Thanks for your reply Tony. I commend you for being quite active in this forum and you seem to be properly knowledgable. I have read your comments from the other thread and you make some very valid points. However, I did not find the answers to my questions which really related to the business aspect of the league rather than the technical table related stuff.
How is success going to be measured? What are the key factors that will determine success? Where is the big money (in terms of revenues) going to come from? Does the league have to sustain itself financially or can it lose money on an ongoing basis and some donors will simply make up for the deficits? Do you really think that a group of good players (but definitely not stars by international standards) is going to draw huge crowds that will travel to watch table tennis?
here is why I wrote early on in that thread
TT tournaments don't get spectators, other than China, Japan and Germany.
In recent years (decade), China had to get in its army to full in the crowd.
For TT to succeed in USA, it will need both full stadium and good tv audience base. We talking about a million + people.
Maybe in year 3 or 5, they could have money to bring in proper tier 1 players and really get an international reach.
For now, the USA audience really need to all set up.
But how I understand things, the average club player don't care, as long as they have their social pong to play, they won't care on the progress on the national team or national league. They probably didn't even go to watch the world championships or WTT events.
And the problem is, there are tons of such social player. We need TT fans, not only active players.
For other sports, Fans are making things work and many of those fans, are not active players.
TT is total opposite, only have active players, very little fans.
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