๐๐ก๐๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ. ๐๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฐ๐๐๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ค๐ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐๐๐ญ๐ญ๐ข.
This past Saturday, at Edgbaston Stadium, Warwickshire were crowned County Champions, for the ninth time in the Club's history. And edgbaston.com, the website we built with them and for them, celebrated the title in every pixel.
The Bears sealed it in style: Warwickshire 372, beating Leicestershire (125 and 168) by an innings and 79 runs. There's nothing quite like clinching a championship title in front of a joyful, large home-crowd watching red-ball cricket on a glorious Saturday afternoon.
๐๐ข, ๐ญ๐ข, ๐ญ๐ข, ๐ญ๐ข, ๐ญ๐ข ๐๐ข๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ! (sorry, sorry, couldn't resist)
Ethan Bamber, the season's leading wicket-taker (69 wickets!) in Division One, took the final wicket. Ed Barnard became the ninth Bears captain to lift the Championship trophy.
The moment the Bears were confirmed as champions, the website celebrated with them:
๐ A bespoke, on-brand, digital-confetti effect cascading across the site. Yes, both on desktop and on mobile web, purpose-built for this exact title moment.
๐ A Champions Coverage hub, front and centre, gathering the whole celebration in one place. For fans to read, re-read, and re-re-read.
๐ The match report, the images, the reaction, the day-by-day live blog for all three days, all the way into the last wicket.
Some days a website just carries information.
On championship days, the website is pure digital celebration.
Confetti raining down the homepage, right alongside the win.
Champions. Nine times over.
Confetti. All over.
You Bears!
๐ ๐ช๐ด๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฒ. Millie Frain, Rida I., Adam Lowe, yay, yay, yay, yay, yay! I am so happy for all of you. What a privilege to work with all of you, and to bring a championship to life through your website. And, what a way to win! Wrapping the entire thing up by early afternoon on a Saturday, and by an entire innings and 79 runs, no less. It must have been an absolute party in the stands for that last wicket. Thank you again. From the very beginning, you've always embraced a fan-first mindset to the website, and it shows. I believe this has to be a first for digital confetti for a cricket championship. So, thank you for letting us be a part of it.
๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฑ๐ค๐ฃ๐จ๐ณ๐ฒ. George Oakley, Karthikeyan Saravanan, MBA, MS, and Nathan Mickulicz for the build. Ana Baskinger for the ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ฑ ๐๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด graphic.