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Table Tennis Manawatu would like to sincerely thank the following for their support: Sport Manawatu (KiwiSport funding), Lion Foundation (funding to assist with a range of activities) and The Villas (accommodating visiting officials). Your support is much appreciated

Christmas League

This year’s Christmas League is underway. The second round was won by Matthew Ball, followed by Jae Lee and Abbey Webb. The overall standings are also led by Matthew Ball, followed by Jae Lee, with Peter Ward in third place and Ralph John Resuello fourth. Christmas League will run for seven weeks, but only the best four results count.
Franco Roos continues to lead the 'Most-improved' player award with 73 points, but Toby Kleinsman-Hill is only a few points further back with a gain of 71 points. Akshay Aneesh (42 points), Shalom Big-Asan (37 points) and Peter Ward (30 points) are slightly further back but close enough to be well in the running.
Full results are available here. Christmas League will now take a mini break over Christmas and the New Year. The next round will be played on the first Tuesday of the new year (7 January).
Latest Rating Gains based on this week's round of Christmas League:
Toby Kleinsman-Hill 43 points (Player of the Week)
Ralph John Resuello 23 points
Shalom Big-Asan 22 points
Abbey Webb 19 points
Changhee Cho 14 points
Order of Merit - New milestones reached:
Matthew Ball 1000 points
Jae Lee 1000 points
Peter Ward 500 points
Abbey Webb 250 points
Changhee Cho 250 points
Miko Kirschbaum 250 points
Toby Kleinsman-Hill 100 points
Shalom Big-Asan 100 points
Angus Bilsland 100 points
Eng Lim 100 points
The 2019-2020 season is now formally underway. This week's Order of Merits standings are the second week of the points tally for 2019-2020.
Christmas League runs from 6:30-10 pm (approximately - depending on the number of players present). $5 per player. Players MUST be present by 7 pm to ensure that they can be included in the night's draw. There is no need to preregister. Players can play on the competition nights when they are available. Christmas Comp is suitable for all ages and abilities. Matches are set in such a way to try to ensure that everyone gets to play against others of similar playing standard.

End-of-Year Prize Giving - 3 December

This year’s prize giving night was held on Tuesday 3 December. This year's award winners are:
• Player of the Year: Matthew Ball
• Junior of the Year: Callum McKinnon
• Veteran of the Year: Peter Jones
• Administrator of the Year: Ali Webb

Annual Fun Tournaments

A couple of our annual fun tournaments were held in early December!
On Monday 9th December, we held the annual Four-Table-Tournament. This is when 4 table tennis tables are pushed together to create 1 Big Table. To see what it's all about, check this link.
The second fun tournament was the Ping Pong Tournament, held on Monday 16th December.

Spring League

This year's Spring League concluded with the finals played on 26th November. It was won by the Koalas (Miko Kirschbaum, Ralph Jhon Resuello, Garth Keeble, Angus Bilsland, Shalom Big-Asan) who beat the Bluebirds (Allen Blackburn and co.) by 13:6 to claim the title of the 2019 Spring League Champions.
In the other two final matches, the Penguins (with Jae Lee filling in) beat the Swifts (with Carlos Fung filling in) by 11:8, while the Weasels (Abbey Webb and co.) had a thrashing 15:4 win over the Wallabies (Peter Ward and co.), with
The individual standings were narrowly won by Miko Kirschbaum with a 12:2 match record, closely followed by Abbey Webb with a 10:2 match record, Mike Sung and Akshay Aneesh both with 16:5 records, but with Mike having the slightly better games percentage.
The "Most improved" category was won by Mike Sung with 188 points gained, followed by Angus Bilsland (157 points gained) and Emily Kan (127 points gained).
The list of teams and playing schedule and final results are available here.

Junior Happenings

Junior Spring League

Junior Spring League has concluded. Final summary results are here, with more details available here.
Junior Holiday Program (14-17 January)

This summer's Junior Holiday Program will be held from 14-17 January from 1-3 pm. It is intended for 8-15 year olds. Cost is $10 per day or $30 for all four days. More information is here. Contact Matthew Ball (0273412246 or mattb.tabletennis@gmail.com) to register your interest or just to get more information.
Junior Club (Mondays 3:30 - 5pm)

Junior Club has finished for the year. It will be back for the start of school in 2020.

Most-improved players

A graph with the final 2019 rating gains is here. Callum McKinnon's has led the competition for nearly the whole year, but he missed the last couple of months with injury and could not add to his tally. In the mean-time, the chasing group of Angus Bilsland, Emily Kan and Mike Sung have steadily made up ground, but before the final week, Callum's lead was still substantial, which seemed to be enough for him to keep holding onto the title as this year's most improved player.

But then came the last round of Spring League - the last week of the 2019 season, with both Angus and Emily making further gains, but the big jump came from Mike Sung with an unheard-of 99-point single-day gain, which meant that Mike ended up with a gain for the year of 475 points just edging ahead of Callum McKinnon with a gain of 464 points. Angus Bilsland was not much further behind with a gain of 442 points, and Emily Kan came fourth with a gain of 425 points.

This has concluded the matches for the 2019 season. It all starts anew again with the start of Christmas League starting on 10 December.

Summer League
February to March

Summer League 2019 has concluded. Final results and standings can be found here.

Autumn League
May to June

Autumn League 2019 has concluded. Final results and standings are available here.

Winter League
July to September

Winter League 2019 has concluded. Final results and standings are available here.

Spring League
October to November

Spring League 2019 has concluded. Final results and standings are available here.

Christmas League
December to February

Christmas League (2019/20) starts on 10 December. Last year's results and standings are here.

Super 16
Played on some Saturdays from March to August

Super 16 (2019) has concluded. Final results and standings are here.

All Stars / Drop-In League
Played in the period between the main comps on some Tuesdays throughout the year. It has concluded for 2019.
Final results and standings are here.

Schools' Competition
Played on Thursday in School Terms 2 and 3

Term 3 comeptition has concluded. Final results and standings are here.

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Contacts:

For all General Enquiries about playing Table tennis, upcoming competitions, or anything else related to Table Tennis Manawatu, please, contact:

Matthew Ball
Phone: 0273 412 246
mattb.tabletennis@gmail.com or

tabletennismanawatu@gmail.com
PO Box 7049
Pioneer Highway
Palmerston North

Chairperson and Acting Secretary: Steve Paterson

Web management: Miko Kirschbaum

Association Headquarters:
Waldegrave Lounge (Arena 5)
Waldegrave Street
Palmerston North