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What’s Going On With the #SEAGamesFail, as Told by the Internet

What’s Going On With the #SEAGamesFail, as Told by the Internet

Nov 25, 2019   •   Kaira Guererro

It started with a shocking lackluster logo and mascot, continuing with photos of hand-written, poorly designed welcome banners for the delegates. Then the news of the astounding P50M cauldron came. As the hosting country for this year’s Southeast Asian Games, the Philippines is finding itself in a tough situation.

With a little less than a week to go, the first few delegates from various SEA countries flew in last Sunday and we had another fiasco on our hands: unfinished stadiums a mere days away from the competition, accommodation woes for foreign athletes, and the internet imploding with sheer secondhand embarrassment from it all.

In case you missed it, here is the scalding tea about this year’s 2019 #SEAGamesFail.

Tarpaulin designs and welcome signage that makes us cringe

It’s probably safe to say that every Filipino artist was offended when the logo designs were released and the rest who wasn’t, probably got offended when the welcome banners were released. Local computer shops could do better, heck even random guy from Twitter could do it better.

 

Officials exposed

Just like Philippine teleseryes, our government has the same recurring plot and theme: corrupt politicians in sheep’s clothing fooling naïve citizens, citizens voting for them, and then getting heartbroken over the stupid things they do. When will Filipinos learn?

 

Volunteers, anyone?

If there are people we should be thanking for this year’s SEA Games, it’s the volunteers and the workers. They’re working their ass off trying to build an arena that should’ve been done months ago, they’re volunteering for work that should’ve been paid. Instead, all they will get is essentially bragging rights on their resume. Uhm, what’s there to brag about?

Early-bird athletes made to look like surprise visitors

Ever experienced relatives suddenly popping up in your house without informing you? You had to rush to accommodate them. This scenario is even worse: foreign athletes and delegates arriving and expecting a warm welcome and the promised comfortable hotel rooms only to be told that they have to sleep at the airport and hotel lobby because nothing is prepared. This issue even came across as a cheating scam! To be fair, they aren’t the only athletes having a hard time, even our OWN athletes weren’t treated properly.

 

And then there’s the matter of the merch…

Seriously?

 

Here’s an idea for the next time we host a huge event like this

We never thought we’d say this but K-Pop concerts have been handled better. Doesn’t matter anyway, there probably won’t even be a next time.

 

Does complaining about this make you anti-PDuts/”dilawan”?

We’re an opinionated lot so it’s no surprise to find Filipinos torn over the matter on social media. DDS are shaking, and everybody is pointing a finger towards one person – Cayetano. At the end of the day is it really ungrateful Filipinos hurling mud at their country’s reputation for the rest of the world to see? We beg to differ. It’s not that we’re deliberately making our country a laughingstock and an example on bad PR in future textbooks, it’s just that we were made painfully aware of the corruption in this country and we want change.

The Duterte administration will always be challenged and ridiculed one way or another just like the previous administrations before it. The only option now is to take it as constructive criticism and act accordingly.

 

In conclusion, everyone deserves better

Our athletes deserve better, foreign athletes deserve better, the Southeast Asian Games deserve better, heck even the Philippines deserve better! We’re chest deep in this muck no matter how much we fight to get out of it. The only solution that probably remains is to stay sharp and vigilant, expose those who need to be exposed, and when the time for changing administration comes (which is in 3 years), NEVER FORGET.

This entire chaos is just mortifying. Better watch the AMAs instead.

What do you think of this #SEAGamesFail fiasco? Share your thoughts with us below!


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