The Doubles' Tournament is HAPPENING now! Literally! :-) Group A has a few tough teams which are sweating out to march towards the quarters, while Group B has finished all the matches and the teams are done! I and my partner, Mahesh, finally made it to the quarters winning just one match :-)
Yesterday, I was thinking of an effective approach to make the matches' information available to the players and other stakeholders (whoever are they! :-) ). The motivation for this thought was a moment when some of the players wanted to know the answers to the following questions:
(a) Who are my opponents in the next match?
(b) Where do we stand in our group?
(c) How many matches are yet to be played in my group?
(d) How is the other group faring off?
The papers and the data that Murugan was tracking was not enough to answer these and other questions! So, I decided to enter the fray and help a lending hand to him, of course the technology way. :-)
Once this thought arose in my mind, there were a few options for me: (1) Maintain all the data on the tracking sheets and help answering the players' questions. (2) Post the latest data in the web so as to make it available for any player, any time. Option (1) was obviously to be trashed since it would necessitate multiple copies of the sheets to be maintained - one by me, one by Murugan, etc. Also, the players need to call either Murugan or me to find out the latest information. So, I zeroed-in on the option (2) to embrace the technology to make players information-literate! :-)
Thus, the next question was regarding the location of posting: a blog or online scoring/schedule sheets or website. I don't want my blog to be cluttered with the tournament data! And, to manage the online sheets is a pain since as of now the players are not connected in the web either through networking groups or emails! (This is another thing in my agenda to work on! More on this later! :-) ) Finally, I decided to create a website!
Phew! Website! For just the tournament? Or, for the academy? Hmm. I thought it would be a good start to create one for the academy and manage the tournament data within that since this approach would be scalable in future. Otherwise, I need to create a separate website for each of the tournaments! :-)
Ok. Finally, a website for academy! WoW! I searched the web for a free web hosting services and found 50Webs.com and freeshell.in as the viable candidates. But, the former requires no easy way to upload the content, while the latter makes life difficult by forcing me to talk to its administrator first just to create a website! I again came back to Google Page Creator where I had already a sample website of my own! It took just an hour and half to create one for the academy! And here it is: http://truebounceacademy.googlepages.com. I had posted all the latest information to this space. Though this space does not have the Web 2.0 features, it does serve well my requirements! Murugan was quite surprised at this turn of the event! :-)
Next step is to make all the members connected with one another either through a group or a Wiki or a better Web 2.0-enabled web site! They should be able to make comments, edit the content and send notifications to one another on some events!
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