We speak to Razlan from Ureka Labs on their team, Ureka Ideas. On top of sweating it out on the pitch themselves, Ureka have also provided generous sponsorship to 5 teams from the Science of Life Systems (SOLS).

Q: What do you know of the concept of “fair trade”?

A: Fair Trade to me is about helping out the real producers of goods and materials in order for them to achieve economic self-sufficiency and stability. In essence it promotes sustainability. This means the real/marginalized producers of goods will get a higher payment for their goods so that they would be a greater stakeholder and will make them play an important role in international trade.

Q:  Tell us a little bit about your team, and the event objective for the players.

A: Our team is basically a bunch of geeks with attitude. The main objective for the players is for them to have fun while getting fit at the same time. Having Fun is really important to us because it will inspire creativity in the work that we do. And of course we spend most of our time in-front of the computers so we need to do some exercise so that our butts will not get any bigger than they already are. We also have some new recruits that just joined us this month so it’s a chance for us to build greater camaraderie among the team. We’re also looking to build on their competitive spirit so that we can crush our industry competitors to smithereens hehe.

Q: How well are you guys preparing for the tournament?

A: We’ve started training for the past couple of weeks and will be having another three more training sessions before the tournament. What I can say is that from the first training that we have the team have improve with leaps and bounds. On the first day we had a few of them that could not kick the ball properly but now they’re scoring goals!! Oh and we found out that our Head Developer who’s never played or watch football in his life is a natural defender. He’s got the instinct and bravery to thwart anything that comes his way.

Q: Any words to the other teams participating?

A: We might look like we don’t know what we’re doing but disregard us at your peril!! Hehe. Oh and to the teams that we sponsor if you do come up against us the least you could do is let us win… hahahaha just kidding