Latest update December 22nd, 2024 2:06 AM
GTTA/Digicel Schools’ Tournament starts today
The Digicel-sponsored National Schools Table Tennis Championships will commence today at the National Gymnasium with players expected to compete from across the country in four top categories.
Godfrey Munroe
Schools from Bartica, Region 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 10 will be competing for national honours at the event that had an unprecedented number of schools from across Guyana last year, which lead to the championships having to be extended for an additional two days.
The categories that will be contested include 18-Years-and-Under Teams; 15-Years-and-Under Teams; 13-Years-and-Uunder Teams and 11-Years-and-Under Teams. Local telecommunications giants, Digicel are the primary sponsor of the event.
The event was officially launched on Wednesday, and the GTTA has stated that the competition is nursery for unearthing new and emerging talents in the sport. It was also revealed that it is part of the association’s attempts to decentralise the sport.
“The tournament format is quite interesting and lends itself to keen competition since there is the involvement of a doubles match, which negates the strength of some of the stronger teams,” a release from the GTTA indicated yesterday.
The tournament will be played according to ITTF regulations: a team shall consist of a maximum of three players in each division and a minimum of two players can comprise a team (the team can be mixed with boys and girls); a school can enter no more than two teams in a particular category; any team that plays an over-aged player or infringe the rules will be disqualified from the tournament.
Special awards will be given to the Most Outstanding Male; Most Outstanding Female and the
Most Improved Players; the overall team champions will be given the Digicel Trophy, which is the school with the most wins in the respective categories.
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