Tourney: London International Invitational 2012 13th-15th Jan

"Endura banned from cycle racing following doping scandal"

ahahaha!

thanks to chunk for the shirts!!

Woah there, I coulda got a tshirt for letting my friends have comfy, comfy floor to sleep on?! Damn.

More snaps
Strange light in that place. Like a casino.
A couple more snaps

And more here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/david-dansky/sets/72157628917257115/

Many brilliant play/goals/sportmanship throughout the tourney. My pick would be Maks Hooks winning goal, shot then bailed.

Real good tourney. Single elim mix things up and make good surprises, even that's really hard to handle.
Awesome organisation. Awesome level of polo, thanks england for kicking some asses, that's a good lesson. Thanks Iain and you "cherie" for everything, best hosting ever!

can't make a longer post right now, but thank you!

(ps- cards is awesome, for euro 2010 we got the idea of panini or baseball cards setup but never find the time to make it, we should def do that for every tourney. Never forgett the magic trick of blind picking up the best card, the black man, after the 7 that Will gave me).

anyone else see josh chatting on channel 5 this morning?

no, shit can you find it on their on demand? What was the programme.?

some morning telly bollocks that was on in the background, my girlfriend shouted me in from the other room saying "there's bike polo on the telly". Had josh chatting and some reporter trying stuff out, said it was fun and had a few factoids on the screen. quite exciting really

gabby logan thing?

gabby chats about stuff, LIVE! looks like it will be on demand, but ain't up yet

nice one rob.

Some photos were passed on to the LHBPA by Ben Spear:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.285402594853487.70446.158638804196534&type=3

the Cup is safe at Guidoline now !

For 10€, you can kiss it when you'll be here next week end.

Now the dust is settling - how do you rate the tournament against the objectives you set? Did the organisers deliver 75k visitors over the four days? Did you get interest from people keen to pick up a mallet in London and did you do any flyers etc. It will be fascinating to know whether you get any newbies arriving at London courts in the next few weeks.

That's a conversation for the LHBPA sub-forum I reckon... in general: lots of spectators, a big success, good feedback all-round, we could have flyered more and held more public sessions.

Thanks London!!!

Some games here: http://vimeo.com/uolmo

i had an awesome weekend. thank you all for that! thank you johanna and anna for letting me be a shotgun sister! thanks john h for the comfortable sleeping-place. john and josh, you guys did a great job! hope to see you all again soon. cheers from hannover, phlpp

i had an awesome weekend. thank you all for that! thank you johanna and anna for letting me be a shotgun sister! thanks john h for the comfortable sleeping-place. john and josh, you guys did a great job! hope to see you all again soon. cheers from hannover, phlpp

It was a pleasure watching you play, Philipp (?), thanks for coming!

+1

Thanks to Josh and John, it was brilliant.

Thanks be to Rappers and congratulations to Hooks x

i had an awesome weekend. thank you all for that! thank you johanna and anna for letting me be a shotgun sister! thanks john h for the comfortable sleeping-place. john and josh, you guys did a great job! hope to see you all again soon. cheers from hannover, phlpp

shadowman beats 'em all

Some games here: http://vimeo.com/uolmo

Thanks for all those videos.

Love watching the full games!

Now the dust is settling - how do you rate the tournament against the objectives you set? Did the organisers deliver 75k visitors over the four days? Did you get interest from people keen to pick up a mallet in London and did you do any flyers etc. It will be fascinating to know whether you get any newbies arriving at London courts in the next few weeks.
a girl stopped me today who had been at the show and wanted to get involved... so that's one.