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I also think this competition seems to have no importance. For spectators it should be still interesting to watch top Euro players but it looks that there just some. Table tennis is not popular in Portugal?...
The funny part for me was when i watched the prize money for this:
Winner € 2.000
Runner – up € 1.000
3rd and 4th place (2 x) € 500
5th to 8th place (4 x) € 250
But wait!
You know what is even more funny?
Hospitality:
Single room: EUR 220 per person per night
Double room: EUR 180 per person per night
So poor guys who have to fight till end for 3-8 places because still they will be in big minus
Seriuosly, it is very sad
You're right. Table tennis is not popular in Portugal. It's embarassing because we have some good players. But here is all about football.
In Ring hockey we're 15 times world champion and 20 times Euro champion. the clubs won Champions league multiple times, champions in tai kwon do, judo, etc, but you go read a sport newspaper and in 40 pages, 12 is about the 3 main clubs (F.C. Porto Benfica and Sporting) 5 about the other nacional clubs, 2 for lower divisions, 1 for futsal, 1 for formation divisions, 4 for international football, 9 pages for crap (front and back, publicity, etc) and then 6 pages for all the other sports. This in todays paper.
I love football, don't get me wrong, but really? Is the only thing out there???
Friday i went to the games and there were about 150 people there. What can i say? Sad....
Yesterday my wife went with some friends and only the games with Apolónia and Monteiro had more then 200people...
About the rooms i didn't know that. If it's that much they must be in the most expensive hotels of Porto. It's actually cheap renting rooms in good hotels here. about 80€ per night in a 4* hotel. Of course, if they choose luxury, there are hotel rooms here for 1000€ per night.