London Fixed-gear and Single-speed

woooo nice one Zombie

awesome

Great to see Zombie back in form. Go London!

L'equipe beat Zombies 5:1 from twitter.
Well done London, you are all winners.

bummer, shame we didn't make it to the final. All teams did ace though, well done people for representing. I wish I could have seen some of the games.

+1 to both comments


Really want to see some video footage.

Except for the beards. You are all losers.

Any news on the final?

i'd like to see DTGP take it from l'equipe, nice work london..

??? I thought it was Toros ....

Lequipe won.

Can anyone put Netto up tomorrow night (mon) when we get back into london (about 11pm liverpool st) from karlsruhe? We get in too late to get back oop north the same day.... All we need is a bit of floor space til the morning.... Be massively appreciated... Thanks....

great tournament, great games, great new skills, awesome mvp.
nice to meet some known and unknown guys/girls from london. see you in barcelona or in london in april. good night.

Well done LDN.
Looks like you had better weather than Sydney.

What a great weekend! The organisation of the whole event was awesome. Being picked up at the airport (with a crate of beer!). Ferried around all weekend. Games running like clockwork. The awsomest high tech scoreboard. Sweet goals (slightly longer than bike length - the future), nets worked a treat. Shape and boards used for court was great (UK supplier sourced). Only downside was the very slippy tiled surface, but it was a great leveller. Favoured the passing game I guess (although Zombie handled their speedy play well and Mike/Yorgo hardly ever went slamming through the barriers as I expected!). The whole tournament was played in a very good spirit and there were very few contentious issues (partly due to the goal design). The standard of play was superb and a joy to watch. The UK matches were pretty much all the best ones entertainment-wise and we certainly had the most vocal support!
On top of all that the hosts/organisers were so friendly/helpful/accommodating we couldn't ask for more - a huge thank you to everyone involved - well done Karlseruhe - you rule!!!!

GO Zombie! Didn't see that coming at all... Good work!

I loved the format BTW... amazing set-up. Well Done Karlsruhe and all involved.

best picture of the weekend - funny drunken morgan

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4069/...50b2b16c_o.jpg

don't open that picture when your boss stands next to you!

hahaha! well done london, and good job greifmaster masters.

Great job London... Zombie.. RESPECT

Beards suck.. YEAH!

^^^ Eingang's link NSFW!!!! Particularly when you have a 28" screen that faces about 100 employees and 1 boss.
ffs.

Looking forward to more SAFE FOR WORK pictures of what sounds like a quality weekend.

Hannes have you got the low down of all the scores/placings? silly question really

Zombies SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!
It was one of my 2 favorite game (iron ponies-ZU) since i play polo, thanks!
The draw against malice was also a great moment, nice to try to play 3 vs 2 +goalie, even if you were winning... like this my teamates can score 2 times in 40 sec, good for the show.

Incredible tournament KARLSRUHE, amazing organisation, i pee on myself for our Genevian EHBPC2010... i hope that you could send us some advice and help (or material, like this fantastic goal :D)

i will try to put some of games on vimeo-.
I just finish a lil' clip about this tournament, soon on vimeo too...

Thanks for all the support back at home, London. It was great to see y'all paying such close attention. Big London Love.

@Netto - You can crash at mine tonight. Adam has my number or email.

Thanks Dr V... Think we're crashing at Golden Wheels when we get back, we're flying back with them so seems like the easy option....

can we get some more details on the boards that were used? they seem to be universally praised. better than the traffic barriers used at london's EHBPC last year?

ah ah just saw the final tag of this thread

I think Roxy has this info.

hope you got some stellar video dan!

Hmmm. It's harder than it looks that cinematography business.

yep, I got the contact details to get the UK distributor. There's not a US distributor and it didn't sound like there were plans for it. When I know more I'll spread any good news around

Here are the standings:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4013/...dd4aecd0_o.jpghttp://farm5.static.flickr.com/4009/...857a707d_o.jpghttp://farm5.static.flickr.com/4068/...afa045c2_o.jpg

those photos are way cool.

its like polo team planes.

