Summer Smash Episode 2- Friends and Foes

SUMMER SMASH

Alex Boyajian

9/2/20237 min read

Friendships and Championships don't mix well in this Wild Card Battle between best friends. Lleyton Verheul and Ivory Upchurch go to battle in a best of 3 series to see who will go play the #1 seed Armen Boyajian and try to make history 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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that's a great way to kick off uh

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tournament day so that's what Ivory has

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to do for the wild card

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all right so um I guess I'll do the

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presentation of the golden paddle you

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like to think Michael might have won

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this but he obviously got kind of

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screwed over week one uh with his bad

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record so

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um I want to congratulate my father

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Armin voyageen 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 your rivalry

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but

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yeah

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what oh

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you just have to go with the flow and

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say okay

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this happened all right I'll fix it

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almost immediately into the tournament I

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had a strong feeling it would happen I

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had a gut feeling that something would

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happen something would go wrong and it

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did another curveball got the throne

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Angel couldn't come dude Angel's like

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I guess he's just Garbo on and off the

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field man was it frustrating yeah it was

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very frustrating you know the day had

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come I thought everything was was

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settled I really didn't think anything

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else was going to go wrong but in the

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back of my mind

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still said You know what there's

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something that's going to go wrong and I

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really thought it had to do with the

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venue and

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like thank God for Leighton he ended up

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finding a park which had you know it had

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a big open area concrete slab and then

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right next to it was a shaded area

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we this up so Angel didn't show

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he was supposed to play Ivory in the

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Wild Card around Angel was a number 8C

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we ended up taking Leighton who was the

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sixth seed just above Ivory and having

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them play in the Wild Card round we took

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away

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the battle for the Buy Round sent my dad

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to number one which was not the right

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way to do it

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talk to me a little bit about week three

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the final Week final week

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um well going into it I knew I needed to

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because I was gonna play Angel I needed

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to win

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two of those three games because then

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Angel and I's record would have been

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tied and I would have won by Point

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differential I was also playing Ivory

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for the first time which I'm like you

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know he's all right so maybe I can beat

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him a couple times or at least once

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but um you know then I show up

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Ivory's way better than I had it was

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expecting

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um so yeah I got swept by Ivory yeah

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a relationship with ivory

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um oh yeah I'd say we're best friends

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he's over a lot I was looking forward to

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my matches against him because we do

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like a golf at the driving range and

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stuff like that and he's pretty

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competitive and we'll play rocket league

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and stuff like that too so things I

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don't like his taste in music he likes

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uh all these emo bands 21 Pilots a lot

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stuff like that we also started UV

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property development together

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um recently got liquidated but you know

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it happens

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but it was a pleasure for both of us to

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be last year's sponsor

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um and now we're this year's

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best competition

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I don't need a forfeit I'll be your

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parents

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best of three so whoever wins two right

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is that we're doing all boys uh no best

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of three or two best of three best of

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three okay so I'm wearing the first two

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also I want to switch sides

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okay

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Alex you should serve first

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after every game

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you're a boy

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[Applause]

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Ivory and I were practicing for like an

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hour before the tournament even started

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going into this game one I was real

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hyped in week three of the regular

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season all three matches I never let

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Layton get

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more than 10 points against me

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Ivory was had a unique skill set that

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was

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kind of it could be tough to deal with

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uh for sure especially at first like

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when you first play him fighting is the

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best out of all of y'all

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so alive

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I think Leighton made great strides

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throughout the regular season and into

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the postseason now

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he played his best ping pong in the

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tournament

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just built a consistency of

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um of defense that he didn't have before

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[Applause]

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ER

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he tries he needs a better serve

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five straight through

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[Applause]

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I think Wayne and ivory are definitely

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when they're playing their best they're

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pretty close

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skill level

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22-21 it's still Match Point still here

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sir about it

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oh he needs he needs a timeout oh he's

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falling yeah

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this is awesome

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no there's always maggots

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actually belong in there

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all right

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[Applause]

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let's go let's go I was going easy 11-0

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next game

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whatever I wasn't expecting to return

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that one hold on give it give it a few

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minutes you know let them win no worries

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hey hey good game yeah can we get some

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water here in a few minutes water water

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I like that boy yeah

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all right well that was a uh it's a

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pretty good first game

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um

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um

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you're kidding dude get that cheeky

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out of here

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oh my God you're not Armin you know me

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that was a good game

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let's go dude I was popping off right

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there come on no you work

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I think William kind of stepped it up

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throughout I think something that might

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not be talked about a lot is that it

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actually did get a lot better throughout

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the tournament Leighton

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is just the golden retriever of the

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group they played a really good game uh

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two really good games I was actually

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ecstatic I was really rooting for

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Leighton at the end of game two

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um at the end of game one

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it was just a battle lightweight punch

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after lightweight punch but they just

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kept going at each other you know good

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for Lane for getting 19 points but you

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know also hats off to Ivory for you know

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making that a decisive win

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and you know showing that he's better

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than playing every every single

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um

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every single rally was just the so

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intense I mean

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ah wow yeah I mean one of the one of the

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best matchups I've ever seen best ping

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pong match I've ever seen so it was it

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was an amazing experience it was still a

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lot of fun playing with Ivory

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um good for him

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I wouldn't anticipate myself winning any

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other match of the tournament if not

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against

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um Ivory but

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