Birmingham Bike Polo (Wednesday nights / Sundays - info in the thread)

nice game today, will try to be there wednesday but wont be seeing me the next two weeks as im in the states, hopefully in that time i can decide which hand i play polo with...

Wednesday 7:30:

1. neil
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Has anyone noticed if the lights are fixed yet? If not I'll email all the councillors again.

Wednesday 7:30:

1. neil
   
2. malletesta
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Don't know about the lights I'm afraid...

I might actually come on wednesday, if I can find a bike I dont mind getting destroyed.

Wednesday 7:30:

1. neil
   
2. malletesta
   
3. kat
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I e-mail Victoria Quinn again yesterday since she asked me to remind her if I'd not heard from her. No response as yet.

Wednesday 7:30:

1. neil
   
2. malletesta
   
3. kat
   
4. hyper
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Wednesday 7:30:

1. neil
   
2. malletesta
   
3. kat
   
4. hyper
   
5. alice
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my last post should have said e-mailED. I can only apologise.

I've emailed Victoria too, no reply as yet...

Teams for Sunday:

Neil
Danski
Viki

DanLJ
Lucas
Monty

Subs/potential 3rd team:
Martin
Rita (if not in the north)
Nainesh (poss)

Any probs?

Wednesday 7:30:

1. neil
   
2. malletesta
   
3. kat
   
4. hyper
   
5. alice
   
6. Rita
   
7. Viki
   
   

Celebratory drinks after, as my thesis is printed, in the binding process and will be submitted tomorrow.

--> my moving date is the 7th, staying in brum for for the tournamet
--> chris, can you bring the spare bike tomo?

Can we maybe shaffle the teams if the other two confirm?

Teams for Sunday:

Neil
Danski
Viki

DanLJ
Lucas
Monty

Subs/potential 3rd team:
Martin
Rita (if not in the north)
Nainesh (poss)

Any probs?

I'll bring the spare tomorrow.

Tournament looks good. I knew Monty was gunning for that third burgundy jersey...

Congratulations Ritah.

cheers.
Igor is coming on sunday
Joe and Nainesh are possibly coming tomorrow.
I'll do the recruiting for ya till i'm around, hm?

50/50 tonight but will try and drop by on way home.

If we do get a third team I think we will need to shuffle them a little. Are there any other people coming who need spares?

From the thread on the main forum, it looks like all the other teams are sorted.

So we have these people to try to accommodate?

Martin?
Joe?
Rita - confirmed
Nainesh?
Igor - confirmed?

There's only space for one team....

What's with today?

From the thread on the main forum, it looks like all the other teams are sorted.

Martin?
Joe?
Rita - confirmed
Nainesh - confirmed, he'd need a bike i recon
Igor - confirmed?

There's only space for one team....

Okay, we're now oversubscribed! We have 7 teams coming from outside of Brum, and we can only deal with 3 Brum teams, which means one person from the list below can't play. Sorry.

1.Neil
2.Danski
3.Viki
4.DanLJ
5.Lucas
6.Martin
7.Ritah

1. Monty
   
2. Igor
   
3. Nainesh
   
   
   

Nainesh and Igor were the last to declare interest. Martin hasn't confirmed (although he said he wanted to play ages ago).

I reckon it's unfair to exclude Martin if he wants to play - he said he wanted to play ages ago... Which leaves one space for Nainesh and Igor to fight over. Lucas is texting Martin now...

Does everyone know that it's a full-day tournament (10am-5pm) where your team might only play 4 games in total? With 30 players sharing the court, there's a lot of waiting around! It's great to play with different players, but it's not really like our regular Sunday sessions, and some games will get quite competitive...

Sorry this is such a ballache, but it's impossible to organise with all the 'he said... she said... I think he wants to...I haven't heard yet...' going on. Lists usually work, but there are too many people knew to the forum who don't come on here often enough.

Personally, I blame the Bike Foundry lot. It was going fine until they left us high and dry.

Just heard from Lucas that Martin is in, so *either *Igor or Nainesh has to sit this one out.

Ritah, can you break the news and organise an arm-wrestle or thumb-war or fist-fight to the death beforehand?

Everyone needs to be at the court from 9.30 to help get set up. It's looking like we'll do random teams on the day.

**Stuff to bring:
**Dan W - boards for the gaps, zip ties,
Lucas - Goals, Apple gadgets to run podium or challonge for the day
? - whistle
? - stopwatch that works (not the crappy ones we've used in the past - watches/phones are better than those)
? - clipboard with paper and a pen on a string
? - printed copy of whichever version of the rules it is we're using these days?
? - other stuff I've forgotten.
? - blackboard or whiteboard for scheduling games

Yeah lets blame Kat.

And regards teams fairest option would be a grand shuffle between the 9 birmingham players on the day. Might mean that there will be a stronger brum team but also possible a weaker team but that will the luck of the draw and puts everyone in the same boat.

Yes, random is the least bad option.

**Stuff to bring:
**Dan W - boards for the gaps, zip ties,
Lucas - Goals, Smart phone to run challonge for the day
Fin - whistle, stopwatch that works, clipboard+paper+pen, rules (can be collected from me in the shop or at home)
? - blackboard or whiteboard for scheduling games

**Stuff to bring:
**Dan W - boards for the gaps, zip ties,
Lucas - Goals, Smart phone to run challonge for the day
Fin - whistle, stopwatch that works, clipboard+paper+pen, rules (can be collected from me in the shop or at home)- I can pick these up from Finbar
? - blackboard or whiteboard for scheduling games -** do we need this, if we're running challonge? can't we just tell people when they're on?**

regards the random shuffle - I'm ok with this too, can't see a fairer way around it. I'm happy being beaten all day as long 1 score 1 goal.

Hi all.
It's Igor here.
I would be happy to play. But if I will have to be the spare one, it's ok, I will probably manage it :D

Hi all.
It's Igor here.
I would be happy to play. But if I will have to be the spare one, it's ok, I will probably manage it :D

Thanks Igor - it's for you and Nainesh to decide between you, but so long as you are aware what's going on.

i think martin and me are the 'weakest elements' here. (although nainesh played only one sunday, he easily outperforms me...) would it be possible to use martin and me as subs for each other, so no one is left out?