Synchrony wins the Golden Paddle at the 2024 Research Park Table Tennis Tournament
The 13th Annual Research Park Table Tennis Tournament took place on Tuesday, July 9, and Wednesday, July 10, 2024. Participants from 15 companies across the Research Park played in two days of intense competition in three categories (beginner, intermediate, and advanced).
The Synchrony Emerging Technology Center won the Golden Paddle for the first time in tournament history thanks to second and third place winners in all three brackets.
Here is the full list of winners from each individual bracket:
Beginner
- 1st: Felix Yun, Everfox
- 2nd: Bhavita Bhoir, Synchrony
- 3rd: Pranav Rao, Illinois Ventures, and Aditya Bhinge, Synchrony
Intermediate
- 1st: Dian Jin, Electric Power Engineers
- 2nd: Dhairya Parikh, Synchrony
- 3rd: Abhijit Kannepalli, Synchrony, and John Hong, Synchrony
Advanced
- 1st: Fei Deng, Yahoo
- 2nd: Neelan Coleman, Yahoo
- 3rd: Dylan Subramanian, Synchrony, and Vikram Adithya Ganesh, Illinois Applied Research Institute
The results of Round-Robin games on day one were used to seed participants for the single-elimination tournament played on day two. In these games, companies were awarded points based on the placing of their players. First place winners received five points; second place winners received three points; third place winners received one point.
More photos from the event can be viewed in our media gallery.
Learn more about this event on the Table Tennis Tournament page.