Then at 8 pm Nino DiLoreto, Emmy Award winning former TV
producer and host, moderated the Webcast of the Teams Draft for
the Championship, at which ACC strategic partner BIG League USA
CEO Salman Ahmed, impeccably attired as usual, made the
announcement that a deal was close to complete to broadcast
the Championship Finals on 3 TV channels ! Truly a momentous day
for cricket in America !
Hugo Scheckter (GWU) said “loved the broadcast”, Rahul Potgun
(Auburn) raved “the broadcast was awesome, the presentation was
perfect!” Adil Bhatti (MC)”Awesone job !”, Ammar Khan
(GMU) gushed, ” Great presentation. I watched with my mom and
dad and they got all excited about GMU being in the group of
death! I can’t wait for it to start !”. Anand Patel, “we
are ready….let’s go UMBC !!!!! “
These were just a few of the rave reviews for this
installment of American College Cricket’s efforts to bring a
cricket audience to domestic USA cricket – the first step having
been taken with the webcast of last year’s Championship Semis
and Finals. Large as the USA cricket audience is, it has
always focused on International cricket .
This year American College Cricket and BIG League USA
will provide cricket fans in the USA, Canada and the rest of the
world, with something they don’t get much of - lots of
opportunities to view cricket action free, all over the country
as an audience is built for the domestic game.
From the 2010 Championship ACC focused on putting
together a tight, TV-ready tournament to be broadcast to cricket
fans on their computer or tv, in dorms, homes, Starbucks or
wherever they may be. TV has a broader demographic,
but the average college student views everything on their
computer.
Nice as it is to have spectators in the stands, it’s more
important to go to, and find the audience by broadcasting.
The LIVE VIDEO broadcast schedule for the 2011
American College Cricket Spring Break Championship for the
Chanderpaul Trophy is :
March 15th Wed 8pm – Live Webcast of the Opening Ceremony
at American College Cricket Stadium, Ft Lauderdale.
March 19th Sat – 8am to 9 pm – Live Webcast of 4 games at
the Stadium
March 19th Sat – 9pm- Live Webcast of the BIG American
College Cricket Awards Night – honoring the best of College
Cricket of the past 2 years.
March 20th Sun- 9am- Live Webcast of the Semis (2 games )
March 20th Sun- 6pm- TV broadcast of the Finals, on possibly
3 channels to be announced.
Assisting host and show producer DiLoreto in drawing and
announcing the teams were the lovely Krista
from Florida International University and Cecelia
from Broward College.
GROUP A – the toughest of the
groups,
North Carolina State U, York University, University of
Maryland (BC), George Mason U,Florida International U,U of
Central Florida, College of Wooster and U of Pennsylvania.
GROUP B
Auburn U, Ohio State U, St Cloud State ,U of Houston, George
Washington U,Mc Gill U, U of Florida, U of Tampa
GROUP C
Rutgers U, Montgomery College, NYU-Poly, Texas A & M, Florida
Atlantic U, Cleveland State U, NJ Institute of Technology and
U of South Florida.
GROUP D
U of Southern California, U of Iowa, Penn State ,Texas Tech,
U of Minnesota, Thunderbird School of Global Management, and
Boston U
