Tourney: Copenhagen Open, 19-25.09.2011

Polo Erectus are trying to make this our grand finale tourney - as we lose Alex (aka 'der Penetrator') to his German fatherland in September... When will we know dates of the actual polo tourney??

Well, I'm fairly sure it's the weekend, but I'll ask Samson

Just seen the Time Trial world champ is going to be on the 21st (the Wednesday), and the Road Race is on the 25th (the Sunday), so I'm hoping I'll get to see those around the polo.

Ok, just had confirmation from Samson on the tournament.

It's going to be a single player tourney, similar to the one in Frankfurt, so every game will be played with a random team, and the player with the best record will win.

There will be games from Wednesday 21st September, the tournament will be on Saturday 24th - Sunday 25th.

Samson has said they are trying to sort out housing, as most hostels are sold out due to the Road Racing Champs.

Registration details will follow soon.

I'm going to get there for Wednesday morning, maybe fly our Tuesday evening, and stay until Sunday night/early Monday morning.

Isn't that just for a fun tournement early in the week? I think there is a traditional team based tournement towards the end also.

Nope, I've just talked to the organiser.

Shame. I thought it was going to be 3 different tournaments (individual, bench minor and regular).

I think I'll go to this.

So if you can only go on the Friday for the w/e - would you be able to play in the tournament ie. the games from Wednesday through Friday are not part of the Individual tourney?

That's correct Neil, it's just casual games Wednesday - Friday. Maybe they'll due something more organised on those days, but the main tournament is Saturday & Sunday only.

i'm just going earlier because it's my favourite city, and I'd love to see the road world champs.

in for this, around £100 return on easyjet from London with bikes....

Event: Copenhagen Open Bike Polo Tournament 2011
Location: Israel Plads, by the basketball courts (This is in the DEAD CENTER of the city - close to everything).
Date: September 22nd – September 25th

In connection with the Road Racing World Championships in Copenhagen, the Copenhagen Bike Polo Club would like to invite you all to come join us for some bike polo in one of the greatest cycling citys in the world. This will be a SINGLE PLAYER tournament, you will register as yourself and will be shuffled into different teams throughout the weekend. This is meant as a fun, inclusive, come-have-fun-and-party style tournament - more information about the shuffle system will follow soon.

The schedule is as follows:

Thursday September 22nd:
16.00-20.00: Come and try bike polo! Course 1 is open to anyone who wants to try the game
18.00-23.00: Pick-up matches for polo players on court 2

Friday September 23rd:
10.00 – 14.00: Pick-up matches for polo players on courts 1 and 2
14:00 – 18.00: Come and try bike polo! Court 1 is open to anyone who wants to try the game
14.00 – 20.00: Bench Minor Tournament for registered polo players on track 2
20.00 – 23.00: Polo Activities: foot-down, throw-ins, one-on-one tournaments and other fun activities on course 1 and 2. Everyone is welcome to join in!

Saturday September 24th:
10.00 – 20.00: Copenhagen Open Bike Polo Tournament on courts 1 and 2

Sunday September 25th:
10.00 – 18.00: Copenhagen Open Bike Polo Tournament on courts 1 and 2
18.00 – 22.00: Award ceremony

We will have free (but not luxurious) housing to the ones that needs it, we'll have partys both Friday and Saturday and a ton of other stuff. The tournament itself will run from Saturday through Sunday, but people are welcome to join us from Thursday and forward ofcourse.

More information, website and registration soon!

Already a thread on this:

http://www.lfgss.com/thread57310.html

Merged.

Any people from here going?

Probably yeah, just waiting for payday, to see if I can afford it. Punkture possibly too.

Registration is open.

http://cobpt.dk/ -25 euro.

Just registered and booked my ticket.

Flights are still £100 including bikes, with Easyjet.

I'm arriving on the 20th in the evening, going to watch the UCI World Championship Time Trial, on the 21st, then sweet polo Thursday to Sunday, and there is also the WC Road Race on the Sunday too.

Anyone else going to come?

me and josh were toying with the idea because we can get easy accomodation from a cambridge player... i would like to attend but college starts on the 15th.

Fuck college....

Seriously though, education is very important, you can play polo later.

Seriously though, come to Copenhagen

single player shuffle tourney, starting to not sounds as appealing as a normal team tourney......

Yeah, I've not tried the format, so I'm interested to see what it's like (and bring it back here, if it's good).

I think it will have some serious disadvantages around team play.

Samson just asked me to say that there are still quite a few spaces available.

A fairly cheap flight there, free housing, an amazing city, 4 days of polo, let's get more of a UK group out there...

Samson just asked me to say that there are still quite a few spaces available.

A fairly cheap flight there, free housing, an amazing city, 4 days of polo, let's get more of a UK group out there...

Maybe it's a good idea to make this topic a sticky? Gives it a little more attention.