Reborn In 17th century India with Black Technology

Bharatam daily

📣 Calling All Cricket Clubs! Bid for Your Spot in the Bharatiya Premier League 1661! 🏏

The Bharatiya Premier League (BPL) is here, and it's your chance to shine! Only three clubs per state will secure their spot in this prestigious cricket tournament, scheduled for February to March 1661.

🏏 How to Enter:

Bid for one of the three exclusive slots available in your state!

📜 Eligibility Criteria:n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

✅ Your club must have a functional clubhouse.

✅ You must field at least one competitive cricket team.

📅 Bidding Date:

5th May 1659 – Mark your calendars!

🏆 Prize Pool:

🥇 Champion: 2 Million Varaha

🥈 Runner-up: 1 Million Varaha

⚖ Revenue Distribution:

To ensure fair and transparent revenue sharing, the following system will be implemented:

Match Proceeds:

35% of all revenue from tickets and other match-generated income will go directly to the team, to be internally distributed based on contribution.

35% will go to the club employing the team.

25% will be allocated to the BPL organization managing the event.

5% will go to the Ministry of Sports, which provides regulation and umpires for the games.

Advertisement Revenue:

50% of all advertisement proceeds will go directly to the team.

30% will be allocated to the club.

20% will go to the BPL organization.

The BPL organization reserves the right to stipulate advertising spaces on all player kits.

⚠ Sponsorship Branding Regulations:

To maintain uniformity and professionalism, all participating clubs must adhere to the following sponsorship branding rules:

Single Sponsor per Pair: Each pair of shirts and pants can only feature branding from a single sponsor.

Limited Logo Slots: A maximum of four slots are available on the shirt and pants combined for sponsor logos.

Logo Size Restriction: The size of each sponsor logo must not exceed the dimensions of the jersey number.

Exclusive Sponsors for Gear:

Only one sponsor is allowed for shoes.

Only one sponsor is allowed for headgear.

Additional equipment (e.g., gloves, bats, or pads) can also feature one sponsor per item.

This is your opportunity to compete against the best, represent your state, and make history in the grandest cricketing event!

Bharatiya Premier League 1661™ – Your Cricket Legacy Awaits!

----

Advertisements like this filled the entire second page of the newspaper as all five organizations established by Vijay started recruiting at the same time, and the tournaments of all five organizations were scheduled to be held in 1661, two years later.

The timing of each tournament was set to two months. The cricket tournament was from February to March, football was from April to May, rugby was from June to July, Kabaddi was from August to September, and Kho Kho was from October to November. The whole year was filled out with the schedule, with only December and January being the off-season.

Although the schedule may seem hectic, with 10 out of 12 months packed with activities, this is not the case in practice. An average person in the current Bharatiya Empire typically follows no more than two sports events at a time, primarily due to a lack of alternative entertainment. Since individuals are usually interested in only one or two games, the tightly packed schedule is not overwhelming, as each tournament is held just once a year. For a sports fan, the maximum attention span would cover about four months annually, leaving ample time to build anticipation for the next tournament.

The separation of the five organizations as independent entities also helps, ensuring they remain isolated from each other while minimizing the impact on one another's profits.

---

This news immediately attracted widespread attention since everyone was drawn by the prize pool of two million Varaha alone. Interestingly, nowhere in the advertisement did it mention that a club team could only participate in a single type of game, so people immediately figured out that theoretically, a club could have five different teams for five different games, all participating in five different tournaments. Theoretically, a club could earn 10 million Varaha from the prize money alone, not to mention the advertisement sponsorships.

This caused all the rich people in the empire to scramble in order to get a piece of the cake in the bidding.

Ravi Shetty, who was in his home and saw the newspaper, immediately got interested in the bidding. He had always been impressed by sports events, which was one of the reasons why he sponsored a wrestler in the finals, and it did increase the exposure of his company by a lot. So, he knew how profitable the sports industry could become, but he was still doubtful whether he should aggressively pursue this industry by forming five different teams in five different clubs.