Those are not the final standings, though. That was the standings at the quarter finals.

yeah, sorry, those are the standings for the rest of us!

Thanks all for the home-town support! Brian, wished you were there! What can I say? We had a good group of teams to play. We played really well on Saturday and held our own on Sunday. Yorgo was hot, making spot on passes and always on the ball and of course his impressive breaks. Hassan made some spectacular goals and some amazing saves, our player of the tourney.
Malice, I know you had fun all the way to the quarters and it showed! Well done BAD, there was some really good polo coming from you guys. Cosmic, lay off the hairspray next time ;) Apples, Coños and Beards all played really well, representing London properly. Roxy played really well with pirate Oli (Berlin) and Holger (Karlsruhe), she made some great saves and was usually in the right position on the court running block/interference and making one goal (at least) off a rebounded shot from Oli.

Greifmasters was an AMAZING Tourney!!! Thank you Karlsruhe! Awesome hospitality, awesome organization, awesome everything!
The floor was a bit slippy, especially on the first day, but the guys tried their best to sort it out providing wet and dry rags to wipe your tires with, cleaning it every morning and sweeping it between every quarter/semi and final games. Clean and grippy tires and taped mallet heads were necessary. Some people were running tires at low pressures to help. (I had a fyxation on the front and a brand new marathon plus on the rear at normal pressure and only had one real wash-out)
The barriers ruled, the size was excellent (bit small but that's my preference) and the netted goals were phenomenal.
I don't think I need to say anything about the mega-screen, but it was amazing.

Can't wait until Greifmasters 2.

thank you all for being in karlsruhe!!!!!
you all has been fantastic!

we will post the results as soon as possible. we're all a bit fed up after this amazing weekend.
more soon.

AMAZING tourney. I'll be grinning for the next week, i haven't laughed this much for ages.

ranking and results online :)

http://greifmasters.com/?page_id=225 (results)
http://greifmasters.com/?page_id=230 (ranking)

THE VIEWING PLATFORM. Need I say more? AMAZING. AMAZING.

I think that's from the middle level...

Dear LPC,

I am sorry to inform you that I completely failed on the t-shirt mission. My bike bag was overweight, so I had to put some more things in my already-stuffed carry-on bag. I literally didn't have room for a single extra t-shirt. And then I got so hungover on Sunday that I couldn't really think about try to sort something else for the shirts. I threw up three times in between games, and after my final game, I basically had to sleep until we left. I was in such a condition I fucking missed the quarter finals. My apologies.

Yours faithfully,

C. Norris.

You played in the quarter finals, didn't you?

semis

Video from Clement:

lil clip...
<object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9297558&amp;server=vimeo.com &amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portr ait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9297558&amp;server=vimeo.com &amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portr ait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/9297558">GreifMasters 2010 Bikepolo</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user1214048">Uolmo</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>

@Hassan:
I hope that you like the "Zombie-ninja position" thumbnail.
That's a kind of apologize about my lil' shity "you suck" trash talking during our game. Indeed these words ruins my Karma, and few seconds later you score the fuckin 1-0 qualifying goal.

@MAtt:
Did you find the Anarchy sticker i left on your sleeping body when i left Messe?

Yeah, dude, thanks for the sticker. You got Malice getting scored on three times and my dabbing a few. But the video is great. Lot's of good shots.

ha! nice video. dude no worries at all, trash talk is part of polo, it's all in good fun. and it made scoring that goal even better for the retort! it was a super close, hard fought and fun game to play.

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Absolutely fantastic tournament, and weekend all around, from karlsruhe bike polo picking london up at the airport, to all the amazing little details that the greif masters team paid attention to (like the special menus at the Kap bar - ace!). awesome venue, awesome court, awesome goals, awesome screen, the list goes on and includes almost every aspect of the weekend. every game we played was epic and fun, not a single bad vibe throughout.

Thanks london for the shouting/cheering/heckling, holger for amazing hospitality, steffen for all his driving, and especially Zombie MY, on fucking fire guys. London bike polo on tour is always an epic thing to be a part of.

and most especially, thank you Karlsruhe Bike Polo. you guys fucking rule.