Week 1 in the quest to be the best of the west has just concluded, and after taking about 24 hours for deep breathing and therapy, we feel ready to write about it. Like Daytona Beach the week before, Santa Cruz proved to be a wildly successful introduction for Major League Table Tennis…

Check back tomorrow for a more detailed article about this weekend’s play, but here’s a quick pictorial run through of the four golden moments of victory thus far in days 1 and 2. It’s just been too freaking exciting for us to wait until Sunday’s matches are over! The fortunes of teams and individual players have gone up and down so quickly…

September 22, 2023. In our previous article when we stated that we weren’t sending a reporter to this weekend’s inaugural Western Division competition at the Kaiser Permanente Arena (Santa Cruz, CA….get your tickets HERE), we purposefully didn’t mention anything about our plans to insert a west coast undercover operative.

Majorponghead’s travel budget was just enough to send this intrepid reporter to Daytona Beach for the long weekend marking the first weekend of competition of the MLTT, featuring the four Eastern Division teams. I was stoked!

September 14, 2023. It was a hot, sultry night in Havana, Cuba….Amy Wang’s wild Pan Am Championships fairy tale ride had just come to an end in utterly brilliant fashion. Having earlier defeated #1 seed Adriana Diaz (world #13) in the semis in 7 games, like a total boss she had just bestowed the kiss of death on her finals opponent…

In 1996 a then-20 year old Tiger Woods held a press conference to announce his intention to turn professional. He began that press conference with the words “I guess…hello world, huh?” Aditya Screen (known to his friends as “Adi”) may not have held a press conference, but last week in his own Hello World Moment…

It was a slow Sunday night at majorponghead.com headquarters, and so in between cans of IPAs we found ourselves surfing over to the WTT website…Let’s just say some articles on this site are meant to be serious reporting on the MLTT, and others arise from a combination of Happy Hour drinks + being terminally online.

The Pan American Table Tennis Games are a BFD. First held in 2017, it’s now an annual tournament of the best players from North, Central and South America plus the Caribbean. There are ten players from six different MLTT teams who have qualified for their respective countries’ national team who are playing at the Pan Am Games on 9/10 - 9/17 in…

Over the course of two high stakes and entertaining sessions in late August, the MLTT team coaches met with Major League Table Tennis Commissioner Flint Lane for the inaugural player’s draft…