OOAK Table Tennis Forum

2,211 current members played in the last five years, but 17,620 total, and 8,611 in two years. That sort of begs the question about retention. How long does the median USATT member maintain their membership?

All those players who joined, played a tournament or two, then let their membership lapse -- are they still playing TT somewhere, just not competing? Free associate membership seems designed to lure them back.

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On a side note, I never use TTspin so maybe I just don't understand, but it doesn't have my last six tournaments. For me it stops in 2014, or before USATT changed their ratings to the new system, Railstation or whatever. But I guess the membership numbers show such a clear pattern that it doesn't matter if they are exactly up-to-date.

On the retention issue, I wonder what peer organizations median duration of membership is, like the USTA for tennis.

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Yoko Ono

Many of those 8000 members are lifetime members.

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If you currently have a USATT League, will it be unaffected by these changes? We have a lot of records on there! Thanks. Just to clarify, are they doing away with the USATT League system?

Thanks. Thats interesting. I might give that one a try. I see you use DHS Hurricane 8 and Yasaka Mark V. How do you find the control on those rubbers?