Austin Table Tennis Club Partners With Butterfly, Launches $3,000 Mega Money Open

The Austin Table Tennis Club announced a high-stakes 2026 tournament schedule headlined by the ATTC Butterfly Mega Money Open in June, a non-sanctioned Open event with a $3,000 grand prize for the first-place winner. Designed explicitly as an elite "tune-up" for the US Nationals, it is positioned as one of the most compelling additions to the domestic non-sanctioned calendar in recent memory.

The timing is deliberate. The 2026 US Nationals run from July 3 through 9 in San Jose, California, making the June Mega Money Open a natural sharpening stone for any regional or national-level player looking to arrive in Silicon Valley with competitive mileage under their feet. For Texas players especially, a high-dollar, open-field event a few weeks out from Nationals is exactly the kind of bridge that rarely exists on the domestic calendar.

Lee Abraham of ATTC put the ambition plainly: "We are creating a professional-grade environment where the best talent in the region can compete for serious stakes. With Butterfly equipment and this level of prize money, we are establishing Austin as a premier destination for competitive table tennis."

The Mega Money Open is the centerpiece of a broader ATTC partnership with Butterfly, but it is far from the only item on the club's 2026 slate. Throughout the year, ATTC will host a series of "Butterfly High Dollar Cap" events in April, May, July, and August. The first of those is already confirmed: the ATTC Butterfly High Dollar Cap Tournament is scheduled for Saturday, April 4, 2026, with competitors playing for cash prizes across multiple rating events. Featured first-place prizes include $1,000 for the U2450 bracket and $750 for the U2100 bracket.

ATTC is a volunteer-run, nonprofit organization dedicated to table tennis in the greater Austin area, hosting quarterly USATT-sanctioned tournaments and a year-round league program out of a 12,000-square-foot, air-conditioned facility with more than 15 Butterfly tables and 16-foot ceilings. The infrastructure is already there; what ATTC is now stacking on top of it is a prize structure that changes the calculus for out-of-state players weighing whether the drive is worth it.

The Mega Money Open's non-sanctioned status means no USATT rating points are on the line, which will be a factor for players managing their national ranking. What it does offer is serious prize money and, with Butterfly equipment on every table, a playing environment calibrated to match the stakes. Exact dates within June, venue details, full prize breakdown beyond the first-place figure, entry fees, and registration information had not been announced at time of publication.