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Killerspin will be hosting the 2009 SPINvitational Table Tennis Challenge on Sunday December 27, 2009 in Chicago.

This year's invited players include:
Chen Qi - China
Joo Se Hyuk - Korea
Kamal Achanta - India
Michael Maze - Denmark
Werner Schlagher - Austria
Jorgen Persson - Sweden
Chen Weixing - Austria
Andrei Filimon - Romania
Gina Pota - Hungary
Biba - US

Quite a number of the players are from the European region.

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Blackwell was saying they had a new format of 41 points in the tournament. They also had players heart rate displayed on the screen.

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Yes, the verdict is out on the Killerspin Spinvitational event. Chen Qi (China) won the Men’s Singles title at the Killerspin Spinvitational Tournament held in Chicago on Sunday 27th December 2009 beating Sharath Kamal Achanta(India) at the semi-final stage and Korea’s Joo Se Hyuk in the final.
Chen Qi defeated Sharath Kamal Achanta 10-9, 10-7, 10-11, 11-7( 41-34 ) before beating Joo Se Hyuk 10-4, 10-13, 10-10, 11-12(41-39).
(Note :The Killerspin Spinvitational Tournament followed the innovative 41 points system)

A match consisted of one game with the first player to win 41 points being declared the winner; if the score reached 40-all; then the first player to be two points clear was the victor.
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However, under the Spinvitational system one game consisted of four quarters.
The first quarter concluded when one player had reached 10 points, the second quarter finished when one player had reached a total of 20 points.
The players then changed ends with half the contest being completed.
The third quarter ended when one player had a total of 30 points and the fourth and final quarter finished when one player’s aggregate was 41 points. Only in the final tally did the winning margin have to be two points.

An analysis of the Final between Chen Qi & Joo SH. Result in favour of Chen Qi: 10-4, 10-13, 10-10, 11-12. Aggregate: 41-39.

Chen was the first reach 10 points in the opening quarter, Joo Se Hyuk collected only four points. In the second quarter when Chen Qi had scored 10 points he had reach the required 20 even though in that quarter Joo Se Hyuk secured 13 points; the Korean’s total was only 17 points.
In the third quarter Chen Qi reached 30 points first, whilst even though Joo Se Hyuk arrived at 10 points the same as Chen Qi and must have reached 10 points before Chen Qi in that quarter, his total was only 27; three adrift of the Chinese star.
The fourth quarter saw the gap bridged; despite the fact that Chen Qi lost that quarter 11-12, Chen Qi reached 41 points first. He won 41-39; it was close very close.

For the team event, follows the same scoring principle with two players in a team.
The top two nominated players entered the arena first; when one player reached ten points then the next two took to the arena until one team had gained 20 points. Then came the reverse singles with the first of the reverse singles concluding when one team had gathered 30 points and the second of the reverse singles concluding matters when one team had 41 points or was two points clear.

However, in the team event there was an extra twist; after the first point of each quarter a player could “tag” the team colleague sitting on the bench; the change was allowed for three consecutive points or the end of the quarter, whichever came sooner.
Each team was allowed a maximum of two “tags” per match and one per quarter.

Suitable arrangements for Time Outs, towelling, advice from coaches were made to complete a most innovative competition; one that was certainly in the festive spirit and otherwise followed the accepted rules of table tennis.

Results from ITTF News :
Men’s Team Event
Semi-Finals
Chen Qi / Xu Hui (CHN) bt Chen Weixing/Lucjan Blaszczyk (AUT/POL) 41-33
Sharath Kamal Achanta/Werner Schlager (IND/AUT) bt Andrei Filimon/Joo Se Hyuk (ROU/KOR) 41-33
Final
Chen Qi / Xu Hui (CHN) bt Sharath Kamal Achanta/Werner Schlager (IND/AUT) 42-40

Women’s Team Event
Final
Biba/Georgina Pota (HRV/HUN) bt Huang Kang Kang/Lee Soo Yeon (SIN/USA) 41-30

Men’s Singles
Semi-Finals
Chen Qi (CHN) bt Sharath Kamal Achanta (IND) 41-34
Joo Se Hyuk (KOR) bt Xu Hui (CHN) 42-40

Final
Chen Qi (CHN) bt Joo Se Hyuk (KOR) 41-39

Women’s Singles Challenge
Lee Soo Yeon (USA) bt Biba (HRV) 41-32
Georgina Pota (HUN) bt Huang Kang Kang (SIN) 41-24

Cadet Challenge
Charles Deng (USA) bt Jonathan Ou (USA) 41-27

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Robert said this event was the best they had in years.

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41 points system? Quarters instead of games? Who introduced these ideas? I think this will only work in the US!

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A lot of organizers want to libel ITTF.

This Killerspin event was a charity event to raise fund. It was not a Pro-Tour event. So entertainment, viewers etc... were Killerspin's priority.

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A lot of organizers want to libel ITTF.

Probably a lot of US organisers?

This Killerspin event was a charity event to raise fund. It was not a Pro-Tour event. So entertainment, viewers etc... were Killerspin's priority.

Killerspin event will never be a pro-tour event, definitely not when they want to introduce & use their own system.