Tryout

I need players. The season for our inter-agency summer sports fest will start in the next few weeks and I am creating our badminton lineup. This year many interested individuals enlist their names for the tryout. There were new names and that made me excited since I would be witnessing new faces playing. I could get better players.

Within the two hours of the tryout, only six arrived, two from the mother office and four from the satellite office. I am a little disappointed but I thought that maybe this is better. If more had come, I might just hurt some feelings because not all will be part of the team. Luckily, all who came to the tryout are good ones. Thus, all six are now official players of the team.

Tryouts are really for people who love the game. These people have the passion and the persistence to get what they want no matter how difficult the means to get it. One of the players who went to the tryout told me that the venue is too far that is why some of their co-workers choose not to go. I find that reasoning ridiculous. Why did their co-workers made to the tryout then? They all came from the same direction. I know that these people could be good or even better than those who had come, but I do not like people who just think about themselves. Sport is a discipline. It entails sacrifices.

In agencies such as ours where athletes are not in scarcity, one person could play multiple games. These people are good but you cannot serve two masters efficiently at the same time. Unfortunately, these same people have ballooning egos. They thought that because they are good players they do not have to go to tryouts. They would get the slot automatically. However, this is one attitude I never like. I would rather opt for people who have respect of the game and their co-athletes.

In the coming weeks, there would be regular practices. The players would still be at test how much they love the game by regularly attending the practice. I have another policy, No Practice, No Play.