The RCBians in Mumbai Meet Up
Left to right: Disha, Niyati, Sid, Me, Abhishek
The Mumbai meet up was awesome. In the words of Abhishek, we all got along so well because we had one driving passion that brought us strangers together - RCB. By the way, Abhishek hadn't met any of us before, it was his first time, so massive kudos to him! He was also the one who made sure this meet up happened!
The rest of us, Disha (the cricket-wonder-woman who's working with 50 fans worldwide on a book on Dravid that's releasing Jan 11th), Niyati (the youngest of the lot, she's gearing up to be the Mumbai chapter's photographer), Sid (Chief RCB Fan, the man who knows EVERYTHING not only about RCB but the other players too) and me (your friendly community manager who's learning more about cricket everyday) had all met in Bangalore for the Auditions on October 3rd.
I'll let the others fill you in on how much fun it was, and I'll focus on how YOU can create your own chapter.
- It helps to have about 3-4 fans. Bangalore, you guys are more than set. Delhi & Chennai & Indore, see if you can recruit friends (it's a start if they're heavier cricket fans than RCB fans. We can convert 'em)
- Choose a location and time, tell me, I'll publish it on Facebook (and send out an update), on Twitter & this Blog.
- Don't worry about meeting new people - we spent over 2 hours just talking about cricket!
And don't scoff at meeting only 2-3 other people. Everything starts small no? Read on.
Next steps for the Mumbai Chapter
As Disha mentioned on Facebook, we have big plans, and we're starting one tiny steady step at a time.
We're aiming to meet every fortnight, at a location close to either the Bandra/Andheri train stations. We'll be location scouting for the Mumbai RCB-adda (so clearly never meeting at Tendulkars ;))
At the next meet up, we'll have Abhishek interview Sid about the experience - he has so much to share (e.g. did you know PK's kaka is the team massager?? and he plays motivational music for the team before each match?). I'll be filming this on my VERY amateur Flip Cam and we'll be putting together a rough cut for the site. Niyati will take photos, Disha will write, and everyone will be bringing a friend. So we'll grow from 5 to 10. And if YOU guys come with your friends, we'll more than double!!
The plan is to keep meeting up and talking cricket on a regular basis and to grow to a group of 20,50,100 passionate RCB fans in time for IPL3. I'll see what I can do about getting us food and beverage discounts (incentives ;)) so that it's easier to bring soft-RCB-fans along and convert 'em to die-hard fanatics.
What say Bangalore, Delhi, Chennai etc. Ready to have your OWN chapters :P
P.S. Long term vision: have committees & chairs for each city chapter. Have them be responsible for fan activities in each chapter and work with me on getting freebies, tickets, merchandise and *cough* guest appearances from the team players *cough* and maybe *cough* Katrina *cough cough.* But I can't do this alone, you guys need to show RCB you exist and deserve a surprise visit from Dravid at your meet up.
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