With a steep rise in numbers for RRCC’s
membership base while everyone talks about how participation is on the rise, fact remains that equally the non-participation is also on the rise. Puzzled? Sample this..if 28 people are playing now compared to say 15-20 people that used to earlier, then now simply because the pool is bigger, say with 60,000 RRCC fans (almost true with an estimated +/-99.99% error rate) on FB means the 59,972
people are not playing at any given point in time. But as Sachien says (in exactly his words) “That is one of my worry that I cannot able to control. RRCC rocks. Please like my camera Tales page”. Quite evidently there is an obvious limitation to how
many people that can really participate on a given day. Unless the match is in Eden Gardens, where when India is in a worrisome position in the match, promptly 35,000 people jump onto the ground lending to participation rates of some sorts as much as to impact the result of the game, which usually is “Match abandoned due to unruly crowd behaviour”. But Rivervale Oval is no Eden Gardens and the bigger fact is we are not an unruly bunch of people.
So what it all means is that making into the 28 elites who get to play on a given day, the spot is already worth quite a lot. Imagine this, when you sign up for a spot you are effectively shutting the
door on someone else who may be noble hearted, able and willing but just not an FB addict enough to jump onto the invite first thing at 3am on a Monday morning. Last time the event was released at 3am within 3 seconds Rama commented on the event and within the next 3 seconds he signed up tagging along Vijesh and Mani who followed there in the next milliseconds (Starhub broadband #rocks). Ajit Patil was the last to get there as he had to struggle past the limitation of not having a working desktop
at home (he was cheated by an unknown desktop supplier..ahemm) and had to take a cab to find a cybercafé at Little India only to be told that internet browsing is free only with the order of 3 plates of Roti Prata, which he thought about for a second before taking up the offer and smashing the last plate of prata to pieces. By then it was 3:39am and he just managed to accept the invite. Everyone else who were not as prompt were left high and dry. Naveen G once again had to miss out on account of being seconds late to take up the invite. He had to go back to dreaming about playing for RRCC.
If you bought into that little story I just casually made up and awfully narrated, you will agree with me that “No Show” fine is then absolutely justified and in fact needs to be made more severe. What would have happened had Sachin Tendulkar after committing to Dhoni about playing the World cup finals
and then ended up switching his mobile, alarm, conscience etc off and slept merrily without bothering to turn up for the match? Where will Dhoni go hunting for Irfan Pathan (the next best opener apparently, really??) asking him to open the innings? Or perhaps he would have to include Harbhajan Singh and justify how he is an all rounder because he now sucks at everything, equally J. Lest we digress, the point here is that you cannot take your spot for granted. If you’ve accepted that damn invite, then you have to show up or be ready to pay up. Says founding and pounding member Sachien: “If you do no show then it’s called an act of ‘no show’ and it attracts a heavy fine. But all for a good cause. Please like my camera Tales page”. Thus the relevance and emergence of “No Show” practice which is a ..well….a..wait for it…. Fine practice to have (pun intended).
When we surveyed some ASSES (Association for Spirit of Sports Engagement Services) members, within RRCC they chose to comment on anonymity that: “Everyone should get a fair chance to participate. Likewise everyone should get a fair chance to not participate. There have been instances where, when the response to the event invite hasn’t been overwhelming, Sachien has gone around stalking some of the RRCC members and even threatening them with life-endangering FB posts if they refused to acknowledge his event invite. This to us is unacceptable.” When we asked the SCUMS (Society for Cooperation and Undeterred Moderate Sports) they hailed the decision - “We think this is the best thing to have happened. After the glorious N+2 ruling. We in fact keeping in mind the Singapore spirit recommended to use cane as a penalty, but unfortunately due our typo errors it was interpreted as can and therefore the fine involves cans of drinks or beer etc”.
Like it or not there is a ‘no-show’ fine well and truly in practice and heading up the arduous task of keeping a log of latecomers/no-show culprits is Maddy. “No show is a very delicate topic. Firstly we need to understand what no-show means. Like for instance in Nepal people think no-show = 900; whereas in Africa no-show means jellybeans. So let me clarify in btw that No-show means not showing up. Captains can I please bowl a few overs?”. We had to clarify with Maddy that we understand what “no-show” means. But we just wanted to know how he feels about it…so this is what Maddy had to say (again): “ After a few weeks of no-show it almost became a dying form of art; but thanks to Harshvardhan Rao the concept is still alive. In btw thanks to Nipun too who has mastered it as well and Sathiya debuted with a no-show, how ironic that is? In btw Captains can I please bowl a few overs?”Confounded by the profound statements from Maddy, Rama almost got dizzy and dopped a book from his hand, titled “Timeless wisdom from Swami Vijeshanand”. NKK wanted to comment but later declined saying he never likes when someone “doesn’t show”. Mohit Arora on the contrary didn’t make any comments in person but sportingly posted it on FB much later and said “sorry…don’t want to spoil the party but I think No Show is a bane on this RRCC spirit and I declare a jihad on everyone who ends up a no-show”
Lastly We tried to get Harshvardhan for his comments, but obviously he wasn’t available for any.
Play safe
RRCC!
