We welcome you and your family to the Spring Festival 2012 celebrations. Please join us and witness the amazing performances from local talents.

When: Saturday, Apr 21st, 4:30 PM

Where:

Wilson School

2301 J Street, SW

Cedar Rapids, IA – 52404

We will have scrumptious dinner followed by cultural program(s) performed by Balavikas kids and local talents. For updates and details on this event go to http://www.foicr.org closer to the program date.

4:30 PM – Social Hour

5:30 PM – 6:45 PM – Dinner

7:00 PM – Program Starts

Ticket prices are as follows

FOICR Member: $12 (Adv), $15 (At gate)

Non Member:      $15 (Adv), $18(At gate)

Admission is FREE for kids under age 5 years.

Please purchase the tickets in advance and help us plan better.

Tickets can be purchased from any of the below EC members.

Babu              319-378-1584

Rama             319-892-0295

Vijay               319-393-1505

Deepak           319-298-9113 

Pavan             319-362-3368

Radhika         319-294-4858

Sama              319-378-1980

Gurpreet        319-892-3128

Arti                 319-447-9517

Mukundan     319-247-2906

Sridhar          864-633-6488

Jishnu             319-447-9101

FOICR EC

Friends of India Association, Cedar Rapids

FOICR Committee.

CARROM:

Under 10

• Rohan Mudugere (Winner)
• Akhilesh Tumu (Runner up)

10 to 16

• Neil Sharma (Winner)
• Shurthi Boggarapu (Runner up)

17 and up

• Krishna Akurathi (Winner)
• Jagadeesh Boggarapu (Runner up)

CHESS

Under 10

• Anish Lodh (Winner)
• Prem Kulkarni (Runner up)

10 to 16

• Vinay Sama (Winner)
• Ajith Nathan (Runner up)

17 and up

• Vijay Vaddadi (Winner)
• Krishnappan Subramanian (Runner up)

FOOSBALL

Under 10

• Rohan Mudugere (Winner)
• Ritom Sen (Runner up)

10 to 16

• Kathir Rameshwaran (Winner)
• Kaushik Gokul (Runner up)

17 and up

• Krishnappan Subramanian (Winner)
• Deepak Setty (Runner up)

TABLE TENNIS

Under 10

• Roshan Gokul (Winner)
• Chirag Deepak (Runner up)

10 to 16

• Kathir Rameshwaran (Winner)
• Rizwan Sidhu (Runner up)

17 and up (Men’s)

• Shairaz Sidhu (Winner)
• Srinath Danavulapati (Runner up)

Wii TENNIS

Under 10

• Ritom Sen (Winner)
• Roshan Gokul (Runner up)

10 to 16

• Vinay Sama (Winner)
• Kaushik Gokul (Runner up)

17 and up

• Parvath Reddy (Winner)
• Karthik Narayanan (Runner up)

A group of volunteers from FOICR Volunteered for 5 on 5 team and 3 on 3 developmental & competitive basketball, and helped in the morning from 8:30-noon and from noon to approx 4:00 on Saturday, Feb 18 at Jefferson HS in Cedar Rapids.

Volunteers helped in timing and scoring the game, officiating a 3 on 3 or 5 on 5 game, rules were given ahead of time and gone over the day of event.

FOICR appreciates the following individuals for their time and help on a busy weekend Ketan Puranik, Deepak Mehta, Ramakrishnan Kamalumpundi, Arti Anavkar, and Viraj Anavkar.

It will be a fun-filled family event where men, women, and children of all ages can participate, showcase their skills & win exciting prizes/trophies.

When:     9 AM to 4 PM, Saturday March 17  2012

Where:  New Life Community Church, 275 West 29th Ave, Marion, IA 52302

What:

• Chess
• Table Tennis (Ping-pong)
• Carrom
• Wii Tennis
• Foosball

Age Groups: Under 10, 10-15 Years, 16 and above

Reply by:  March 11th 2012 (No entries accepted after midnight  March 11)

Reply to: sportschair@foicr.org with your name, contact details, age group and the games you want to participate.

Event fee: $5.00 for each members and $10.00 for each non-members irrespective of number of games.

We are Looking forward to your Enthusiastic Participation! Let’s play hard and have fun!!

FOICR Sports Day 2012 Rules

Table Tennis 

Coordinator : TBD

Rules:

1. Each match is best of 3 games. Finals is best of 5 games.

2. Each game is of 11 points. 2 serves per player alternatively. A game is won by being the first player or team to reach 11 points, with a lead of at least 2 points.

3. Match begins with a toss, the winner of the toss has three choices: (1) to serve ; (2) to receive; or (3) to start at a particular end. Once the winner makes his choice, the loser of the toss has the other choice.

4. During serve, the ball must be tossed and must be visible throughout the serve.

5. During serve tossing the ball and failing to hit the ball is a fault. Opponent gets the point.

6. A serve that touches the net on the way, but still touches your side first and then your opponent’s side on the second bounce, will be a re-serve. There is no limit on re-serves.

