The ping pong room at AofA 2006

Pictures taken in the ping pong room at AofA 2006 in Alden Biesen.

Hosam Mahmoud and Alla Gnedin in action.

Another happy couple: Jean-Francois Marckert and Cyril Banderier.

Wolfgang Steiner.

Bob Sedgewick in Uwe's tournament.

Hosam in his professional shorts. He would win the tournament after regular massages between balls.

Rudolf Grübel.

Michael Drmota.

Alla Gnedin in superb form.

Uwe Rösler organized the tournament, went to Maastricht to buy a special new paddle, lost the tournament, and left Alden Biesen without his new paddle.

Alfredo Viola lost five pounds of sweat.

Helmut Prodinger surprised many.

This is collapse number one (of about five), caused by Hosam.

Wojtek Szpankowski and Bruce Reed teaming up.

Uwe Rösler and Mattias Meiners, who would end up playing the final against Hosam Mahmoud.

In the Fussball corner, Erin McLeish and Ralph Neininger against Taemur Ali Khan and Alfredo Viola.

Wojtek Szpankowski in his Lech Walesa outfit.

Wojtek and Bruce Reed again.

Donatella Merlini and Renzo Sprugnoli.

Uwe Rösler and Ludger Rüschendorf officiating a match.

Jérémie Bourdon and Cyril Banderier.

Bruce Reed and Michael Drmota.

Uwe very lonely in the umpire's chair.

Ludger Rüschendorf and Cyril Banderier.

Michael Drmota too made the table collapse.

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Luc Devroye School of Computer Science McGill University Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6 luc@cs.mcgill.ca http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc