London Fixed-gear and Single-speed

We are excited to announce the London International Invitational 2012!

A showcase of the best teams from around Europe, as part of the London Bike Show at the Excel Centre.

The Tournament is taking place from Friday 13th to Sunday 15th of January. We will also be including demonstration games and ‘have a go’ sessions for the public on Thursday 12th.

We hope you can come along!

As well as the chance to check out the bike show itself there will of course be some incredible bike polo being played; certainly plenty of games you won’t want to miss.

LHBPA members will gain free entrance.

Timings and Location:

• Thursday 10am – 7pm
• Friday 10am – 7pm
• Saturday 10am – 7pm
• Sunday 10am- Final at 4pm!

ExCeL London
One Western Gateway
Royal Victoria Dock
London
E16 1XL


Teams:

• UK
  • Spring Break
  • Nice Touch
  • Cosmic
  • Dead Rappers
  • Electric Cream
  • Netto
  • Tornadoes
• France
  • Call Me Daddy
  • Hooks
  • Cocorico
  • TBC (Yorgo, René, Ben)
• Switzerland
  • L’equipe
  • Iron Ponies
• Germany
  • Monkey Punch
  • Clowns
  • Shotguns
  • Edisons
• Spain
  • Los Pelos
  • El Club
• Italy
  • Tigers

http://www.lhbpa.org/lii2012/
http://www.facebook.com/events/346809335345993/
http://leagueofbikepolo.com/london-i...itational-2012

Nice.

bummer, I'm in Holland that weekend.

Good job to everyone who's organised this though, the line up looks great.

Go London!

Good work on getting this opportunity for UK polo - hope to visit on the Friday.

Make it happen Netto!

cannot wait.

fantastic. love the poster too.

Can't believe I've swindled my way into playing in this

what is the format of this? round robin would be ace. sorry if i have missed something

It's going to be a couple of group stages, and then single elim.

Seeded or random? ;)

This looks awesome I'll be there on the weekend at least to help or maybe just cheer.

not getting at you john just curious, can you release the groups early so travels / works can be accommodated?

Yeah, probably can actually. I just need to nail down the exact format. We are still waiting for Edisons to confirm, so it will depend on that.

Louis, yes, of course seeded single elim ;)

agree!!

poster updated in the first post.

Thanks Adrienne.

Final 2 teams, Edisons and Yorgo's team confirmed.

who is in edisons?

Normally Mo, David and Eddy. It's their new team now that Anna has left for Shotgun Sisters.

But David is away, so they will have a sub for him.

yes i know ... instead of David?

Do you guys know if we will be able to leave bikes / bike bags at the centre? For foreign players it can be handy. We did that in KA and most people took the tram.

Yes, definitely no problem at all.

We'll be supplying a full information pack for all the players nearer the time

Whats gonna be the exact court dimension and size of wall ( wooden and solid?)?


Cant wait!!!!

obviously by foreign i meant herne hill.

30 x 18, 1.2m wood panels like the London Open

1.2m high (4 feet).

Sorry, corrected.

Nice!

Hey guys, Is this near to any of you Cambridge boys?

Bar Hill.
40 Fen End,
Willingham,
Cambridge.
CB24 5LH.

It'd be great if someone could help me out by picking something up for me on their way down from Cambridge... it's a tea urn so maybe someone who's driving as it'll be a bit heavy for the bag albeit a good size. Lemme know guys would be much appreciated.

JB

Top Tip:

Any Europeans travelling to the UK, why not buy some 50g pouches of Golden Virginia and sell them to us at a small mark-up. Win win (apart from the negative health aspects obvs).

as payment you could promise to take a dive in the 7th minute

Josh/John/Whoever
I'm gonna try and get along to show my face avec camera at some point over the weekend, what's the deal with getting in? Will someone from LHBPA be on the door, or will someone there have a members list?
Cheers, looking forward to some top-notch polo!

Not 100% how we are going to deal with it yet, but we'll get something sorted.

By the way your membership runs out on the 13th ;)

Ha, thanks for the notice!

We still have 5 teams we need to house, and only a week to go.

It would be really appreciated if people could help them out.

The Shotgun Sisters unfortunately are incomplete and are looking for a third player! If anyone is interested email Anna or me!

Yes !! as Cedric Told me he was living really far from the excel centre, it would be great if we could leave our bikes and stuff (safe) there and take the subway.

Sorry if it's been covered, couldn't find it in the OP itinerary.

What is going to be happening on Friday? Throw ins? Tournament?

Thursday:
Have-a-go sessions! Come and give polo a go at 1pm and 3.30pm.
Top teams will also be playing demonstration games throughout the day.

Friday:
The tournament begins, group stages all day.

Saturday:
Tournament group stages continue.

Sunday:
Tournament Knockout! Starting at 10am the teams will be battling it out in the elimination rounds.
1pm Have a go session
3pm Tournament Semifinals
4pm Tournament Final

in other words: thursday throwins, fri-sun tournament

Did you manage to find someone who can film some of the games/make a highlights movie in the end Josh?

Yep, Chan is on the case!

Awesome, nice one! (Good choice with Chan too.)

surely you wont know this until monday.. ; 0

I will try and get Friday off, what happens if I can't?

you'll need a sub, sorry this wasn't made clear to you earlier

Sorry if this has been covered before, but if I want to come and spectate/hang out, but I don't want to pay £15 to get into Excel each day can I join the lhbpa and get in free, even if I live in Cambridge?

Yes, that's no problem Gregory.

Please call me Greg.... only my grandparents call me Gregory

orly?

I'll be sending out an information pack with a full itinerary to all the teams tommorow evening. Sorry for the delay.

Here is the tournament Information pack, I'm emailing it out to all the teams now along with your housing info:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...3LYtlRydM/edit