WHBPC 2010 – Berlin

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YouTube – World Hardcourt Bike Polo Championships 2010 __ BROOKS ENGLAND

1. Beaver Boys

2. Machine Politics

3. L’Equipe

4. Toros

5. Fuck the Border

5.Smile

7. Polosynthese

7.Cosmic

9. Strange Brew

9.El Club

9.Trefoil

9.Dans ta Geulle Puceau

13.La Schmoove

13.The Odds

13.Bambule

13.Candy Colored Clowns

17. Bad Polo

17.MGM

17.Profane Lobotomy

17.Massive Cogs

17.Shark Attack

17.Apologies Accepted

17.Rotten Apples

17.Joel and the Janky Mallets

25. Li Carbonari

25.Rolling Hoods

25.Iron Ponies

25.EHFXD

25.Tough Shit

25.Los Manguis

25.Malice

25.Riding in Circle

33. Tiffany

34. Copenhagen

35. Das Polo

36. Puffin Along

37. Netto

38. Polomoto

39. Fenboy 3

40. Rakete

41. 24h Polo People

42. DBAA

43. Polo Fiasco

44. Les Moteur Fuckers

45. Top Centre

46. Budapest

47. Malaforca

48. Polo d’oro

49. Euro Threats

50. McCormick, Menace and Hewitt

51. Mortal Wombatz

52. Ball Breakers

53. Adelaide

54. Polosaurus Rex

55. Ketjes

56. Li Cardinali

57. One Team

58. Polo Prospects

59. Broken Legs

60. The Human Centipede

61. Atze Peng

62. Grizzly & Teddybears

63. Quit Looking Down my Shirt

64. Polocalypse Now

after some delivery complications we finally managed to send the frame on its way to the midwest, here it is:

thanks to manuel and leader for their support!

We would like to thank everybody for their fantastic support and help that made it possible to have the biggest and best bike polo event yet take place in the beautiful city of Berlin. Espiacially those hardworking international poloplayers that helped set up the courts Kico, Tom, Rik, Dan and many others.

Most importantly we’d like to thank all the volunteers who kept the whole thing up and running, there are too many names to mention them all but they know who we are talking about ;-)

We also would like to thank all the teams from around the world that showed up and played some world class bike polo here in Berlin.

A special thanks goes to all the refs: Paul, Amanda, Lewis, Chris, Jono, Ben, Zach, Martin, Nick, Florian, Kev, Angie and many more who made sure everybody used common sense while on the court and outside of course.

We would also like to thank in particular

• The City council for letting us use the area.
• Brooks for their financial support and their high quality saddles.
• Irie Daily fot their longterm support for berlin bikepolo, their prizes and also their financial support
• Bikelove for the pink blb-frame and their terrific free repair shop on site – you guys rock!
• Chunk for their stylish shirts
• IC Berlin for their fancy shades
• Eighthinch, Bagjack, Fixie Inc., Freitag,  Chrome Bags, Bagaboo, Leader, Schwalbe, Dodici, Kryptonite, Starshot for all their Prizes.
• Marco from Roma for the trophy and Jess from Berlin for the medals
• Wibke  ”Chefdesignerin” for her wonderful artwork
• Geneva and Karlsruhe Bikepolo for bringing their awesome goals

One more thanks goes to Montana, last years worlds organizer, he donated some of the money left from last year, this money was equally distributet among the following people:

• Kevin, for his great work with the leagueofbikepolo.org
• Drew from Seattle, who broke his hand at the worlds and will need the money to give to greedy us medics
• BriBri for being Torschuetzenkoenig, all five goals of the final game were his!

One more thing: we still haven’t collected the money of those who slept in the Gym, tent or RV. Please make sure to paypal the money to stefanlech@gmx.de it was 2 euros per person per night, not much for the individual but the total amount (1440 Euro) puts our balance sheet way out of balance, so please pay asap.

Pictures: we know that you all took loads of pics and shot films and of course we want to see them and you to share them with the rest of the polo gang. So we thought to announce a little photo competition: please send your favorite three pictures or your favorite film to: martin@whbpc.org and we as organizers will declare 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd place , present those on the page and will send out prizes. Deadline for pics sent is Tuesday 24^th of August. We hope to receive loads of pics! Of course we still want your links where all your pics of the worlds are.

Hope to see most of you at one of the many upcoming polo tourneys.

Berlin Berlin!!!

I know you made tons of pictures, in case you upload them to Flickr, Youtube etc. please include the tag whbpc2010, so everybody can easy track ‘em :-)

These are the winners of this years WHBPC! Thank you all – it was great. As mentioned you’ll find all games of todays tournament at WHBPC 2010 Final Round (Google Docs).

We wish all you staying for some days in Berlin a great party time and we’ll met at the courts. For all others already on the way home: Take care and thanks for your support!

Here you go: twitter.com/bikepoloberlin

the best 32 teams from the qualifying (248 games!) have just started the finals.

We’re playing Double Elimination and you can follow the games on Google Docs: http://tinyurl.com/whbpc2010-finals

Let the Games begin…

3 2 1 Pooooooloooo!!!

We made it!
After two days of qualification with 64 teams playing 8 games each, here are the Top 32 best teams, that will make it to the finals.
The results are out, despite weather we managed to have all games played! Amazing slide-actions btw …

Results:

Pt = Points, GD = Goal Difference, Gf = Goals for, Ga = Goals against

Our Welcome Letter, you’ll find in our Welcome-package is online
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