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@B: We try to do our very best to get the same weather and light conditions as in 2010... BBQ at the bus station for the win...

(Kind of) sad news:
The third edition of Greif Masters will NOT be an indoor tournament and will NOT happen this Winter.

After weeks of bullshit meetings with the people from the planned location and loads of talking and talking, it's really sad we'll not be able to host Greif Masters 3 at this amazing location. But we'll give it another try next Winter.

Anyways. Here's our new plan. We will host the GM3 as a 2 court outdoor tournament at some point this Summer.
We'll have a perfect brand new (bikepolo specific and specially built for us) Court and one other (also not bad) second court, camping and barbecue at the courts, etc… More details to follow later this year.

The good part about this. As Karlsruhe is very central in Europe, there hopefully will be a lot of international players around because of the Worlds…

That's it for now. All the best from Karlsruhe & see you guys soon!

Hannes

Candy Colored Clowns
Bikepolo Karlsruhe

**... back home after a great weekend in London.

It was so good seeing all you guys! So many surprising results. Thank you Bikepolo family! Thank you John & Josh for organizing this! Thank you so much Max for having us at your nice place, and Julia for the amazing Croissants. Thank you Eddy for beaming us home and thanks to Iain for beeing a Clown with us!

P.S. Looks like I really missed some gambling Sundaynight ;)

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+100000

we need a european body pronto.

Rakete will have been top 8 with or without Kico, so I dont think this situation is that bad. But we have to do something about it for future tournys

+1 for the european body...

and:
Rakete could play Polo d'Oro on the German champs in a K.O. game...
(just joking! - but would be great to watch anyways!)

yes, with el club

As Kiko plays in one of the Top5 European Teams (Euros and Worlds last year) and as he was definitely the strongest player on the team, it changed their result quite a lot. And they didn't even tell or ask someone else about that before the tournament...

The rules say:
"No player can play in two different teams in the same event, unless his team has already been eliminated"
I don't know it the qualifiers belong to the main tournament, but if would make sense I think...

However, sad that Polo d'Oro got 9th. But they'll be in Barcelona anyways!

http://challonge.com/images/brackets/euroquali.png

New Lineups:
Toros with Rik instead of Pablo
Bambule with Daniel (newbie from Berlin - great goalie) instead of Jessi
Clowns with Paul (newbie from KA) instead of Marc
Monkey Punch (kind of "Shark Attack" (Max, Flo & Adam from Berlin)

And: Rakete (Marc & Oli) played with El Clubs Kiko...

@Hannes - Nice one. Which area are the Clowns staying in?

We're staying in this one:
http://www.cocoonbarcelona.com/en/barcelona-nightly-apartment-rentals-263.htm

Good news to see all of you in Barcelona!
The Clowns will be there from Wednesday to Thusday...

If you are looking for accomodation, check this out:
www.cocoonbarcelona.com

They have really nice appartments.
Most of them central and kind of cheap.
We already booked one of them.

See you soon!

YESSSSS!!!

Nice B!

Preordering our food on the phone... ;)
And the "Erna" (that's the machines name) not working!

Ouch!

think about the ca. 150 Euro each way for using the french Autobahn!
or use the "Route National". But that'll take you 20h i guess...

...and more pictures of this beautiful piece: http://romabikepolo.org/the-greifmasters-2011-trophy/

This is crazy! Watch that wonderful trophy Marco Flore from Roma Bike Polo made for the Greif Masters 2011!!!
Greifmasters 2 TROPHY making on Vimeo

... and they were the only team that beat the Beaver Boys (if I remember this correct!)

@Gabes: That makes your 3:0 even more worthy! Hehe...

Last years player-pics by Alexander Schindel:
http://www.iknowaboutyou.de/

Exactly:
http://www.lfgss.com/post1865380-171.html

We start organizing the accommodation within the next days.
We try to have free private housing and cheap hostels (as last year) for all of you.

Thomas will get in touch with the captains soon.

Only 30 days to go! YESSS!!!

hehe. thats great!

As soon as you have sorted out the team, we also need the shirt-sizes of all players and the captain.
Thanks!

... as soon as you have the team sorted out, we also need the shirt-sizes of all players.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3352/3222991961_5644fe1761_o.jpg

If that ain't British...

Thanks for your support dear disciple.

Woody: exactly! I want to play and to go back to Karlsruhe. But I fully understand if my ex-UK resident status isn't deemed acceptable to enter that draft.

karlsruhe say that london players can play on the england team, its on the thread

That's true!

we've been discussing for days about the Greif Masters and the idea of hosting it as a Euro Bench Minor. And now we are sure we want to do this.

We hope we will not cause troubles with that dicision.
Because it was Max's idea, and he already started organising the same.

We also talked about that and think that even if we both would host a Euro-Nation Bench Minor within a few weeks, it wouldn't be a problem, as there are definitely more people than 10 per country willing to play.

Hannes (on behalf of Bikepolo Karlsruhe)

Greif Masters 2011
Indoor Bench Minor

Datum:

4. - 6. February 2011


Ort:

Neue Messe Karlsruhe

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Court:
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1 Court ca. 32x18m (2-3 meters longer then 2010)
Court will be cleaned several times a day, to avoid slippery floor (because this was the issue last time)

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Format:
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Bench Minor

Teams: (10 players, incl. captain)

• Benelux & Denmark
  
• England (doesn't exclude London players)
  
• France
  
• Germany
  
• Italy
  
• Karlsruhe (because the people that are organizing this, want to play!!!)
  
• London (because they are the fucking biggest bikepolo-scene!!!)
  
• Switzerland
  
• Spain
  
  

Option 1:
Without playing on Friday (only throwins on Friday):
games: 2x 15 min, round robin
= every team has 8 games = 36 games = 18 h

Option 2:
or if we decide to start playing on Friday already:
games: 2x20 min, round robin

Final:
The 2 best teams will play in a 2x 30 min final.

Forming the Teams:
Every country has 1 week to tell us a captain (we don't care about the process). If a country can't find a captain, we choose one out of the country for them.
The captain has to organize his team as soon as possible. If there are some Americans willing to come, They can play as an extra player (max. 1 per Teams). Just in case some people want to travel transatlantic.

Referees:
Every team has to bring one referee (he has to ref 4 games and can be a player)