St Patricks week- Derry Bike Polo Tournament + Dublin bike festival + tourney?

There was a team from derry made up of me and two lads from Dublin. Kev, like I said nobody here plays bike polo, barely anybody cycles. I tried to start bike polo here but it's not happening. People laugh at cycling here... Last I heard, there was polo in Belfast and there are 2 other guys I play polo with here the odd time... Em...I don't know...Maybe this is too aspirational. Is that what you're trying to say?

I think you would call that team a Dublin team with one guy from Derry, rather than the other way around!
I don't want to come across as excessively negative, this is all meant in a spirit of advice not criticism, but I think organising a polo tournament in a city that has zero history of it, or much of a cycling "culture", might be difficult for you to achieve on your own.
Any tournament I've seen organised has a few people behind it to help with organisation, marketing, sponsorship, temp court building, accomodating visiting players, and so on. If you are planning on organising a Derry tourney, then it sounds like you would be doing all this yourself, which sounds like a massive amount of work for one person.

In the case of John H's mini ABC tournament, he didnt have to do a huge amount of work, but that's because he already had a two-court location with floodlights instantly available, and a pool of seventy regular players in the one location who dont have to travel to participate.

To me, it seems players from England tend to make the effort to travel to tournaments on the continent, because they know there will be other teams from across Europe there, and the level of play will be quite competitive. Ireland's (and Derry's) relatively isolated location as an island instantly ups the cost for a travelling team, and the city doesnt have any strong native contingent to act as a draw. I think even Dublin would struggle with this.

If Derry has nothing to speak of like a critical mass, casual / social rides, a shop like Rothar, a concrete BMX park, etc then I think something like that generally tends to come first to get people more into more fun / DIY aspects of bikes, and might be worth building towards, rather than a full polo tournament on its own.
Maybe a Derry Bicycle Week with a few different events?
I just think that something like that might expand your pool of potential future players in the city, rather than parachuting people from Dublin in for a day, and then disappearing.

Maybe I'm completely wrong, I'm open to counter arguments.
I'm just thinking of how it got off the ground in Dublin.

Seal might be right, time for a move, come to London! Irishane is leaving, so there is an opening now for another Irish polo person.
You'd have to change your username to DerryCiaran though.