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Wow, i love reading the massive generalisations throughout this thread. A few people seem really keen on analysing this one game to death, and arriving at far-reaching conclusions about The State of Bike Polo
Massive generalisations & over-analysis on the London bike polo forum?
Shurely shome mishtake...
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but hindsight on video camera is very different than reffing a game with 500 screaming people, players that can't hear you, and a mid-court vantage point that is almost always behind the play
Totally agree with this.
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Our most physical game and the most dirty from both part was against call me daddy during this tourney. So a full European game. After that we played beaver boy, know as a real physical team, without any contact.
See no one of your team over here was a pain. I'm mostly angry because that.
By the way
This tourney was a blast, best courts I ever play on a tourney so fare, perfect sizes perfect boards. The whole tourney worked perfectly. Only some issues with reffing as always, some fouls called for nothing and some great one without a whistle.About the kind of game that involve more contact, more pushing with arms and shoulders. This gonna happens in Europe. Look at the gf1 then 2, how the physical play have increase in one year. The fact that some major European teams use the screening a lot not gonna help to make the game softer. Avoid a screen by shoulder checking the guy on your way can be a really good move. In my opinion all this is a good thing for our sport, make it way more fun to play.
Snoops I decline the challenge. At least until next whbpc.
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No team from England in top 64 this year.No team from United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland in the top 64 either.
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Tourney: WHBPC 2011: Seattle 08-11.09.2011
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Wow, i love reading the massive generalisations throughout this thread. A few people seem really keen on analysing this one game to death, and arriving at far-reaching conclusions about The State of Bike Polo, or, The Differences Between "N.A." and "European" Bike Polo... as if Crazy Canucks' or CMD's style exemplifies a standardized style played on each continent ... as if there are not dozens of styles of polo on each continent, never mind country or city.
This was an entertaining game, but it was also the most physical final i've seen in a tournament in a while. If i recall correctly, none of last dozen games at NAHBPC had this level of body-on-body or bike-on-bike contact. Definitely not the podium games, one of which involved Crazy Canucks. Beaver Boys (who seem to be getting some blame due to the "buffer zone" quote) vs Machine Politics in the 2010 WHBPC final didn't have this kind of physicality either.
I'm not saying this to "defend" N.A. polo (i don't really care), i'm just pointing out that these simple Us and Them narratives are facile, distracting, and unhelpful. Guess what? There are players who play physically all over the world, and there are players that skirt rules all over the world. Occasionally players who skirt rules can elicit physical play by their opponents, and players who play physical can elicit the skirting of rules by their opponents, etc etc...
All that said, I agree with a lot of the specific points people are making about what could/should have been called a penalty, and i think most refs at the WHBPC would as well, but hindsight on video camera is very different than reffing a game with 500 screaming people, players that can't hear you, and a mid-court vantage point that is almost always behind the play (i think we need to move to having two head refs, each at 1/3 mark... but that's another story). Also, to correct a point made above, Ben Schultz from Chicago reffed the final game. Martin from East Van was the timer, and he hopped out on the court to wave off Greg's goal, to make clear that it had happened several seconds after time had expired.