Event INFO
Official RESULTS
UPDATE 3:
Blog Reports HERE & HERE2
UPDATE 2:
Arrived home around 9PM, kids were just too hungry too wait for the drive back home for dinner.
So we had something fast for dinner i.e. Hot&Roll and Cool Blog near a place I'd stayed in the 80s.
UPDATE 1:
2nd Round to be played with each player given 10minutes....Rapid Blitz?
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Normally, competitions organised by SM would be well-organised - low entrance fees, numerous prizes, appropriate venue etc etc.....the only complaint or guestimate would be - how late will the event start as compared to the advertised time (the average seemed to be 90minutes LATE!). Amongst the event I'd attended with the kids were the 2012 & 2013 MBPJ Open, Catur Beliawanis 2013 & the Piala Tun S.Zahiruddin (UM Open). ALL the events were well-run and the kids would normally bring home a prize or 2!
However, everything that can go wrong WENT WORNG TODAY!
9AM was the start time advertised for today's event ( Refer INFO ).
However, in TODAY's Battle Chess - organisers of battle chess blundered big time or 3BT.
By 11 AM, the First Round for the U-12 have not even begun!
3.30 PM, Round 2 start time is still anybody's guess!
Some Suggestions for the Organisers:-
(1) U-7 & U-8 Event could have started with the players sitting on the floor. No need to wait a couple of hours for the tables to arrive.
(2) Announcements c/w NOTICES, SHOULD have been posted. Estimated start times for the respective groups SHOULD have been given!
(3) Bring a "hailer" and repeat the announcements. Many players & parents missed the "inaudible" announcements because they were waiting near the staircase.....unable or unwilling to participate in the FOC public sauna! A father who kept asking for updates still had his kid "missed" a game as information was not communicated clearly and transparently by the organisers
(4) Venue with Ventilation would be much, much welcomed and appreciated. (Read HERE
(5) Don't take on more players than you can handle. Though arbiter's decision is final, having certain age groups playing with some boards having clocks and some w/o is a BIG turnoff!
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If not for the much needed competition needed by the kids as prep.for 9th Asian Schools we would have been gone by noon as per ZJ who replied to my SMS asking where he was by saying - " Dah sampai rumah la bro. Bawa anak2 aku tgk smurf2 lagi sejuk."
I sincerely hope that SM learns from this "incident" and ensure a repeat DOES NOT occur. Am Confident SM & CCE will rebound from this stronger than ever. "ALL the BEST - SM & CCE for the next event that you'll be organising."
