Tournament Results

1 - Banned in DC; NYC Doug, Paul, Zack
2 - Hoagie Rollers; PHI Mark, Montana, ?
3 - Gordon ITBATFATS/The Burning of Washington; MAD Jonny, Ben, Kev

1: Bike Polo Munchen (from munich indeed)
2: B.A.D Polo (from south london)
3: The Fabulous French Fuckers (from Paris)

and a miserable 4 for Zombie R.M.Y

1st: That's what she said (while you're down there), Ottawa, alexis brian and robbie
2nd: Hoagie Rollers, Philly, mark Montana and alex
3rd: East Vanier, East Van, jackle Jen martin

1st: Faggot Bike Golfers (PHL/NYC) - Seagull Bags
2nd: On Deck (RVA) - EWnR Jerseys
3rd: Slapdick (DC) - Sage Brown Caps, Swobo Bar Ends
4th: Sgt. Chombo's Lonely Hearts Club Band (NYC/DC/PHL/RVA/CHI/BOS) - Laek House T's

Male MVP:
Philly Mark - Girl.Bike.Dog Bag, Swobo Jersey, Swobo T
2nd - Nick (RVA)
[actually, Mark ended up giving Nick the bag]

Female:
Quinn - Girl.Bike.Dog Bag, Swobo Jersey, Swobo Shorts
2nd - Mehgan

Best Rookie:
Johan (DC) - Girl.Bike.Dog bag, Swobot T
2nd - Brendan (Philly)
[Johan gave Brendan the shirt that was in the bag]

Furthest Traveled:
DUMPTRUCK - Swobo T

Best Goal While Crashing:
RAMMAN - Swobo T
(ok, so I had 2 XL shirts and had to make up prizes for them, whatever)

The Ted Matherly Award [aka I took myself out of the game and came really close to injuring myself a lot]
RAMMAN - SE Draft Lite (with a flat tire because the rim strip moved and cut net to the valve stem)

Winners: Fabulous French F*ckers
2nd place: Zombie RMY

1st: MAD Bike Polo

Winners: Nick & Josh (RVA)

2nd place: Mark & Montana (Philly)
3rd place: Leon (Seattle) & Chris (NYC)

Also there was a radar gun to record a fastest shot competition. Mark Capriotti unofficially hit a 73 MPH shot from a stationary ball. And netted goals were used instead of traffic cones.

1st - Tallahassee
2nd - Pensacola

UGA-1 (university of georgia) vs MoA-1 (athens city team) had the most physical of all the games in the semi's with UGA-1 winning 5-4. The winning shot was done with a bare pole after the head of the mallet was ripped off the shaft a few seconds earlier. UGA-1 went on to win the tournament.

* 128 total starts for the weekend (146 if you include the qualifiers)
* Beers Consumed: Equivalent to 3.5 kegs
* Furthest Competitor: Cork, Ireland
* Furthest Competitor from USA: Mississippi
* Number of Ph.D's (or candidates) competing in weekends events: 10
* Number of Pro cyclists competing in weekends events: 2
* Fastest avg speed for 1 lap of the Athens Twilight Course on Computrainer: 31.2mph (~1200 watts max)
* Total # of teams at Polo: 11

22 teams for the round robin each playing 5 or 6 games for seeding. (results coming soon once i figure it all out)

18 teams for the double elimination tournament with two teams playing for a wildcard spot and two teams that had dropped out.

 1st Seattle

  2nd Mallets of Maheym 

 3rd Bike Polo Spring Break

(more results pending time)

1st Place Balls Deep
2nd Place Seattles Good Enough
3rd Sucka Fuck

1. Battlescar Gashactica (Pass the Sausage) Martin, Polly, Ponyboy (East Van)
2. Grasstards (Calgary)
3. Robbie Boards team? Ken, and ...

1 - Seabass SEA, Pieter EVAN, Rory EVAN
2 - Beaver Boys; MKE Kremin, Dillman, Joe
3 - Running on Dreams; NYC Zack, Doug, Paul

Results are up! 8 Teams entered.

Round Robin, Placings based on points. 10 min games, first to 3.

Thanks again to all our sponsors for donating some great prizes to the tournament, Thanks for supporting bikepolo!
Sponsors Include: Crumpler, Knog, Skin Grows Back , CBD Cycles, My Mountain Commuter Cycles & The Spokesman, and the urbanbicyclist project.

A bit thanks also to everyone involved in organisation of the tournament (Rob, Cath, AJ and the whole crew!) and those who helped keep the tournament and registration running (Scotty, Vive, Geoff and More!)

1st Place, Top Centre (4 eva) (Ray, Pete and Damon)
2nd Place, Three Less Horses (Leigh, Rob and Robbie)
3rd Place, My Milkshake Brings The Boys To The Yard (Kez, Ryan and Will) [soundtrack here]
4th Place, Paper, Scissors, Rock (Alex, Joel and Matt)
5th Place, The Penguins (Jem, Alex 4.0 and Antmandan from Brisbane)
6th Place, Zombie Roller Disco (Cath, Vik and Charles the undead)
7th Place, Karate Schnitzel (Rob, Bart and Vive)
8th Place, The Rapscallions (Bonnie from Adelaide, Ren and Terri)

Thanks also to Sarah Caufield from 3RRR’s Along for the Ride for plugging the tourney and taking great photos on the day (and uploading them so quickly).
Cheers to Penny Modra at threethousand.com.au, Sasha at http://ponybikes.blogspot.com/, Doug at http://www.hardcourtbikepolo.com/ - for helping us get the word out on the internet.

