ATIC Open Futsal Tournament : An overview

Hello readers ,

Today I will be talking about the ATIC open futsal tournament event which was held last Saturday( 15 August ) in Suria futsal , Jesselton point , KK.

My post will be more like telling the story and discussing it .


So .... It was one of the days of early july when Ms Ruhaidah our Recreational Tourism lecturer told us that we, as students , will have to organize a recreational event as our major project for the subject.

sound interesting huh ? that's what I also thought. I thought i will finally work as part of an organized team with goals and structure, but I was mistaken.

Three things showed me that it is going to be messed up, they are the choice of departments , the people chosen for departments and the choice of event itself.

OK ... Lets go

1st .The choice of departments :

we had these departments & position in our organization team:

chairperson
vice-chairperson
treasurer
secretary
promotion department
f&b department
protocol department
Souvenir department
safety and security department

cool ... but there were 1 important person /department missing

Technical Department!!!!

Tell you what ... all these teams are important , but we forgot that there should be a department specialise on the technical side for whatever we are doing .... for the actual event itself .. if our event is futsal ... that team must have high knowledge of futsal and they should run the event according to high knowledge of futsal and its rules , if our event is basketball tournament , it should go the same way .... did we have this ? HELL NO!


2nd. the people chosen for departments

Lets stop here for a while and think .. when a company hires you , don't they hire you for a specific job that you can actually do ? that's what we lacked in this part ... professionalism.

of course the chairman, vice-chairman and all the key positions should be chosen by votes .. I totally agree , but the problem here is the departments
we did it like this :
example : F& b section , you ,him ,him , and her
other departments went the same ...while we should have asked these people to join departments of their interest for a high potential ...
that's why in the end .... Achael from F&B was designing poster for promotion ... while the promotion people were handling the Safety and Security team duties ... and Eunice the treasurer was watching the futsal scoreboard ... lol what a mess ....

3rd. The Event Choosing

after all the departments were formed ... we wanted to choose the event which we wish to organize , and then i knew the organized team i was hoping to work as a part of ... is just like a mob
mob : a disorderly crowd of people

when we were given choices of event to organize .. everyone chose what they would like to play , not to organize ... for example ...if its written on board treasure hunting .. some people were thinking this way : wow treasure hunting , sound like fun . while they don't know anything about treasure hunting event organizing , so it was totally random and we made few wrong choices ...

Actually it should have been done this way :

everyone who got a suggestion for event must give a brief idea on how it is going to be organized and their expectations for it ...and he should convince the others before the event idea is listed on the choices board. Just like siti did with basket ball idea , she knew what she do , so she suggested. that's how to work organized.




Anyway , Enough talking about the preparing process cause I don't want to get high blood pressure in such a young age!! we will move directly to the event date.

The Event day

on last Saturday 15 August , all the organizers arrived 7:30 am , we started preparing for the event .. after all , we started on 8:30 ... mars was with the f&b department helping them distribute the food and drinks on teams , while i was inside organizing the matches schedule for both groups A & B , and Ralph Jayson was there also helping me.

well to make it short ... after sometime , we found that there is a team missing in each group as they didn't show up , so some teams wont be as exhausted as others. at this point , me and Ralph had a discussion about the decision to do ... he wanted a team from A to play against a team group B , while my idea was not to do that but to extend the rest time , as it is simply against the game rules since the 2 teams are in different groups ... so we kept discussing ... mars came in, well lets say she wanted to take decision that doesn't fit at all ... i disagreed with both of them , with all respect. and decided to do what i believed is right , based on experience gained from organizing previous tournaments .
well sadly 2 people there couldn't handle the pressure that anyone could face in their work life any time , and they left me alone , so i had to take full responsibility ...later on Ralph came back and showed real professionalism ...which i respect him for.

anyway .. me and Ralph reached a solution that would save the schedule and at that part made me really feel like I'm working with organized people.


well some people didn't really show what we hoped from them , maybe still got a lot to learn ... we were lucky that the event went fine with that number of critical mistakes , but at least we got our story out of it ...
I will mention some people who showed real team work spirit by volunteering on the event day in a really helpful way :

Ralph Jayson : even though he is in safety and security department .. he has been helping all the way on the technical side of event .... and he showed real spirit !! cheers man :D
Emma, Achael , Sue, Sharol : they took care of players injuries and handled medical problems even though they were from promotion / f&b team. thanks girls .

Rachel Kimberley : she helped by handling announcements during the event. thanks Rachel it was really helpful

Khaled : Volunteered to handle one of the score boards during event , thank you !
Eunice : Volunteered to handle the other score board even though she didn't know how to do , but she showed a real desire to help ... thanks Eunice !!!!

Also Special thanks to our refrees Mr Abin and Chef Steve !! :D
and thanks to others whom I didn't mention and wish for more next time , its all about team work in the end ... we fall down to learn how to stand up, so keep learning.