London Open 2010

Submitted by lebowski on April 15, 2010 - 10:03am

Saturday, August 21, 2010

All teams welcome.
There will be no cap on teams.

Host club:

London Bike Polo

http://www.lhbpa.org/londonopen

Location

London

United Kingdom

See map: Google Maps

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May 5, 2010 - 8:39am

Chukker Norris

London Bike Polo

Bump. Anyone thinking about coming to this?

MALICE for the people.

May 5, 2010 - 9:43am

kev

Toronto

I'd say 10% chance for me.

May 5, 2010 - 9:50am

hannez

Bikepolo Karlsruhe

in. and I bring some other Karlsruhe people for sure.

May 5, 2010 - 1:54pm

Rik

Berlin

perfect afterparty after Berlin!

Rik
Berlin Bike Polo 2010
London Bike Polo 2008 - 2010

May 8, 2010 - 2:27pm

MAX.

London Bike Polo

LONDON>>>EVBP>>>LONDON

May 10, 2010 - 2:22am

Dingo

Melbourne

In.

--
bikepolo.com.au
urbanbicyclist.org

May 15, 2010 - 8:09pm

Cardinal

Lexington Bike Polo

going to try will keep updated

Ifuckinglovepolo

May 16, 2010 - 7:04am

buildingbridges...

Toronto

Hey Damon, you and me?

.Storm Boys.
2011 Australian Champions

May 17, 2010 - 12:15pm

Cardinal

Lexington Bike Polo

im in be there the 17th ish. now i need a place to stay!

Ifuckinglovepolo

May 19, 2010 - 6:41am

#10

JonoMarshall

Don't worry too much about housing... we have a large community of players who'll hook you up with somewhere to kip.
(This will be organised nearer the time.)

May 19, 2010 - 9:30am

#11

uolmo .Clement.

Ponies and l'équipe 50 %.

:::: vimeo profil: http://www.vimeo.com/user1214048 :::::

May 21, 2010 - 6:32pm

#12

Rik

Berlin

make it 99.9%

Rik
Berlin Bike Polo 2010
London Bike Polo 2008 - 2010

May 28, 2010 - 7:51am

#13

lebowski

London Bike Polo

Registration for the London Open will commence on Sunday 30th May at 10am. Registration forms will be available on the LHBPA site at www.lhbpa.org/londonopen.

Details below:

London Open
Saturday 21st August 2010
Newington Gardens
Harper Road, SE1
Gmap link here

All teams welcome. There will be no cap on teams, but we will close registration on the 30th June. Registration fee will be £25 per team.

About
This year, the London Open will be the final tournament of the summer, where scores can be settled and grudges forgotten whilst partying and reminiscing in our beautiful city. Looking to the future, we would like the London Open to become an annual tournament that evolves year-on-year to attract the best teams from around the globe.

Format
Format will be the ‘Circle’ format, with teams playing at least 4 games in the first stage followed by the top 16 teams progressing through to a single elimination Finals stage.

Activities
Friday 20th August – Meet & greet. BBQ and Throw-ins at Downham during the day. Guided tour of ‘alternative’ London at night.
Saturday 21st August – Tournament starts at 9am. Finishes at 9pm. Prizes. Big polo party starts at 10pm.
Sunday 22nd August – Hangover coffees. Experimental polo at Newington (with prizes), BBQ in the afternoon.
(Note. With enough registered teams we will be moving to a 2-day tournament, with no experimental polo.)

Housing
All players needing accomodation will be housed by the London community. Please let us know on the registration form if you need housing and if you have any preference on where you stay.

Registration
Opens Sunday 30th May 10am at www.lhbpa.org/londonopen

London Bike Polo

June 1, 2010 - 12:28pm

#14

Mr.Carrillo

Barcelona

Flight booked. I leave from Berlin on friday. Check out Easyjet, fares are real cheap right now.

*Somebody please think of the children!!*

June 4, 2010 - 11:32am

#15

JonoMarshall

Facebook group link.

June 11, 2010 - 4:52pm

#16

phatyack

dublin bike polo

looks like we'll have a team from dublin this year .. maybe 2

see you there!

June 22, 2010 - 10:23am

#17

Rik

Berlin

deadline to register teams is next week, c'mon people London is waiting for you!

Rik
Berlin Bike Polo 2010
London Bike Polo 2008 - 2010

June 30, 2010 - 7:13am

#18

JonoMarshall

Registration ends at midnight tonight (GMT), get in there quick if you want to register a team!

