Tourney: EHBPC 2012 - Paris - 2012/07/19-21

good luck guys!

Yep. You find a team, Chan? You coming?

Not gonna make it this year dude. Pretty gutted to be honest, this will be the first euros i haven't played in since London 09.

The whole wild card thing for Paris is lame IMO, and now it seems alot of players from teams that finished below us in the qualies (or didn't even finish the qualies) are all playing anyway. Go figure....

Anyway, it's done now. Good luck to all the UK teams, lets fucking win it this time!

So a few more teams dropped out, and some got promoted from the wildcard, so there are now 12 teams fighting for 4 spots, in 7 rounds of Swiss.

• Peinture French / FR
  
• Mum Lovers / FR
  
• Gold / FR
  
• Rat Trap / UK
  
• Passing Wind / UK
  
• Le Big Mac / UK
  
• Team Fishsticks / BEL
  
• Gipsy Kings / SPA
  
• Polotov / SPA
  
• Bike Pollo / ITA
  
• Milano Alfa / ITA
  
• Wheels of Fortune / GER
  
  

Guess we can't avoid a few all-London games...

Main tournament is at " espace pailleron " if I'm correct

thats sweet news! makes going to paris purely for the wildcard seem a lot better.

might have found x2 tickets to paris leaving london friday 8.01pm returning to london sunday 6.43pm.

I have made a offer for one of them. pm me if your interested in the other.

my offer was £75 for x1. waiting to hear back.

im trying every trick in the book to get there!

Tip for anyone getting the Eurostar. Ask the staff if you can put your bike bag in the bar.....

why don't you ride out? you can do it in a day (not speaking from personal experience)

i cant get the friday off work which is half the problem. if this guy doesn't get back to me. im done trying.

....oh, and not on your nelly would i be able to ride it in one day.

Judging by the quality of the French players at rouen today, the wildcard teams will have to pull their socks up. They are seriously good. See you guys at Invalides tomorrow.

Wildcard has started: http://challonge.com/wcehbpc2012

Go London!

So a few more teams dropped out, and some got promoted from the wildcard, so there are now 12 teams fighting for 4 spots, in 7 rounds of Swiss.

• Peinture French / FR
  
• Mum Lovers / FR
  
• Gold / FR
  
• Rat Trap / UK
  
• Passing Wind / UK
  
• Le Big Mac / UK
  
• Team Fishsticks / BEL
  
• Gipsy Kings / SPA
  
• Polotov / SPA
  
• Bike Pollo / ITA
  
• Milano Alfa / ITA
  
• Wheels of Fortune / GER
  
  

Guess we can't avoid a few all-London games...

Well you could have all played MCR and Brum and lost again, so less of the crocodile tears! Has the wildcard been organised by G4S? Surely they should have known that so many teams had dropped out weeks ago and offered places to scenes that actually have the commitment to support polo?

Chan - feel sorry for you dude... you should have been there by right the way your playing this year.

^You're.

It is one problem that has shown up with the limited teams "wildcard" thing. Teams have dropped out and there is no-one there to replace them as not everyone is going to turn up to not play. If it was open then there would be a few more teams there right now filling in those spaces.

Looks like there is a decent chance to go through though. Go UK!

Go UK teams !
Bogey was in Rouen last night and he reckoned the French teams were looking very very good . May have their work cut out.

Rat Trap vs Passing Wind next, will they be tactical?

No

Passing Wind 2 Rat Trap 0. Super defensive & tactical, both goals in the last minute. #ehbpc.

^Bill's tweet

No

Should've been

I think we should push for a return to the 'true/classic' wildcard format for next year.

Is there a podium/challonge link for the wildcard or just #ehbpc

GO UK!

Wildcard has started: http://challonge.com/wcehbpc2012

Go London!
yes there is

Pique are you in Pairs now? Playing in the main tourney as a sub?

Not yet but will be.

who you playing with?

by my rough calculations, rat trap and le bigmac will probably have to win all their remaining games to qualify

can someone give the lin-ups pf the UK teams, please

Rat Trap
Passing Wind
Le Big Mac