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In CZ it works that you need to submit list with 4 top ranked players in A team, next 4 in B team etc. Then you can add any player from lower team to the list of higher league. And finally you can play the match with any people you have on team's list. So tricks like having one great guy filling...

Just crazy! (I'd love to be back 10yo to have enough time in my life to play and enjoy at least half of your collection. Really sweet!:)

ELO system works if people from regions and leagues of different level meet. More often they meet better calibration is. In CZ it's simply by fact that many people (such as me;) play in several leagues so top/down calibration works pretty well. Cross regional might be a little problem but...

1 extraliga (nation wide, 10 teams) 1 1st league (nation wide, 13 teams) 2 2nd leagues (east/west, 12 teams each) 5 3rd leagues (artificial regions to minimize distances, 12 teams each) 14 "regional" divisions (in each official region of CZ, 12 teams each) etc. (as I said it's up to 14 levels in...

CZ system is basically only league based. There are few irregular events (typically around Christmas and in Jan/Feb) with individual competitions but these aren't part of the ELOST. Actually the only official and open individual tournaments in CZ (except ITTF Tour) are regional and national...

If the only differences you feel are wight and handle then it's easy to explain;) Basically all blades wight from 70 to 120+ grams with most of them fitting into 80-90g range. Then one rubber can easily make 10-15g difference as well (sheet of super-light rubber can be 40g while super-heavy...

There are other countries close to PL which have ELO based ranking system (which is used as part of official Top100 ranking at the end of each year but not the only one source because of people playing whole year abroad), see Czech's https://www.elost.cz . You can then compare players who are...

Not really. There seems to be at least two generations of plastic balls as DHS (provider of official balls) moves from their (awful) "poly" balls to ABS technology (slightly different material which was previously used by Nittaku for their Premium 40+ balls - surely DHS uses slightly different...

And Lebesson down 1:3 with Liu Dingshuo.

But Fraitas has though time with Zhai Yujia, playing 3:3 on Table 4...

I guess if you have it already on the bat then just try some FH and BH drills with it and you see what you like more (Rasanter or Genesis) on which side. The blade works the same on both sides (unless you have Japan penholder;)

Read again what I wrote, there is wouldn't (yes, Slavic languages have double negative - as German I guess - and I'm not native Eng speaker, sorry for confusing you)

Given FZD's age and performance right now it's very unlikely he wouldn't make it to WR#1 and also WTTC singles gold at some point in next 5-8 years...

Thanks for explanation but my bad morning joke was specifically about so-called national version where you guys are willing to pay basically double the price of T05 (meaning tripple or more the price of standard H3/H3n) just for harder sponge of different color and feeling that "captain Ma's...

I was thinking about it and it's also simply because most of right-handed players (including me) are so used to serve primarily from BH side (to be able to attack by FH on 3rd ball) that already the position on the other side of the table makes big influence. In combination with bad positioning...

Nice! I found especially point number 2 very helpful over more then 10 years playing doubles in various roles (= meaning being stronger or weaker player). This one is not so obvious and 100% tactical which can bump the performance of the team by 5-10% immediately (depending on how bad your other...

(Which is btw. funny. If he isn't then what are all these guys on this forum doing with these supposedly superhard national H3 versions on their FH? Sorry, just sarcasm attack stroke me on Wednesday morning;)

OK, +-8 speed and +-9 control from 10+ reviews are still pretty high and indicate very happy users but definitely more down to Earth then 9.8/9.8:) http://www.tabletennisdb.com/blade/xiom-solo.html http://www.tabletennisdb.com/blade/xiom-offensive-s.html But what Vega Tour has on ttdb is...

Hmmm, then it looks like Xiom solved the mission impossible and we all should use it soon as well as all the pros;) No seriously, this is probably not the right thread to discuss. What all-wood from Xiom (or other "exotic" brands how I call it) you tried and would recommend to decent starting...

Let me share my experience with TT equipment and how I deal with Equipment Junkie virus (which I guess you face the attack right now;). I started playing in mid 90s and now restarted after 15-year hiatus. I was always keen into equipment and never really could effort it in my teens so I have...