My Story (April 1, 2014 - present) :p

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Hi,
Now that the AMA craze is decreased, its the good time to start a new trend? :D So here is my story from the time of my registration at PC till date. I've tried my best to recall some really good memories but not everything. Hope you like it. :)

Discovering PlanetCricket:
I'm from a middle class family and was not exposed too much into the real world and the rich standard of living like internet, smart phones, computers etc... But my dad wanted to have a PC at home for his office work and thats when we got a PC, very much useful for the office work rather than gaming or browsing. We even didn't have smartphone back in 2004/05 and having internet was a dream. We had to move to a new city due to my dad's work transfer. Thank god, the PC somehow got damaged through internal short circuit in CPU and we decided to have more efficient and gaming PC. We had to come back to the same city we had left a year ago - transfer. As the time passed, India began to develop and smart phones made their way, even the poorest guy had a touch screen mobile. By the time I reached Class 9, my cousin from Bangalore had a game (C07) with him which he didn't play since the time he bought that because it was not compitable with his PC. He then gave it to me and when I returned home and tried to install and open the game, it started eventually and I started playing that day and night. By then, we had a static dial up mobile internet connection to PC through Sony Ericsson phone. I wanted to explore more of the game and started browsing the game info. That's how I reached PlanetCricket.

Registration & Initial Activity:
I wanted to download mods and patches for C07 and registered on April 1, 2014. I started downloading every stadium, kits, etc.. for the game for one month. By seeing the appreciation the people would get for their works, I also wanted to create a C07 mods thread. And due to lack of knowledge about modding, I ripped a content made by someone else and posted it. I didn't knew that it was against the forum rules. If I did, I wouldn't have ripped someone else's hard work. And I recieved 3 months ban from PC by @MattW.

Post-Ban from PC:
I was a friend of Akash (Futurecricketer) in FB who was the member at PC too and who had been running a forum back then. He invited me to help him run his site. That's where I met @AliB. Though Akash had stopped visiting his site, we tried our best to maintain the activity but failed to do so. I and Ali became a very good friends. I checked my ban status in the month of November 2014 and was happy to see that ban was lifted (I was happy because, previously it showed no expiry date). I created a fresh C07 thread and started following some tuts and posted my own works.

Promotion to Sportsbookie team:
Forum Transition had already taken place and many add-ons were added. I then started to explore PC and first forum I reached was Cricket Leagues as it was the most busiest forum on the site. Being a newbie, I wasn't really given the team to manage. But @VC the slogger was the guy who offered me a team in his league which had nearly 15-20 teams. I became active in that part (leagues) of the site. In the month of February 2015, it was the WC season and SB team members were not actively posting the events. We (Myself and Ali) publicly asked for the opportunity and Matt promoted us on Feb 15, 2015.

Demotion, Ban & Promotion:
Seeing our position at PC, we were offered the admin role by a member who wanted us to build a forum for him. We had copied some content from PC and Matt came to know about it. We were warned through PM to take off all the contents but we failed to do so. We were demoted and banned from PC. After returning, the same saga could be seen. Many new sportsbookies were appointed but they stepped down as they couldn't manage SB. I asked for a last chance by updating my profile status and Matt offered me the role again. I then continued to post events regularly. Now I'm considered to be the best Sportsbookie at PC and only person in history of PC to create more than 475 events.

Promotion to Fantasy Cricket Team:
April 24, 2017 was the day when I sent a PM to @User2010, when zwarrior was working alone in FC while Cerealkiller was on a holiday. It was the IPL season and every game should've been scored but it was difficult for Z to work single handedly. I was then promoted to work in FC team and help Z. I became the only second member to have two badges under my username namely FC team and SB team badges other than @themusketeer.


Being the part of PCPL:
June 2015, though I had preferred joining Western Monkeys (Hugging Muffins) in the 5th season, Ali wanted to own a team and requested me for financing the franchise and we won the bidding for franchise the team was sold to us for whopping 30M with my share being 11.75M. Team was named as 'The Amigos' and we were the jokers for the season with the funny team name and horrible performance. In season 6, renamed to Xtremely Xplicit and this time, we made it to finals twice while winning the championship once (OD leg). I ended up as the highest run getter in OD leg which was one of the reason for winning the championship. As of now, I'm in the PCPL management working as the League Manager.

Promotion to Staff:
On September 14, 2017 - all of a sudden, many staff started disappearing from the staff members tab in the 'members' section. That is when I realised that staff reshuffle was going on. After couple of minutes, I received a PM from Matt offering a place in moderation team. I accepted and was promoted alongside @zwarrior and @Ahmed94.

Every day since my promotion to SB team, I made sure I read all the forum rules and follow them which has helped me avoid any warnings. Last time the warning I received was two years ago. It was only after my promotion to SB team that I explored the whole site and became familiar with each and every section and people. I have also tried my hands in graphics as well. Have also purchased dbc14 and have made kits for the same. Have played some Mafia games winning just one game and losing many of them in the last moment.

I've made many friends at PC. I can't name all of them. But some of the closest ones are: @AliB, @VC the slogger @RUDOLPH @Field Marshal @Na Maloom Afraad @Greninja. and many more....

Thank you. :)
 
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Villain

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Nice idea and good story mate. :thumbs


Although, still waiting for that PM from @MattW or @zimrahil offering me to be an admin on PC. :p It got stuck somewhere, bad internet connection?

My story:
Joined back in 2011, still wonder how I never faced a ban... to be continued.
 

Villain

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There are some people stories that would make very interesting reading - you know who you are ;)
Nah, we don't know who are you talking about. Please explain. :D
 

AliB

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I remember each and every moment of your story, how ? :p


Great one.
 
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There are some people stories that would make very interesting reading - you know who you are ;)

Yep but I doubt it that everyone can recall in great detail as Sodium has.[DOUBLEPOST=1505839479][/DOUBLEPOST]
I remember each and every moment of your story, how ? :p


Great one.

Blood brothers!

I admire the relationship you guys have shared over the years.
 

Villain

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Yep but I doubt it that everyone can recall in great detail as Sodium has.
Who's story would you like to hear and think it'd be interesting? I can't think of any...
 

AliB

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Who's story would you like to hear and think it'd be interesting? I can't think of any...
Mine is, you can check that out. :p
 

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