Heaps of pics on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/groups/melbournebikepolo/

Team shots by Sarah Caufield. More Tournament Photos by her.
Some more tournament photos by Rob Moss
and even More photos by Caff
Tournament Player Action Photos by Ben Landau.
More photos on Facebook by Taryn Barker

1 - Smile; SEA Leon, Seabass Dustin
2 - MKE; Burge, K Man, Jake
3 - RVA; Ian Nick, JT

1. L'Equipe (Geneva)
2. Malice International (London)
3. Toros (Munich)
4. Discordia/DTGP (paris/london)
5. FFF (Paris)
6. Cosmic (London)

awesome weekend.

MVP: James Brown (Malice)

Brooks style award: Candy coloured clowns (Karlsruhe)

Crowd fave: Dublin

Photo of Sunday's double eliminiation bracket by Lisa Betty Green.

see also the very final version of the bracket here: http://www.bicycleimages.com/main/photo1170.html (tho hard to read)

1 - Smile; SEA Seabass, Leon, Dustin

2 - Balls Deep; EVAN Pieter, Rory, Chris

3 - Beaver Boys; MKE Brian, Joe, Kremin

1 - Smile; SEA Seabass, Leon, Dustin
2 - Ballz Deep; EVAN Rory, Chris, Pieter
3 - Faceless Emotion; NYC Doug, Paul, Zack

1 - Weeping Penises; SEA Leon, Soren, Seabass
2 - Ballz Deep; EVAN Rory, Pieter, Chris
3 - Bananas; TimTim PDX, Kinichi PDX, Drew SEA

1.BAD Polo (london)
2.Netto Superstars (Manchester)
3.Toffs (Oxford)

BAD vs NETTO:

http://vimeo.com/6810600

(with drunken yorgo commentary)

Video by Iain from MALICE..

Photo of bracket by Manic Street Preacher, http://www.flickr.com/photos/manicstreetpreacher/3963401162/ Creative Commons NC-SA-BY

TEAMS :

01 : Apologies accepted ! (Marc, Luis, ...), Paris


02 : Malice in Romanceland (Matt, Iain and Andy), London.


03 : Riding in circles (Toby, Cento, ... ), Trévise.


04 : The saucy Lobstarz  (jude, stephan and pounk), Paris.


05 : Rotten Apples (Gabes, Emilié and Rick), London.


06 : Los conos (Sarah, Ali and Jo), London.


07 : Dans ta gueule, puceau. (Hugo, Pierre and Kevin),Paris.


08 : D.B.A.A : Don't Be An Asshole (Max, Woods and Jack), Rouen.


09 : 'Metz, Schindel and Söhne (Thomas, Schindel and Söhne), Karlifornia.


10 : ULYSS3 (Edouard, Mathieu and Greg), Paris.


11 : Netto superstars, Manchester.


12 : BMW (Pierre-Adrien, Fabrice and Simon), Rouen.


13 : Polosynthese (Mo, Davis and Anna),Frankfort.


14 : Candy colored clowons, Karlsruhe.


15 : Polo d'oro ( Recep, Oliver.w,Sade), Karlsruhe.


16 : La mamama team.(Mathieu, Manu and Martin), Lyon.


17 : Juicy Jones, (Camilo, Jared, ... ), Barcelona.


18 : Zombie united, (Yorgo, Mike and Hassan), London.


19 : Mango Sharks (Hannah, Braley, ...), Manchester


20 : L'equipe (Mario, Manuel and Lucas), Genève.


21 : Iron ponies (Johan, Quentin and Clément), Genève.


22 : Team Peligro (Mr.Carrillo, Zugasti and Spaceboy), Barcelona.


23 : Les Marteaux Players (Henri, René and Thibault), Paris.


24 : Cyclotron (Alex, Adrien and Mathieu), Paris.


25 : Les bike prolos (Ronan, Corentin, Nick), Larmor Plage.


26 : Macho Polo (Pablo, Xavi and Alex A.), Barcelona.


27 : Poloholics Toros (Pablo, Eddy, Andreas),Munich.


28 : Poloholica (Katrin, Angie, Anja),Munich.


29 : Poloholics Anonymous, Munich.


30 : Fixa Club (Kico, Tom, Lucas), Barcelona.


31 : Team Sparton (WWG, Guztafo, Morgan), Lyon.
32 : The Incredipolos (Agata, Mathieu and Dave), Paris/London.
33 : La Pame (Hattara, Laurent, Jboule), Paris.
34 : Les Beliers des Gervais-Lilas. Gervais-Lilas.
35 : Rolling Hoods (Mapple, William, Johann),Grenoble.
36 : Rampage Berlin, Berlin

4 teams are missing a player.
2 Manchester players are coming for replacement allready.
2 players can play

And 1 has to be really good for Apologies accepted! We wanna kicks Kevin ass !!!