). Now...

Ok, so would you be able to name one city and estimate how many players are there? Just to have an idea.

The "competitive structure" is what I was missing when thinking how the US system actually looks like. I agree with Thomas that for amateurs or semi pros or event pros the main driving force for being competitive is the league. How the clubs are financed is a different story (I'll wait for...