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Is this the first Champions where players have to do the semi-final and final the same day?

Who will scream first, though?

They do have a tablet, but weird how LSD got away then. ITTF should announce that they introduced technology to help umpires make calls because it's a big change.

CNT about to be dissolved.

I think it's an invite only tournament. They have a YT channel. TTR is put in the title. Liang Qiu plays 2. Bundesliga. Dennis Klein did too, but was promoted and hasn't played yet 1. Bundesliga this season.

Yup and actually faulting a player/awarding the opponent with a point is an extreme choice and would normally happen after multiple warnings yet this is happening every day at this event. Harimoto was never told he is hiding the ball with his head prior to the fault. Yes, the umpire can do that...

The assistant umpire who is out of view made the call and it didn't seem like it was communicated why the call was made and it's obviously a shit situation for that to happen at that moment (from a player's view and that makes me angry). Fraser got told it might have been hair touching the ball...

Shi's serve getting faulted at 10-10 resulting in Qian Tianyi winning the game 12-10. I'm getting angry at these umpires.

This bearded umpire is on a hunt. Both Harimoto and Uda got faulted for hiding the ball on serve in the second game. Harimoto wasn't even warned once for hiding, only for not tossing vertically which was fair. Uda got called out previously for not removing his arm immediately which was also fair.

That's twice this year as far as I know. I would have died the first time from pain.

Lily still had to recover from playing against Dan.

The calls are just so random. You wanna do your job? Then do it properly and don't half-ass it. Might as well get a robot to umpire.

Umpire faulting Anton for hiding the ball with his head. I doubt he can see it. Umpires have been on a mission to make calls for the sake of calls.

Highlight of the day so far: the crowd wishing Mima a belated happy birthday

Some barely seem even able to communicate when players try to talk about calls.

Random power abuse from umpires continues to this event, now against Joo Cheonhui. I think she got called out twice for something supposedly wrong with her tossing hand/arm.

Totally forgot about Budapest. Was lack of funds the reason for cancelling it or am I misremembering? I can imagine countries passing on hosting for financial reasons.

This is the final Smash? Ridiculous Europe isn't hosting one unless they want to rotate one.

Sabine Winter was also faulted in her match against Schreiner whose toss got called out in a game afterwards. Both players are clean servers.

Bernie demolished Annett, always had an answer to every shot, but Annett also missed pretty much everything the first three games and kept looking to the coach. She lost a tough match with Patrick earlier today, though.