I won! I won!

The finals of the Table Tennis Competition were held today at Visto Corporation's offices in Seattle. There were three divisions, A, B and C in descending order of skill level. I was in the A-group finals, played at 1p today.

I was unbeaten in the preliminary round, winning all of my matches, and compiling a 6-0 record. The top 2 players in each group faced off in the finals.

I beat Paja Stankov in 5 games: 8-11, 11-6, 11-6, 11-3, 11-8.

The first game started pretty badly, and I was down 7-1 before fighting my way back to 9-7. A service mistake and a missed smash nailed me. I was missing everything left and right in that game, and I thought I was going to lose this match. Paja was making the ball do this weird sort of wobble that I am not accustomed to, and it bit me in the butt. I was also nervous, and my opponent played way better than I did. Better serves, few unforced errors, and better ball vision helped him. But things got better for me!

Other division winners were:
Division B: Joe Wang (beat Andy Litzinger)
Division C: Bobby Grant (beat John Herrema)

What's more, Bobby Grant is also a cyclist!

This was great fun, and winning it all was even greater fun!