Tourney: London Open 2011 - NS - July 30th and 31st

Thank you London for an ace tournament . Enjoyed playing sub for Degeneration (sorry i sucked ). Awesome trophy Wayne ! Courts were the best yet . Really appreciate all your hard work . XXXXX

Thanks a lot London for yet another awesome tournament, the venue was incredible. Thanks to Mrak for putting me up, to Asbo for our last tourney as a three, and to the polish bloke on the train who's given me free beer

Thanks, guys, for a weekend of entertainment. My daughter enjoyed herself, so did I.

Untitled on Vimeo

(puts thread back on ignore)

I don't really know where to start, we had an amazing time this weekend. The few games we played today were awesome, Dam Cosmic first thing this morning and then DTGPique knocking us out a few rounds later, whatever disappointment to lose those games is totally eclipsed by the learning experience and chance to play teams from not only outside of our usual local scene, but the fact it also draws teams from Europe and further afield is amazing. For whatever it's worth, I think we've maybe played each member of DTGPique on other teams before to mixed results but today you guys totally clicked as team and unquestionably crushed us! Nice one, it was great fun.

We had a wrong result taken yesterday and at the time was a little disappointed (I can't help but feel it might be polo karma for me not paying enough attention during a game at the Euro qualifiers) but it's also just a reminder that everyone running this thing are human. To hold down an event of this scale, everyone organising the format and just everything in general so it just 'clicked' on the day must have been an enormous undertaking, mega mega thanks to the London community as a whole for making it work as well as it did. The ones to watch tournament was a great thing, the fact that everyone got through to play knock outs of some sort today was really awesome.

With regards to reffing, I think the system of reffing after the game rather than before worked really well. The winners/losers reffing takes care of any question as to whos job it is and reffing after a game was just felt better because I felt still alert and awake after the game, rather than it interfering with any pre–game talk or warm ups. The patience of the teams on court while we are reffing is really appreciated also, the fact that a lot of us are new at this and still learning is still kind of intimidating and we do make mistakes (again Rich, sorry about earlier) I'd like to think we're all getting better and more confident at some rate.

So I think I'm done gushing, again mega thanks from me/us and lots of love for UK polo (and our European guests!)

We had a wrong result taken yesterday and at the time was a little disappointed

I apologize. I did the best I could. On and off the court.

And the people whipping this weekend are the real heroes.

Except Lebowski.

And amazing photo, Will.

Did you do the black and white in post? ;)

I apologize. I did the best I could. On and off the court.

Mark, literally not a problem. You did a great job of taming the wild format beast. Thanks again.

best tourney ever! gonna miss the london scene for the next month! see you guys in september!! well done everyone and thanks markus for being awesome and matt for subbing for us! woop woop london polo! x

One from the past: Rotten Apples v. Cosmic... Nice :)

Key party!

(Wicked photo will.)

Awesome weekend!

I've uploaded a photo album of shots from today to Picasa if anyone wants to have a gander/tag themselves on Google+ etc. Click the picture to go to the album!

I had a great time and was blown away by the skill of the riders! Thanks to the organisers for making it a great weekend!

Hercule Poirot

Untitled on Vimeo

Lost Property at my house:

1 Red helmet labelled "polo erectus"
1 Scouting for Goals shirt
Mallets
1 Glove

Also 1 Rain Jacket from Edinburgh

If any of this is yours, PM me..

(thanks again for the awesome weekend everyone)

exhausted.hungover.sunburnt.

epic.

^ This... Thanks to my team mates and massive thanks to everyone else for making it such an awesome weekend, especially Jono...

Tornadoes were my team of the tourney, GO TORNADOES!!!!

I'm off for a long, long soak in the tub... x

Court disassembly this morn, 4 of us here now... need more!

If you're not working grab a berocca and head to downs please, thanks.

leaving now

great to see how polo has grown. I had a great time watching and cisco loved it!

I'm a big gay hoser who doesn't like giving up his lighter

Hosed from my own computer, in my own home. MCR, you will pay for this.

Thanks to: Jono. Ali, Mrak, Nik, Max (dick even if it its chalk) Kev, Tom, Erin, Bill, MC lebowski, All the volunteers (sorry if my hangover can't pick out names). The out of town players that came to make it such spectacle and always make our family feel bigger and stronger each time. Jacob for slotting in perfectly, EmVeePee. Best goal was the 'alley oop' over macro rakete. … And just two things out of hundreds that make london polo so creative, good natured and hilarious. 'burst the vest' and 'hercule poirots keys' my face aches with glee.
xx

Short shorts final.

Thank you London, awesome polo weekend. Anyone got the full results?

Keep an eye out for the Cambridge tourney trophy "gully" think he may have been left behind. Needs to be returned to MCR ;)