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Yep no worries i'm totally happy with it but it's something to think about for future events. Looking foward to this !

The aim of this tournament is to raise the level of play across the rest of the UK (i.e. outside london).
We hope this Regional/North&West Invitational will be an informal variant of the London League that will help the non-London teams hone their competitive/tournament skills.
So we would like to encourage other cities to host their own over the winter. Get planning people.

This is very good and encourageing and just what me and some MCR bods have been talking about this year and have also had a session in April over 2 days. It was really good and I think the MCR team in question benefitted a great deal. It wasn't a tournament but just repeated games of around 5 hours of play over 2 days which was a good concentration of play. The fact that we kept playing over and over again in a non-tournament fashion mean't the pressure was off to do well in each game and take time to think about play and be experimental and have a throw-in approach to the event but with focus on development as a team.

As much as I love tournaments I find them frustrating from a playing point of view: so the less exprienced teams get knocked out quickly in the elimination rounds and don't get to play again while the more experienced teams move through the elimination playing more games and ultimately get more experience as a team. While one competiton might not provide one team with a huge amount of extra play, over the course of one season or the lifetime of that team it really adds up in terms of quality polo time and the less experienced teams miss out big time, tournaments stretch out the skill gaps between teams.

If we want to raise the level of play across the non-London UK scenes then I think we shouldn't have another 'tournament' this weekend but more a polo camp/ training sesson approach, we could do a round robin so that everyone plays equal number of games and are not left out towards the end of the day. Perhaps an elimnation between the top four teams for fun.

Tournaments determine skill levels, throw-ins are where the learning happens. Anyway, this is Birminghams event but that's my 2 pence.

Paddy is coming but we don't know our teams yet, we will know tonight after throw-ins.

1. Black Stabbath (Dan, Fin, Andy)
   
2. WRISTS (Neil, Matt, Mya)
   
3. Troika
   
4. Team Warin
   
5. in process 2 (BRS)
   
6. SoYo Polo Co (Andrew, Chris, Matt: People's Republic of South Yorkshire)
   
7. Sandbagers (josh, Luca, tbd)
   
8. Mancunian Candidates (chan, em, ben)
   
9. Cardiff - Paul, Rich, Beagle
   10.
   

not the content but the start pic (or whatever the term is).

http://vimeo.com/21895447

Anyone know the start time on Friday? getting in to London on a week day morning is super expensive.

well done Dead Rappers for an impressive 4th.

EHBPC 2012 Final - Call Me Daddy vs Edisons
EHBPC 2012 - The Final: Edisons Vs Call Me Daddy on Vimeo

First here, I has a ball

Sorry gonna be late, not much good at this London thing.

JohnH and Aidan not around so just me for a throw in team or whatevs

so what time this evenin?, will be arriving between 5 and 6 if others are keen

Coming along, 30 mins

On train now, arriving Downs or mess cafe just after 10am

On train now, I'll stop by Mess first.

Vote Newts here on one court and two if becomes available, perhaps we can retreat to 1 court if anyone turns up?

Such a great weekend all round, purrrfect courts. Great time out Sat night. Looking forward to the next Brighton tourney already.

Thanks for the MVP vote, half eaten sandwich and 'life preserver'!

Bump, i'll be bringing this to Brighton today if anyone is interested.

Zsofia from Hungary is traveling up with me tomorrow as well but we haven't any accomodation for her, can anyone put her up? You may remember her from Hell's Belles.

Old gits.

1. H-Bomb
   
2. Cam
   
3. B
   
4. Bill
   
5. Daniel (3 Pmh)
   
6. Matt
   
7. Chan
   
8. Neil
   
9. Rich
   
   

Young guns.

1. Max (happy to be the C again if no one else steps up!)
   
2. Aidan
   
3. Beagle
   
4. Sombra
   
5. Jono (happy to be captained by Max)
   
6. Josh GiW
   7.Luca
   
7. Alex
   
8. erin.
   
9. badger
   
10. Emmet
    
11. Crumb
    
12. Emyr
    

tried the yellow link think but didn't work, perhaps it won't llink from flickr.

how do you get the pic to display in the thread?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/33104721@N00/7177010166/in/photostream/

Selling my Bauer 4500 i'm not sure if large or medium, paid £95 approx for it so will be looking for £60 at least. I'll bring to London tomorrow as I'm coming up for the day.

I'll accept offers too via PM.

It's a good helmet but I went for a Mycro recently, visibility is excellent with bars cut out. Less than a year old and in VGC, some scratches but otherwise perfect.

1. Gettin wild.
   
2. Cambridge team 1
   
3. What a Mess (cams)
   
4. Hackney Goal Slutters
   
5. Dr.
   
6. Yomoyo
   
7. Be Right On
   
8. 5G
   
9. Bubonic Plays
   
10. Passed It
    
11. Horizontal Drop-outs
    
12. Nice Thumbs
    
13. MCR (team name tbc)
    
14. iLL Pigs
    
15. Cambridge 3 (team name tbc)
    
16. Convicts
    
17. Dino's
    
18. Rule of Thirds
    
19. Maximum Power
    
20. Sensible
    
21. Le BigMac
    
22. TSK
    
23. Party illuminati
    
24. TBC - Alfie, Rich & Max (Cambs)