11-24-2020, 08:50 PM
So we're doing this online tournament. I confess, it was my idea. A bunch of tournaments are doing them in the age of covid and getting competitors. It's low hanging fruit so I proposed the idea because I do want KFM to live on and no one there seems to be doing a thing to deal with declining business beyond wimpering. It's like that puny sparrow again, discussed in the posts above. No one can man up. TC is full of fraidy cats.
I told them to get masks in back in March. They still haven't figured it out. TC has everything needed to screen logos on masks. All the schools need masks to reopen. Low hanging fruit.
I designed the tournament to grab eyeballs for our declining YouTube channel. There's no tournament to get vids. There's no crew to make internal vids. We had several in production because I was starting to find time to develop a vlog. I got one vlog off and it was very well received. Two more were in pieces and those pieces are lost now. Jason has access but no one can access his files.
But back to this online tournament. So I designed it so it would glean eyeballs from Black Friday to Xmas, spread across 5 weeks. That would dilute the uploading load, which falls on me. Most online tournaments just gather the vids, declare a winner, send them a trophy, and maybe post that vid somewhere on their site. We wanted the vids for content. That was the point. More eyeballs.
It's had its hiccups. The location issue with YouTube upload jammed me, effectively ruining my vacation with Tara. Instead of spending the day devoted to my beloved daughter, I spent it cursing this mess I had gotten into and the fact the TC couldn't help. I had to call in a major favor from Patrick, who saved the day and I owe him one now. He and I have been through so much together with TC. I miss him most of all. We chat on the phone for an hour or so every couple of weeks, just to stay in touch. A dear friend and brotha - he's almost DOOM worthy - our connection is that deep.
Today, I went in the office to pick up a handmedown PC which I'm very very grateful for and touch base about the tournament. Gigi started going off about how we need to award more trophies and various issues she had with the rules (these are the same rules we've had all along, just truncated). She thought we needed to award more trophies. For years, I've tried to explain to her that the point of a competition is to declare a 1st, 2nd & 3rd, and everyone else has to lose. But no. Everyone needs trophies. Give more trophies away. There should be more winners. Everyone should win.
Gigi thinks she knows better even though she doesn't play any sports or follow any sports. She listens to the coaches, who know she is easily manipulated because it's not hard to tell she has no real understanding of martial arts. They play her. They've always played her. She's easy to play that way. Then she tells me the plays like they are gospel. I used to try to clarify, but I don't have the energy for it anymore.
In the end, for the first round, she decided that in one of the divisions (there are 4) there was a tie and both get a trophy.
It's a tie for 3rd.
sigh
I told them to get masks in back in March. They still haven't figured it out. TC has everything needed to screen logos on masks. All the schools need masks to reopen. Low hanging fruit.
I designed the tournament to grab eyeballs for our declining YouTube channel. There's no tournament to get vids. There's no crew to make internal vids. We had several in production because I was starting to find time to develop a vlog. I got one vlog off and it was very well received. Two more were in pieces and those pieces are lost now. Jason has access but no one can access his files.
But back to this online tournament. So I designed it so it would glean eyeballs from Black Friday to Xmas, spread across 5 weeks. That would dilute the uploading load, which falls on me. Most online tournaments just gather the vids, declare a winner, send them a trophy, and maybe post that vid somewhere on their site. We wanted the vids for content. That was the point. More eyeballs.
It's had its hiccups. The location issue with YouTube upload jammed me, effectively ruining my vacation with Tara. Instead of spending the day devoted to my beloved daughter, I spent it cursing this mess I had gotten into and the fact the TC couldn't help. I had to call in a major favor from Patrick, who saved the day and I owe him one now. He and I have been through so much together with TC. I miss him most of all. We chat on the phone for an hour or so every couple of weeks, just to stay in touch. A dear friend and brotha - he's almost DOOM worthy - our connection is that deep.
Today, I went in the office to pick up a handmedown PC which I'm very very grateful for and touch base about the tournament. Gigi started going off about how we need to award more trophies and various issues she had with the rules (these are the same rules we've had all along, just truncated). She thought we needed to award more trophies. For years, I've tried to explain to her that the point of a competition is to declare a 1st, 2nd & 3rd, and everyone else has to lose. But no. Everyone needs trophies. Give more trophies away. There should be more winners. Everyone should win.
Gigi thinks she knows better even though she doesn't play any sports or follow any sports. She listens to the coaches, who know she is easily manipulated because it's not hard to tell she has no real understanding of martial arts. They play her. They've always played her. She's easy to play that way. Then she tells me the plays like they are gospel. I used to try to clarify, but I don't have the energy for it anymore.
In the end, for the first round, she decided that in one of the divisions (there are 4) there was a tie and both get a trophy.
It's a tie for 3rd.
sigh
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