7. Player serving will be incharge of keeping track of the score.

8. Service should be done from behind the endlines

10. Players change sides after each game.

11. If a score of 10-all is reached, both players or teams will only serve 1 serve each until the game is won.

12. One timeout of 1 minute is allowed per player in a game.

A player loses a point if he:

• Fails to make a good serve (eg. throwing the ball in the air and failing      to hit the ball or failing to hit it onto his opponent’s side of the      table)
• Allows the ball to bounce twice on his side of the table
• Does not hit the ball after it has bounced on his side of the      table
• Does not hit the ball onto his opponent’s side of the table
• Hits the ball before it has bounced (i.e. volleying the ball) unless it’s obviously not going to      bounce on his side of the table
• Hits the ball twice in succession (i.e. a double hit)
• Puts his non-playing hand on the table or net or moves the table
• Obstructs the ball with any part of his body or clothing      (unless it’s obviously not going to bounce on his side of the table)

Carroms 

Coordinator : TBD

Rules :

1.Each Game consists of 1 board. Semi Final and Final will be best of 3 boards.

2.Duration of each board is 20 minutes (except finals)

3.In case of no result, points will be used to determine the winner.

5.The contestant playing white ‘breaks’ or plays first, which can be decided by the toss of a coin.

6. When placing the striker on the board to shoot, it must touch both ‘base lines’, either covering the end red circle completely, or not touching it at all. The striker may not touch the diagonal arrow line.

7. For ‘back-shots’ you may only use your thumb or the scissors technique. It is at the discretion of both the players whether to play back-shots are not.

8. For ‘Forward-shots’ you may use any style as long as its a flick and not a push.

9. The red ‘queen,’ can be pocketed at any time after sinking your first piece but must be sunk before your last one. After pocketing the queen, you must sink one of your carrom men, thereby ‘covering’ it, into any pocket in the next shot, or she is returned to the center spot.

10. Once the queen is covered, whoever clears all their carrom men first wins the ‘board’.

11. Sinking the striker costs you one piece and your turn. But, if you sink a piece in the same shot, then two come up and you shoot again.

12. After sinking the striker, your opponent places the due piece(s) within the center circle. If you haven’t sunk one yet, you owe one.

13. If while shooting for the queen you also sink one of your carrom men in the same shot, the queen is automatically covered, no matter which went first.

14. If you sink your last piece before the queen, you lose the board, three points and one point for each of your opponent’s pieces left.

15. If the striker does not leave both lines, go again. You get three tries to break before losing your turn.

16. You can hit any coin/carrom men on the board.

Wii tennis

Coordinator : TBD

Rules :

1.Wii Remotes will be provided.

2.Each match will be best of 3 games.

3.Winner of toss determines who serves first.

4. If a match exceeds 15 minutes the points leader will be declared winner.

5. Finals will be best of 5 games with 30 minutes time limit for the match.

Chess 

Coordinator: TBD

Rules:

1.Duration of each GAME is 30 minutes.

2.In case of no result, points will be used to determine the winner.

3.Points will not be carried forward to the next round.

4.Points – Pawn = 1 / Knight & Bishop = 3 / Rook = 5 / Queen = 10.

5.In case of a tie at the end of 30 minutes, 5 extra minutes will be provided. If still a winner cannot be determined, Coin toss will decide the winner.

6.Finals will be a 45 minute game with extra 5 minutes in case of tie at the end of 45 minutes.

Foosball

Coordinator: TBD

1. Tables have 9 Balls, so you play best out of 9 which is first team to 5 goals.

2. If a ball goes into the goal legally, it is a point, no matter who hit it or what it bounced off of.

3. Coin toss to see who serves first.

4. Serve the ball through the hole any way you want, but you must touch the ball with a man before you score.

5. After goals, the team scored UPON serves the ball next.

6. Ball off the table is given to the team last scored UPON.

7. If the ball stops moving and you can’t reach it, “Dead Ball” give it to the team last scored UPON.

8. You can call ‘Time Out’ if you have the ball. Make sure the other team is ready before you call ‘Time In’.

9. No full (360 degree) spinning of the rod

10. You can’t reach into the table for the ball while it is in play.

11. Be polite, no swearing, and have fun.

12. You can only have the ball for 15 seconds in any one place.

Greetings!

FOICR has scheduled a ‘Community Blood Drive’ on Saturday March 3, 2012 from 10 AM to 1:30 PM at The Hindu Temple, 1700 Naoma Dr. SW, Cedar Rapids. We are inviting you all to make this event successful by signing up to donate. By giving blood, you could help save the lives of three different patients. (The Blood Center makes multiple products from each donation.) Won’t you join us?

Patients in our community rely on volunteer blood donors like you to provide an adequate supply of this critical, lifesaving resource. Will you give, please?

Click here to register and schedule a time. If you need any help signing up or have any questions please contact our volunteer chair Arti Anavkar at volunteerchair@foicr.org OR 319-431-7915

THANK YOU,

FOICR EC

Our chief guest Prof. Philip Lutgendorf captivated everyone present with his knowledge of India and Hindi.

