Results from 12/16 to 1/12

Tsk tsk, 6 out of 10 matches were played.

Brendon Baker v. Trevor Prichett (3-1)
Darshan Prabhu v. Bharat Bajaj (3-0)
*Kurt Brown v. John Choi (3-2)
Chris Foulds v. Albert Gee (3-1)
Greg Bisson v. Rich Burgos (3-1)
*Brendon Baker v. Craig Martin (3-0)
Leslie Cameron v. John Choi (3-0)
*Craig Martin v. Rich Burgos (3-1)
Pierre Russo v. Pankaj Kumar (3-0)

Results from Week of 12/9

Not bad, 11 of 12 matches were played.

Greg Bisson v. Rick Titlebaum (3-0)
Trevor Prichett v. Rich Burgos (3-0)
Bhuvnesh Jain v. John Choi (3-0)
Scott Ansill v. Carlo Bolivar (3-0)
Pankaj Kumar v. Amit Shah (3-2)
Chris Foulds v. Albert Gee (3-2)
Neal Abrams v. Brendon Baker (3-2)
Christopher Rowan v. Roy Goldfarb (3-0)
Darshan Prabhu v. Bharat Bajaj (3-0)
Pawan Kapoor v. Pedro Dias (3-1)
Leslie Cameron v. Raf Burde (3-1)

Results from Week of 12/2

Congrats to all, 11 out of 11 games were played!

Rick Titlebaum v. Roy Goldfarb (3-0)
Bhuvnesh Jain v. Rafael Burde (3-0)
Albert Gee v. Ben Dyme (3-0)
Pankaj Kumar v. Scott Ansill (3-0)
Neal Abrams v. Rich Burgos (3-0)
John Choi v. Michel Barsoum (3-2)
Darshan Prabhu v. Pawan Kapoor (3-1)
Pedro Dias v. Chris Foulds (3-0)
Chris Rowan v. Bharat Bajaj (3-2)
Leslie Cameron v. Brendon Baker (3-0)
Amit Shah v. Carlo Bolivar (3-0)

Player Directory

Albert Gee - albert.gee@uphs.upenn.edu

Amit Shah - abshah@wharton.upenn.edu

Ben Dyme - dyme@sas.upenn.edu

Bern Elliot - bern.elliot@gartner.com

Bharat Bajaj - bharatb@mail.med.upenn.edu

Bhuvnesh Jain - bjain@physics.upenn.edu

Brendon Baker - bren.at.penn@gmail.com

Bryon Viechnicki - bryon.viechnicki@gmail.com

Chris Foulds - fouldscm@law.upenn.edu

Christopher Rowan - crowan@mail.med.upenn.edu

Craig Martin - craigxmartin@gmail.com

Darshan Prabhu - darshanv@wharton.upenn.edu

David Bell - davidb@wharton.upenn.edu

Greg Bisson - gregbisson@mac.com

John Choi - johnkimchoi1@gmail.com

Josef Kaplan - josefk@mail.med.upenn.edu

Joshua Ratner - jratner@sas.upenn.edu

Kurt Brown - kurt.brown@astrazeneca.com

Leslie Cameron - lcameron@carthage.edu

Michel Barsoum - barsoumw@drexel.edu

Mike Schneider - schn@sas.upenn.edu

Neal Abrams - mnasna2@comcast.net

Pankaj Kumar - pankajk@mail.med.upenn.edu

Pawan Kapoor - pawank@wharton.upenn.edu

Pedro Dias - pedrodias@snip.net

Pierre Russo - russo@email.chop.edu

Richard Burgos - rburgos@verizon.net

Rick Titlebaum - ricktitlebaum@gmail.com

Roy Goldfarb - roy.d.goldfarb@umdnj.edu

Scott Ansill - scottansill@gmail.com

Trevor Prichett - trevor.prichett@gmail.com

Seedings

Just wanted to leave a short message regarding seedings in an effort to avert any potential anger or frustration.

Based on your responses, we ranked everyone A through E and sorted this list in excel. We then randomized order of the people in each of these categories.

If you feel like you've been misplaced, we apologize in advance. If you're confident your seed is at least 5 positions off, let us know and we'll try to rectify it. Please keep in mind that if we could rank everyone perfectly, there would not be a whole lot of movement; rank dynamics is one fun aspect of this ladder.

Good luck this week, and do remember to send in your scores before this Saturday.

Email us with any questions at upennsquashclub@gmail.com

Need Racquet Stringing?

If you need your racquet restrung, regripped, or painted, I will be happy to do it for you.

I can string at your desired amount of tension and you can choose from a variety of Ashaway strings, priced as follows:
- SuperNick XL (white with red/blue stripes, $10)
- SuperNick XL Pro (navy blue with white stripes, $10)
- SuperNick XL Titanium (silver with red/blue stripes, $10)
- PowerNick (red, $12)

For overwraps ($3), I have a range of colors of Karakal Point-75 Air including blue, purple, green, and red.

Lastly, I can paint a logo or custom shape/letter onto the face of your strings. Color-wise, you can choose between blue, red, or black.

I charge $10 plus the cost of the strings for any stringing job and will get your racquet back to you in less than a week.

Contact me by email (bren.at.penn@gmail.com) or just talk to me at the courts.

Rules and Guidelines

Ladder Rules

• Each week will alternate between even- or odd-number ranked players challenging the slot above them. For example, during an even week, 2 challenges 1, 4 challenges 3, and so on.
• If the challenger wins the match, the two players will exchange positions. Should the challenger lose, both players' standings will remain unchanged.
• Players are required to play their assigned matches within the one week window. Early in the week, the challenger should make initial contact in order to arrange a day and time for the match.
• A player who does not arrange or show up to a match will be removed from the ladder, barring a reasonable explanation. Should both players agree a match is not possible during that week, no change will be made to their standings.
• A player new to the ladder will initially be unranked. Upon challenging and winning a match against a ranked player, s/he will obtain this rank and players will be shifted down accordingly. Should s/he lose, the challenged player will gain a rank and the unranked player will remain unranked.
• The winner of any match should email the match results by Saturday of that week so that standings can be updated. The email should be sent to upennsquashclub@gmail.com and the opponent should be CC'd.
• Ladder rankings will be updated every Sunday night.

Rules of Play

• Matches are best of 5 games. If more than 5 games are played, only the first 5 should be considered in determining the winner.
• Each game is played to 9 points, where only the server may score a point. At a score of 8-8, the server offers the receiver a choice of playing 1 or 2 more points.
• Matches must be played with a standard double-yellow dot ball.
• Non-marking shoes are required.
• Protective eyewear is encouraged and must be worn upon opponent's request.
• Official rules are those of the United States Squash Racquets Association.

Please note a few additional items which are requisite to the success of this play format:

First, ladder matches can and should be competitive, but certainly must always be friendly.

Second, for the ladder to remain dynamic and exciting, it's necessary that everyone play their weekly matches. We've seen ladders that died quickly because players either did not reply to challenges or failed to show up to matches. This is frustrating for the people who want to move up in ranking, or who were simply looking forward to a weekly game. Towards ensuring the success of this play forum, we will be strictly enforcing the no-show/expulsion policy.