Tournament of Champions

To honor the publication of the snappy essay and photo collection Everything You Know Is Pong: How Mighty Table Tennis Shapes Our World, editors Roger Bennett and Eli Horowitz have organized a Ping-Pong tournament in which participants will "battle to the death to win a five-foot trophy." Among those competing: John Oliver, Johnathan Safran Foer, A.J. Jacobs, Sloane Crosley and Judah Friedlander.