Our Balavikas kids (and the teachers and parents) added color to the occasion by dressing up the kids according to famous Indian freedom fighters, kings, queens and other famous personalities of the past.

I think we did our best to bring us all together on this occasion. And it was a good testing ground for the new EC committe.

Jai Hind!
webchair@foicr.org

Categories:

• Men’s Singles
• Men’s Doubles
• Women’s Singles
• Mixed Doubles
• Junior Singles (10-16 Yrs)

Start Date: June 2nd 2011

Rules of the Tournament:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_TBmiPnodE8uTK7F5qCFzGi9rGoJ1byeJ-Q-Mfp6WWQ/edit?hl=en_US&authkey=CMDNmt8F

Draws and participants list:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0As1c5Guo5Z2DdFo3bHRDX19jeE1KTFAwSlhuX0l4Umc&hl=en_US&authkey=CPry0JQD

Its time for our Dey Ghumakay FOICR Cricket Tournament 2011. Last year we had an amazing participation and HCL team from Rockwell Collins won the tournament.

Same as before we are planning to make this event a fun filled outing for everyone. We are also planning for some food and refreshment for everyone. Did I mention you can win an iPad2? Be there or be left out.

Rules
1. Taped Tennis ball/Hard Tennis Ball will be used for the tournament. All the cricket kit will be provided by FOIACR.
2. $55.00 Entry fee need to be paid before playing this tournament.  Kindly make the check payable to “Friends of India Association of Cedar Rapids” and hand it over to Shomi Agarwal or Parvath Reddy or Siva Sattanathan or any of the FOICR Executive Committee members before your game. A team cannot have more than 3 Iowa league cricket players in it.
3. Tournament will be conducted on June 4th and 5th at Seminole valley park, Cedar Rapids.
4. Format & Schedule will be published on Thursday June 2nd.
5. Balls will be provided.  Ground will be set up with Boundaries and Stumps.  Kindly arrange bats for your team.
6. If you are interested individual and don’t have a team yet, then send us an email and we will try to place you in a team.
8. The trophies in the picture are rolling trophies and will need to be handed over to FOICR sports secretary on or before 1st August 2011.  Team members/Performers will be presented with Individual trophies/Medals that they can keep for themselves.
9. We will have a raffle ticket ($20.00 each) and winner of the raffle ticket will get IPAD2!!
10. For Registration and/or purchase of raffle ticket, please contact:

Siva, sivanu@hotmail.com, 319-329-7160
Parvath, parvath@gmail.com, 330-990-9145
Shomi,sportschair@foicr.org, 319-573-9763

We are planning on Selling raffle tickets ($20.00 each) with a chance to win an Apple® – iPad® 2 with Wi-Fi – 16GB. Winner will be decided at the time of the Finals at Seminole Valley Cricket Ground on June 5th (around 3:00 PM).  Need not be present to win. (Note to Sellers: Kindly write the name and contact person of the buyer behind the ticket portion that you keep)

Schedule

Rules:
1.   As we need to finish too many games within a weekend, kindly be sensitive to the game timings.
2.   Teams must be at the ground 15 minutes before their scheduled start time of their match.  If during the start time a team is not present, the game will be awarded to the opponents.
3.   No LBW.  No Free hit.
4.   15 overs per innings.  3 overs maximum per bowler.
5.   Each win gets 2 points, Tie gets 1 point, Loss gets 0 points
6.   Top 4 teams qualify for semi finals. If more than 1 team end up in same points, net run rate will decide the standings.
7.   For Finals, it is 20 Overs per innings and 4 overs max per bowler.
8.   Umpires decision is final.
9.   Each innings (15 overs) should be finished in 45 minutes.  Incase if the team doesn’t finish their quota of 15 overs within 45 minutes the organizers MAY opt to reduce the number of overs while chasing. Organizers have the final say on this rule.
10.  Please pay the tournament fees of 55$ before the match starts.
11.  Finally support cricket and help us out by buying raffle ticket to win an iPad2. To purchase ticket please contact coordinators.
P.S:  Since there are every chance that more teams can end up with 1 win, net run rate might come in to picture when deciding the teams that qualify for semi finals.  Captain’s please take a note.
For Directions, please type in Seminole Valley Park, Cedar Rapids, IA in Google maps or call any one of the below.

Coordinators:
Siva, sivanu@hotmail.com, 319-329-7160
Parvath, parvath@gmail.com, 330-990-9145
Shomi, sportschair@foicr.org, 319-573-9763

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On behalf of FOICR I would like to thank each and every Participant and Supporter for their enthusiasm and effort.
The scorching heat did not shake the determination with which the 10 participating teams played and we saw some quality cricket throughout the weekend!
Grilled chicken and Grilled veggie patty was definitely the icing on the cake!
Team HCL emerged out as the winner !! and Coralville Cricket club was the runner-up in a nail-biting final which we witnessed.

Kudos to all other teams and their captains who fought hard, better luck next time!
Many thanks to Siva, Parvath and all the volunteers who helped up make this event a success!

Regards,
Shomi
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