2022 Knoxville Gold Dollar “Sweat For Ukraine” Charity Open Tournament Announcement

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Since we didn’t host any tournament the past few years, we have decided to host more this year!  We are happy to announce that we will host our second tournament of the year called the Knoxville Gold Dollar “Sweat For Ukraine” Charity Open Tournament on October  8th, 2022.  This tournament is part of a multi-racket sport event hosted by the Tennessee Tennis Club and Academy (TTCA), our new home for the table tennis club.  This event is to help raise money for a local non-profit organization named Aid To Ukraine, LLC.  The organization is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that raises money for the humanitarian aid in Ukraine.  You can visit their web site here for details.  The entire event will be a 3-day event including competition for Tennis, Pickle Ball and Table Tennis.  The Table Tennis event is an USATT sanction tournament event and it will be held on Saturday October 8th, 2022.  More details will come for the other sporting events and activities.

This tournament format will adopt a World Cup style format where stage 1 will be a round robin of 8 groups of 6 players each.  Then every one will advance to their respective divisional playoff quarter finals, i.e. first place finish will go to Division A Quarter Finals, 2nd place finish will go to Division B Quarter Finals, etc.  We will also play the Third place match for all divisions playoff.  In addition, any players who have lost their Quarter finals will be paired together to play one more double match with some souvenirs designed by our friends from the Aid To Ukraine organization as the winning prize of the double match.  The double match results will not be reported to USATT.

We will continue to offer Upset Gold Dollars as well.  For those who are familiar with our Gold Dollar Upset format, the winner of every upset match played between two USATT rated players will receive Upset Gold Dollar.  The rules for winning the upset Gold Dollar are:

  1. Gold Dollars will be paid to the winners of all upsets, regardless of player’s rating.
  2. Winners of each and every upset will receive gold dollars using the following payout schedule:
    1. Rating difference: 100 or less, Gold Dollar reward: $5.00
    2. Rating difference: 101 to 150, Gold Dollar reward: $10.00
    3. Rating difference: 151 or larger, Gold Dollar reward: $15.00
  3. The gold dollars will be paid immediately upon confirmation of match sheets showing upsets on a first come first get paid basis until the funds run out. KTTC reserves $200 Gold Dollars for this payout.  So sharpen your game and hit the court running fast!
  4. Rating used to determine the upsets will be the USATT ratings of record as of 09:00 a.m. Friday October 7th, 2022.  Only USATT rated players prior to the date of the tournament are eligible to win gold dollars.
  5. Both players have to be USATT rated before the tournament date to be Gold Dollars eligible.

To register online, please go to www.omnipong.com and search for the tournament under the state of Tennessee.  You can also download the entry form there

For tournament information, please contact Jude Lam at 865-300-4829 or email to knoxvilletabletennisclub@gmail.com.

Tournament Hotel:

We have also reserved a block of rooms at our tournament hotel sponsor Holiday Inn Cedar Bluff with a group rate of $135 + tax.  Please use this link here to initiate your hotel reservation.  Please make sure that you enter the Group Rate Code of KG2.  The Group Rate will expire on 9/16/2022 Wednesday.  If there is any issue reserving your group rate, please call the hotel directly at 865-693-1011.

We look forward to see you in our tournament.

The event organizer also expresses our grateful thanks to our sponsors for their generous support:

Name Web Site Description
 horizonavionics_logo www.horizonavionics.com Provide aircraft maintenance and avionics services at the Knoxville McKee Tyson Airport.
 tgilogo www.tacticsco.com Maximize your investment in Oracle technology.
  Erin Zhou, A Century 21 Legacy Real Estate Agent Provide the highest quality of real estate agency service.
doublehappinessusa.com Chinese National Table Tennis Team Equipment sponsor
  Tennessee Tennis club and Academy Proud promoter of the sports of Tennis, Table Tennis and Pickleball in the East Tennessee and beyond.
uhf_hi_logo_horizontal www.ihg.com Provide great accommodation, free wi-fi, hot breakfast with exceptional values.
  Visit Knoxville Sports Commission The Visit Knoxville Sports Commission is your go-to for coordination, planning, promotion, and sponsorship of your next sporting event in Knoxville!