Tourney: London Open 2012 - August 25th and 26th

Impatiently waiting for the photographers pics to be uploaded!

A few of us going for post courts dismantling food and beers at the pembury tavern on amhurst road hackney please join! Keep the good times rolling.

Kuoyo for mvp!

Strip polo officially the best game ever.

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Kuoyo for mvp!

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Oh fuck, I just woke up. What an insane day and subsequent night/morning. Bb'ing Manu wearing only boxer shorts at 3am (?) in London fields was the highlight for me.

Impatiently waiting for the photographers pics to be uploaded!

They are currently uploading... shit slow internet though. Will be live tonight. The very last bit of the ... celebrations ... I'm not gonna upload to the open Flickr sphere though... I didn't take a lot of them anyways that time any more...

Working my way through my photos. It's going to take all day though.

Absolutely exhausted.

Highlights:

The bar, Mrak & Tree were hilarious all weekend.

Bike polo Olympics, and Seabass' brilliant bribe.

Being used as a floor-wiping implement by Beer & Loathing.

Reffing Polonauten (the rad-polo team), and watching various different teams trying and failing to get to grips with their fantastic bike control.

Erin getting my attention when I was sorting out the penalty goal situation by shouting "William, William, WILLIAM, WILLIAM!!"

Thanks also to all the London (and others) polo people that vocally supported my reffing of the later stages of the finals - it really helps to know that my efforts to keep the polo clean & fair were appreciated. And to all the players that bitched at me during games, all I have to say is "grow up, it's only a game".

Thanks to Jono, H Bomb, Erin, Niki, Badge, Ryan, Eggpie (who was absolute brick all weekend), Nesbit and other L.P.C. people, and all the out of towners (Bromance we love you!) who pitched in and helped by reffing, carrying, fetching to make the event happen. At times it seemed an impossible task to get all those teams on court, especially on Sunday morning (how many games? 200?), so thanks so much, it wouldn't have got done without you.

Just missing the result of the first final now.

Amazing weekend. Thank you to all who made it happen!

Just missing the result of the first final now.

I think it was 4-3 Reverends, but I couldn't swear to it.

Kev says the same thing. I'll use that.

We had fun this weekend, was a great tournament to finish this beautiful bikepolo summer. Thanks London!

Special "You guys are the best" to Matt and Therese, loved being at your place, thank you so much.

I lost a mallet yesterday night between the dancefloor and the "polo naked" court, if someone found a small mallet with this config: milk capped, perro del mallet shaft with a Call Me Daddy sticker on, golf grip, please let me know.. thank you!

See you guys, recover well.

Ste might of picked that up, it's in Manchester now, we were last at the courts so figured it'd be better to take it.

Short video from Sunday featuring my favourite team; the yellow Germans. The young lady was a joy to watch ride

Bike Polo -London Open - YouTube

Just a couple o' pics. Not edited or nuffin and not that many neither but thought I'd share.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152064481235858.899723.674305857&type=1&l=6fd6179ab9

^^Haha! I stroll in about 1:21
They were definitely my favourite team of the open

All about makin dem cameos

https://secure.flickr.com/groups/hb2lo2012/
All uploaded now... if you miss something, yourself or more nudity I might have some more shots of that as well... have fun!

Some great pix in there, thanks !

Thank you for another amazing LO!!

Right, 2 sets from Sunday.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/36707747@N07/sets/72157631244021358/show/with/7859918126/

and

http://www.flickr.com/photos/36707747@N07/sets/72157631278830868/show/with/7875017082/

Best goal of the tourney , Alfie's shot above Machine's rear wheel into the top corner! EPIC!

can someone explain this to me please?

if you had a hat or a beard you had to get naked.

Thanks for a great weekend!