2014-05-17/18 The Herne Hill International Invitational 2014

The 45 minute league fixtures are awesome and definitely show how rubbish shorter games are... we can work out the exact format nearer the time. How long can people tolerate watching a game for: 30 minutes?

Sounds great. I can spread the word here, if required. I've mentioned it to Aaron (321polo.net) and he will write an article if you want. I've sent him the LII and Drome videos.

Also, with 1 court, and the format we chose, we were really pushing it.

We had to do it over 3 days, to do 2 round robin groups, with 10 teams in each, plus the single elim on day 2.

With just 2 days, you simply can't do it (using reasonable hours).

What hours do you have available each day? I can recommend the amount of teams you want, for different format options.

Did joe say only one court?

Just spotted his use of the singular...

How many courts do we have at Herne Hill, Louis?

Heh.

One court will be fine but you may have to reduce the number of teams, you definitely don't need to do RR.

What about just inviting16 teams?

Would be a good number for the elim.
Makes it easier to get a good number of seeding games without pushing the limits time wise.
Allows for longer games.
Keeps the tournament competitive.

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long waiting time is a pain. Een though i don't expect to play, the actual players will be struggling if you hae too many teams on 1 court. 12 or 16 max is my vote.

I think 16 teams sounds about right...
#highoctane #sorryemmettyouareout

MCRsnumber1.

Last London Invitational had too many teams in it - too much polo, too many teams, too much scuffling.

Keep the Open open, and make the Invitational elite, so you get quality polo in every match.

Last invitational was only about 12 teams wasn't it? You saying ten teams? Also was it over two days?

Twenty teams, three days...

It's not about the number of teams, it's about the number of games. 10 teams RR = 45 games, or over 11 hours of polo on one court, which is too much, IMO, requires far too much volunteer effort. Is the point of the Invitational to showcase bike polo? In which case, you want the best possible conditions, i.e. plenty of people available to ref, operate score-board etc.

10 teams, 20 min games, 5 rounds of swiss

10 teams, 20 min games, 5 rounds of swiss

25 mins (with changeovers) a game, 25 games total? That's 625 mins or 10 1/2 hours. Assuming a 9am start, that'll be finishing at 7.30pm.

20 mins a game (inc changeovers & over-runs) gives 8 and a bit hours.

Not that anyone has asked me for my opinion or anything.

I wonder what bill thinks...

I wonder what bill thinks about it being a two day tournament?

who's bill ?

Even though I love mix-up tournaments I think we've got the LO for that and also having a tournament at that time on a court that good, there's no denying this would be the perfect warm up for the euro's.

I wonder what bill thinks...

I wonder what bill thinks about it being a two day tournament?

who's bill ?

You see, this is where the so-called polo mods fall down. All the above, according to their twisted & deranged logic, should be merged into the shuffler's thread.

In the meantime, though, I will take the opportunity to nerg you all.

Again.

Even though I love mix-up tournaments I think we've got the LO for that and also having a tournament at that time on a court that good, there's no denying this would be the perfect warm up for the euro's.

We?

Nerged.

Srsly tho'... Would love to sit down with you and Jono, if you're both up for it, and have a chat about this...