Machine Politics vs L'Équipe, August 2010. Photo by Steph Simcox
Above.
Passed to the European host of Worlds.
First day would be 8 groups of 8 in round-robins. Second day would be double elimination of top 32 teams. Numbers are being crunched, looks good so far. The day is also extreme long this time of the year, with around 15 hours of sunlight.
As we have four courts we could handle up to sixty teams.
Format/eligibility/rules/refs will be coordinated with several cities from Europe and N. America (any others?)
64+
Provide awesome polo without leaving farm yard animals hungry.
in addition to the organizing part:
Morgan, Stefan and Miguel all are experienced coordinators. Morgan throwing alleycats for many years. Stefan was head organizer for the ECMC in Berlin last May. Miguel ran the polo tournament, including wrangling his own sponsors.
Olli also build 3 very successful freestanding courts for that tournament, two of which are still in Berlin.
I love how in the "Logistics" section the first item addressed is the public consumption of alcohol.
Also, "Sorry, hay bails are too hard to come by in Berlin." Zing.
This looks awesome.
maybe montana can ship the hay bales along with the monies.
any interest in moving those dates towards the end of August more the beginning of September? Cheaper airfare for all and more room for the NA and Euros
X 2 on the dates september is much better. the NA's still have to happen and most likely that will be the first week of august.
Berlin würde großartig!
WOOOHOOOOO! Looks great, although the pavement on the other 3 courts looks pretty sketchy.
Jesse
Collar City Bike Polo
Troy, NY
epicness!
i got to go to this one
you are in the Forest
Congratulations to Stefan, Miguel, Morgan, Marc, Danny, Nico, and Olli.
First step for hosting the World's done!
Many steps to follow.
Bid looks good.
In regards to the 2 courts that you're talking about from the ECMC's, do you mean that you will re-use the materials or that you will have 2 courts in the airport?
Unfortunately the first weekend in August is the latest we can do it and get the sports hall included. A local football club or league starts games the following weekend and will take the sports hall likely.
This would only affect the 100-person indoor lodging, right? The courts and outdoor camping would still be available in late August / early September?
Berlin for Worlds O-10!
Oh this would be fun. I'll probably be too broke by then to go, however.
OGT-COMOPOLO
BEEEEEEERLIIINN !
yes, why july or august for a world championship? isn't that more of an end-of-season thing? isn't berlin smoking hot at the end of july?
more kenball played by more people in more places more often
BAAAAAAALIIINN !
My friends will move by the end of the year from p-berg to weissensee. that will be perfect!
Wouldn't there be a problem with the guys riding fixed and all the bullshit with the german cops?
It's close to The Netherlands so I say, it's a go!
I think isn't working any more....
This is not the case anymore. Earlier this year it was proven it was unconstitutional (or what ever their equivalent is) to take peoples bike. I have not heard an update in a while, but last I heard they where no longer ticketing people or taking bikes. Personally, I rode there for 3 months over the summer with no problems. Everyone I know who personally had some problem all got nailed in Mitte. Stay out of Mitte, it is boring anyhow.
can you guys finalize the date cause I wanna start checking out tickets.
Skid & Destroy
Axles of Evil
yeeeessssss
I prefer End of july!!!!!!!!!! GO BERLIN
Messmann
bikepologuru
seattlebikepolo
since 1998
X2
DMM Polo
How does the recently reignited Berliner passion for burning cars and rioting factor into this bid?
Oh, and if you question the credibility of Der Spiegel as a news source, check out this video report:
Worlds should be in september
I like this, Sounds like a great place to have the WHBPC 2010
Any updates on Berlin hosting worlds?? Set date? For sure happening? Let us know.
DMM Polo
talked to the city about doing it later in the year. our prefered date is august 13th-15th now (it´s the latest possible too), but we´ll check with geneva and madison again and then fix it.
our website will probably be up next week, we´ll let you know.
sounds good. I'm trying to move to Berlin next winter so i'm pretty excited to check out the bike polo scene in Berlin.
DMM Polo
this sounds great. Im in
Pierre? Guthrie?
Reckon World Hardcourt Bike Polo Championship 2010 in Berlin might be the best event ever.
you know it has a lot to live up too in terms of philadelphia.
Yeah. No, but just in terms of the first really international tourney in such an amazing city. One year later, teams that much better. 64 teams. It is going to be fucking epic.
first really "international" oh come on.......
Really international = not dominated by North Americans. The 2008 worlds had two countries, the 2009s had 5 counties. I estimate at least 15 for the 2010s, with North Americans being a minority for the first time ever.
Toronto 2008 = ~40 teams (only Canada and US)
Philly 2009 = 48 teams (43 Canadian and US teams, 2 UK teams, 2 German, 1 Swiss, one French kid)
Berlin 2010 = Probably 30 Euro teams, 30 NA teams, and very likely a few from Oz, Japan and more.
Epic indeed!
Messmann
bikepologuru
seattlebikepolo
since 1998
Any word on if WHBPC will be reasonably after NAHBPC?
My guess at the odds.
75% chance it'll be 4 weeks
20% chance it'll be 3 weeks
5% chance it'll be 2 weeks
so can we have dates?
Sorry, I had thought for certain Stefan posted the dates.
We managed to push back to 13th-15h of August, 1 month after NAs
So those dates are confirmed then?
Ride, bake, polo, repeat.
Yup. Mark your calendars, book your flights, start swimming, what ever it takes! See you there.
Trying too, flights are so expensive this coming year, and now with this fucking nutter bringing a bomb on a plane security is going be a nightmare. Turns out cargo ships are really expensive too, bah.
Catania - Sicily, The South Polo community, supports WHBPC 2010 Berlin's Bid!!!!!
Dates (13-15 Aug) and location are perfect. We'll see you there guys .... go Berlin go ....
Ich bin ein Berliner!!!!
Luckily, Berliners don't have holes. I hear that in L.A. they serve up the ones with holes.
http://www.leagueofbikepolo.com/forum/general/2009/12/30/5-0ed-skunked-b...
Berlin or bust!
started looking at flights. Anybody in Europe hosting the pre-party? Looking at arriving about a week early. London/Dublin/Amsterdam all make sense for a first stop. Flights around Europe are much cheaper than their American equivalents.
For North Americans heading to Europe, these are the companies that currently will take your bike for free:
* Air Lingus
* American Airlines (though this seems a bit sketchy)
* Air India
* Air Transat (from Canada)
* KLM
* Virgin (to London)
bookmark this page: http://www.ibike.org/encouragement/travel/bagregs.htm
Watch out for Delta ($300 each way), United, and codeshares (the above airlines contracting with other firms).
Pretty sure you can add British Airways to this list. They also have free booze.
American Airlines charges you $150 each way. It lets you check in your bike as a bag, and pay only $50, but only if it's under 62 inches total (H+W+L).
http://www.aa.com/i18n/travelInformation/baggage/baggageAllowance.jsp&an...
British Airways takes it for free and it doesn't even count as a bag...
*Somebody please think of the children!!*
if you follow some of the links on the ibike website i posted above, it seems people are having pretty good luck with AA.
so how the places will be sorted out? It is damn close to the europeans....
YOUHOUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
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