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Thank you Bristol for making the UK Champs happen.
Going forward, a fledgling UKHBPA needs to get a grip on longer term tournament planning ASAP and be able to provide smaller/less prepared scenes with enough support and resources to encourage the development of a robust UK polo calendar for 2015.
There's still something a tad unreliable about finals formatting with regard to bringing a tournament to a fitting climax. Although court conditions undoubtedly played a part, it seemed a strangely subdued ending IMHO. Maybe the lack of engagement from the spectator point of view came from, as has been said, the lack of tension through the unlimited goals format? Trying to manufacture 40 minutes + of the best polo at the end of a very long day seems a big ask for players and spectators alike.