Tourney: WHBPC 2011: Seattle 08-11.09.2011

stop denying national borders. they exist. use them.

UKCHAMPS>EUROS>WORLDS

48

as well as 32 (24 extra) in the prelim

Please clarify.

Road trip.

32 teams competing in Prelim

48 teams in the championship
16 NA
16 EU
8 Other
8 Prelim

Who's strong out of the 8 other catagory? Aus? Jap?

Others include:

Australia
New Zealand
Japan
South Korea
China
Taiwan
Guatemala
Columbia
Ecuador
Peru
Chile
Argentina
Brazil

BTW these numbers are not final. Seattle will have 6 courts, and a wildcard tourney like in Berlin, so these numbers are likely to be much higher. Probably 48 qualified, and a large wildcard tourney for the last 16 spots. But don't quote me on that. We'll know more in a few months

Oh yeah...

Van-Seattle-Van for me :)

can you add the rest of cosmic to your friends & family hook up? ;-)

stop denying national borders. they exist. use them.

UKCHAMPS>EUROS>WORLDS

+1

Can I come?

From what i heard you put on an amazing tourney so nothing but respect.

My point is if the Euros are deciding the spots for the worlds then we as a European community have to make sure that we send the best teams out there to represent, therefore you need the best teams in that tourney regardless of scene size etc.

Hmm, the best teams will come on top anyway, so what's the difference how many are below them? And what harm it does to allow more teams to play ?

Not if all of the best teams arent represented due to some selection process

I know what you're saying Pique, but moving from city to national level just shifts the problem. You may still have a situation where teams from one country (rather than city) are getting through because there just isn't as high of quality polo and competition in that country, but were they to have to play against teams from another country, who haven't qualified in their home country, they would have not made it through.

I'm sold on Kev's idea. Removes creating artificial polo boundaries (based on national boundaries).

stop denying national borders. they exist. use them.

UKCHAMPS>EUROS>WORLDS

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I know what you're saying Pique, but moving from city to national level just shifts the problem. You may still have a situation where teams from one country (rather than city) are getting through because there just isn't as high of quality polo and competition in that country, but were they to have to play against teams from another country, who haven't qualified in their home country, they would have not made it through.

I'm sold on Kev's idea. Removes creating artificial polo boundaries (based on national boundaries).

I know what you are saying but just give them far less places.

if our worlds places are chosen by the euros, how does one qualify for the euros?

Euros qualifiers, same as last year, and the year before.

just checking homeslice.

It appears that things are moving in the direction of this year's Worlds - that is, top teams through + first-come-first-served prelim tourney (perhaps with some spots saved for all the saddos making the long and expensive journey? :D ). We're getting to a point where we can't deny the fact that these are championships and we've finally got enough good teams to displace the lesser teams.

Kevin has a point, though, regarding how borders are and aren't used. Is the reason why this works better in NA because the US is one big country as opposed to a group of smaller countries?

International super-teams are pretty damn sweet, tho.

32 teams competing in Prelim

48 teams in the championship
16 NA
16 EU
8 Other
8 Prelim

Thanks boy.

International super-teams are pretty damn sweet, tho.

+1

I'm well up for a-coupla weeks in the states. lets do this.

Does anyone see anything wrong with copying the NAH style of:

• Euros organising body invites pitches/bids for 4 Euros qualifying tournaments.
  
• Four Euro qualifying tournaments are voted/decided upon with spot allocations for each one.
  
• Winning teams then compete in Euros event (or form a new team where 2 of the 3 players are present).
  

• Euros body allocates extra spots for Euros (depending on event size and number of qualified teams that are actually attending) which are then won through an extra prelim tourney.

• The Euros body would also control the bidding process for the Euros itself.

• The Euros body could be completely transparent, have a representative from each scene/country/whatever.
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Just putting it out there

For the prelim tourney, can we imagine that the teams who finish 17-18st places of euros and NA get some entry for the prelim?