Summer Smash Episode 1- Setting the Table

The Boys of Summer are back! 7 Players square off in a high stakes Table Tennis tournament, the second annual Chaotically Intolerant Classic as they all try to take the trophy back from defending Champion Armen Boyajian. Commissioner Alex Boyajian, reeling from his loss in the 2022 Championship, is learning to balance his duties as Commissioner while keeping his game sharp for his own title run. This season features 4 rookies, including Michael Scarlett, who enters the playoffs on a 21 game win streak which includes sweeps of Armen Boyajian and Alex Boyajian. Starring: Alex Boyajian Armen Boyajian Lleyton Verheul Kevin Steinfeld Jaxon Greer Michael Scarlett Ivory Upchurch Produced by: Tyler Cook

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and now race fans for the most famous

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words and Motorsports the star of

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Universal Pictures movie I Now Pronounce

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You Chuck and Larry Kevin James

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I just got three things to say God bless

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our troops God Bless America

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and gentlemen

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start yours

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thank you

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it let's game

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you doing bro

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you're late bro hey

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whoa bro go go go go

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you're welcome

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I'm uh I'm commissioner Alex boyage I'm

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also a player

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in in the chaotically Anton classic as

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as a player commissioner I I have to be

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able to have two separate

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um

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personalities just going into last year

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it was brand new you know last year was

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was brand new

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um

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we didn't have a trophy uh my dad got

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his championship shirt you know weeks

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after

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um the tournament won we we had some

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some I guess hiccups some major hiccups

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last year it was

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I don't want to insult anybody

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but the competition

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was not as good

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you know the competition was definitely

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I think lower skilled

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dude just keep doing that bro please

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that's not really I mean even

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even I was I wasn't as good

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please

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foreign

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this is the golden paddle

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um this was originally going to be our

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first

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the main trophy you know this is going

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to be the number one trophy

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um the championship trophy but I was

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like you know this is honestly it's a

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little underwhelming for for a

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championship trophy

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um and I feel that this should be for

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the regular season winner you know I

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think I think the regular season winner

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that is an honor to to go through three

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weeks and I'll talk about our expansion

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uh the at the end I guess

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um but to go through three grueling

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weeks of of play you know you play

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you play nine games a week and then that

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final final week you play 12. so

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um

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it's not easy you know you play 30 total

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games and and you're number one you

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deserve it and my dad did earn it you

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know I do think he deserves it

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um um I want to congratulate my father

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Armin voyagin on winning the golden

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paddle I know you guys don't want to

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clap for him because he's derived

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this trophy

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um it's it's not a typical trophy right

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you know it's shiny

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but there's also a ton of scratches and

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and I think that does represent kind of

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the battles that our guys go through

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each and every week

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anyway

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yes five four let's go

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there's some gold trim on the inside I

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kind of like the silver and gold we have

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the logo engraved in and then

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um it's named after my grandfather uh

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Ron voyage and you know me and him were

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very close and he passed in in 2018 and

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I I've always wanted to have something

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you know to name after him kind of play

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in his honor and you know this was I

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thought this was a cool little idea this

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is something that

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um

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all of this that I've worked really hard

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at and and I felt like felt like it was

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fitting to name it after him

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um

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so

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let's um

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I'm Leighton

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um

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one of the fierce competitors of the

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chaotically intolerant classic

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um last year's tournament couldn't get

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there

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the the skill level was there's very

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clearly a lower class and upper class I

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guess last year yeah it was very clear

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who the winner was gonna be

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before the end it was clear who was

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gonna make it to that championship game

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um fortunately I've played Angel easy

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sweep

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um

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items

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which that was fun that last year's

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tournament but um yeah

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um it was just

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a lot

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lower Stakes all around last year's

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tournament

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um this year

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the production quality is a lot higher

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I'm pretty excited for this stuff um you

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know it's not we're not doing GoPro

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footage on the chest where you know I'm

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getting a migraine trying to watch it

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oh we got the drunk shots

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we've got the you know from the side of

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the table from all angles seeing you

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know what's happening a lot easier

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on top of that the competition was a lot

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more Fierce this year and there was less

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of that divide there's still you know a

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couple of us were on the low end but we

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still had the chance

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except Angel but everyone else had a

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chance and stuff like that and it really

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did come down

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all the way up to the final on who was

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gonna win

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um my name is Ivory

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um as you guys can see in the video uh I

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was in the chaotically intolerant

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classic which was a ton of fun it was

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very serious but had a good time

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um

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but yeah nothing nothing special to me

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just turned 21. so that's pretty epic

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yeah not much else

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I've kind of known Alex in high school

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so it kind of helped

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um you know get to know the guys and you

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know with the environment and stuff but

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they needed an extra player and uh my

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buddy who is a part of the chaotically

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intolerant crew

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oh boy

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um

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honestly okay complete honesty I was

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expecting to do very well because

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anytime I've played you know an average

