OK this is a lot more detail than i expect people to have about stuff that happened earlier.
if only know name/date/location, don't let that stop you from posting something.
The early years.... Hardcourt Bike Polo tourneys pre-2008
LOBP launched in June 2008. There are a few tournaments i added from Spring 2008, as i built out the site. But we've never gone back and added tournaments from before that.
If you have info about hardcourt bike polo tournaments that happened before then, post it here in a comment.
Here are the basics we need:
- Name
- Date
- Location
This is all bonus:
- Poster
- Who came, how many teams, etc.
- Results (the podium, if you remember)
- Photos
- Links to URLs where there's more info
Deadline end of October...
If you know of tournaments that happened post 2008, but didn't make it on LOBP, you can post that here too.
I should be able to at least get the images from t-shirts we had at these tournaments. I also want to mention that these were some of the most fun, disorganized events I have participated in. No, there weren't sponsorships and prizes. No! We didn't need permits from the Parks Board...
Apoloclypse
April 21/22, 2007
Grandview Park, East Van
(note: won by Bjorn, Ringer and Mason and they rolled out of town with hand made trophies in a massive puff of ahem, smoke...)
Northern Crown
July 1, 2007
Grandview Park, East Van
Tour de Polo
July 2007
Seattle
I'll let Seattle fill in the details - Polo Bear and the East Side Shuffle -best co-ed team-name!
(Note: I think Ringer won this one too. Fucker. We had to play the semi-final and final games up on the street for some bike event Messman had arranged.)
The Cascadia Fall Classic
November 3/4, 2007
Night Court and Grandview Park, East Van
(Note: this was rained out and we moved the pot-luck dinner to an earlier hour at my house so that we could watch the hockey game. We proceeded to the night court to finish up about 22 games in three hours. Last game involved throwing every crushed can available at Messman. Someone may have slept in my bathtub after throwing himself off my balcony. Patricia may have thrown beer bottles at the court during games... I think Hicks slept in the laundry room...)
Someone Killed Santa... (or something like that...)
Victoria
December 2007
I'll let Victoria fill in the details
(Note: this was the first tournament Leon and SeaBass won. I played with them to beat Ballz Deep for 1st. SeaBass went on to break his collar bone at the alleycat not an hour after we'd won.)
Tonnes of those old photos here - early days at Grandview:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/72427965@N00/sets/72157594398557291/
The 2v2 tournament was in August 2008 to celebrate EVBP's 2nd birthday. It was at Strathcona Park. I think Bob and I took second or third, I think thrid. I don't remember who won because I had to leave. Faron was also on our team. He showed up and didn't have a team, so we would sub him in for me from time to time.
There's more info here:
http://evbp.ca/node/3
im assuming you have the midwest championhsip tourneys in madison and chicago on grass. or do those not count cuz they were grass?
midwest 3 mke, wi oct 27th 2007 big ball hardcourt
kev, ben, jonny 1st
jake, burge, crandall 2nd
yeah hardcourt only. and that big-ball-on-hardcourt is kinda borderline....
Brian sam lodi - 3rd
couple of posters from tourneys in dallas in 07. i dont have the results but the ol abandoned myspace still has photos.
http://www.myspace.com/dallasbicyclepolo
4 on 4! July 4, 2007 at Norbuck Park - http://a4.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/59/826052c2f05d8f7587127d65c...
Dec. 2, 2007 at Norbuck Park - http://a4.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/15/9eb10de72cfcfda2a9c02b969...
and for nostalgia, how 'bout one of the most viewed hardcourt youtoobs evar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IQdvfm9SDY
Name
Bicycle Film Festival Polo Championship
Date
21st October 2007
Location
London UK
This is all bonus:
Poster:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2034/1553627477_63d4e20a9e.jpg
Who came, how many teams, etc.
Can't remember.
Results:
Zombie RMY (Mike Kangelos, Yorgo, RobMilton) won against a grass polo team... can't remember the others.
Photos:
only found this so far (still can't embed sorry):
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2385/1687696521_c803ff595a.jpg?v=0
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2121/1688480344_e2820e98b6.jpg?v=0
http://www.flickr.com/photos/borntolose/1679479161/in/set-72157602414724...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/beatznbobbz/1677825465/in/set-7215760259188...
Links to URLs where there's more info
ESPI 2 April 28/29 2007, NYC at the Pit
Info http://www.myspace.com/newyorkbikepolo/blog/240870776 and http://www.myspace.com/newyorkbikepolo/blog/226579736
Results "Phillys Christ Punchers takes it! Second goes to Broad Street Bullies from NYC/Philly and Third place is The A-Team from Ottawa." from http://www.myspace.com/newyorkbikepolo/blog/259637967
Poster http://www.myspace.com/newyorkbikepolo/photos/4054701#%7B%22ImageId%22%3...
NYT article and video http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/sports/othersports/27polo.html
trash talking http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php/264648-the-ultimate-in-bike-pol...
photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/crayonsemble/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/15623438@N00 http://flickr.com/photos/cleaman/sets/72157600164044580/
ESPI trophy under construction http://www.flickr.com/photos/pc-richare/tags/espi/
ESPI 1 Oct 22/23 2005
Ottawa's A team won it. Alexis/Angelo/Alex
ESPI 1 philly spoke card
Photoset (private tho)
OK who has more details?
i got stories and there gonna come
this adda be good. let me do some fact checking real quick and get back.
fall of 1999 I had hosted a small tourney, first in Seattle that I know. Maybe 6 teams. Winners, Tim Mason (still playing in pdx), Dillon Cantfield "billydotcom"(sea/pdx/just moved to Austin) and Chris Baker (no longer plays) won half oz and 3 pipes. I think some Portland teams came.
Rev Phil made pretty much the first video of HC polo from summer of 2003, before CMWC in Sept. We didn't give names of tournaments or take many pictures back then. But this is when I think polo began spreading though the messenger world and beyond.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb1WQ1fFPbc
Mason says "haybails"
2005 CMWC @NYC polo random pictures. I kinda organized pickup on the eastside. First time playing with people from around the world! it was awesome. There was not a tournament.
http://www.morrispost.com/images/events/cmwc05/Polo/index.htm#15
WSI west side invites in mostly Portland starting in 2001, Portland and Seattle had a year contingency, turning into a rival that became the one of the longest running polo battles still. Teams are in LA for the WSI this weekend for the the "belts".
I think the belts came out in 2008. I lost to these due to a broken bike.
WSI 2007 1st -- Peter Kriesll, Matt Case, Myself
WSI 2006 1st -- David "Polonie" Wells, MIke Dodge, Myself
WSI 2005 Portland Maybe??
all I got for now.
THANK YOU ALL.................. READING THRU THE TAILS OF POLO, IT IS A AWESOME STORY ABOUT THE BIRTH OF BIKE POLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.... LIVEN MY POLO LIFE meeting some of the dudes on the footage.... TRIPN ON HOW MUCH WORK HAS BEEN DONE FOR THIS SPORT.... IM SO PROUD OF THIS SPORT AND OF YOU ALL kick you selves in the ass... DAMMM I LOVE POLO....
tea.............
I think the first SF tourney was July 2007 during the NACCC's. It was in Panhandle Park with no boards.
But it was sponsored by Pabst and there was a pyramid of 12-packs.
Back then SF Hardcourt was still young and Oakland Polo still existed...
Maybe Ethan (moved to LA), Dustin (SF), and Justin (M.I.A.) won it...
no, those guys didn't win. looks like maybe drew and casey on the kegs?
this event had more non-playing spectators than any i've been to since. probly had lots to do with the mountain of free PBR deposited in the middle of the panhandle.
There may have been a NACCC poster...
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Boston's first tourney in July 2007 at the Allston court. Most of us had only been playing a few months and it was the first time many of us met the NYC bike polo club.
I believe Cory, Adam, and Dave won it basing off the trophies in the pic, the little mallets made of wound up chain.
Was that the summer southie tournie? We had a couple Richmond tournaments pre-2008 but nothing significant. The put up or shut up tournament had some out of town players. Winner takes all the cash, I ended up injured when a retired DC player wrecked me hard that day. We headed to dc a few months later for espi 3. I think we had a couple events pre 2008 I'll try to get some solid info
no the southie tourney happened the next summer..
july 13 2008
winners i believe were jen, alexis, and robbie from ottawa..
What about NACCC's 2006? Waiting to throw what I know about that tourney on when someone who was actually there posts info.
NACCC'S 2006 were held in Philadelphia Labor day weekend and I threw the polo tournament together last minute . Not sure how many teams, think like 8 to10.
We played at Tip Top park were the first ESPI was held in 2005.
All I remember about that day is seeing Angelo change out his chainring to a smaller one and thows guys from Ottawa won.
1st A-TEAM (Alexis,Angelo, Allen)
2nd ???
3rd ???
If any of the A TEAM has any info about this tourament I would like to hear about it.
Is there any picture out there of this day?
All I remember about that day is seeing Angelo change out his chainring to a smaller one and thows guys from Ottawa won.
revolutionary, so to speak
I don't remember the chainring change but I do remember the win. I also remember Marco making these spoke cards on the day of, back when spoke cards were king. No prizes.
We got asked that a lot down there. "Are you guys the A-Team or the Eh! Team?" A-Team. Alexis, Allen, Angelo.
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OK here's an example from a tournament that i almost went to.
NSPI 2007
Other details: