It is the voted-on opinion of CBP that sponsorships are of limited use to bike polo as we play it now. The tournaments we plan are celebrations of community, and that community supports itself at those tournaments. Food, drink, places to overnight, respecting a ho-made trophy as a prize, etc.

That said, we aren't against, and are actually looking at a handful of very polo specific manufactured items for prizes or give aways. Headbadges, printed wheel guards, sets of mallets/balls, etc. T-shirts are out. I've got a drawer full of bike event t-shirts

Two things in response to the 3rd's hosted by Milwaukee, who pursued many sponsors, both local and national.

So when i suggested a two on two i just thought of it as a secondary tourny. I am playing with jake and crandle, in the 3 on three, but should we just do a two v two. i dont think so itheink we do bolth. and i dont think we need to be real strict about the different sit ies just to break up the bestes team , chicago can do whatever they like

oh and nyc can bring it we got a basher to mash her

fuck beruit

Would this bike mod be allowed in a tournament? I figure soccer goalies can use their hands, hockey goalies get a bigger stick, etc. Aside from the Von Munz clause, we don't have any rules about bikes.

Max made a movie with the footage he shot last week. It's 13 minutes of mainly goals from the last match of the day.

Let's see how long it takes to crash my crappy server. If anyone wants to host this video streaming lemme know.

One of the only polo courts that challenges Madison's Thunderdome for the status of North America's best place to play polo is under threat by poodles and other members of the increasingly bourgeois Lower East Side canine population. Let's help the New York polo players keep this space accessible to all sorts of people, not just dog owners.

As Ken from NYC says: "A group of dog owners in the Lower East Side is proposing to turn the "pit" at Chrystie & Broome Streets into a dog run. What they don't know is that this unique multi-use space is utilized by a number of groups on a regular basis, has been featured in major media as a multi-use space, and is often left cleaner than it was found by it's users. Please sign our petition to keep this space as it is: www.petitionspot.com/petitions/SaveSaraDRooseveltPark

Hey we are hosting a classic in madison on feb 10th

a few i deas, break up the teams a little

some way to do that. team champions is already split as well as milwaukes dynimos

can we interest the twin cities to come.

the winning team gets a hand job from me

also we could do some 2 player teams as well.

well keep it warm by burning fossil fuels and lumber. invite that shit eater pete di antoni to coome take pictures as wel las that medium format jock stap andrew from chicago.

In an effort to create a stronger sense of how the midwest game is developed i am starting this thread to discuss some normalizing of the rules. This will help new players understand the game and when cities play each other there will be less confusion. I have a couple of ideas about things that would be helpful but first it would be good if maybe milwaukee posted their rules from the last tournament and we then discussed what worked and what didn't.

kevin walsh

Originally uploaded by pete_d

So my body has finally recovered enough to start thinking about what happened last Saturday. Milwaukee Bike Polo Club hosted the tournament in what was the best thing we have seen in the midwest in polo action. In someways the tournament has shown the dedication that two cities, madison and milwaukee have put into their bike polo clubs, milwaukee the hosting city put seven teams in the bracket and madison was able to field five. The brackets played out nicely with four teams from milwaukee advancing to the playoffs, three from madison and one from chicago. Madison team #1 team that consisted of myself, kevin and ben steamrolled through the round robin undefeated as well as milwaukee team #9 which consisted of Jake, Eric and Joe. We took the first two seeds in the tournament. Madison even polished off a milwaukee team by scoring five goals in less then two minutes and forty seconds. Madison team #5 made up of Jill, Max and Jon Atwell played the milwaukee crew team #11 in the quarterfinals for what was my favorite match to watch of the day. Milwaukee #11 pulled through the victory but it was a tough battle that the made it through. We made it into the semi-finals where we played milwuakee #7 and we were cruising until we hit a brick wall in the goal name steven, we had to give it everything to put through a final goal that allowed us to win in two games, 3-0, 3-2. In the finals we met our longtime rivals in miwaukee #9, madison came out swinging with some long goals and our speed played to the advantage and we pulled a win out in the first game at 3-2, milwaukee struck back in the second to pull out a 3-2 victory in near dusk conditions. We played the final game in almost dark which resulted in madison coming back from 2-1 to win in dramatic fashion of 3-2. It was a hell of a game and shows the level of competition that has developed between the two cities. It is quite impressive to see the bond that these two cities have developed in their rivalry and we look forward to future matches.

Saturday October 27th
Milwaukee, WI
Midwest Bike Polo Championships
Estrabrook Park picnic site #5
9:30-10:30 regtistration
11am tournament

Prizes! Food! Beer!Polo!

directions:
from I-94 either way take I-43 north towards Green Bay. Take Hampton ave. exit EAST. At end of ramp turn left go one block to Hampton Ave.(lights) turn right (east). head east until you see a sign for Estrabrook park and turn soft right onto park road. park in first large lot on your right. You cant miss us from there! look for green and yellow balloons.

So awesome to see fresh faces, new blood, and an all women's team that kicks ass. Some random things:

1) Tournaments: Saturday October 27 in Milwaukee, and uh, "save the date": June 16-18 2008 at the cycle messenger world championships in toronto, and Labor Day weekend 2008 at the NACCC in Chicago.

2) Bikes: we need some 275mm spokes to fix up some wheels. anyone got quick access to em? It's nice that we all share bikes, but five people have each put in about $150 towards wheels and generously lend their crap out when they're not on the court--one person for an entire year while he's training in high altitude. Jonny has put in countless hours of labour. others have put in a lot of time fixing flats and broken spokes or building their own bikes. please help with $ or labour where you can.