Fwd: Re: [NECA_2008] Quaterfinals Matchup & Neutral Umpire announcement

[Amit Partani]

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From: "Raja Kolli rajak...@gmail.com [NECA_2008]" <NECA...@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Aug 19, 2015 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: [NECA_2008] Quaterfinals Matchup & Neutral Umpire announcement
To: "NECA...@yahoogroups.com" <NECA...@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: "b.v. ganesh" <gani....@yahoo.com>, "Aakash Shah" <aakas...@gmail.com>, <rajee...@gmail.com>

 

Thank you Ganesh!

With regards to ECC Hoickers vs Bgsc game which is currently scheduled for Sunday at 11:30 Am, I have few points that I want to share with you and other EC members.

Most of my teammates( especially unavailable ones) are upset/concerned with the time of the game and requested Ganesh Yadav(Captain) and/or me to do something about it.

So I want to share their concerns with you guys. So I will keep it as even as I can.

1) Rajaeev/Hoickers have sent an email telling us that they have scheduled the QF game for Sunday 11:30 AM.

2) Ganesh Yadav/BGSC requested for Saturday/Sunday morning game around 8 AM because of the availability issue. We also offered to play in any ground of their liking and also offered our ground in Wrentham as well.

3) Rajeev/Hoickers replied back saying that they have player availability issue for Saturday and they want to play on their home field on Sunday and the only time it is available is after the morning game which would be 11:30 AM. 

   I personally think that these are reasonable statements because Hoickers have earned their home field advantage by playing hard throughout the season. Having said that they have played the same number of games(3) in wrentham as they did on their home field.

Unfortunately that puts us(BGSC) in a volatile situation. I have double checked with all my players on their availability for Sunday 11:30 AM.

We are definitely not able to make a playing 11 and making the minimum number of players(8) is also very bleak as we have only 7 available to play right now. 

So at this point we have only few options left, at least that I can think of, obviously we are open to alternate solutions from the EC.

1) ECC Hoickers somehow help us out and change the game time to 8 AM on either of the days(Sat/Sun) on any field of their liking. BGSC is ready to share the ground expenses with Hoickers.

2) Move the game to next saturday(Aug 29th) at 8 AM and then the SF could be played on the following Sunday.

3) As a last resort, because BGSC is not able to put up a team( forget about a competitive team), we request the NECA EC to replace BGSC team with another higher seeded team that lost in the wild card game so that we(as in NECA) would have a meaningful QF game.

Ganesh, I know you work really hard to keep this league in tact and make sure that all the teams play competitively and with the right spirit. We apologize for creating more work for you and EC than anticipated. Please do the best you can to handle this situation.

Regards,

Raja Kolli

BGSC - EC

PS: BGSC would prefer Option #1 or Option #2.

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 11:48 PM, Ganesh.Cha...@mathworks.com [NECA_2008] <NECA...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Hi all,

Congratulations to all the teams that made it through the eliminator round and better luck next year for teams that got eliminated.

And thanks to all the neutral umpires who made this weekend happen!

 

Provided in this email are the next round (quarterfinals) matchups and their seeding at the end of the round robin phase and the neutral umpire assignments.

 

Host                                      Visiting                                         Neutral Umpires
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Gladiators (1)                     Panthers (11)                                     MCC 2, Rebels

ECCH (2)                           BGSC (8)                                          Willow Geeks, Ashland Natick CC

SCC 1 (3)                          eClinicalWorks (7)                              Daredevils,Technobyte Thunders

NECC (4)                          MCC1 (5)                                           Shaheen XI, SCC 2

All home teams are requested to announce the game date/time/venue by close of day Wednesday, 19-Aug-2015.

All neutral umpires are to be announced by the close of day Thursday 20-Aug-2015.

 

Note: Some of you had written directly to me asking for the matchup information and I had informed you incorrectly that the matchups will be based upon brackets. My apologies for the incorrect information. This email reflect the accurate matchups.

 

Regards,​​​​​

Ganesh Iyer on behalf of NECA Board.

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