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Back To The Wall

August 18, 2009 fckingblog Leave a comment

Brows furrowed, Kris Srikkanth took a long hard drag on his cigarette. The soothing breeze blowing across the Besant Nagar beach was momentary relief, the sand it deposited in his shoes was trouble accumulating.

His fantasy team, the Chola Pandya Super Rebel Alliance had done well lately. There was the dominating pwnage of the erstwhile champions, the dramatic brushing aside of the past masters, the quelling of the neighbourhood contenders and even the successful conquest across the mighty ocean of the tenacious islanders.

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Get Graphical & Feel FCKing Good

July 20, 2009 fckingblog 1 comment

The IPL 2 irritated me a lot. Not just because it didn’t happen in India.

What our beloved premier league did was bring a flood of fantasy cricket websites upon our effigy burning cricket enthusiasts. I don’t even remember all their names.

No one bothered doing anything new, everyone just copied what IFL did last year, and IFL did a pretty shoddy job to begin with so that’s nothing to be proud of.

My hope for innovation still lingered.

The T20 world cup saw the launch of Dream11. Apparently, it’s the world’s first graphical fantasy cricket game. Quite a mouthful, huh?

I don’t recall any other website offering graphical fantasy cricket. Google says so too, so there. Congratulations Dream11! Unless the Russians prove that it was staged in a hollywood basement, you are the World’s First Graphical Fantasy Cricket Game.

Others:  Innovate!