Update: UC Berkeley has been offered the wildcard to go to Nationals!
Update: De Anza beats UC Berkeley to qualify for the Nationals. Here’s the news in the words of the NorCal Director:
And for the nationals: it was a crazy tie-breaker between UC Berkeley and De Anza, and to quote the president of NCTTA, “…there has never been as close of a tie I’ve seen in 5 years…”. Between the two schools, both match points and game points were tied–so it came down to the number of points. De Anza had 268 points in total, and UC Berkeley has 266 points. Congratulations to the De Anza team!
Wow, a quote in a quote!
Original post:
The Co-Ed Team of CalTTC finished second amongst 5 other schools. UC Merced, UC Davis, Stanford, University of Utah, and De Anza were all present in Saturday’s NorCal Regionals. Finishing first was De Anza, as they beat us at the end of the day in a 3-1 victory. The Cal Golden Bears had no problems with the other schools, and we beat them all handily 4-0.
CalTTC Team at UC Davis for the NorCal Winter Regionals
As some of you may know, De Anza is a community college near Cupertino that is surrounded by some great clubs. Stefan Feth is a world-class coach that resides in the area, and so that may explain how De Anza got so many great players this semester. In our first match with De Anza, Mark Wei beat Joseph in a close 3-1 match. However, Andres Yi lost to Vic, Ma Long lost to Koji, and Sean Lee lost to Jonathan, all in close 3-1 matches. I think that if we were to play them again, we would stand a good chance. However, that day they had an edge on us, which resulted in their win.
Joseph from De Anza.
The question of which school qualifies for Nationals is up in the air now. Last time, we defeated all the schools, including De Anza, but this time it was De Anza who defeated all the schools. That makes us tied with De Anza for first place, and the NCTTA officials will probably be forced to look at match points to determine the winner. When we find out who qualifies for Nationals, I’ll let you guys know on the blog.
My awful backhand, as you can see.
Lots of pictures coming up!
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- Picking up Fion Tsang in the morning. Look at that dark sky @ 7 AM.
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- The Team meeting in front of the RSF at 7 AM.
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- Just arrived at UC Davis ARC. First impressions: ARC > RSF
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- Josh warms up with Vega.
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- Butian Li plays cross-court with Phuong from UC Davis.
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- Fion warming up
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- Sean warms up his backhand
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- Ma Long loops…
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- Ma Long misses…
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- Jessica warming up before her game.
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- Vega chats with her friends on the sidelines.
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- Fion Tsang and Butian Li warms up before the matches.
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- Andres kept trying to cover his face when I’m taking a picture. How cute.
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- Everyone chilling when they’re not playing. Sean’s knocked out in the middle.
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- Look it’s Josh
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- Yea..
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- The table with crooked net that we played on. UC Davis had 5 tables, 3 were this kind, while the other 2 were of an old green color.
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- Mark Wei warming up against UC Merced’s #1 player.
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- Andres Yi warming up his backhand against UC Merced.
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- Spectators’ area where we dumped all of our stuff.
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- Mark Wei vs Yuan Yuan Niu of UC Merced. Mark wins 3-1.
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- Sean Lee against UC Merced.
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- Josh Burkart against UC Merced.
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- How did the ball get under my feet? And why am I floating.
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- Mark Wei counter loops over the table.
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- Butian Li playing for the CalTTC Womens Team.
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- Ma Long loops!
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- Andres Yi putting effort into his forehand.
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- Mark Wei vs Joseph of De Anza. Mark wins 3-1.
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- Vic Truong of De Anza. He beat Andres Yi in a close 3-1 match.
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- CalTTC Team at UC Davis for the NorCal Winter Regionals
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- I couldn’t help but put this up.
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- Joseph from De Anza.
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- My awful backhand, as you can see.
More pictures can be found at my public Picasa album.
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dang fobs! lol
This page shows that we’re tied with De Anza http://www.danserver.com/nctta/Standings.asp?division=14&Season=11&isWomen=0
whoa so they just look at the results of this regional and not last time?
Nope, they actually looked at the results for both Regionals. Last time we beat De Anza 3-1, but this time they beat us 3-1. They just happened to get 2 more points than us over both regionals.
oh never mind i see whats going on haha
who is this NubGuest? xD
the #2449 NubGuest obviously…
[...] } As you know, our Co-Ed Team has received the Wildcard invitation after losing to De Anza in the NorCal Winter Regionals at UC Davis. Our Womens Team has also been invited to the Nationals after a Default win against Stanford, who [...]