Tourney: Leeds tournament and/or UK Nationals

To clarify, I had been talking to a lot of guys about it over the summer, so I finally sent an email to Manchester, Oxford, Cambridge, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Birmingham and now Leeds seeing if any city was interested in holding a UK Champs next year.

To date, Newcastle and Edinburgh have said no, but are interested in setting up a Northern League. Cambridge will be hosting a tournament early next year, but want it to be an Open. Oxford are thinking about it. Haven't heard back from Manchester or Birmingham.

Andy, I've been speaking to Nes about hosting this as a one day tournament as part of her "i bike mcr" festival. A weekend full of bike related fun followed by the UK polo champs. There is a space on top of the manchester velodrome that we will look in to, and I think we'll be fine to house everyone. Nes has organised loads of big events including a few polo tourneys. So we're more than confident of putting on a really good event. Josh, i'd be up for a tourney in Leeds but I think Manchester has more appeal for the UK Champs. What does everyone think?

I need to run a few things by Nes first and then I'll reply to the email. But just for the record Manchester are well up for hosting this! Nes's festival/polo tourney last year was in April. How about aiming to do the UK champs in April 2010?