Dates of Historical Significance that also work as a score in a table tennis match (DOHS🏓)

Welcome to a brand new project from BTTC. It is called Dates of Historical Significance that also work as a score in a table tennis match or DOHS🏓 for short.

And everyone is invited to participate!

The idea is that a date can be used as a table tennis score. For example the 5th of February could represent the score 5-2. 

With this in mind we would like to invite anyone in the world to submit their suggestions of the date of a historical event that could be used as a table tennis score. 

We are looking for the day and the month for example 5 – 7 = the 5th of July.

If you know of a significant historical  event  simply fill out the quick DOHS🏓 form and submit your suggestion.

As we intend to use this verbal scoring system in real future matches, we also require an “Umpire call.”

Eg:

10-3 The first telephone call is made
Umpire’s call “HELLO OPERATOR”
Year :1876

2-10 The Great Cheese Riot (Nottingham Goose Fair)
Umpire’s call : “DE-BRIE EVERYWHERE.”
Year: 1766

A reminder that scores in table tennis go up to 11 although there is of course the possibility of higher scores if the match goes to deuce.

So 14/12 is the latest possible date!!

Historical events can be relevant to the UK or international. We welcome multiple DOHS🏓 for the same score. 

Codified DOHS🏓 that have been approved by the committee of arbiters :

View the list online here.

Take part…

Submit your dates of historical significance that can work as a score in a table tennis match using this form: