The 2nd annual Looking Glass Paddle Battle ping pong (or table tennis, if you take it seriously) tournament was a huge success, raising north of $5,000 for Looking Glass programs and providing 50 participants the opportunity to help at-risk youth while having a lot of fun. In addition to trophies for each bracket winner (singles, doubles in both pro and amateur levels), raffle prizes were awarded and yummy grilled cheese sandwiches sustained the group throughout the day thanks to the Franz Grilled Cheese Machine.
In the end, the winners were as follows:
Doubles, Amateur: Levi Cohen (age 9!) and Tom Harburg
Doubles amateur champs Levi and Tom
Doubles, Pro: Samir Patel and Tian Wei Chen (also won in 2018)
Doubles pro champs Samir and Tian Wei.
Singles, Amateur: Drew Gottfried
Singles amateur champ Drew
Singles, Pro: Samir Patel
Singles pro champ Samir (he won doubles AND singles!)
Thank you to our hosts, the Eugene YMCA! And to the Franz Grilled Cheese Machine. And also to all of our event sponsors including our title sponsor Timber Products Company and also Besemann/Valentine, Chambers Construction, Rosboro and US Bank.
Thank you to our raffle prize donors: YMCA, Brenner’s Furniture, Willamalane Park Swim Center, Bi-Mart and Bounce Gymnastics.
And thank you to the local table tennis clubs who rallied so many pro’s to come out and play! We hope many of our players will sign up with you all and continue to improve. See you next year!
More photos from this great event:
