Madrid Open - 2012/03/24-25

PiQue, Max, Kieran

What a great tournament.

Amazing weather, good location, the court surface was possibly the best i've ever played on, so smooth and free of bobbles, but also so incredibly grippy, like a super super fine grade of sandpaper.

The boards weren't so good, the railings around the edge were pretty sketchy, the top railing overhung the lower ones, and there were gaps in the railings so i managed to catch my bar arm on the top railing at the speed which was painful.

One court was downs sized, the other mitch sized or bigger. The bigger court was exhausting in the heat..

For a tournament where the organisation seemed relaxed, it ran very smoothly. However some more solid reffing was needed (Pique and Alejandro did a great job, more than once there was a request for an English ref).

We went out in an unfortunate turn of events to Manguis, we were up by one goal at the end of the 12mins, but the scorekeeper/ref had fucked up, making it look like we were tied, then conceding on golden goal we "lost". Manguis, knew the result wasnt right so, chivalrously offered a re-match, which we went on to lose 5-3.

Thanks Madrid! Thanks Kings!

We went out in an unfortunate turn of events to Manguis, we were up by one goal at the end of the 12mins, but the scorekeeper/ref had fucked up, making it look like we were tied, then conceding on golden goal we "lost". Manguis, knew the result wasnt right so, chivalrously offered a re-match, which we went on to lose 5-3.

Don't worry, you can take revange in the LO....anyway it was an amazing game, a plesure.

The first manguis game was my favourite of the weekend. Clean and fast but physical with some awesome goals and end to end action. Pablos two game winners were great.

Nothing like a bit of controversy at a tournament. I'm glad it was against friends.

More polo!

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Hi kings! I'm the worst referee in the world, I'm really really sorry about that! maybe how I should play the next game I was not so focused that should have been ...
we will get in touch with you and send the shirts of bikepolo zaragoza with the fish!

sorry again ...

greetings from Zaragoza.

It's all good. It was good to meet you.

Those tshirts are great, look forward to getting them.