Table Tennis England (TTE), the country’s national governing body (NGB) reached out to Rocca. with the ambition of building their own competition management platform.

The challenge

Table tennis is huge in England. It’s estimated that over 200,000 people participate on some level every year.

Table Tennis England’s remit is to facilitate the competitions that happen every season at county and club level and this was essentially the challenge. Rocca. was to develop a table tennis league management platform, including a scorecard app and free content managed county and club websites.

The solution would be offered free to counties, clubs and members of TTE as part of their membership.

What we did

Working closely with TTE, Rocca. mapped out the user journey for the management and administration of table tennis leagues and competitions. Starting with a series of statements and requirements, Rocca. developed a scoping document for the final development of the solution.

From here the user interfaced was designed, one which was mobile-friendly as well as intuitive. The design process was iterative and collaborative, and TTE shared its progress with their members at regular intervals in the design process in the form of video walk-throughs. This provided a feedback forum for the ongoing development of the platform.

The Outcome

The newly named ‘TT Leagues’ platform and app (Android and iOS) launched in June of 2019 – just in time for the new season and a summer of extensive users testing. 

The software allows multiple formats of the game to be played, managing leagues and competitions alike and, in its latest versions, it is even onboarding more casual participants of the sport in new ways.

In 2021 Table Tennis Wales began using the software and their are plans to extent is availability internationally.

Quote from CEO, Sara Sutcliffe:

Having been introduced to Rocca Creative each meeting was positive in their ability to be adaptive and reactive to the ever changing demands of a National Governing Body, I just wanted to take this opportunity to say an enormous thank you. The amount of effort and work to get the TT Leagues system up and functional is remarkable and we look forward to working further with them as we continue to develop TT Leagues.