This is the first season I'm paying attention to the CTTSL and I have to admit I am seeing some things that can be improved upon pretty easily.
I REALLY dislike how all the players' uniforms are the same--just a change in color for "home" team and "away" team.
This lacks personality. It lacks individualism. And it does not allow for fandom.
If the NBA was like this imagine how un-unique the fans would be in the crowd... Every stadium filled with orange? NO! Every stadium unique and every stadium with their own banner/logos...
This is supposed to be the strongest league in the world but I think it lacks a lot in glamor to what the German Bundesliga has.
When Ma Long won the recently concluded world championships I scoured the web for a "Ma Long" jersey but I couldn't find one! I even asked some international friends to look for me--found the same jersey but no letters and no flag...
I'm convinced that Chinese companies just don't know how to sell a product. If you watch the ITTF monthly pongcasts the little ad in the middle for DHS is completely dreadful...--a 30 second hodgepodge of something that looks like it was created in MSPaint, but for Nittaku it's this awesome 30 second clip of their product with classical music.
I am somewhat convinced the reason table tennis is not able to achieve the fandom and superstar status of other sports is because the Chinese really just don't know how to market.
+1
and also i think it applies to the sport in general, how come it has such a poor streaming quality in such important event like WTTC?? being freaking 2015!!!!
The streaming website of the ITTF looks like it was made in 1994, the quality of such a big event should be easy to access. I noticed many of the youtube videos are from some eurosports channel or something, wich here in america we dont have. Why not make it a youtube streaming event or idk anything really, a little more marketing , better quality , more enterviews, maybe translating some of the stuff from china into youtube channels, a little something extra idk. The sport needs a much bigger marketing campaign and all around exposure.