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2010 Australasian Hardcourt Bike Polo Championships
Aug 19th
Australasian Hardcourt Bike Polo Championships
Sept. 18th – 19th, 2010
Brisbane, Australia
More info: bikepolo.com.au
Man & Machine
Jun 15th
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I stopped by the OUTLIER store the other Saturday and this was a gift Tyler had for me. no.43 of 500. Made by self proclaimed “fakeinger and hipster” Bjorn Rust. In this issue he interviews Daniel Angus about Brisbane and bike polo. And some other stuff too. Looks good.
More info: snackondesign.com/articles/manmachine
Australian National Hardcourt Bike Polo Championships
Nov 23rd
Australian National Hardcourt Bike Polo Championships
Bike Polo Championships
November 28th – 29th, 2009
Flagstaff Gardens, Melbourne, Australia
More info: bikepolo.com.au/nationals
Results:
2 days, 2 courts, 18 teams
1st Place – “Meat & 2 Veg” Melbourne (Leigh, Rob and AJ)
2nd Place – “Scheisse Katze” Germany, Melbourne (Kaiser, Alex and Easy)
3rd Place – “Bush League Bushrangers” Sydney/Toronto (Lewis, Mitch and Maija)
4th Place – “Jailbreakers” Castlemaine (Paddy, Laurie and Mr Reliable)
MELBOURNE, May 30th + 31st
May 20th
MELBOURNE
MAY 30th + 31st
2 Days of Bike Polo Madness. North Carlton,
$5 individual entry , $15 team of three.Day 1, set teams, (BYO or enter the ballot) Noon till Dark.
Saturday night after party location to be confirmedDay 2, pickup polo + trackstand, footdown, quickstop + more.
Prizes for podium placing as well as best player, best new
player, best female, best outfits, best stack.Out of Towners get in touch for billeting.
Thanks a lot!
Cath HarmsenMelbourne Hardcourt Bike Polo
http://www.bikepolo.com.au
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5802373066
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=95701948572&ref=nf
Sydney Bike Polo Open
Feb 8th
Sydney Bike Polo Open
Hardcourt bike polo tournament
March 15th, 2009
Sydney, Australia
More info at Melbourne Bicycle Polo Club
Results:
Winners: Team SCS (Damon, Woric, Clint)
2nd place: Team Coopers (Smokin’ Joe, Pete, Alex)
3rd place: Team Suicidal Pony (Mex, Mitch, Jen)
Best New Player: Jen
Bike Polo Age Article
Jul 30th
Bike Polo Age Article, originally uploaded by urbanbicyclist.
The Swingers’ Scene
A news story about hard-court bicycle polo from Melbourne paper The Age. I found this on Flickr. Follow the link to a readable size. Over all this is a pretty good story in my opinion, plenty of real-estate, good photo, listing this as a “sport”, siting Vancouver, Chicago and New York and only using the word “urban” in parenthesis after calling the sport “hard-court bike polo”. And it seems that a few different cities play in Australia. Keep it up down there.
It cracks me up that in the side notes to the article they talk about the Segway Polo World Championship final. The Silicon Aftershocks Vs. New Zealand Pole Blacks resulted in a 2-2 tie!?! That would never happen in bike polo.
