We had a lot of fun at the Awards Banquet for the Spring 2014 Season and it was great to see all the division winners get their trophies and medals. Special thanks to Ararat Table Tennis in Glendale, CA for hosting the event.

Check out the photos from the event below and congratulations to all of the winners!

Division 1

• Champion: LATTA !st Team (LATTA) – Zihao (Justin) Huang, Koffee Lu, Tuan Dai Le
• Runner-Up: 3 Black Men (SPiN Standard) – Adam Bobrow, Subal Mehta, Kevin Li, Sandesh Awale

Division 2

• Champion: The Invincibles (Gilbert TTC) – Charles Kim, Kee Lee, Warren Lee, James (Alex) Marquez, Han Choi
• Runner-Up: Hitmen (Westside TTC) – Michael Baggott, Kenneth Seiple, Sasanka Budhavarapu, Josh Bornstein, Simone Cecchini

Division 3

• Champion: MTAG Sr. (SGVBC 2) – Tim Chen, Aashish Thakker, Kelvin Lee, Joe Qiao, Ben Cheng
• Runner-Up: Frozen Paddles (Gilbert TTC) – Kevin Li Te Sun, Xia Yi, Aman Ak, Ashay Burungale, Jimmy Liu

Division 4

• Champion: Golden Ninjas (Anaheim Community Center) – Warren Hoo, Midori Pesyna, Steven Noh, Fred Liao, Minh Lu
• Runner-Up: Walnut EFC (SGVBC 2) – Denwun Lin, Scott Hsu, Ling-Ling Lin, Peter Su

Corporate Division

• Champion: Team Zest (Gilbert TTC) – Marick Sinay, Rohan D’Souza, Alexander Tamoykin, Ian Hall, Van Morgan
• Runner-Up: Blackline Table Tennis 1 (USA Valley TTC) – James Kim, Russell Mullin, Tyler Weitz, Illya Lavrik

Youth Division

• Champion: LATTA 1 (LATTA) – Derek Hong, Tiffany Cai, Timothy Cai
• Runner-Up: LATTA 2 (LATTA) – David Lin, Ryan Lov, Matthew Leung, Wesley Yuen

Phoenix Down (Hyundae TTC) lost to Orange Crush (Allen & Sons TTC) 2-3

Alex Son defeated Burt Tokuhara 3-2 (-6, 4, 4, -8, 5)
Tae Kim lost to Howard Picard 0-3 (7, 7, 5)
Alex Son/Jong Hak “Hawk” Choi lost to Mike Schmidt/Nasrin Javaherian 2-3 (-7, 3, -6, 10, 6)
Jong Hak “Hawk” Choi defeated Howard Picard 3-1 (5, 2, -10, 4)
Tae Kim lost to Burt Tokuhara 2-3 (-6, 3, -8, 13, 5)

Tae, Alex, Hawk, Howard, Burt, Mike, Nas

Hawk and Alex serve against Mike and Nas

Orange Crush (Allen & Sons TTC) defeated Ani (Ararat Table Tennis) 4-1

Burt Tokuhara defeated Art Akopyan 3-2 (10, -2, 10, -8, 8)
Howard Picard defeated Victor Shahbazian 3-2 (-5, 8, 8, -10, 10)
Mike Schmidt/Nasrin Javaherian lost to Art Akopyan/Victor Shahbazian 0-3 (6, 8, 8)
Burt Tokuhara defeated Victor Shahbazian 3-1 (-9, 7, 5, 4)
Mike Schmidt defeated Masood Sadegi 3-1 (-9, 7, 10, 7)

Mike Schmidt, Ken Gonzalez, Burt Tokuhara, Howard Picard, Nasrin Javaherian, Victor Shahbazian, Art Akopyan

Art Akopyan, Burt Tokuhara

FrozenPaddles (Gilbert TTC) lost to MTAG Sr. (SGVBC 2) 1-4

Li Te Kevin Sun lost to Kelvin Lee 2-3 (-6, 12, 8, -11, 9)
Aman Ak lost to Joe Qiao 2-3 (10, -8, 9, -7, 4)
Li Te Kevin Sun/Aman Ak defeated Ben Cheng/Kelvin Lee 3-0 (9, 9, 11)
Xia Yi lost to Joe Qiao 0-3 (5, 13, 4)
Aman Ak lost to Ben Cheng 2-3 (-2, -4, 8, 10, 8)

