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If want to see BAD Polo destroy Malice, and watch Vidal eat his hat, then come down to Newington tonight.

quoted. I'm coming down to see this!

Nicely done Woody.

+1

...I think we should organise a 'proper' tournament this year.

Tournaments are fun.

+1

weekend after Berlin will be ACE!

POLO!!!!!

+1

Gabes - Cannondale
Rik - Anede lo-pro
Ray - Pinky GT
Em - Afinity lo-pro
Todd - Colnago
Todd - lo-pro
Jo and Ali - road bikes
Mike - Guerciotti w/super record grouppo

Hassan also sold his kierin frame.

At the UK champs, the top 8 will progress to the eliminations. Of these 8, how do you decide the top 6?
4 teams will get knocked out in the semis, of those which 2 make up the 6?
What happens if the teams ranked 7 + 8 end up contesting the final?
Tricky...

Usually ranked by performance. Goal difference and such...

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The bigger problem stems from the whole 'after-the-fact' announcement. Some things take priority.

Scenario:
Ned plays polo and plays it well.
Ned really wants to play in Berlin, expressed interest and has began organizing his life around it. Including a plane ticket flying in on the 12th.
Ned has something that's been planned for ages the same weekend as the UK champs so Ned didn't express interest and will not be attending.

A couple months later, the idea comes up and is quite popular that only the top 6 teams from UK champs will go to Berlin. Ned is fucked by no means of his own.

Yep, I forgot they were doing that as well...

srsly

So the first question should be ... should the UK be sending its best 6 teams to represent at the Worlds? (at the main tourney, others can represent there too...)

If yes, then the UK champs seems the perfect solution in this case.

*If no, *then we need to have a re-think. (or just a think in the first place)

I think surely communities who have expressed interest to Berlin about participating should send their best with number of teams being determined by size of community.

42/20 (56.2gi) fixed - Dan
39/20 (52.2gi) fixed - MA3K 700x28
39/20 (52.2gi) freewheel - Cam 700x28/175mm
39/20 (51.6gi) freewheel - hurricanejosh 26x2.3
42/22 (50.0gi) fixed - Crack Fox
42/23 (48.0gi) fixed - tomasito
32/18 (46.8gi) freewheel - voidcore 700x34
32/18 (46.8gi) fixed - moog
36/21 (46.3gi) freewheel - Jono 700x32, 165
34/21 (45.9gi) fixed - Aidan (turd)
40/23 (45.9gi) fixed - teenslain 700x25
37/22 (45.4gi) fixed - GrowUp 700x32
34/19 (44.5gi) freewheeel - prav 26x1.5
32/19 (44.3gi) freewheel - Eingang
34/21 (44.2gi) Fixed - Pip 700x38
34/21 (43.7gi) Fixed - Cohen
32/20 (43.5gi) freewheel - emab 700x35, 170mm
33/20 (43.4gi) fixed - bbq tom
33/20 (43.4gi) Freewheel - Mike 700x28, 160mm
33/20 (43.4gi) Freewheel - Ali
30/19 (43.1gi) fixed - horatio 700x38
36/22 (43.0gi) fixed - Mrlemon
36/22 (43.0gi) freewheel - M A X
32/20 (42.8gi) fixed - tigeruppercut 700x28 170mm
34/21 (42.6gi) fixed - playswellwithotters
34/21 (42.6gi) fixed - PiQuE
32/20 (42.1gi) freewheel - alockett
34/22 (42.0gi) freewheel - snoop
35/22 (41.8gi) fixed-gormley
35/22 (41.8gi) freewheel - sol
35/22 (41.8gi) freewheel - Dr Chan
35/22 (41.8gi) fixed - slamm
34/22 (41.7gi) fixed - Rik
34/22 (41.7gi) freewheel - Todd
28/19 (41.0gi) freewheel - cani
34/22 (40.8gi) fixed - Shinscar 700x25 155mm
30/20 (40.1gi) freewheel - hassanr
32/21 (40.1gi) fixed - Mat
32/21 (40.1gi) freewheel - gabes 26"
32/21 (39.5gi) freewheel - Mike 26"x2.2 175mm
36/24 (39.5gi) freewheel - skoota 700x32
26/18 (38.0gi) freewheel - danwentskiing
22/16 (36.2gi) freewheel - chucklebruv 700x23

I have a specific issue with lumping all of the UK in one pot. I'm betting London will take at least 5 of those 6 spots. Not really representing the UK is it? What about Edinburgh or Glasgow? No offence to them but they probably won't make top 6 in MCR...

And who even knows if they're interested in going to Berlin?

you both kinda sorta changed your minds.

Yea, I guess I've totally changed my mind.

;1287228']... I forgot all about the form on the league of bike polo that teams who were interested in attending filled out.

...
The whole "express interest", then "allocate slots" process could be done ad infinitum on a progressively smaller scale.

What was that catchphrase in the '90's? "Think Globally, act locally"

But is it big?

20t

Get that 22t from blb, it'll at least give you a taste of better polo.

I've been using a cheap Dicta freewheel for all of autumn/winter and it still works. It's no White Ind. but it still moves my bike and coasts when I want it to.

BLB knows nothing of freewheels. In their opinion, they're all shite ;)

I've kinda changed my mind on my stance of this. 1st of all, I forgot all about the form on the league of bike polo that teams who were interested in attending filled out.

Of the 36 teams in MCR tourney, there are 11 separate cities (19 teams are London-ish). Do all these people know about this discussion? Do they care? Why not divide the 6 slots proportionately, send out an 'express your interest' letter, going by Berlin's interest form, from the LOBP forum, to these cities/teams and let them work out who is going to represent them in Berlin.

Personally, I think going by Berlins form of teams that have expressed interest in the worlds is the right way to go. Not by a tournament that is not related and wasn't related at the close of registration.

So mike, what about bullshit political boundaries like NA, Europe, etc? I like your thinking, about polo being more community based, but if we're looking at UK, European and World championships, then we are all conforming to those boundaries anyway.

NA / Europe isn't so much political (NA not as much as Europe) as geographical (small ocean) and as for the common tournaments, all the Europeans play together much more than North Americans and Europeans playing together. Similar community aspect on a broader scale. NA seems to play more mixed teams in tournaments than Europeans so that strengthens the community aspect even more.

UK champs, similiar thing in that Manchester and Oxford have played London BFF tourneys and we all travel to play in each others cities.

I agree that the terminology points to political boundaries, maybe they should be called the 'This Side Championships' and the 'That Side Championships' and the 'All Sides Championships'. Maybe the 'Pasty English Speaker's Championships'?

Fuckin hell. Give Felix my best wishes for a quick recovery.

-Zombie Mike

Heh, quite.

I did almost say that I don't know who t-boned who first...

^ speaks from excruciating experience...

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