Tourney: London Open 2012 - August 25th and 26th

Rad.

We'll be there by 10.

The more the merrier.

On way soon..

Anyone still need a third? Or anybody looking to sub it to a team still, let me know ASAP

There's a court at Meath Gardens if LF is occupied (likely). Go east on the Roman Road and take a right on Smart Street. 5 mins from BG Gardens. Bigger size than LF.

At LF now. 1 guy kicking a football around, but he's looking tired!

rained out?

Chan says squelch.

Rain stops play at the beginning of the afternoon group. To be resumed at 7am.

Anyone know what's going on tonight?

sun's out now...

Sun is really out now.

Throw ins at downs in a little bit?

What pub do people want to head to later? I nominate the Pembury (big, pizza, close to my house)...

for fucks sake! I'm just home, the sun comes out.

Entire group postponed until tomorrow?

Is there going to be enough time for a group and 64 team double elim?

Who's bike is this?

Bike by khornight@ymail.com, on Flickr

Rain stops play.

We packed up the computers once it started to rain, so if you have any results from the 3rd session, please let me know.

We will resume the "afternoon" session at 7am tomorrow.

Everyone already in the elim only needs to turn up at 9am.

We won't be able to do a 60 team double elim.

We do want to play all 60 teams, so we will probably just do single elim, but we will look at the options overnight.

is Monday morning an option?

I think that bike is Andre's, from Bristol.

Seabright arms is where people are going tonight. Coate street, just off hackney road. Not far from the courts.

How do we find out if we are are through to the elimination tomorrow, if we played in the morning or midday groups? Is it possible to get those teams posted?

Copy of my post on lobp

Fuck that rain, you were keeping the schedule incredibly tight for such a big thing.

Keep double elim for last rounds a least tomorrow, as the seedin can be unfair wich such big groups you have to give chances to top teams who cross each other too early to go thru. Firsts rounds can be single elim.

Crease, the rule seems to work for now, but creases are stupidly designed, they aren the same on each courts. Somes are designed on the basis of the Basketball ball crease and are way smaller than other on another court wich have to big rectangle on it. Wich make thing hard to ref and play, as on two courts you can almost double goalie and on another one you cant. There is non sens to make different sizes an that's not a big deal to make them the same on each court. Also reffing this is really hard, I took a shift on mid day group, an staying focus on classical rule and ball play is hard enough. Having to watch on static defense with on eye and staying focus on ball play at the same is hardcore.

Edit: it seems that Players are respecting this rule as they are thinking about it( I saw Lucas jumping out o the crease several time). So that's hard to ref but looks easy to auto-ref ( as for foot down rule).

Fuck that rain, you were keeping the schedule incredibly tight for such a big thing.

I know what you mean, but we've never had to stop a tournament for rain before.

We were running about an hour ahead of schedule when we stopped it.

Why not put the bottom 20 into a single elim? Not all 60 teams

I meant that you were fucking in time before thisrain, wich is awesome or a tourney big like that.

Which pub tonight and complete adresse please.

Kiss

Pub! Some people have already gone. More are getting dry and heading over. This is it:

31-35 Coate Street, London, Greater London E2 9AG

http://www.sebrightarms.co.uk/

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=sebright+arms&ll=51.532522,-0.063064&spn=0.007382,0.021136&fb=1&gl=uk&hq=sebright+arms&hnear=0x47d8a00baf21de75:0x52963a5addd52a99,London&cid=0,0,16513607253980453412&t=m&z=16&iwloc=A