Tourney: UK Euros Qualifier 2011 (Sat April 16th)

is it a faux pas to take credit for 'frogs are chanphibians'?

No dude, it's yours. Nice one.

Treefrog National Trust.

Swiss National champs just happened.

Top 5 (who qualify for ehbpc) are:

1. L'équipe
   
2. Moteur Fucker
   
3. Fritz (elena team)
   
4. Polostubli (Berne)
   
5. Iron Ponies
   

In that order?

yes

shit, some other swiss teams to watch out for then.

getting interesting

1. Fritz (elena team)
   
2. Polostubli (Berne)
   
   

Who are these folks? I expected Ponies to be up there...

Fritz is the team who played in konstanz ,lefty chick with two guys

The chick is Elena, russian living in geneva, we stayed with her at euros last year, she was head ref there too.

Elena is v good, played with her in pickups last month in Geneva.

I guess ponies played without Clement?

no, he was playing, full ponies line up.

strange

At this rate we can probably schedule a Round Robin. Edinburgh? Sheffield? Birmingham?

1. Spring Break, London
   
2. Dead Rappers, London
   
3. Nice Touch, London
   
4. TNT, London
   
5. Comics, London
   
6. Degeneration, London
   
7. La Schmoove, London
   
8. Cosmic, London
   
9. Polo Erectus, Manchester
   
10. Netto Superstars, Manchester
    
11. Electric Cream, Cambridge
    
12. Asbo Polo, Manchester
    
13. Fenboythree, Cambridge
    
    
    

Would any Londoners like to help with activities to make the day run smoothly?

Scheduling: Mark (cool with you Mark?)
Transportation of everything to the courts (including goals): ?
Court sweeping early: ?
Food for the day (could be a fundraiser thing): ?
Stopwatches/whistles: ?
Courtside goal counters/tally: ?

I've rung the council and Miranda's currently sorting the courts for us sans-fee.

Yeah, I think last year we had 13 teams.

1. Spring Break, London
   
2. Dead Rappers, London
   
3. Nice Touch, London
   
4. TNT, London
   
5. Comics, London
   
6. Degeneration, London
   
7. La Schmoove, London
   
8. Cosmic, London
   
9. Polo Erectus, Manchester
   
10. Netto Superstars, Manchester
    
11. Electric Cream, Cambridge
    
12. Asbo Polo, Manchester
    
13. Fenboythree, Cambridge
    
    
    

Would any Londoners like to help with activities to make the day run smoothly?

Scheduling: Mark (cool with you Mark?)
Transportation of everything to the courts (including goals): Gabes and Jon
Court sweeping early: ?
Food for the day (could be a fundraiser thing): ?
Stopwatches/whistles: ?
Courtside goal counters/tally: ?

Rules we will be using are here (Euro's rules):
http://www.ehbpc.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/2011-European-Hardcourt-Bike-Polo-Rules.pdf

Ref's for the day (we need non-London refs too please):

1. Bill
   
2. Gabes
   
3. Jono
   

Round robin is 78 games. 2 courts, therefore 39 games per court. 15 mins per game (10 mins plus 5 mins changeover) = < 10 hours for round-robin.

I am willing to ref, but not to ref a third of the games, as this will mean reffing 26 games, which would put me & my team at a disadvantage. Ideally, I would like to ref no more than 10 games, which means we need 8 refs.

1. Spring Break, London
   
2. Dead Rappers, London
   
3. Nice Touch, London
   
4. TNT, London
   
5. Comics, London
   
6. Degeneration, London
   
7. La Schmoove, London
   
8. Cosmic, London
   
9. Polo Erectus, Manchester
   
10. Netto Superstars, Manchester
    
11. Electric Cream, Cambridge
    
12. Asbo Polo, Manchester
    
13. Fenboythree, Cambridge
    
    
    

Would any Londoners like to help with activities to make the day run smoothly?

Scheduling: Mark (cool with you Mark?)

Transportation of everything to the courts (including goals): Gabes and Jon

Court sweeping early:
1.Bill
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

Food for the day (could be a fundraiser thing): ?

Stopwatches/whistles: Bill (presuming that the cost of these will be refunded by LHBPA)

Courtside goal counters/tally: ?

Rules we will be using are here (Euro's rules):
http://www.ehbpc.org/wp-content/uplo...Polo-Rules.pdf

Ref's for the day (we need non-London refs too please):

1. Bill
   
2. Gabes
   
3. Jono
   4.
   5.
   6.
   7.
   8.
   

I'll also ref.

Please other people step up to this task too.. too many people take a back seat on this shit.

Jono, the rules link doesn't seem to work.

1. Spring Break, London
   
2. Dead Rappers, London
   
3. Nice Touch, London
   
4. TNT, London
   
5. Comics, London
   
6. Degeneration, London
   
7. La Schmoove, London
   
8. Cosmic, London
   
9. Polo Erectus, Manchester
   
10. Netto Superstars, Manchester
    
11. Electric Cream, Cambridge
    
12. Asbo Polo, Manchester
    
13. Fenboythree, Cambridge
    
    
    

Would any Londoners like to help with activities to make the day run smoothly?

Scheduling: Mark (cool with you Mark?)

Transportation of everything to the courts (including goals): Gabes and Jon

Court sweeping early:
1.Bill
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

Food for the day (could be a fundraiser thing): ?

Stopwatches/whistles: Bill (presuming that the cost of these will be refunded by LHBPA)

Courtside goal counters/tally: ?

Rules we will be using are here (Euro's rules):
http://www.ehbpc.org/wp-content/uplo...Polo-Rules.pdf

Ref's for the day (we need non-London refs too please):

1. Bill
   
2. Gabes
   
3. Jono
   
4. Max
   5.
   6.
   7.
   8.
   

Birmingham?

I can't make the qualifier (Saturday worker) and wouldn't be able to afford the jaunt to Barcelona at this late notice anyway. There were a few more 'interesteds' up here, but I think the drawn-out organisational debacle (at Barca's end) and unconfirmed wild-card put a bit of a downer on things and fucked up everyone's budgeting and holiday bookings.

Gutted, but looking forward to 2012. Good luck to whoever qualifies - interested to see which regional teams get through.

That's a shame, but I understand where you're coming from... fair dos.

(London Open registration will open soon, get everyone in teams for then instead!)

Rules link amended below Bill.

1. Spring Break, London
   
2. Dead Rappers, London
   
3. Nice Touch, London
   
4. TNT, London
   
5. Comics, London
   
6. Degeneration, London
   
7. La Schmoove, London
   
8. Cosmic, London
   
9. Polo Erectus, Manchester
   
10. Netto Superstars, Manchester
    
11. Electric Cream, Cambridge
    
12. Asbo Polo, Manchester
    
13. Fenboythree, Cambridge
    
    
    

Would any Londoners like to help with activities to make the day run smoothly?

Scheduling: Mark (cool with you Mark?)

Transportation of everything to the courts (including goals): Gabes and Jon

Court sweeping early:
1.Bill
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

Food for the day (could be a fundraiser thing): ?

Stopwatches/whistles: Bill (presuming that the cost of these will be refunded by LHBPA)

Courtside goal counters/tally: ?

Rules we will be using are here (Euro's rules):
EHBPC Barcelona Rules on LOBP

Ref's for the day (we need non-London refs too please):

1. Bill
   
2. Gabes
   
3. Jono
   
4. Max
   5.
   6.
   7.
   8.