Zaman has invited San Diego players to play in a Giant round robin on Saturday 6/14/14 at 10am against his players.  This tournament is open to all ratings and is non sanctioned. The cost is $10  per player and you get to play against at least 6 people. There is a limit of 12 players. Zaman  himself and a couple of top players will also participate. This would be an excellent opportunity for our top players to find good competition! LOCATION: Zaman Table Tennis Club 6386 Industry Way, Westminster, CA 92683 Please call  or email me if you’d like to go. Behnam Kazemi 619-588-4922 or behnamkazemi@hotmail.com.  

San Diego Table Tennis Association Board Meeting

May  13th, 2014

Balboa Park Activity Center

This meeting is open to all members of the SDTTA.

Call to order 7:02pm by James.

SDTTA Board Members Present: Bob Koch, James Kahn, Behnam Kazemi, John Anderson, Simon Lee, Borko Dragojlovic and Mark Adelman.

SDTTA Board Member(s) absent:

SDTTA Member(s) Present:

Communications not on agenda have a limit of 3 minutes.

The motion was made to approve the SDTTA Board Member minutes for April 2014 by Borko and seconded by John. The Board carried the motion.

Treasurer’s Report:  John Anderson passed out the Treasurer’s Report which has been reconciled through April 2014.

Webmaster Report/ Daryl Sterling: No report.

Membership Report: No report.

Equipment Report: The Carmel Valley Rec Center finally picked up the 2 tables they had purchased in March. That puts our current table count at 27.

Action Items:

1. We recently purchased 5 Joola tables from Andre for a total of $4,000. We need volunteers to pick-up the tables prior to the Neil Smyth Tournament. Simon volunteered the use of his company’s truck to transport the tables in.

2. We discussed the bad feedback we recently received from a Texas visitor that had been posted on Facebook. We discussed ways to resolve future issues and the main focus is on having any Board member who sees a “new” face at the club to approached that person and welcome them and explain how our club operates.

3. Borko requested table tennis balls for his Saturday training sessions. The Board approved the purchase of 2 gross (144 balls per gross) of balls.

4. We need volunteers to help setup tables, mats, etc for the Neil Smyth Tournament on Friday night (til 10pm) and to break down all equipment and put them away on Sunday night (til 7pm).

5. The Board would like to evaluate Atilla’s performance, after the Neil Smyth Tournament, to see if any improvements can be made or even to look at bringing someone else in to run the tournament. We understand the enormous amount of work and organization required to setup and run a tournament of this caliber and Atilla has proven himself in the past.

6. Borko talked to Michelle about how we can dispose of some of our non-repairable barriers. She said we could use the dumpster along the side of the building.

7. The equipment/paddle swap meet has been delayed until after the Neil Smyth Tournament. The date of the event has been tabled until the next Board meeting.

8. We discussed pro-rating our membership dues, but decided to leave the current policy in place.

 

The motion to adjourn was made by James and seconded by Bob at 8:25pm.

The next meeting is June 10th at 7:00pm.

Respectfully Submitted,

Bob Koch, SDTTA Secretary

The San Diego team had a great  day at Joseph Bae’s Open Tournament  of  5/10/2014! U2000 Kiet  Tran – 1st place U1850 Carlos Pedro – 1st place U1700 Behnam Kazemi – 2nd place U1600 Santhoshkumar Srinivasan – 2nd place U3700 Doubles RR Sherwin Afshar/BehnamKazemi – 2nd place   Behnam Kazemi SDTTA Board

Womens RR 1st – Brana Vlasic Under 2050 RR 2nd – Ketthong Pisa Under 1900 RR 1st – Ted Chensheng Li 2nd – Carlos Pedro Under 1800 RR 1st – Daryl Sterling, Jr. 2nd – Philip Van De Wiele Under 1450 RR 1st – Shelley A. Hardy Team Event – Under 6300 3rd place David Flores, Satish Krishnamoorthy, James Therriault Under 3800 Doubles David Flores / Behnam Kazemi Over 60 RR 1st – Behnam Kazemi Over 70 RR 1st – Ragnar E. Fahlstrom 2nd – John A Anderson Draw Doubles 1st – Behnam Kazemi / Maxwell Yao 2nd – Emilian Mihet / Alena Nikolskaya

