With explosive growth in Table Tennis in the Washington DC and surrounding area and new full time professional clubs opening, a group of players originally from Europe where team competitions are the norm are putting together the regions first Table Tennis Team Super League. The league will be called CATTSL standing for Capital Area Table Tennis Super League. More information can be found at http://www.smashtt.com/capital-area-super-league/

For the pilot season, the league will be structured into divisions of 5 teams initially determined by ratings for players making up a particular team. Teams will comprise of 3-6 players and individual ties between teams will be in a 3-by-3 format with every player on one team, playing every player on the other team. Matches will be played out to completion to ensure travelling players get a full 3 matches. League points are award for each match played, so every match will count. Matches will be played home and away, and scheduled every other week, making for a 15 week season. For subsequent seasons we may choose to expand the number of teams per division or alter the playing format.

At the end of the season, the bottom 2 teams in a division and top 2 teams in the next lowest division will playoff for promotion/relegation. The top 2 teams in the top division will playoff for the championship, league title and grand prize money.

We are in negotiations with a technology company to use their advanced online table tennis software. The company, Table tennis 365, is a UK organization who have run British League in the United Kingdom for several years and 10’s of others leagues in the UK, on behalf of governing bodies. League standings, player results and detailed statistics can be seen for each league. Check it out for British League at https://www.tabletennis365.com/BritishLeague

Some clubs may choose to feature top matches and market these as spectator events to their local communities, exposing new people to the sport and hopefully converting some spectators into players and table tennis enthusiasts.

So if you live in the DC area and are interested in forming a team and participating in this new exciting initiative, then visit http://www.smashtt.com/capital-area-super-league/ and register your team!