Ben, Joe, Kelvin, Arman, Kevin

Xia Yi, Joe

Phoenix Down (Hyundae TTC) lost to FrozenPaddles (Gilbert TTC) 2-3

Alex Son lost to Aman Ak 0-3 (3, 9, 8)
Jong Hak “Hawk” Choi defeated Li Te Kevin Sun 3-0 (7, 3, 7)
Alex Son/Jong Hak “Hawk” Choi defeated Li Te Kevin Sun/Aman Ak 3-0 (6, 9, 4)
Alex Son lost to Li Te Kevin Sun 2-3 (-8, -7, 8, 7, 8)
Jong Hak “Hawk” Choi lost to Aman Ak 0-3 (8, 11, 8)

Christina, Kevin, Arman, Tae, Alex, Hawk, Joe

Hawk playing in singles against Kevin

Ani (Ararat Table Tennis) lost to Orange Crush (Allen & Sons TTC) 2-3

Art Akopyan defeated Howard Picard 3-0 (3, 5, 2)
Victor Shahbazian lost to Mike Schmidt 0-3 (6, 8, 9)
Art Akopyan/Samuel Matossian lost to Mike Schmidt/Nasrin Javaherian 2-3 (-9, 9, -8, 5, 5)
Art Akopyan defeated Nasrin Javaherian 3-2 (-9, 9, -8, 9, 9)
Victor Shahbazian lost to Howard Picard 2-3 (6, -6, 9, -6, 13)

Ani (Ararat Table Tennis) defeated Phoenix Down (Hyundae TTC) 3-2

Art Akopyan defeated Alex Son 3-2 (-7, 5, 7, -8, 9)
Victor Shahbazian defeated Tae Kim 3-1 (6, 6, -4, 10)
Art Akopyan/Harmik Uchian defeated Tae Kim/Alex Son 3-0 (6, 7, 17)
Masood Sadegi lost to Tae Kim 0-3 (9, 8, 11)
Victor Shahbazian lost to Alex Son 0-3 (7, 6, 10)

Phoenix Down (Hyundae TTC) lost to MTAG Sr. (SGVBC 2) 1-4

Jong Hak “Hawk” Choi lost to Kelvin Lee 1-3 (-3, 7, 4, 5)
Tae Kim lost to Ben Cheng 1-3 (-8, 5, 6, 9)
Lance Lim/Jong Hak “Hawk” Choi lost to Aashish Thakker/Tim Chen 0-3 (8, 5, 9)
Lance Lim lost to Aashish Thakker 0-3 (4, 4, 6)
Tae Kim defeated Tim Chen 3-1 (7, 1, -9, 7)

Aashish, Hawk, Tae, Lance, Tim, Kelvin, and Ben

Tae leans out to drive

MTAG Sr. (SGVBC 2) defeated Ani (Ararat Table Tennis) 3-2

Ben Cheng lost to Victor Shahbazian 1-3 (8, 6, -5, 7)
Kelvin Lee defeated Art Akopyan 3-1 (3, -9, 4, 8)
Tim Chen/Aashish Thakker lost to Victor Shahbazian/Harmik Uchian 2-3 (-10, 5, -9, 10, 6)
Aashish Thakker defeated Art Akopyan 3-1 (-8, 6, 8, 6)
Kelvin Lee defeated Masood Sadegi 3-0 (4, 7, 7)

Harmik vs Ben

Victor, Art, Harmic, Masood, Aashish, Tim, Ben, Kelvin

Ani (Ararat Table Tennis) lost to MTAG Sr. (SGVBC 2) 2-3

Victor Shahbazian lost to Aashish Thakker 1-3 (-7, 8, 8, 7)
Harmik Uchian defeated Ben Cheng 3-2 (6, -6, 6, -7, 5)
Victor Shahbazian/Art Akopyan defeated Tim Chen/Aashish Thakker 3-2 (7, -9, -8, 7, 6)
Victor Shahbazian lost to Kelvin Lee 1-3 (-10, 7, 5, 7)
Masood Sadegi lost to Aashish Thakker 0-3 (10, 3, 9)

Victor, Art, Harmic, Masood, Aashish, Tim, Ben, Kelvin

Ben vs Harmic