Tourney: Paris CPCV09 Tourney - 03.05.09

awesome...well done lads!

esp. la schmooooooooove!!!!

Great results! Love the pics, Yorgo! James looks like he went mad!

my head hurts...
Take those boys back, and you can keep them, they're trouble
I'm sending them back to you later today

What a weekend

http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/6896/cpcvpoloplayers.jpg

more pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rock-n-rollin-fixie-riders-paris

Great work London!

Looks ace.
Well done LNDN.

yeah, well done and cheers (see you guys in london in august)

Awesome weekend - if not knackering!

Highlights...(in no particular order)

• Palais De Tokyo court - like every court, had it's own character, but once got used to it was awesome to play on...and you def can't beat the location.
  
  
  

Mallets down to both FGF and DTGP...despite us putting up a real fight we were beaten by some amazing play and some The final, was one of the best games Ive seen - had it all!

Thanks to Jo and all those who made the day awesome and of course to Agata and her flatmate who were totally cool in putting up 3 stinky londoners!!

opps...had a computer fail there....

anyway....there were plenty of highlights....the games (our sequence 5-0, 5-1, 5-1, 2-5, 1-5), the teams (the pissed french couriers, the grass polo players on their amazing, if not a tad beaten up, green specific grass polo bikes), riding the paris streets and bolganese, cheese and egg filled crepes (shouldnt work but sooo does).

Cheers all again and see you in london for the euro's?

my photos :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pedalturista/sets/72157617709723382/

What an amazing weekend!

Met Mr Brown at Victoria coach station late on Friday night. Took the redeye which got us into Paris at 7am. Put the bikes back together and headed into the city. Thank god JB had his GPS with him because the combination of no sleep and a new city would have been interesting.
Found Agata's place and proceeded swiftly to the nearest coffee and croissant establishment for polo fuel.
11am and get a text from Golden Wheeel to say his train has pulled in. Once Mat has joined us and we feel slightly human again we roll down to the court via Cyclops where we are met by the sight of an alley cat check point and bump into Mark (FFF).
The court at Palais de Tokyo is great. Views of the river and the Eiffel Tower, nice size, square. fast.
The surface is very slippery as JB finds out again and again and again.
A good afternoon of sun soaked throw ins and we are done, grab some food and hit the hay.

The tournament starts at the sociable hour of 11am. There's a great turn out of teams, 16 in total.
La Schmoove start well, for three guys who haven't played together before we hold our shape well and show good organisation. Three comfortable wins (5-0, 5-1, 5-1) see us through to the first of our semi finals against The Fabulous Greek Fuckers. It was a hard fought game with some truly fabulous goals. Yorgo was on fire! (i think its the Parisian air) The crowd were cheering for the home team and we had a couple of goals disallowed. (the ref was swayed by the home support for sure :) 2 - 5 but we all know it was really 4 - 5.

We drop down into the losers bracket for our second Semi final against DTGP. Again, hard fought but these guys are good. 1 - 5.
So, we lose against to the two teams that are in the final, we can all live with that and be happy that we fought hard and gave 100%.

Thankyou to everyone who helped make the tourney run smoothly. Agata for putting us up. Paris for your hospitality and a superb weekend of polo.

My writing skills cant really do it all justice.

I ache all over :)

(photos to follow)

Nice one Mat, Pique and JB!

Some photos from the weekend and the tournament

here http://www.flickr.com/photos/borntolose/sets/72157617657422409/
and some loose ones here :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/borntolose/page3/

wow the end of the night looks messy! great shots agata

Great photos Agata!

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Cool video.
A bit too much half naked courier for my liking though.

Yeah, I'm with you Pique.

Wicked vid. Well done guys. I'm all kinds of jealous.

Hey Agata. What's your team mates name? I think I played with him at the Paris BFF last year.

that courier has the worst monobrow i've ever seen.

Legendary eyebrows! He came on to me a few times as well if it wasn't for the eyebrows! ;-)

Great weekend, still aching all over.

Legendary eyebrow! He came on to me a few times as well if it wasn't for the eyebrow! ;-)

Great weekend, still aching all over.

fixed

Agree....too much of him and not enough of La Schmoove!!

Agata....thanks for the pics...some great ones. Gee things did get messy after that Dart board pic...infact playing darts is about all I can remember from that night..ohh and ripping a massive hole in my jeans after bike bundles!

Tequila = dangerous

Cool video.
A bit too much half naked courier for my liking though.