1st LTTC Robo-Pong Tournament
February 8, 2010

1st LTTC Robo-Pong Tournament
Photo by Bill Straus

Courtesy of Lexington Table Tennis Club

On Saturday, January 30, 2010, Lexington Table Tennis Club held its first Robo-Pong tournament, in Lexington, KY.  Thirty-eight players gathered from around the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, and Missouri to do battle for the top spot at the LTTC Open.  This year the event happened to be in the same weekend where a big snow storm hit the southeast region with only few cancelations, everyone else drove through the storm to make it to our tournament safely.

1st LTTC Robo-Pong Tournament
Photo by Bill Straus

Joseph (Joey) Cochran of Southbend Indiana, who just won the U22 Championship in the Nationals was the favorite to win the Open Division but Chandramuoli (Arjun) Shankaren of Louisville, KY met Joey in one semi-final match and defeated the top rank player in four games (-8, 11, 7, 10). For the other finals spot, Thomas Yost of Ohio beat Keith Brewster in straight games.

1st LTTC Robo-Pong Tournament
Photo by Bill Straus

In the final match Arjun played superbly to claim the first place and take the winning $175. The second prize of $100 was earned by Thomas Yost.

This event was sponsored by Newgy, Butterfly and the Division of Parks Lexington Fayette Urban County Government.

The complete list of finishers:
Open Division:	1st Chandramuoli (Arjun) Shankaren , 2nd Thomas Yost 3rd and 4th Joey Cochran and Keith Brewster
U2100	1st Keith Brewster, 2nd Fangxing Li
U1950	1st Cameron Luo, 2nd Babak Fakharpour
U1750	1st Fangxing Li, 2nd Jianjun Yang
U1550:	1st David Girdner, 2nd Art Xu
U1250:	1st Mike Jacobs, 2nd Peyton Fakharpour

1st LTTC Robo-Pong Tournament
Photo by Bill Straus