Tourney: Bristol - NS - 10.03.12 - 11.03.12

Just to echo all the praise for bristol polo community, thanks for a great weekend.

Was great to see new teams enter the fray especially Thumbs Up who were my highlight. MVP for RV was totally deserved!

In London Cambridge they...

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.

+1. Keep double elim.

Also, I thought that not increasing the game lengths in the final rounds was way better. It kept a feeling of momentum going, and teams don't have to change up their games to a cagey, slow, technical style. 10 minutes makes shit hectic, which is great to watch.

Also, after 20+ hours of playing/spectating, a 40+ minute final can get a bit draggy, even with the best teams.

Cheers Bristol, another great tourney. Thanks to Andre, Ady, Tim, Cab and all the rest of your awesome community.
Ill agree with Dan and say that the surface was the best indoors court that I have played on some people definitely struggled with it but I thought it was great.

Well done Cambridge as well, get.in.wild were worthy winners, and Rappers played some great stuff too. Pouces en l'air were the find of the tourney for me, all 3 members playing out of their skins. Also great to see Polosapiens coming all the way from Hungary and proving that their scene at least deserves one automatic qualifying spot at the upcoming 'Paris Invitational'.

lastly of course thanks to Felix and Alex for being awesome team-mates and playing some great games.
Stingraaaaay!

Some pictures loaded to the Bristol Bike Polo group on facebook. Looking nice so far.

need pictures!!!

ah, as if by magic. :)

Thanks Bristol for an awesome weekend ! Well done G.I.W & that old fella' who won MVP . Highlights had to be Andre challenging 18yr olds to beer bong comps like Frank the tank at the croft , Dannys tap out & Lee baker shredding the mini ramp.
Massive thanks to the Warins for letting us stay at your castle (Alfie makes awesome coffee ) . Looking forward to seeing you all again soon . X

Message from one of the Hungarians:

hi all, last day on the bristol open, after the farewell game, accidentally someone took my mallet. orange mallethead with two blue strips on the end, and perro shaft. if it will have, please bring to the euros. thanks!

Message from one of the Hungarians:

hi all, last day on the bristol open, after the farewell game, accidentally someone took my mallet. orange mallethead with two blue strips on the end, and perro shaft. if it will have, please bring to the euros. thanks!
It will more than likely be at Campus. I wouldn't have thought anyone would just take it. I will have a look tonight and report back.

o'rly?

Is that meant to look like the Heinz Beans label?

i love the tag 'josh wishes rupert saw' hahaha

Is that meant to look like the Heinz Beans label?

Fuck off........it's the ketchup.

Sorry, my mistake.

'57 varieties of C teams'

So glad tags are back

lol

'tim warin polo hipster'
haha

Playing "ketchup" ?

surely there are more photos

After several tournaments of not bothering, I've taken the time to try to understand Swiss Rounds, which I think I now do, despite being numerically challenged.

However, I'm confused by the Tie-Break Score/Median-Buchholz system. Looking back through our (Black Stabbath)'s results, I keep getting 7 as the sum of our opponents scores (taking out the best, Brighton, and the worst, Piripriatrics) not 6 as was recorded. We played Pouces l'Air Passed It and Hacked Off (3+2+2=7).

Am I missing something? I can't imagine Challonge can make a mistake in adding up (although I can totally see myself doing it...)

Challonge is just bollocks when it comes to tie breaks. I've not tried to second guess the Median-Buchholz system.

I get it up to the point where they get rid of the top and bottom results of your opponents. Not clever enough to get why that makes it better.

According to that page stabeth played passed it (2) be right on (4) hacked off (2) piripiriatetics (1) and commies (2).
Drop piripiri and be right on and you get 6.

Or are you asking why drop the top and bottom? At a guess I assume it 'normalises' you tie score on the assumption that if you need the tie, you probably got beaten by your top ranked opponent and won against your lowest ranked? Just a guess though.

Looking at your post again it looks like you are confusing John h's team with beagles?

According to that page stabeth played passed it (2) be right on (4) hacked off (2) piripiriatetics (1) and commies (2).
Drop piripiri and be right on and you get 6.

Oh yeah! I get it.

We played Pouces l'Air the following day in the knockouts. What a numpty...

I think that system works pretty well. I was attaching too much weight to our loss to Hacked Off. We actually had a pretty easy run of games, which the tie-break score shows.

Agreed. Challonge is not a proper Swiss pairing hence the confusion on tie breaks.

Challonge is just bollocks when it comes to tie breaks. I've not tried to second guess the Median-Buchholz system.