Tourney: London Open 2011 - NS - July 30th and 31st

thats amazing, dave just appears, like 'shazam'!

It was amazing. Thanks Jono for everything. Thanks BoomShakaLaka you guys were great. Thanks Bells for being the best supporter and T-shirt designer. Was so fun, converted a whole load of doubting friends too!
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It's all be said many times already; The London Open is the best! It all went so smoothly, everyone involved should be very proud of themselves, and the LPC as a whole. Everyone pulled together to get shit done.

Extra special thanks to Jono, you're a machine mate. You need a holiday and you need some beers on us.

Also a massive thanks to the guys that helped out yesterday with tear-down and moving 2 tons of wood into storage at the orwell. Great effort.

Don't mean to bang on about it, but could someone put my mind at ease. I lent my DeWalt 18V screwdriver to the crew, i'd like to know that someone has it.

Brendan, we took all the drills to the orwell, they're down in the workshop.

Were the bike mechanic's tools Ryan and Nik's or LMNH's? I lent Nik my allen keys for Sunday but forgot to get them back at the end of the day...

Extra special thanks to Jono, you're a machine mate. You need a holiday and you need some beers on us.

+1

I think Jono shouldn't be buying his own beer for quite sometime.

thanks mate. Any chance someone could bring it to souths for me? 18V DeWalt, 2 X 18v batteries and charger 18V

Also a massive thanks to the guys that helped out yesterday with tear-down and moving 2 tons of wood into storage at the orwell. Great effort.

Fuck yeah!

London Open was, again, a massive success, even more so than the last. Jono, you are an inspiration. Mark, you did a brilliant job keeping the format under control and the games on schedule - of course we can't forget the epic whipping jobs of Tom and Andy (the megaphone) Labowski. The tournament was well organised, competitive, but fun. It was amazing to see everybody party every night and still play out of their skins despite hang-overs and more sun in two days than London's seen all summer.

Thanks also to my teammates, Julia and Tom the whipping boy, you guys are so much fun to play, drink, and bitch with.

Can't wait til next year!! (dibs, not taking the wood out of the dungeon)

The tools were LMNH's, so your allen keys are probably with them, or shoot Nik an email/PM, they should have landed by now, etc.

Did anyone get a photo of the scoreboards yesterday they can pass on? Also, thanks for getting the wood in the dungeon, it looked like a mammoth task when I left...

Yeah, a few people took pics of the scoreboards. I, however, am not one of them (I'm pretty sure Mark did, tho).

Still can't get the good times out of my head...want to see more pics and some vid footage.

Big thanks to...

Jono, LHBPA, LPC, UKPC, EUPC, old polo supporters, new polo supporters and the cosmic family.

Best polo weekend this year...everything felt right on and off the court. Moments like these are to savour and is what drives me to keep playing polo - I love it!

Results: https://plus.google.com/100807263969497538510/posts/JTGSGVLTTSy

Ok, le's hash this out then:

1st: Supersonic, Frankfurt/Geneva
2nd: Call Me Daddy, Grenoble
3rd: Cosmic, London
4th Nice Touch, London
=5th: Spring Break, London
=5th: Hooks, Rouen
=7th: Monkey Punch, Karlsruhe/Berlin/Hannover
=7th: Dead Rappers, London
=9th: Netto, Manchester
=9th: Rotten Manguis, Barcelona/Bordeaux
=9th: Zombie Uprising, London
=9th: Rakete, Berlin
=13th: Simon Says, Antwerp
=13th: Dans Te Goal Pique, London
=13th: BCF, Mixed
=13th: Blackjack, Paris/Munich/Berlin
=17th: Hacked Off, Bristol
=17th: Les Mouettes Sauvages, France/Brisbane
=17th: Thor, Cambridge
=17th: Tornadoes, London/Dresden
=17th: Electric Cream, Cambridge
=17th: Dam Cosmic, Amsterdam
=17th: Peinture French, Paris
=17th: Panthers, Venice
=25th: Polo Erectus, Manchester
=25th: Asbo, Manchester
=25th: Broken Legs, Rouen
=25th: Acapolo, Brighton
=25th: Tour de Court, Dublin
=25th: TNT, London
=25th: Team Warin, Brighton
=25th: La Bagarre, Brussels
=33rd: Frogs, Rouen
=33rd: Ill Pigs, Birmigham
=33rd: Soyo Polo Co, Sheffield
=33rd: Dogma or Pie, London

Ones to watch tournament:
1st: Guns at a knife fight, Paris
2nd: Poloskipoles, Poland/London
3rd: Les Pea Cocks, London

what an epic weekend, no other tourney compares to the LO. the amount of work put into this was super human. thanks jono and LPC for a great weekend

how did the goal camera work out for you brendan?

Les Pea Cocks were 3rd in the ones to watch tournament

I have been to many, many tournies. This was the best organized. Awesome work, LHBPA/LPC, with special mentions to

-Jon "The Machine" Marshall
-Mark "The Software" Hill
-Andy "The Megaphone" Fernandez
-Ali "The Carpenter" Osborn

-Bill "The Rules!" Chidley

I filmed a little bit here and there, but the atmosphere was so good I just wanted to live it and not film. Did anyone else do any filming? Perhaps we could combine footage for an edit? I saw some 7ds on Sunday.

Thanks to all the teams for reffing without complaint, it helped the tourney finish on time!

Thank you so much for this tourney !
I enjoyed it so much, even if i were angry against myself and my partner...
I'll be there next year (and before for sure)!

The highlights video is being worked on as we speak, Boneshaker are also going to put an edit together, some other people too, it should all come out of the wood work soon(ish).

Did anyone get a photo of the scoreboards yesterday they can pass on?

I'll put up the lower bracket games pix in the flickr pool later on.

Full set here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/36707747@N07/sets/72157627334044424/