LAKELAND TABLE TENNIS ANNOUNCES EXPANSION OF ORANGE BLOSSOM SERIES
INCREASE FROM 4 TO 6 TOURNAMENTS!
The Lakeland Table
Tennis Association in beautiful Lakeland, Florida has announced a significant
expansion of their very popular Florida Orange Blossom Table Tennis Series
Tournaments for the 2018 season. Lakeland will host six major USATT sanctioned
quality tournaments during the season in the spectacular Table Tennis Series.
This is an increase from four tournaments in the series during the past several
years. All the two-star sanctioned tournaments will be held at the Simpson Park
Community Center in Lakeland, Florida. The tournament will have 24 Butterfly
tables available for the exciting, competitive events.
2018 SHOULD BE RECORD YEAR FOR PARTICIPATION IN LAKELAND
Brad Woodington, the
President of the Lakeland Table Tennis Association, emphasized the importance
of continuing and expanding the series to six high quality tournaments.
Athletes will earn Series Points at each of the six Lakeland tournaments,
depending on what place they finish in their particular class of competition.
Series points are awarded in all classes and players in each class have a real
chance to earn series points and compete for the awards to be presented at the
end of the 2018 season.
VERY POPULAR COLOSSAL ROUND ROBIN FORMAT
All six tournaments
will utilize the popular Colossal Round Robin format, with 11 players in each
class during a full tournament. This format allows up to 10 matches during the
tournament day against quality opponents. A special pizza, soft drink and
bottled water lunch is complimentary to all players.
SPECTACULAR FRIDAY NIGHT SPECIAL EVENTS
In addition to the
USATT Sanctioned tournament, held on Saturdays beginning at 9:00 a.m., there
will also be three extra Friday night events beginning at 6:00 p.m. The three events include a USSTTA sanctioned
tournament (Sandpaper), a SBBTTA sanctioned tournament (44mm Big Ball), and a
championship Doubles Tournament. Athletes may enter one, two or all of the
Friday night events. The Friday night events will all finish on Friday night
with trophies awarded to the top four places.
PRIZE MONEY AND CUSTOM TROPHIES IN ALL CLASSES AND EVENTS
Over $2100.00 will be
available during the fabulous two-day tournaments, with trophies presented to
the top four places in each class of competition. Players may join the USATT or
purchase a tournament pass to compete in the Saturday Colossal Round Robin. USATT
Membership is not required for the three events on Friday night. Players who
compete in the USSTTA sandpaper event automatically become a member and those
who compete in the SBBTTA (44 mm Big Ball) event also become an automatic
member at no cost for membership.
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN--EASY TO REGISTER ON-LINE!
Registration is
available on-line for all the events at the Lakeland Table Tennis Website,
along with a great detail of information about the tournament, the local club,
directions and weekly play. You can view the website at: http://www.floridatt.com/lakelandtt
DON'T MISS THIS GREAT USATT TOURNAMENT IN LAKELAND, FL
We are hoping for a
record number of participants during our 17th season of providing
quality Table Tennis Tournaments in Lakeland, Florida. We hope to see you
there!!!
