Despite employing a social media agency in May to "raise excitement", the event's official Twitter account has a little more than 12,200 followers.
A leading strategist in Anna Hazare's anti-corruption movement, which drew big urban crowds of protesters fed up with graft, he has done well to raise a credible party barely a year after it was born, attracting funds from small-time donors, using social media and text-message campaigning to raise excitement.
"Had it not happened against the almost complete disarray of the Commonwealth Games preparations, it would not have raised much excitement," said Ajai Sahni, the executive director of the Institute for Conflict Management, a group that studies terrorist activity.
It arrives on tables to sharp intakes of breath and eyebrows raised in excitement: the lobster's redness stark and beautiful against the white of a china bowl, with thick, golden toast to mop up the sauce.
Wind gusts of more than 20 miles per hour straight down the court reduced the quality of the match, but raised the excitement for the fans and the frustration level of the players.
Dynasty, but not the 1980s kind, is at the beating heart of monarchy, which is why the arrival of a new heir to the throne — now third in the line of succession after Charles and William — has raised such excitement.
Krulich is sixty-four, ruddily handsome, and gently lumbering; Abumrad, thirty-eight, has unruly curls and clear plastic glasses that emphasize his active eyebrows, which are often raised in excitement.
Contests between American and Cuban sides are rare enough – it wasn't until 1999 that the Baltimore Orioles became the first MLB team to play here since the revolution – but a chance to best a Florida team in front of the first US president here since 1928 raised the excitement to fever pitch.
Images of arms raised in excitement, faces lit up by smiles, and women embracing in solidarity reflect this almost magical sense of dynamism throughout the center.
