GreifMasters 2010 Bikepolo from Uolmo on Vimeo.

This past weekend while Minneapolis was racing Stupor Bowl 13, Germany was putting on an epic tournament. Just look at those shirts!

Uolmo has made some nice videos in the past and this is no exception. Check out his video detailing his trip from Geneva to Karlsruhe, Germany with his polo team L’equipe. As well as being a great editor and cameraman Uolmo, from what I hear, is also one hell of a polo player.

Highlights from the 7th Midwest Bike Polo Champeenships, held in Columbia MO, November 7-8, 2009. Chicago’s ‘Machine Politics’ took home the Jenny Cup. Runners Up were Milwaukee’s ‘Beaver Boys’ & ‘Hot Sauce Enema’ followed by 4th place Madison.

This weekend is the annual Stupor Bowl alleycat. What does that mean to the poloverse? Out of town polo players, that’s what.

Join us at the Nomad on Friday night for pre-reg and then come play Polo with us downtown. We will be playing at the garage. When and for how long depends on getting 6 people rounded up to play. So far we have a few from Milwaukee comitted to playing.

Stay tuned to @pickuppolo on Twitter. We will be TXTing up to the minute updates on when we start and end.

Friday February 5th:

• Pre-registration 7:00pm-10:00pm @ The Nomad(501 Cedar Ave S)
• Bands to follow

Saturday February 6th:

• Registration 10:00am-1:00pm @ One on One Bike Studio(117 Washington Ave N)
• Race starts at 2:00pm

Dustin replaced the gerbils in his computer or something because he finally got around to editing the footage from one of the games of the 7th Midwest Bike Polo Championships in Columbia, MO.

In this game Machine Politics from Chicago comprised of Joe the Lefty, Matt Lane and Ben Schultz played against defending champs The Beaver Boys. The Beaver Boys from Milwaukee are comprised of Joe Burge, Brian Dellman and Kremin. This isn’t the championship game but the first time they met.

This probably the best video of a hardcourt game I have ever seen. With just one camera, Dustin aka Mr. Do is able to edit down the footage and get a really great sense of the flow and skills on display. I don’t remember how long the game was but this video clocks in at 4:30.

The quality is great so set that player to full screen and kick back check out some of the best players in the Midwest.

STL Flag by cricketpress on flickr.

Back in the summer when Lucky proposed having a bike polo lock-in in January I was one of the first to commit. How could this go wrong? 23 hours of hardcourt bike polo in an indoor skating rink? Brilliant.

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I finally got the upgrade for mplsbikepolo.com together! It’s mostly just visual changes, but also some backend stuff to prepare for the tournament. I added about and contact pages, spruced up the navigation, changed up the flickr feed, added Mr. Do’s Vimeo stuff, added some links, and made some content updates. 321 Polo!

As the Minneapolis club rep, I have three votes to cast for our Midwest Representatives to the North American Hardcourt Bike Polo Association. There are 5 candidates, including our very own Sven. I’d like to hear from you about what you think, even if it’s just to say, “I trust your judgement.” I must vote by Friday.

The candidates statements are here. There is a discussion about the election process here. This is the Midwest Region page, this is the Minneapolis club page. I encourage you all to get a login and subscribe to these threads on leagueofbikepolo.com, just so you’re aware of the organization at the least.

Oh hello. Minneapolis Bike Polo is proud to present the Midwest Bike Polo Championships 8, to be held the weekend of May 22-23 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. More details will be forthcoming shortly, but we expect this to be one of the most widely attended and fun tournaments for players of all levels. We look forward to seeing you all in May!

A van of Minneapolis poloists will be heading to St. Louis the weekend of January 16th for the St. Louis Dead of Winter Indoor Lock-in. 23 hours of pick up polo in a roller rink. Its going to be wicked fun.

Maybe a bit like this Donald Duck video I found on the Milano Fixed blog.

I made a quick and rough little application to calculate the amount of time it takes to run a Swiss system tournament. jQuery -ui sliders make it easy to run different scenarios. All the logic and important style is in the source. I’m too lazy to make it work directly in Wordpress, so it has it’s own home, http://www.mplsbikepolo.com/swisscalc/. Maybe I’ll make it better someday, but probably not.