He wrote a letter to his nephew and asked for his opinion. Vijay immediately received the letter from his uncle through the Arkha Drishti Communication system. Vijay was surprised by the initiative of his uncle, but thinking about it, he felt that it was normal too, since he knew that his uncle had always been impressed by sports.

After a little thought, he wrote a reply.

---

Ravi Shetty did not have to wait long. He sent the letter that morning, and by afternoon, he received the reply.

"Uncle, I have a lot of confidence in this sports industry. You don't have to consider this industry for profit but consider it as a long-term investment. Even if your team loses, it does not matter, since once you form the club, you will continuously get profits from the matches, and as the popularity of the organization increases, the valuation of the club will also increase."

"Also, let me tell you this: once a club is formed within the organization, it cannot be changed. If the new capital wants to enter into the game, then they can only buy the club. Do consider it, Uncle. If it wasn't for being the organizer, and I cannot have my own club, I would have already established a club and bought as many teams as possible."

This was everything that Ravi Shetty needed to hear. He immediately mobilized his resources and participated in the bidding. Unsurprisingly, he was able to establish a club in each one of the organizations by spending a hefty 900,000 Varaha in total, outbidding all his competition to form a club or a sporting franchise encompassing all the top five sports of the Bharatiya Empire.

He based his club in the state of Vijayanagar, specifically in its financial capital, Mangaluru. He even named his club according to the naming conventions put forward by the organization (family names not allowed, as the clubs are seen as investments that could change hands at any time), which would go on to become one of the strongest and most popular sports franchises in the world: *Mangalore Mambas*. Ravi Shetty is not an unknown person in the empire, and he has a special position among the businessmen; Given that he is the maternal uncle of the emperor. So when he went forward bidding for clubs with such aggressiveness, it immediately spread a message that His Majesty is very confident in this industry.

Following the lead of the Shettys, the bidding became even more intense, with major capital giants like the Bakshis, the Bhupathis, the Ambanis, the Joshis, the Ranavikramas, the Kombays, the Bhonsles, the Senapathis, the Patels, the Barundas, the Reddys, the Naidus, and other influential families joining in.

"Excuse me, sir, can the club be invested in by multiple people like a commercial company?" With the involvement of large capital, the small-time businessmen hoping to make a big buck were immediately discouraged. However, a spice trade businessman proposed the idea of splitting the investment among themselves.

"It is possible. There is no rule limiting the number of investors in a club," the announcer responded, surprising many. They had assumed from the beginning that a club could only be purchased by a single person, but now they discovered that was not the case at all.

Alliances were quickly formed, and groups were created as a new round of bidding officially began, causing prices to soar once again. Ravi Shetty, observing the lively scene, immediately realized how fortunate he was. Based on the current bids, his club, which had secured the rights to participate in all five tournaments, would now require at least 1.5 million Varaha instead of the 900,000 he had paid. He had already made a profit of 600,000 Varaha without doing anything.

Finally, the bidding lasted for a whole week, and all the slots for the clubs had been sold out throughout the empire. Naturally, the capital from the north did participate in this feast, but they did not occupy the majority because the cost of clubs in the southern part of the empire was too high, and this investment, which did not have prior examples, simply proved too risky for the northern capital, still in its infancy, to take a chance on.

Eventually, due to not many northern capitals purchasing slots in their own states, the phenomenon of slots being left empty was seen, but it was not for long since the rich businessmen who were not able to buy a club focused their attention on the slots available in the north. So even the slots in the north were occupied by the elites in the south. The idea was, at least in theory, everyone is at the same starting line for the tournament, so it really doesn't matter where the team is from as long as they win.

In the next few months, a widespread recruitment campaign spread, and a new profession was also born: recruiters, the people who search for talent.

Colleges became the main hunting grounds for such talents, and college tournaments held locally started to become popular.

Almost immediately the students who were good in athletics but bad in academics felt like they could see the hope of light when they saw high-paying contracts being put in front of them

Spontaneously, some of the richer clubs started to build their own stadiums on their home grounds, while the smaller clubs set up temporary playgrounds on flat land.

Overall, leading up to the tournament, the scene that could only be seen in European football leagues was mirrored in the Bharatiya Empire in the 17th century.