By Leslie Tan and Dawn Yip

A year ago, we started Red Sports with nothing more than a dream (and a reasonably fast laptop). We wanted to see Singapore sports get the attention it deserved. Whether at the school level, or the national level, we sensed that there were stories waiting to be told, conversations waiting to happen, and people waiting to rally behind the Singapore sports story.

A year later, it seems our hunch was right. Red Sports just crossed 2.3 million pageloads, and last month Red Sports got over 70,000 visits. The number keeps growing. Every day we get tags and comments discussing the latest Singapore sports news, sometimes with humour, other times with seriousness, but always with passion.

Every day, we also get complaints:
“Uncle Les, why you never cover my game?”
“Why no stories about hockey/archery/squash? Is Red Sports biased?”

The fact is that we are a very very lean operation. So lean you could knock us over with a football. Or tennis ball. Or maybe even a ping pong ball. We depend on you, the reader, to tell your stories and share your pictures.

But we know not everyone like to write or take photographs.

So we’ve introduced a couple of new features on Red Sports just for you.

RED SPORTS FORUMS
We installed it a few weeks back and did an experimental test drive. It seems to work so we’re ready to go!

If you have an opinion, an anecdote, a question, or anything else to get off your chest, start your own conversation at Red Sports Forums! We’ve defined some categories and topics, but feel free to create your own. For those of you who use the Chatbox a lot, you might want to consider using the Forums so that your comments don’t disappear off the screen after a while. We hope the Forums will be a useful platform to build the Red Sports community.

If you know of fixtures, then put it in Red Sports Forums so that volunteer photographers and writers can go in and check it. If you put it up, maybe no one will cover it. If you don’t put it up, for sure nobody will cover it. So let’s give it a try, shall we?

Click here to visit Red Sports Forums.

RedSportsTV
A week ago, we set up our own YouTube channel called RedSportsTV! The six school sports videos we have up there are, ok, not terribly slick. But hey, we are nothing if not adventurous. And they’ve already gathered over 4,000 views!

Now here’s what we think would be really cool. If you have footage from a game, whether from video equipment or just your humble mobile phone, why not submit it as a video response on the RedSports TV channel! You can find a “Post A Video Response” option on every video page. The more footage there is, the more everyone can piece together the highlights of each game. And if we find particularly good videos, we’ll highlight them on Red Sports.

Click here to visit RedSports TV.

As always, we’re Red Sports, always game. It’s your turn to talk back!

Red Sports. Always Game.