 

2014 Learning Tree Open

After School Learning Tree 11525 Sorrento Valley Road, CA 92121 May 3rd & 4th

Sponsored by: After School Learning Tree, Stellangie, & EATT Tournament Director: Earl James A. Alto, John James A. Alto Tournament Referee: Shelley Hardey Entry Deadline: May 1st, 2014. This is a real deadline. Tournament Format:

1. All matches are best of 5 games except for the Open Singles Semifinals & Finals. The Semis & Finals of the Open will be best of 7 games.
2. Players may not enter multiple events with identical start times.
3. Must meet any age requirements by May 3rd.
4. No prizes will be awarded for splits, dumps, default losses, or no shows.
5. Tournament committee reserves the right to modify or cancel events if there are insufficient entries.
6. There is a 2000 rating limit per player in Under 3200 Doubles, and 2300 rating limit per player in under 4200 Doubles.
7. Players over 2400 have free entries.

Additional Information: Please contact Earl James A. Alto. (858)-231-6255, or email retrokat858@yahoo.com Entry form: 2014 May SVTT Open

San Diego Table Tennis Association Board Meeting

April  8th, 2014

Balboa Park Activity Center

 

This meeting is open to all members of the SDTTA.

Call to order 7:10pm by James.

SDTTA Board Members Present: Bob Koch, James Kahn, Behnam Kazemi, John Anderson and Simon Lee.

SDTTA Board Member(s) absent:  Peter Sanidad and Mark Adelman

SDTTA Member(s) Present: Borko Dragojlovic

Communications not on agenda have a limit of 3 minutes.

The motion was made to approve the SDTTA Board Member minutes for March 2014 by John and seconded by James. The board carried the motion.

Treasurer’s Report:  The report was tabled until the next meeting.

Webmaster Report/ Daryl Sterling: No report.

Membership Report: No report.

Equipment Report: Bob was able to assemble 13 complete set of nets from the 3 boxes of parts that we had laying around.  Our current table count is 29. We found that the Carmel Valley Rec Center had paid for 2 tables but never picked them up, so our actual club count is 27.

Action Items:

1. Peter resigned from the Board. Borko volunteered to be a new Board member. A motion was made by Behnam to have Borko replace Peter as Board member. John seconded the motion and it was passed by the Board. We all would like to welcome Borko as newest Board member.

2. We discussed food for the upcoming Neil Smyth Tournament. The food must be sold in containers and we decided to supply about 60 meals a day. Meals will be supplied by Simon Burgers.

3. We currently tabled the idea of donating a table to the Balboa Park War Museum.

4. We will put on hold the purchase of 5 tables from Andre until Borko can talk to the table manufacturers and see if he can get a better deal than the $800 that Andre has offered us.

5. Borko will talk to Michelle and see how best we can dispose of the old and un-repairable barriers that are starting to pile up in the storage room.

6. It was decided, for continuity and accountability reasons, that James and Bob will be the only 2 members selling the club shirts.

7. We will be looking for volunteers for equipment setup and teardown for the Neil Smyth tournament.

8. The Friendship tournament that was scheduled for April 12th has been postponed due to the floor being waxed.

9. The equipment exchange/upgrade/swapmeet that was set for April 19th also has been cancelled due to the floor being waxed.

10. The Korean Church gathering has now been set for April 26th. We will be reserving 2 rows of tables for them.

 

The motion to adjourn was made by James and seconded by John at 8:15pm.

The next meeting is May 13th at 7:00pm.

Respectfully Submitted,

Bob Koch, SDTTA Secretary