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player at ping pong you know I do pretty

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well

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um but this was no average group it was

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very competitive everybody was very

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skilled so I think it added a lot to the

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tournament having some really good

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players you know it I think up to the

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ante and the competition so

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um yeah I wasn't expecting a lot going

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into it but it was it was definitely a

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lot

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I feel pretty good about myself I think

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it's just consistency and consistently

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getting

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um to that level to where you can beat

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people around your same level

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I'm so glad to be here

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I was very excited okay all right so I

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want to congratulate Kevin on winning

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the chaotic Division and my father I'm

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winning

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the tolerance division he might retire

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at the end of this so um I had to go out

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in Blazer glory after anything yes well

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you're the defending champion

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yes how is that how does it feel going

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into this how did you feel going into

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this as the defending Champion well

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before the season started I saw the

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better players was boring

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and now

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and now seeing that there's a good

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players it's exciting

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so

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how did you feel heading into week one

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fine

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I'm gonna laugh really a little bit do

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you have any did you have any

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expectations for yourself to win

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give me a lot to work with here

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um

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I guess man

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Uh Kevin Steinfeld just uh participated

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in the 2023 chaotically and tolerant

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classic

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the had an amazing time you know Alex

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and his father Armin hosted us and we're

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amazing hosts and I think everyone I

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think I could speak for everyone uh

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when I said that we all had a great time

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and that it was very well hosted

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presented organized and yeah it was just

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very well put together

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so I didn't really know what to expect

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necessarily from

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the tournament because there's you know

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there could be people of

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all different skill levels

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I knew they were gonna be good I didn't

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really know again about to tell love of

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everyone else so I assumed I would have

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some success because I you know I know

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that I'm pretty good but uh

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yeah they were great players I didn't

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really

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you know realized that uh Alex you know

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boyzone was gonna be as good as he was

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or his dad arm and boys I'm just going

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to be as good as he was you know not to

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exclude any other bad boy yesterday

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so yeah I just wasn't really sure what

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to expect with all that

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little Scarlet uh one of the competitors

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in the chaotically intolerant classic of

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2023 here you know I I'm a little bit

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cocky with my expectations being that I

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played

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a lot of tennis in my background and I'm

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used to competing

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and I I competed for seven years or so

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pretty seriously in tennis

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so I'm used to the game of competing I

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was just excited to

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to really compete

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and just test myself because I haven't I

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haven't actually competed seriously in

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ping pong ever

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so I was excited to try it out and see

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what I could do when I'm actually

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serious about playing

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you know I I almost kind of enjoyed

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starting out at a negative I felt like

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it uh

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it almost motivated me more to play at a

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higher level

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because there's starting two and seven

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there's no room for error and if I want

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to climb the seating ranks before the

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tournament and I I did want to do that

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so I use that more as fuel to just play

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as good as I can

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I'm Jackson Greer

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in terms of ping pong and how I got

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started

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me and my dad would play ping pong like

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in middle school because we just got a

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new table

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and then

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we would always hang out at our friend

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Ken's place our friend group and so me

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Kevin Seinfeld and some of the other

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guys would just start playing ping pong

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and then of course we kind of got

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addicted to it that would just be a

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thing every time

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whenever we went over to Ken's house we

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just played ping pong and me and Kevin

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would continue doing that at FSU and um

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and then right before I came down he

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talked about your tournament and how he

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got invited and was inviting me to do it

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so I figured I'd give it a shot so

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well the goal was definitely to win

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obviously

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um it was interesting the first day

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getting there

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and seeing the different skill levels

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like obviously your dad right off the

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bat was like

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and you I think the first match I saw

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was between you two

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and

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I knew that that would be an interesting

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matchup against me against you guys and

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then because me and Kevin are like on

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the same level

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because we're always playing together

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um so I was very curious about how those

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matchups were gonna go

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yeah

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um

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yeah obviously just to win it my first

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matchup my first actual matchup was

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versus your dad and I got absolutely

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swept and there's probably a mixture of

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like getting used to a serve because his

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serve was definitely the best serve of

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the tournament yeah and getting back

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into ping pong because I haven't really

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played ping pong for a minute

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so I was as soon as I got swept by your

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dad I was excited to play him again so I

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was like I can't let that happen again

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that was not good I my place I was very

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laid back I'm like making the opponent

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make the mistake kind of thing and then

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like if they give me the opportunity I

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would make a good hit but yeah Mike was

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just you know he's just so precise with

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where he wants to hit it and then so if

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I'd hit a good hit back

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would be a little too high it's just a

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perfect hit for him so he was always

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going to be a tough matchup

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um but everyone else I feel like it

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would always be a good series like we

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had a great series me and your dad had a

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great second series

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um me and Kevin always had close games

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and um

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yeah no there were definitely some good

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matchups in there and I think I did

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pretty well

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considering uh the different skill

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levels and stuff like that

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I need to keep going keep going do that

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again

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let's go

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