EHPA Dominion Cup - UK spot

Hey everyone,

Could you please let me know if we take our spot or not? If so, who is going? I try to reach everyone here and on FB, please read it through and let me know. Thanks:)

Dear Poloverse,

The new EHPA council his coming to you with great news.

1.The EHPC will now take place every 2 years, to get better organized and improve the experience of the participating teams, while reducing the financial load on the teams that travel the most.

2.We are inaugurating the "EHPA Dominion Cup", a country based bench championship, held during the down years. The name was picked in honor to the Stanley Cup, to highlight the increasing similarities between our sports.

The "EHPA Dominion Cup" will be held on Nov 11-13th 2016 in Torino, in their amazing spot. 3 courts, 32 teams of 5 players, 40 min games. Schedule to be posted soon. The participating countries were computed using the World Map (https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1PJIoJGmOy0dC-zEL-c3ymWElNgs). Every country with an active club was given a spot. A team must contain at least 3 players actively playing there. If your country contains an active club that wasn't represented in the map, please get in touch with us via email and we will fix the issue. 1 spot was given to the organizing country and 4 spots are on a "first come first serve" basis, for other teams to enter the event. We will open the "first come first serve spots on Oct 3rd, every country that hasn't claimed its spot by then will lose its spot. Countries that placed in the Top 32 in Zaragosa have their top teams selected as "captains". One of the players of the team must be present in the final list of 5. If the team wishes to give up their spot, it will go to the next team in line.

The list of participating countries and their teams is here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UaivaWFV9vUDRI_E7OM3ORTWjn9yNaHQ-FhTb_oa_hU/pubhtml?gid=924425241&single=true

It will be automatically updated as we go along.

We are looking forward to seeing you all there, defending your colors. We have many other exciting announcements to make and will communicate regularly. Please make sure all your club players like the page.

Please share.

Cheers,
The EHPA Committee

What if all the players of the best 2015 team from a country don't play anymore?

haha

I think the main question is if we are going to send anyone from the UK or not.. We havent really had a UK champs ages ago, we can check last years result in Manchester and ask them though, but after that I think it is opened to anyone. Isn't it?
Just please let me know if UK wants to keep its spot or not as it will be given up after that date.
Shall we look up that list? Or any other opinion?

Anyone is interested?

I'm tempted, kinda need more than 1 person for this though!

Ha! Birmingham isn't on that map. Not just the polo club... the whole city.

This is a week after the Portugal tournament. At least 6 players from up here already planned/booked for that, so unlikely to travel two weekends in a row.

Oli is really interested (and hence me) are there 3 first come additional slots available ?

Danny from Torino says there are also 4 first come extra spots if anyone is interested ?

At the moment we should struggle to fulfill the one UK spot but yes, there are 4 more spots on first come first served base. We need to give an answer by the 3rd, so please let me know who can go, who the captain is:) thank you:)

thinking about it

Wait - do I count?
ha

I'd say yes, you play in London regularly, so why not?

Hey, so far John,Oli, Danielle,Joe seemed interested. The post had 445 views I'm not sure how it's counted but I guess if someone else wanted to go they would have said something.

Deadline is tomorrow, could you please let me know if we should keep our spot or not?

What about top players, are they playing in other teams?

Thanks

We nicked CMD spot