Festamania - 2

Written on November 2, 2008, by Rajat.

As promised earlier, I am presenting my experiences at Maharaja Surajmal Institute of Technology (MSIT)’s fest.

If you want to learn how not to manage a fest, you should attend the one hosted by the said college. Blitzkrieg ‘08 was a disaster when it comes to efficient management.

There were three of us - Dhruv, Mohnish and me, who went to participate over there. Mohnish had gone for LAN Gaming, while me and Dhruv were there for Possiedon - the C/C++ event. And I knew how things were going to be when I reached the registration desk.

We had registered ourselves earlier by visiting the college one fine day. However, when I went to confirm at the day of the event, I was told, “There has been no registrations from Hans Raj College.” And I was like.. What?? Why?? I had to do a separate registration again. The icing on the cake? Barely five minutes after the second registration, one of the volunteers said that there has been a mistake, and we had been registered earlier itself. What the Fuck? Couldn’t they check properly?

One who makes the rules, should make it a point to follow them as well, isn’t it? But there are no takers for this adage at MSIT. They made the rule that no more than two teams from each college will be allowed to participate in a single event. However, there were colleges over there represented by more than fifteen teams! Horrible! And if I must tell you about their skills at crowd management, you’d quip that ten year olds might have done a better job! Take a look: