We kept our vigil on how our RIFA Philippines daughters performed in the recently-concluded Dana and Norway Cups via a strangely wonderful combination of SMS, chat, email, online results verification of tournament websites, and blogging.
Here’s what we did: Soccer mom Mallotte (who accompanied the team) texted hubby Eric the result seconds after the final whistle of each game. In turn, Eric immediately forwarded the text to Statsman Vita and HEdCen co-parent Maxx (the only RIFA parents whose cellphone numbers he had) and relayed the news to the rest of the team’s parents by e-mail.
Our Statsman Vita, ever the sigurista, then waited an hour or two to confirm the win/draw/loss from the Results Page of the tournament’s website, as well as to check on how the other teams in the group fared. Meanwhile, accidental blogger Eric would prepare the news update for posting on the Team Blog, based on the details Mallotte supplied by text/chat/email, e.g., the final score, who made the goals, and the name of the opposing team.
Vita would then email the parents confirming the result as well as mentioning other statistics (such as the outcomes of the other matches in the group with a comparative summary table to boot, and the team’s next scheduled game) and offering his analysis of the data he gathered. Subsequent blog updates culled excerpts from or reproduced in full the Statsman’s facts and insights. Other parents responded with their own emails reacting to the latest news and adding prayers for the girls. From time to time, Eric would upload to the Team Blog photos emailed by Mallotte, so we all could see those cherished faces we missed so much.
And that’s how we survived the agony of separation and celebrated the sweetness of the girls’ success halfway around the … Globe … with the help of … Smart … technology, across the vast … Broadband … of cyberspace. (Uhmm, paging Pol and Jack of the 2008 Fund-Raising Committee, here’s your cue as to some of our potential sponsors … 
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