Tourney: Bristol - NS - 10.03.12 - 11.03.12

Thanks for coming everyone; it was a blast!

So you admit it?

Not gull-ty

Not gull-ty

o'rly?

ha

proper evil looking, banner stealing bastards.

Have you doctored Josh's eyes !

proper evil looking, boner stealing bastards.

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Emma noticed a photographer with some tasty looking lenses and multiple camera bodies. There was envy. Was he there for Boneshaker magazine or will we see a Flickr set soon?

Emma noticed a photographer with some tasty looking lenses and multiple camera bodies. There was envy. Was he there for Boneshaker magazine or will we see a Flickr set soon?
He is a friend of a friend of mine (a Hungarian guy). He will be posting the photos online. Link coming soon.

Final results:

1st: Gettin wild
2nd: Dead rappers
3rd:Polosapiens
4th: Spring break
5th: Nice touch
Pouces en L'air
7th: Be right on
Hackey goal slotters
9th: Dinos
Black Stabbath
Hacked off
Skull attack
13th: Bubonic plays
Soyo polo co
Passed it
The commies

Thanks for a good tournament bristol, the set up was pretty awesome (wood fired pizza on site!) Really well organised.

Congrats Cambridge, josh and hayden you guys were on fire..

I still think we need to start to move away from double elim if an accurate seeding from SR has been achieved. It just doesnt make sense, you guys could have had all 24 teams in the single elim as well, which would have been nice.

I disagree that taking more teams into a single elimination is worthwhile. The bottom teams will come up against the top of the table and will be trounced 5-0 in minutes (not always worth getting out of bed for). I've also seen "reckless" players in such situations injure the other team/break bikes on the first games of the day because they knew they had to do something "special" to stay in the tournament.

Double elim this weekend showed the validity of the format for me... Thumbs Up beating Nice Touch gave Polosapiens a fairly uncontested run in that "quarter" of the table (Thumbs Up should have beaten them really, but seemed to lose momentum), if you take more teams into a single elim, you will get more "easy runs" in each segment on upsets. Double elim halves the impact of any upsets.

I suppose there is something to be said for "do or die" elimination games, I guess elimination is all about the drama (otherwise we should be using RR/SR for as long as possible without a "proper final", just give the trophy to the team at the top of the table, etc). My preference would be for more SR and then a smaller number of teams in a single elim (if single elim is the way to go).

yeah cheers bristol folk, i had a great weekend.
great polo and great vibe all weekend.
and congrats to cambridge
picturess!!!!!!

Thanks to Andre, Rich, Ady, Cab, Warins and all the Bristol gang. You put on the most amazing tournaments.

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  Brilliant work! Thank you for my T-shirt too, very sweet. Cambridge, Brighton, Birmingham, it was amazing to see you all do so well!! UK polo bringing it to the kitchen. Oh and I saw gully on the train home, that's all I'm saying...
  

Big ups Bristol crew! Really enjoyed the weekend.
Some great polo to watch, super fast and fluid.
Awesome stuff.

+1 to the above. A great weekend.#
Can't wait to see everyone's pictures.

+1 to everything.
Grand first tournament even though we were crushed, good cider lessened the blow.

You did a goal!

Totes not good enough though.

I disagree that taking more teams into a single elimination is worthwhile. The bottom teams will come up against the top of the table and will be trounced 5-0 in minutes (not always worth getting out of bed for). I've also seen "reckless" players in such situations injure the other team/break bikes on the first games of the day because they knew they had to do something "special" to stay in the tournament.

Double elim this weekend showed the validity of the format for me... Thumbs Up beating Nice Touch gave Polosapiens a fairly uncontested run in that "quarter" of the table (Thumbs Up should have beaten them really, but seemed to lose momentum), if you take more teams into a single elim, you will get more "easy runs" in each segment on upsets. Double elim halves the impact of any upsets.

I suppose there is something to be said for "do or die" elimination games, I guess elimination is all about the drama (otherwise we should be using RR/SR for as long as possible without a "proper final", just give the trophy to the team at the top of the table, etc). My preference would be for more SR and then a smaller number of teams in a single elim (if single elim is the way to go).

I agree with this. If there were 16 more evenly matched teams at most tournaments then single elim would make sense, as it is there are normally two tiers amongst the top 16 of a tournament and double elim does a good job of accommodating them both. (does that make sense)

I also really agree that a 5-0 thrashing first thing in the morning sucks.

i had a really good weekend and that court/building was amazing. tournament ran really smoothly and i think andre, rich and the rest of bristol really did well. thanks to B and bogey for playing with me you guys played so well. congrats to gettin wild you deserved it, as did RV for his MVP award.

Massive thanks to bristol for put up with us and putting on an awesome tourney and to everyone else for making it an awesome weekend.

All the advice passed on was also much appreciated. anymore on how to recover from a weekend like that would be welcomed!