Tourney: UK & Ireland Regional Euro Qualifiers - Newington - 2012/06/03

Voting is in discussion at the moment.

Is there a polo calendar? I've found a thread relating but no link. I generally put polo events in my own calendar but only stuff listed in LFGSS/polo

Yes.

http://www.lhbpa.org/whats-on/ (you can import it if you use google calendar)

But don't take those dates as gospel, and book anything based on them, it's just for info.

The euros happen around the same time each year so let's plan our qualifiers well in advance (maybe even before a euros are announced?)

To avoid much of this confusion with dates next year it would be good to have provisional cities and dates for 2013 qualifiers or at least an expression of interest now.

This is the level of organising that is needed.

Also I think it should be discussed if the winners and maybe second place front the national series this year should get auto qualification in 2013? It needs to be discussed before any clear winners become obvious from the NS.

It will make organising the champs a bit easier if there are two less teams to accomadate.

could all UKHBPA reps please look at the Euro qualifiers thread on the UKHBPA forum please asap

Nice work Luca : )

This is the level of organising that is needed.

Also I think it should be discussed if the winners and maybe second place front the national series this year should get auto qualification in 2013? It needs to be discussed before any clear winners become obvious from the NS.

It will make organising the champs a bit easier if there are two less teams to accomadate.

Why the NS? IMO the UK champs would be better?

just bear in mind that the qualifier is for both the UK and Ireland, so awarding spots based on a London/UK league or tourney seems rather presumptuous. Chances are that the team who win the league will get a spot anyway, so I can't see it being too much of an advantage for them.
Also, it seems most of the discussion for organising the euro qualifier is in the UKHBPA forum, which I'm not sure we have access to. I doubt it would change anything, but the players who plan on going might like to know what's happening in the discussion regarding dates etc.

^^ Combination of the two would be best (If we chose that criteria). You could have a terrible uk champs/not be able to attend. Conversely you may only be able to make 2 NS.

Personally I think it's better to have a separate euro qualifier for the time being. Hypothetically if Cosmic split 3 ways and formed 3 new teams what would be their route to the Euros?

^^^ one of you guys should have access to the ukhbpa & should really be in there discussing it. If not then request access & get on it.

yeah i agree, PM on its way shane.

just bear in mind that the qualifier is for both the UK and Ireland, so awarding spots based on a London/UK league or tourney seems rather presumptuous. Chances are that the team who win the league will get a spot anyway, so I can't see it being too much of an advantage for them.

Yep no worries. Hopefully next year you guys won't have to qualify with the uk! Louis was just saying if there is a way to have things in place for next year if needed then it might make qualification tourneys smaller easier to have anywhere. Whether the uk champs or NS can help with that. It got nothing to do with london just uk tourneys.

yeah i agree, PM on its way shane.

me too please

There's one rep per scene so if you lot could work it out between yourselvea and feed everything through that rep that would be great....

^^ Combination of the two would be best (If we chose that criteria). You could have a terrible uk champs/not be able to attend. Conversely you may only be able to make 2 NS.
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Sure thing. The only problem with the NS i see is the that NS is open to non uk teams which could affect results or standings. For instance if hooks didn't come over to cambridge and smash the shit out everybody we may (possibley) picked up more points and the results could of been different as was a tight finish.

But yeah not really important right now. This years shizzle is way more important. I also think the association needs time to build first before it can get things working better.

There's one rep per scene so if you lot could work it out between yourselvea and feed everything through that rep that would be great....

all been sorted, we will have dublin rep tomorrow

Yep no worries. Hopefully next year you guys won't have to qualify with the uk!.

+1

Louis was just saying if there is a way to have things in place for next year if needed then it might make qualification tourneys smaller easier to have anywhere. Whether the uk champs or NS can help with that.

it's a good idea to have more long term goals in place, as we're seeing the effects of short-term organising now. hopefully for next year, a pan-european schedule will be in place for these types of things.

yea, we're going to have a discussion at polo tomorrow and discuss who will take the reigns as the dublin rep. will let you know tomorrow evening.

Uk champs is one competition that could be hard for a team to get to (as in it's just one weekend, all competitive teams should be able to make 3 NS events). Also it's limited to the uk, whereas the qualifying posisitions might not be given to just the uk (as in this year)

Even if positions are given to regions, the NS is open to anyone...

We'd obviously have to say that only teams representing the qualifying region get the spots(to stop some French team coming over and taking it), but on the other hand, you may get more foreign teams coming over on the off chance that next year they are part of our qualifying region next year (I think this is a good thing).

I also think the association needs time to build first before it can get things working better.

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We'd obviously have to say that only teams representing the qualifying region get the spots(to stop some French team coming over and taking it), but on the other hand, you may get more foreign teams coming over on the off chance that next year they are part of our qualifying region next year (I think this is a good thing).

I love the NS. IMO it shouldn't have anything to do with european qualifciation. Uk champs is something that happens in most countrys under there own region. You get a clear representation from that tourney without other regions influence. I know if someone cannot make it it's not good. But I'd only give the top 2 spots away as congratulations for getting to the final. This only my opinion obviously but I never saw the NS as how you may see it. Hopefully the Uk champs will be organised every year a year in advance as cities bid for it. People can plan there lives a bit better and make that the most important tourney of the year. Manchester did a great job then Edinburgh stepped in when asked. Shame nothing has happened yet for this year but hopefully some people are thinking 2013 around May time some mega UK champs tourney!

But yet again this don't really matter now..lets let the UK association sort it out with time.

But yeah not really important right now. This years shizzle is way more important. I also think the association needs time to build first before it can get things working better.

This and that^. We're only one meeting in and didn't have time to cover everything apart from the immediate. It will get more cohesive.

We're working on a possible UK champs but I'm sure Dan is covering that in the UKHBPA thread until I can confirm the courts.

IMO the ukhbpa really need to set a date for this asap, I personally need to book the weekend off work and need to do it pretty soon. has a deadline been set for the voting to end yet?

Why is the poll not multiple choice?

@josh the poll will close on the 15th (next friday)

@pique when creating the poll i didnt really think and i kinda just wanted to get it done because we needed a date quick. i thought multiple choice would cause confusion and what is the problem with just choosing one date you most prefer (if you can make multiple)

However some reps really feel the poll is unfair and want to create a new one. what are peoples thoughts on this? but please dont all go off on one.

and here is the poll for everyone else.