2009 Joola North American Team Championship

Ting Ledesma, Lauro Crisostomo and Joseph Cruz joined the 2009 Joola North American Team Championship last November 27-29, 2009.

"The experience alone was so overwhelming", said Ledesma. "We had to walk 5-10 minutes, just to reach the other end of the venue. It was huge!", he added.

added info (June 2010)...

USATT magazine wrote,

In Division 1B, the Philippine Team METTA A didn’t win a tie, couldn’t post a better result than 2-5. But against Gao Jun’s NYAC Women’s Team, former Philippine Na- tional Champion Joe Cruz forced both Hubei Province’s Mai Gejie (American equivalent “Jessie”) and Western Open winner, penholder attacker Zheng Jiaqi (“Jackie”), into the fifth, while Ting Ledesma and Lauro Crisostomo both beat former Chinese Junior Team member Li Tao. Against Mexico, Lauro stopped Guillermo Munoz in five, and Ting rallied from 2-0 down to defeat Okoh Jude.

...John Bauer’s The Punishers punished themselves and not the Philippine team METTA or anyone else when they had to begin playing with only two players.

http://www.usatt.org/magazine/10Jan-Feb/Jan-Teams.pdf