June 30, 2010 - 4:34pm

#19

ThePoloFuries

South Florida/FTL Bike Polo

I'm going to be coming to this touney most likely if anyone is interested in picking me up to play. Coming all the way from america =).

"ok Mr. Schwinn fucking Armstrong!"
www.burrobags.com

July 1, 2010 - 5:39am

#20

JonoMarshall

Registration is now closed and the 45 registered teams are up, this is going to be awesome!

Please get in touch with myself ( jon@lhbpa.org ) or Andy (andy@lhbpa.org ) ASAP regarding late registration and we will try to accommodate you.

July 28, 2010 - 7:05am

#21

woods

Rouen Bike Polo

Hey Max and I from team Grizzly are looking for a player to complete our team let us know if someone is up (the polofuries ?)

August 2, 2010 - 9:02am

#22

phatyack

dublin bike polo

woods wrote:

Hey Max and I from team Grizzly are looking for a player to complete our team let us know if someone is up (the polofuries ?)

sup, we might have a couple of guys coming over from dublin that arent on a team yet, nothing is booked yet but i'll let you know if ye are still looking

my mate in london said there were a few heads looking for a team so it should work out

we're team lets get pista .. see ye there!

August 17, 2010 - 1:41pm

#23

JonoMarshall

An awesome weekend looms and I'd like to let everyone know that if you're thinking of registering a last minute team, then you need to let myself (jon[at]lhbpa[dot]org) know by midnight tomorrow evening.

This allows us enough time to draw up the schedules and although we'd hate to turn any last minute travelers away we need to have some sort of firm deadline... tomorrow at midnight it is.

If you know of any players that are thinking of attending but don't have a team registered, then please give them a friendly nudge that they need to send on an email with their intention.

Thanks, I hope most of you are successfully recovering from Berlin, polo rocks.

August 18, 2010 - 5:28am

#24

Cardinal

Lexington Bike Polo

Where will pick up be on Thursday night?

Ifuckinglovepolo

August 18, 2010 - 5:40am

#25

PIQUE

London Bike Polo

chris simpson wrote:

Where will pick up be on Thursday night?

Probably at downham

Kings - LDN

August 18, 2010 - 11:31am

#26

Chukker Norris

London Bike Polo

Yep. The polo forum is here. http://www.lfgss.com/forum24.html

The Downham (NE) Court thread is here: http://www.lfgss.com/thread6372.html

The Newington (South) Court thread is here: http://www.lfgss.com/thread2632.html

If you go to the last page you will see the discussions for the day. There may also be a specific thread for what's going on Thursday.

MALICE for the people.

August 18, 2010 - 5:37am

#27

PIQUE

London Bike Polo

La Schmoove are looking for a third for this.

Please contact me at:
johnpique(@)gmail(.)com

Kings - LDN

August 23, 2010 - 6:07am

#28

JonoMarshall

1st place: Team Frown, Seattle
2nd place: Machine Politics, Chicago
3rd place: Polosynthese, Frankfurt
MVP: David, Polosynthese

Thanks to everyone who made it a great weekend, London rocks.
Thanks also to 14 Bike Co for their support, funding and prizes (custom polo bike frames for the winners, £100 vouchers each for second and £50 each for third).

Bring on 2011.

August 23, 2010 - 7:51am

#29

Tex

Ottawa

Can't. Stop. Staring. At. This.

August 23, 2010 - 8:38am

#30

le car

Paris

just noticed the mallet going up and down!
I like how Rory appears out of nowhere

Yorgo
IN NEW YORK THEY...

August 23, 2010 - 2:14pm

#31

GaGoosh

East Van Bike Polo

Wow, Rory just totally took out Joe. I guess that's about right.

Okay catfish, I'm going to move my mouth like this...

August 23, 2010 - 12:28pm

#32

slamm

London Bike Polo

You're doing a pretty good dance Yorgo…

August 23, 2010 - 12:57pm

#33

Sveden

Minneapolis Hardcourt Bike Polo

Way to go Seattle, Chicago and Frankfurt! Sounds like there was lots of GOOD GAME all around.

Minneapolis Bike Polo dot Com

August 23, 2010 - 1:16pm

#34

momo

DC Bike Polo

Ha, the Washington Post puts out a free paper of mostly AP articles called the Express distributed at Metro stop locations, and there was a picture of the London Open on page 2. Not that the Wash. Post hasn't covered DC polo, but funny to see polo from London in a local paper.

Del Boca Vista Polo