Give away
In conjunction with Sportsfreak, Crucket is offering two of its readers a give-away.
That’s right; free stuff, and it’s legal.
We have two complimentary passes to the game at the National Stadium this Friday (March 6) to watch New Zealand take on India in that rather quaint form of the game known as a one day international.
The only problem is that we really have no idea who to give them to. So if you can come up with a good idea for how we can give them away, they’re all yours.
It can be anything: a rant on the state of the game, jokes, a haiku, or a thesis on which place in the batting order Brendan McCullum should be.
Judges’ decision is final, but obviously gratuitous cheap shots at the BCCI are welcome.
Travel, accommodation, and a full bottle of Tui to throw in the air not included.
Big thanks to the Freak for supplying the prize.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:56 pm
I think you should hide the tickets somewhere and leave clues to help find them.
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Even better, hide them then think really really hard about where they are and challenge people to figure out where they are by reading your mind.
March 4th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
I think you should hide the tickets somewhere and leave clues to help find them.
I like that. I reckon we get Legbreak to think of a hiding place for the tickets somewhere in Wellington, then you have twenty questions to get him to tell you where they are (or where they would be if he actually did go and hide them).
March 4th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
OK; fire away.
Clue 1: They are hidden somewhere where there is usually an absence of people.
March 4th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Are they at the Basin?
March 4th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
No, there are always drunk tramps at the Basin.
March 4th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
The moon. The American base there was decommissioned in 2005.
March 4th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Not the moon.
Clue 2:
The moon, of course, is made of cheese. And cheese is often orange.
March 5th, 2009 at 8:49 am
Deserted and orange? Hmm. I’m sure it will seem obvious once we find out.
March 5th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
The wind needle in Kilbirnie.
March 5th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
The wind needle in Kilbirnie is indeed a thing of beauty (although I prefer the building blocks 1km to the east)
But, that’s not where they’re hidden.
Clue 3.
It’s a bit more cricket related than that.
Also, more of a yellowy orange.
March 6th, 2009 at 8:25 am
Is it the sun?
March 6th, 2009 at 9:36 am
Not the sun; too far to travel from there with the game only a few hours away.
Come on people; not long to go now.
March 6th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
It only takes eight minutes to get back from the sun. But oh well, I only just got back online for the first time since yesterday afternoon, so too late now. Tendulkar going great guns.
March 6th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
The answer was…
It was headen in the seats at the stadium behind the bowlers’ arm.
Note how no-one ever sits there at the Stadium, despite the fact that, as cricket fans know, it’s the best place to sit.
Instead they all sit at the half-way line for rugby.
Strange.
March 6th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
It was headen in the seats at the stadium behind the bowlers’ arm.
Awesome. Of course, you would have needed a ticket to get in to get the tickets.
Thanks for having a go everyone (both of you). But in the end the tickets went to an off-line competitor.
March 6th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
All they had to do was say there they were Ben;
I’d have gone and retrieved them.
At least it didn’t turn into a “clowns pocket a-hole” discussion like it did on the Sportsfreak forum…
March 6th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
I couldn’t have gone anyway, but I would never consider the seats at the stadium to be “yellowy orange”.
March 7th, 2009 at 10:20 am
Are you accusing me of being colour blind house?
You wouldn’t be the first.