RESULTS

2016 HAWAI'I ISLAND OPEN

USATT Sanctioned Two Star Table Tennis Tournament

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, November 4, 5, 6, 2016

Sponsored by LSW Consulting, Inc, Table Tennis & More, Hilo Boys & Girls Club, Big Island Table Tennis Association, Old Hawaiian Bed & Breakfast

Wrap-up Article

Friday night brought us the one time only, Karen Fujiyama Memorial Women's Open and Aloha State Women's Championship. 12 Ladies entered the event coming from Alaska, Oahu, and The Big Island. This event was in memory of a special lady, Karen Fujiyama. Karen passed a few months back and is sorely missed by all. Karen was a loving, caring, helping, enthusiastic lady, always willing to assist wherever needed. Karen helped the Juniors at the Boys & Girls Club and was so dedicated to the annual tournament for the Juniors, securing prizes for all participants and making sure each and every junior player had a great time. Karen was a unique and great lady that was admired, loved, and respected by all she came in contact with. Some generous donors, outside of the table tennis community, donated money to be given away specifically for this event. It was always Karen's wishes to have cash awards for the Women's Event and this is our way of honoring her memory. All the players in this event won cash prizes and a good time was had by all. Mahalo to the Big Island Table Tennis Association as they brought food for after the event to be enjoyed by all. We had a short special presentation after the Women's Event concluded, with Karen's grandson Kalani giving out prizes and her niece Debbie giving mahalos to all. This is the video taken of the presentation, courtesy of Clyde Young; enjoy.

The 2016 Hawai'i Island Open and Aloha State Championships are now history. 67 total players participated including the juniors from the Hilo Boys & Girls Club. We had a player from Australia, Joshua Yee. I found out during the tournament that he came to Hawaii just to play in this event; Mahalo Joshua for coming to play and being a major part of it. Your future as a player is very bright. So many people contributed to make the tournament a success. Thanks to the Hilo Boys & Girls Club for letting us use their great facility; thanks to the Big Island Table Tennis Association for hosting the tournament, and specifically, to Lory Hunter, Jamie Stokes, Russel Oshiro, Stephen Freedman, Clyde Young, and Gloria Wong for all their help. Setting up the tables, cleaning the gym and bathrooms, ordering and picking up food, then displaying the food and making sure everyone was taken care of an absolute team effort by all of them, and a few more that I am probably forgetting. (Sorry for that). Huge mahalos to The Aloha Table Tennis Association from Oahu. Alex and his crew brought more than 20 players of all ages and skill levels to play and make the tournament a huge success. Also, The Association donated around 20 cases of delicious bottled water and lots of ice. As pictures on this page shows, there was plenty of food for all, great variety, and lots of homemade goodies. Starbucks donated 5 gallons of coffee each day that Stewart & Lory Hunter secured, and John Romoa & Gloria made real Kona coffee each morning. We crowned an Aloha State Women's Champion, Ruth Dittmar; an Aloha State Doubles U-3400 Champion Team, Jian Ping Huang/Jaeho Kim; an Aloha State Senior Champion, Takeo Nakamura; and an Aloha State Open Champion, Carlos Ko. Congratulations to our State Champs, all runner ups, and winners of all the other events. The weather was really good for the tournament with neither rain or wind a factor. All players had a good time, many new players got USATT ratings for the first time, players made new friends, and the Aloha Spirit was everywhere. I don't recall anyone requesting an umpire due to any problems arising. We had 12 ladies compete in the special Karen Fujiyama Memorial Women's Open Event, a record number for our women's event. We were filled with 16 doubles teams and have 28 players in our U-1600 event. Those numbers may not sound much to the reader, but we are located on Hawaii Island, small population, hard destination to come to, and not the cheapest place on earth to visit. But we do have some great attractions like the weather, an active volcano, waterfalls, Mauna Kea (largest mountain on Earth when measured from the base), and of course, the best people and the famous Aloha Spirit. A huge mahalo to each and everyone that assisted to make the tournament a tremendous success and that includes all the players!

Aloha for now.

Tournament Video Links

(Finals, another angle, courtesy of Aporn Stein)

EVENT RESULTS

EVENT	1st Place	2nd Place	Pictures
The Karen Fujiyama Memorial Women's Open RR ALOHA STATE CHAMPION	RUTH DITTMAR	YOKO IKEGUCHI
Juniors 12 & Under	MAKANI	TAYSHA
Juniors 13-18	JOSHUA YEE	KAI MANTUPAR
Seniors U-1000 RR	KIYOKO ENDO	APORN STEIN
Seniors Open RR ALOHA STATE CHAMPION	TAKEO NAKAMURA	TOM ETTINGER
Super Round Robin A	CARLOS KO	YUKI YANO
Super Round Robin B	JEFFREY CUMES	TAKEO NAKAMURA
Super Round Robin C	JASON SUNG	GERALD CARMACK
Super Round Robin D	JOSHUA YEE	SAMUEL FORTNA
Super Round Robin E	RICO KUROKI	FRANK MILLER
U-1450 RR	JOSHUA YEE	DAVID DEMAY
U-3400 Doubles A Division ALOHA STATE CHAMPIONS	JAEHO KIM/JIAN PING HUANG	JEFFREY CUMES/STEWART HUNTER
U-3400 Doubles B Division	YOKO IKEGUCHI/TAKEO NAKAMURA	KEN KIMURA/DEVIN ORTAL
Unrated/Recreational RR	KENTA KOSHIMAE	JASON SUNG
Open Elite ALOHA STATE CHAMPION	CARLOS KO	YEN WEN FANG
U-1000 RR	ANDREW WESSELS	JAMIE STOKES
U-1600 RR	JOSHUA YEE	RUSSEL OSHIRO

USATT RATING RESULTS

Name	Begin Rating	End Rating	+/-
Berganio, Alex	1528	1484	-44
Buck, John	1131	1073	-58
Carmack, Gerald	1218	1281	63
Carvalho, Roger	0	921
Chow, Jenny	1184	1152	-32
Correa, Frank	1628	1412	-216
Cumes, Jeffrey	1447	1560	113
DeMay, David	1602	1515	-87
Dittmar, Ruth	1287	1281	-6
Endo, Kiyoko	963	1007	44
Ettinger, Thomas	1485	1600	115
Fang, Yen Wen	1901	1905	4
Fortna, Samuel	0	958
Freedman, Stephen	1641	1634	-7
Fukumitsu, April	563	570	7
Gruenert, Holger	0	1074
Hemmes, Don	1177	1161	-16
Hunter, Lory	950	984	34
Hunter, Stewart	1857	1795	-62
Ikeguchi, Yoko	0	1154

Name	Begin Rating	End Rating	+/-
Im, Tae	0	1149
Kanae, Billy	1835	1833	-2
Kidahashi, Hitoki	0	592
Kidahashi, Hitomi	0	285
Kim, Jaeho	0	1037
Kim, Rocky	0	1395
Kimura, Ken	1355	1347	-8
Ko, Carlos	2362	2362	0
Koshimae, Kenta	0	1121
Kow, Charlie	1335	1432	97
Kuroki, Riko	1039	1274	235
Mantupar, Kai	940	938	-2
Miller, Frank	890	842	-48
Miyashiro, Angie	849	873	24
Miyashiro, Stewart	1265	1219	-46
Nakamura, Takeo	1500	1539	39
Ortal, Devin	1504	1515	11
Oshiro, Russel	1449	1475	26
Romoa, John	1429	1440	11
Sekona, Lesi	1231	1214	-17

Begin Rating	End Rating	+/-
Siapol, Elison	808	805	-3
Stein, Aporn	768	824	56
Stokes, Jamie	736	911	175
Sung, Jason	0	1252
Tone, Ben	1424	1394	-30
Wessels, Andrew	844	1104	260
Wong, Gloria	0	925
Yahner, James	0	842
Yano, Yuki	1820	1835	15
Yee, Joshua	0	1684
Young, Clyde	1804	1806	2
Young, Daniel	1381	1386	5

FRIDAY NIGHT PUPUS

SATURDAY LUNCH

SATURDAY LATE SNACKS

SUNDAY BREAKFAST

Mahalo Ben Tone from Maui, who graciously brought Len a birthday treat which was given to all the players, delicious donuts downed with donated Starbucks Coffee secured by Lory & Stewart Hunter. Also available both days was authentic Kona Coffee provided by John Romoa & Gloria! MAHALO

SUNDAY LUNCH

MAHALO GLORIA WONG FOR PICKING UP THE PIZZA & HELPING!

THE ACTION

More pictures, courtesy of the Aloha Table Tennis Association

THE PLAYERS

The Juniors

HILO JUNIORS

Amanda, Braysha, Taysha, Kenneth, Valencia, Mahina, Kukuna, Breanna, Tarini, Makani, Leila, Kamalani, Micah, Kiara, Baylie, Rickie, Andrew, Sylan, Jayton, Kai, BJ, Scarlett

THE ALOHA TABLE TENNIS ASSOCIATION