PS:
Keep looking out at this space..N+2 is a hot topic and we are doing our journalistic research to get some findings on it.
membership base while everyone talks about how participation is on the rise, fact remains that equally the non-participation is also on the rise. Puzzled? Sample this..if 28 people are playing now compared to say 15-20 people that used to earlier, then now simply because the pool is bigger, say with 60,000 RRCC fans (almost true with an estimated +/-99.99% error rate) on FB means the 59,972
people are not playing at any given point in time. But as Sachien says (in exactly his words) “That is one of my worry that I cannot able to control. RRCC rocks. Please like my camera Tales page”. Quite evidently there is an obvious limitation to how
many people that can really participate on a given day. Unless the match is in Eden Gardens, where when India is in a worrisome position in the match, promptly 35,000 people jump onto the ground lending to participation rates of some sorts as much as to impact the result of the game, which usually is “Match abandoned due to unruly crowd behaviour”. But Rivervale Oval is no Eden Gardens and the bigger fact is we are not an unruly bunch of people.
So what it all means is that making into the 28 elites who get to play on a given day, the spot is already worth quite a lot. Imagine this, when you sign up for a spot you are effectively shutting the
door on someone else who may be noble hearted, able and willing but just not an FB addict enough to jump onto the invite first thing at 3am on a Monday morning. Last time the event was released at 3am within 3 seconds Rama commented on the event and within the next 3 seconds he signed up tagging along Vijesh and Mani who followed there in the next milliseconds (Starhub broadband #rocks). Ajit Patil was the last to get there as he had to struggle past the limitation of not having a working desktop
at home (he was cheated by an unknown desktop supplier..ahemm) and had to take a cab to find a cybercafé at Little India only to be told that internet browsing is free only with the order of 3 plates of Roti Prata, which he thought about for a second before taking up the offer and smashing the last plate of prata to pieces. By then it was 3:39am and he just managed to accept the invite. Everyone else who were not as prompt were left high and dry. Naveen G once again had to miss out on account of being seconds late to take up the invite. He had to go back to dreaming about playing for RRCC.
If you bought into that little story I just casually made up and awfully narrated, you will agree with me that “No Show” fine is then absolutely justified and in fact needs to be made more severe. What would have happened had Sachin Tendulkar after committing to Dhoni about playing the World cup finals
and then ended up switching his mobile, alarm, conscience etc off and slept merrily without bothering to turn up for the match? Where will Dhoni go hunting for Irfan Pathan (the next best opener apparently, really??) asking him to open the innings? Or perhaps he would have to include Harbhajan Singh and justify how he is an all rounder because he now sucks at everything, equally J. Lest we digress, the point here is that you cannot take your spot for granted. If you’ve accepted that damn invite, then you have to show up or be ready to pay up. Says founding and pounding member Sachien: “If you do no show then it’s called an act of ‘no show’ and it attracts a heavy fine. But all for a good cause. Please like my camera Tales page”. Thus the relevance and emergence of “No Show” practice which is a ..well….a..wait for it…. Fine practice to have (pun intended).
When we surveyed some ASSES (Association for Spirit of Sports Engagement Services) members, within RRCC they chose to comment on anonymity that: “Everyone should get a fair chance to participate. Likewise everyone should get a fair chance to not participate. There have been instances where, when the response to the event invite hasn’t been overwhelming, Sachien has gone around stalking some of the RRCC members and even threatening them with life-endangering FB posts if they refused to acknowledge his event invite. This to us is unacceptable.” When we asked the SCUMS (Society for Cooperation and Undeterred Moderate Sports) they hailed the decision - “We think this is the best thing to have happened. After the glorious N+2 ruling. We in fact keeping in mind the Singapore spirit recommended to use cane as a penalty, but unfortunately due our typo errors it was interpreted as can and therefore the fine involves cans of drinks or beer etc”.
Like it or not there is a ‘no-show’ fine well and truly in practice and heading up the arduous task of keeping a log of latecomers/no-show culprits is Maddy. “No show is a very delicate topic. Firstly we need to understand what no-show means. Like for instance in Nepal people think no-show = 900; whereas in Africa no-show means jellybeans. So let me clarify in btw that No-show means not showing up. Captains can I please bowl a few overs?”. We had to clarify with Maddy that we understand what “no-show” means. But we just wanted to know how he feels about it…so this is what Maddy had to say (again): “ After a few weeks of no-show it almost became a dying form of art; but thanks to Harshvardhan Rao the concept is still alive. In btw thanks to Nipun too who has mastered it as well and Sathiya debuted with a no-show, how ironic that is? In btw Captains can I please bowl a few overs?”Confounded by the profound statements from Maddy, Rama almost got dizzy and dopped a book from his hand, titled “Timeless wisdom from Swami Vijeshanand”. NKK wanted to comment but later declined saying he never likes when someone “doesn’t show”. Mohit Arora on the contrary didn’t make any comments in person but sportingly posted it on FB much later and said “sorry…don’t want to spoil the party but I think No Show is a bane on this RRCC spirit and I declare a jihad on everyone who ends up a no-show”
Lastly We tried to get Harshvardhan for his comments, but obviously he wasn’t available for any.
Play safe
RRCC!
PS:
Keep looking out at this space..N+2 is a hot topic and we are doing our journalistic research to get some findings on it.