Tourney: Cambridge Swiss Roll Pre-Barca Warm Up - 5th June

Polo Training Day Tournament

When?

Sunday 5th June. From 9am til the last train/last person drops.

Where?

The Cambridge Indoor Court at Harvest Way, Cambridge.

Who can enter?

Anyone! It's an open tournament so we'd hope there will be a number of teams from all around the country of all skill levels. This is primarily a tournament to get teams playing of similiar abilities together, to also warm up for Barcelona, but it is not in any way exclusive to the Barca teams.

How do I enter?

Please log your team and your players in this thread. There is no cap on entries. There is an entry fee of £15 per team which we ask for to help cover our lighting and rent costs. If you are planning on travelling from afar, we'll be able to offer somewhere for a few people to sleep plus there is always the warehouse for free accommodation.

What's the format?

Swiss Rounds, seeded, or Round Robin - all depends on the number of teams. Time is a luxury we have here. We will need your help with this bit LDN. If anyone fancies it, we could do a lunch/tea break and visit a pub and watch the match (England vs. Switzerland).

Is this going to be part of the National Series?

No. This is a straight forward tournament to get people playing together on our great court. We hope to hold a National Series event later on in the year when the weather is not so great and before it all gets knocked down.

We will use the NS ruleset however, to help with our collective training to be better refs. Bill's idea of having a team do the entire ref/goal ref job seems to be well supported so, if people are in agreement, we will try and make this work for this tourney.

We understand this is very short notice, there won't be cool prizes (maybe a Pigeon trophy) or a big projector but it would be great to play more polo in our court. Think of it, if you like, as a training camp for polo, reffing, drinking, and knife fights. Hope to see you there.

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nice one cambridge!

I'll sort out your swiss rounds/RRs. Can bring a laptop for this.

cosmic in

We made a mistake with the date, it should be Sunday 5th June (apologies). The Saturday is Strawberry Fair in Cambridge. We'll be happy to run the court on Saturday though if people want to play throw ins and can't make Sunday.

Thanks Gabes that would be awesome!

Boom town!

Dates changed in title and first post.

fuck yeh strawberry fair!

Cool, can only make Sunday. I'm up for this, either with skids (if they can make it), or otherwise someone else, if anyone is looking.

I'll sort out your swiss rounds/RRs. Can bring a laptop for this.

Seems like the perfect opportunity to try out Challonge.

That's what I'm thinking.

who is in for saturday throw ins/strawberry fair?

omg i have been to strawberry fair in years
#haventakenacidinyearseither

cough

Part of the police operation involves compulsory drug searches with sniffer dogs for everyone arriving by train at Cambridge station, whether or not they are attending the Fair.

Just reading about Strawberry Fair on the interwebs.

^ good tip

omg i have been to strawberry fair in years
#haventakenacidinyearseither

hmm, i think i am confused as to what the strawberry fair is..

edit: googled it. an organised event, with crowds. not one or two stalls of strawberrys and maybe one cider tent. i see.

I haven't been to Strawberry Fair for at least 20 years...

about the time i first went bill. Did you sell me lots of speed? did you have a dog on a string?

i went to one last year, it was nice.

Awesome about the tourney. Fucked about the cops.

I guess the Strawberry Fair is quite a fucking party. 350 arrests in 2009, mostly for drugs.

http://www.cambs-pa.gov.uk/user_files/meeting/meeting337/S&A%2025.05.10%20-%20Agenda%20Item%2015%20-%20Policing%20Strawberry%20Fair.pdf

It didn't even happen last year as they weren't granted the license as the police objected to it.

about the time i first went bill. Did you sell me lots of speed? did you have a dog on a string?

The latter definitely not, the former, well, I couldn't possibly comment.

Awesome about the tourney. Fucked about the cops.

I guess the Strawberry Fair is quite a fucking party. 350 arrests in 2009, mostly for drugs.

http://www.cambs-pa.gov.uk/user_files/meeting/meeting337/S&A%2025.05.10%20-%20Agenda%20Item%2015%20-%20Policing%20Strawberry%20Fair.pdf

Jesus, that sounds brilliant.

i went to one last year, it was nice.

It didn't even happen last year as they weren't granted the license as the police objected to it.

One of you was on the Buffalo Bill stuff then...

And I dont mean Reminyl.