The center of the US table tennis universe will be Chi-Town this coming weekend, where MLTT will crown its first ever champion. Four teams with title aspirations will be there to battle it out: the Bay Area Blasters, Carolina Gold Rush, Princeton Revolution and Texas Smash all fought through the gauntlet of MLTT’s regular season to make the Big Dance, but how they got here is now less important. What matters is how they will perform under the even brighter lights and on the even bigger stage of MLTT’s postseason playoffs.

DOUBLE FIST PUMP TIME!! There was a lot of celebrating on Friday for the Carolina Gold Rush faithful when the news exploded onto the internets that teammates Enzo Angles and Hong Lin had won both the MLTT Men’s and Women’s MVP Awards for this inaugural season.

Not to be eclipsed by the Beasts of the East, the Best of the West took center stage this past weekend and put on quite a show, fighting tooth and nail for the two playoff spots on the campus of Wichita State with some shocking results. In this game of midwestern musical chairs, the Portland Paddlers and Seattle Spinners found themselves chairless once the music stopped, as the Bay Area Blasters punched their ticket on Saturday, followed by the Texas Smash corralling the final spot on Sunday.

Although we find it hard to believe the West Division finale can match the level of glorious insanity that we experienced in Lawrenceville, NJ a couple weekends ago, the conditions for just such a thing are certainly in place. A mere 5 points separate the division-leading Bay Area Blasters from the hard charging Portland Paddlers, who in turn must keep a close eye on the rearview mirror for a playoff-or-bust Texas Smash, just 11 points away

The moment when the Princeton Revolution completed their remarkable comeback from last place to Final Four playoff-bound title contender. Princeton and Carolina will represent the East Division at MLTT’s 2024 Championship Weekend on April 27-28th in Chicago, IL

The regular season finale for the East Division will take place in Alumni Gymnasium on the campus of Rider College in Lawrenceville, NJ….a home game for the Princeton Revolution. Ticket sales have been record-setting, so it promises to be an electric environment for the final clash between Princeton and Florida.

The formidable 1-2 punch of Kou Lei and Jiwei Xia led the way for Portland’s resurgence this past weekend in Seattle.

The Seattle Spinners host MLTT’s West Division teams in the season’s penultimate tour stop, and the stakes could not be higher with all four teams bunched up and within 11 points of the top playoff spot. Here’s our preview article bundled up with a little musical history lesson for all you young ‘uns who were still In Utero when Seattle was spinning at the center of the music universe.

The storylines for the Winter Haven tour stop were laid bare in the preview article. Hit the skip button if you want to get to the real action, but Previously, in Major League Table Tennis…all the playoff drama in the East Division boiled down to a head-to-head confrontation between the 2nd place Florida Crocs and the 3rd place Princeton Revolution. Earlier a near-lock for the 2nd playoff spot out of the east, Florida had seen a most unwelcome surge from Princeton…

The four teams in MLTT’s East Division descend upon Winter Haven, FL this weekend as the race for the playoffs (or more specifically, for the one remaining playoff spot) kicks into overdrive.

With all the recent hoopla (pun intended) surrounding the NBA’s announcement of its All-Star selections, we here at Majorponghead decided that while MLTT doesn’t officially award an All-Star team, why should that stop us from selecting our own 2023-2024 MLTT All-Star Team?

The recently concluded Portland event will now forever be known (surpassing both Pleasanton, CA and Broward Country, FL) as the high point of spectator engagement and home town excitement. Portland Paddler fans absolutely jammed the stands for their matches and created a standing room only, electric, pro-Portland environment.

With only 7 short days before the West Division renews hostilities (January 26-28 at the dazzling venue of the Portland Expo Center, get your tickets HERE), we here at Majorponghead have been Croc-chompin’ at the proverbial bit to see the Paddlers, Blasters, Smash and Spinners face off again at full or near full strength…

Everyone associated with MLTT knows Mimi Bosika, and to know Mimi is to love Mimi. She is the One Woman Swiss Army Knife of the league and especially for the athletes…facilitating their travel and hotel arrangements, visa applications, payments, getting them on the right shuttle, answering all their questions about logistics and life in general, even making sure the Players Lounge is fully-stocked and a comfortable oasis away from the pressure of the table. Earlier in the season, we once referred to her as “MLTT Mother” and while she appreciated the sentiment, her immediate response was “Can we make it kind of a very caring older sister instead?” Consider it done! Whatever her moniker, everyone agrees that Mimi is the emotional heart and soul of MLTT team. We here at Majorponghead were honored when she agreed to answer a few questions for our first every interview article. So without any further ado, let’s all get to know Big Sis Mimi a bit better.

Exclusive breaking news! Majorponghead has learned of a major breaking news story regarding the Florida Crocs’ stellar Swedish star Matilda Ekholm, a development that is sure to send seismic shockwaves throughout not only MLTT but also the entire pro sports world at large.

In the 1970’s, the now-iconic opening sequence of ABC’s Wide World of Sports would immediately get viewers’ hearts racing with the dramatic score and Jim McKay’s epic voice declaring “Spanning the globe, to bring you the constant variety of sport. The thrill of victory…and the agony of defeat…the human drama of athletic competition.”

MLTT kicks off the official 2nd half of the season as the East Division teams meet in a crucial clash at Broward County Table Tennis, January 5-7. Who will emerge victorious from the clouds of phosphorescent neondust explosions to make the $100,000 playoffs?

Bay Area’s Ma Jinbao capped off a brilliant showing by MLTT athletes at the 2023 US Open, as players from five teams (Bay Area, Portland, Princeton, Seattle and Texas) took home massive trophies

Behold, the MLTT Hall of Past and Present Penholder Fame! The 6th penholder was the key to answering question #5, which contained a double-twist to it. Only 2 respondants got the correct answer…

While the league takes a short break for the holidays, we here at Majorponghead offices are feeling particularly festive, in part because we finally convinced our stingy editorial board to OK our first ever quiz challenge! So here are the simple rules: answer five trivia questions about MLTT, email your answers to majorponghead@gmail.com, and the first submission (as determined by time stamp on the email) with all 5 correct answers will win a $100 Amazon gift card