London Fixed-gear and Single-speed SJS Cycles

So, here's the info from GVA:

Teams that will enter the qualifying tournament are:

1. Rotten Apples (Em, Gabes, Rik)
2. Cosmic (Mat, Todd, Tom)
3. BAD polo (Aidan, Brendan, Dave)
4. Los Coños (Ali, Jo, Sarah)
5. ELKs (Ali, Jon, Ray)
6. Sparkle Motion (James, BDW, TBC)
7. ZU (Brian, Hassan, Mike, Yorgo)
8. The Fifth International (Andy, Iain, Matt)
9. La Schmoove (Dave, James, John)
10. Spinal Tapout (Aram, Ed, Prav)
11. Fiasco (Adrienne, Tony, Josh)
12. Three Beards (Bill, Mark, Rupert)
13. Massive Cogs (Cameron, Emmet, Jon/TBC)

We have to confirm the 4 teams before May 1st, So I'm thinking of the following weekends to do the qualifying tournament.

Date to be confirmed

We will choose by means of a poll on LPC soon which day we will play. If a team cannot attend the qualifiers, they are automatically out.

i'm a bit autistic, so....

London:4

Genève:3
Paris:3
Hollande:3
München:3

Karlsruhe:2
Frankfurt:2
Berlin:2
Catania:2
Barcelona:2
Manchester :2
Rouen:2

Wien: 1
Bern:1
Lausanne:1
Basel:1
Copenhagen:1
Hamburg:1
Leipzig:1
Grenoble:1
Toulouse:1
Lyon:1
Cambridge :1
Birmingham:1
Oxford:1
Milan:1
Rome :1
Vicenza:1
Fano:1
Budapest:1

Exciting stuff!

controversial stuff

geneva 3???

munich 3????

catania 2????
rouen 2?????
Karlsruhe only 2?????

I wonder if Budapest are the drunks we played at ECMC09?

yes they are

Oxford/Cambridge only 1 each? I'm sure they have at least 2 competitive teams?

But hey, no point stressing, decision has been made and i'm sure it wasn't an easy one.

@rik: it depends only of how many players they have named, maybe some "too much/less"

@chan, yes, but read
so, they only registered 2 teams. so they get 1 slot.

surprising stuff in that list, polo is moving forward quicker that the yorgo doing circles

yorgo doing circles doesn't move forward, he goes nowhere.

quicker....

" Each city that registered 5 or more spots gets 3 spots"

I'm happy we have a small polo scene in MCR!

Good luck in the pre-qualifiers gabes, would be nice to "netto" you out of a tournament again ;)

ha, good luck with that.

As in no more teams can attempt to qualify? When was that decided? By who? And who is organizing the quali tourney?

#outofloop

dead to netto

ha, netto dead to polo.

Id love it if it was conos, sparlke, cogs and tap out that qualified.

Yeah, good questions! Gabes, is it your suggestion to do a qualifying tournament or was this decided somewhere?

And if someone can't make it they're automatically out!? We have a little more time this year, we should try to find a fairer way if we can.

Does anyone of you guys know if they have decided on a specific date yet? All we heard was something around July.

Oh Shit. London is coming to take that cup home.

My prediction for pre-qualifiers:

1st: BAD
2nd: Cosmic
3rd: Apples

and 4th is anyone's!

hopebeardsdontgetinhatesnoops

dream on DUDE

shit talking starts here

ha

i think the only thing anyone can be sure of is BAD and cosmic.

lots of great teams in london. who knows.

Woot!!!!

See you guys in Geneva!

yeah, it should be a wicked mini tourney for sure. I'd like to come down and watch!

any other idea on how to decide what four are going?

what do you suggest for a solution?

pool to decide the date will be the best, IMHO

mini tournament is fair, if every team can attend. it really isnt the best way, but it gets the votes.

We could try a round robin qualification over two weeks. Every team plays every team. Vote on three dates. Have those as designated days to play quali games. Sort the rest out within the 14-day time period.

sounds like an improvement to me.

pool

pool = vote on a date for a single day or weekend tourney?

The London Qualifier for the Euros is going to be a big deal. It would be well fun to watch as a tourney, reckon.

i just think it will take too much time and cause too many problems to do a single tournament.

it makes more sense to do it chukkas way imo.

I have an idea.

All teams meet at downham in wrestling gear. Then have a "team royal rumble". No bikes, no mallets, just wrestling. Last 4 teams left go to the euro's.

I'll ref.

pool for format: round robin, uno day, weekend, (anymore???)
pool for date

+1

Seems fairer to spread it. If a player can't make the one qualifying date, the team can still compete for a place.

I'm torn between a spread-out thing and an epic one-day battle for four spots.

i'm down for the pool.

the spread out thing will make it a really tense interesting couple of weeks, with results coming in every now and then. lots of tweeting!

epic battle ftw!

do you realise how difficul is the get 6 people together for a league game?

a rather one day mayhem

fair point, but pools are the only fair way of deciding the format surely shirley?

I can't see a round robin working too well especially not in the space of a week or two. But a vote is hte best way of deciding the format.

Just have a mad one day tourney and we'll all come down for throw in's. It'll be immense!