Bapu 10th memorial
Bapu Event
It’s been two days since Bapu’s event and I’m unable to get out of it. Wow. What an event. I’m not sure how we were able to pull out such a massive event at Scale.
Key Stats
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Total Budget : 11 Lakhs
Food Served : 8k-9k people over three days (500 Kg of meat served and 1200 kg of Rice )
Volunteers worked : 100 +
Total teams : 42
Total Matches : 46 ( 4 courts on day 1, 2 courts on day 2 and 1 court on day 3)
Final Match watched by 2k+ people
Video recordings
Number of Vehicles : 1k and parked over 1 km stretch
Core Team : Sudhakar, Rakesh, Saireddy Bapu, Lakshma Reddy, Vinoda, Padma, Baba, Damodar, Nawab, Nagesh, Swamy Goud, Rasoon, Santosh, Cook
- One match went to Tie and then super tie , decided by Golden Ride
I started SFO on Wed 4 PM and reached Hyd by Friday 01/20 4 AM . It was 8 AM by the team I reached Kankal. I went straight to the school ground and it looked great. I went to school around 10 AM and met School teachers and village Pedda Manushulu. The event got started around 11 AM with Garland to Bapu and Tenkay. DEO & SI were guests and after speaches, I spoke about why I organized the event . Three reasons 1) Sports teach life (winning vs losing) 2. Importance of Health 3. Gather as many people that my dad knew. School kids did dance performances , March fast.
We played Friendly match between Gurjakunta and Kankal to begin the tournament. After that start, the games continued and the PET, volunteers, players continued the matches till 9.30 PM. All the players went to lunch and the food was great. We gave two 1.75 bottles to all the teachers and PET’s. I slept very well on day1. Total of 8 teams qualified for league matches (3 teams stayed over night ). One low light was between the match between Tadwai and Sadasiva Nagaer. SS Nagar protested over umpire’s decision and decided to not to play for 10 minutes and sat on the ground. They were forced to walk them out. Kankal A & B teams didn’t qualify for the leagues. I met Sripad thatha at Stadium and he is exactly kind of persona I was expecting to the event
Next day we went to Ramalayam & Baba temple. The matches started at 4.30 PM for 5 hours and 12 matches were played. The match between Tadwai & Brahmanpalli was intense and it was a tie match. 4 teams qualified for Semis (Mupkal, Bollaram Thanda, Brahmanpally, Tanda). Tadwai & Brahmanpally were tied for Semis but Brahmanpally qualified as they lost with less margin to Mupkal than Tadwai. We ate dinner around 10 PM and went to bed around 12 AM and I couldn’t sleep well. 18 Goats arrived and the cutting started around 10 PM. Got good responses to live matches in the You tube channel.
On Final day, we started pooka at home around 10 AM and 5 priests did pooja. We recorded some videos in Bapu’s memory. Ram Reddy Anna came home. We were in the ground by 11 AM and the first semi final match started around 12.30 PM . We handovered Vaikunta Ratham to GP around 11.30 AM . Before the matches started Ramreddy Anna spoke very highly of Bapu. First semi final vs very tight match and second one was one sided. We started food serving at 11.30 and the villagers came to eat the food and matches happened in parallel. The crowd/relatives started trickling in and there are total of 2k+ people at the stadium and 4k meals served. We hand covered the mementos to PETs and volunteers in-between the matches.
I spoke around 5 minutes just before the final match. I spoke about the values I learned from Bapu and honored people who are exhibiting those values.
Value 1 : Education : Award to Ravi V for DPS Warangal (Gave to Phani as Ravi was not there)
Value 2: Creativity , Innovation and Leadership : Ravi M for Drivers
Value 3 : Help & Impact : 4 nominees ( Sai Reddy Bapu, Prabhakaranna, Sangam Trust, Hari (Sahaya)). Gave to Hari as I don’t want conflict of interest
Value 4 : Loving nature ; 2 nominees ( Mudigama Veeranna and Shala Balraju thatha). Gave the award to Sanjeev
In between the matches, Siri danced Solo and group. School kids also danced. I felicitated Ashok for Ginnese book record for holding the flag and riding 100km
Final match was very intense. Mupkal won by 1 point. I couldn’t watch the full match as I went home for rest room. I returned to the ground just after the match over and I couldn’t get in as the crowd was leaving. There was huge crowd. We distributed the prizes
Commentary by Ram Chander Anna was great. Everyone loved it. Also Supriya did great job for live videos on Youtube
Best Rider : Saireddy Bapu & Chinnamma
Best Defender: Attamma & Yerrapahad Chinnamma
4th Prize : Chinnakka
3rd Prize : Peddakka and Bava
2nd Prize : Anna and Vadina
1st Prize : Me and Amma
We hand covered the mementos to all the people who worked. I thanked each and everyone.
People started leaving around 5 PM and everyone spoke very high about the event. We gave 2 1.75 bottles to PET’s and they sat at Damodar Anna home. All the villagers sat at Venkat Reddy Anna home and we spend around 22k on Alcohol. The ground volunteers we gave 25 beers .
The event was 100 times more that what I expected. I delegated all the work to Rakesh and he did a fantastic job. Special thanks to Nawab for self less work, Hari for proactively asking for help. Baba for helping me navigating the situation with Damodar and Saireddy Anna. Sai Reddy bapu for constant support and Damodar Anna for planning
My highlights
- Volunteers work : school kids worked as volunteers and they took care of lines in between the breaks
- Sri pasha thatha song
- Ram Reddy Anna Speech
- Commentary
- Matches played under Flood lights and with team jerseys
- Well organized
- Food - The mutton on Final day was great
- You tube live
- Drone videos
- Vehicles parked over 1 KM stretch on both sides of the road
posted by Sudhakar @ 6:39 AM
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