March 30th, 2011 | Published in Tournaments | 1 Comment
Team 1×1 consisting of Dustin(Mr. Do), Nick D and Sven tied for 5th place at the South Central Bike Polo Championships in Little Rock, AR. By placing in the top 8 Team 1×1 has qualified for the North American Bike Polo Championships in Calgary.
March 22nd, 2011 | Published in Tournaments | 4 Comments
Team 1 x 1 is road tripping this weekend to Little Rock, Arkansas for the South Central Bike Polo Championships. Dustin, Sven and Nick D were one of the lucky 9 teams from outside the region to get a spot. As you can see in this map, the South Central region is geographically very large. It encompasses a large chunk of states in the Southern middle of our country, as well as the entire country of Mexico.
36 teams from the US and Mexico will compete in this North American Hardcourt sanctioned event. The top 8 teams in this tournament win automatic entry into the 2011 North American Hardcourt Bike Polo Championships in Calgary, Alberta.
Minneapolis Polo hasn’t had the pleasure to play with a large percentage of these teams. And we certainly haven’t had the opportunity to play any teams from Mexico!
Wish us luck as we pile our all three* of our Surly 1×1s into the wagon and haul ass to a warmer and less salt encrusted locale.
*Photos below
March 4th, 2011 | Published in News, Tournaments | 1 Comment
Amazing poster. Can’t hardly wait until May.
February 25th, 2011 | Published in News | Comment
Mr Do has once again outdone himself. Behold the bromance that is, Unchained Polo.
February 16th, 2011 | Published in News | Comment
The first in, hopefully, a long series of Tips of the Week from Mr. Do.
February 16th, 2011 | Published in News, Tournaments | Comment
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Last night the club gathered around a couple of laptops, cracked some beers and talked some trash in an old school IRC chat room.
We were not alone. Around the world, the pool of 150+ potential poloists gathered and watched as 6 GMs picked 8 teammates to compete in the Bench Minor 2 June 25-26, 2011 in Chicago.
Seattle lead the charge with 9 players being drafted. Milwaukee had 6, Chicago and Richmond each had 4 players drafted.*
Congrats to all who made the cut! This is going to be an amazing tournament.
*Not sure how I made that mistake… but Milwaukee had 6 players drafted, not 4 as I initially stated.
January 25th, 2011 | Published in Friends | Comment
Jonny and Kremin having some fun at the Midwest Open Bike Polo Tournament.
January 4th, 2011 | Published in Tournaments | Comment
Three humans and one dog traveled to Madison to represent MPLS Bike Polo for a Bench Minor formatted bike polo tournament.
Madison, Chicago and Milwaukee all fielded 9 person teams while Minneapolis sent who we could and filled in the rest from Milwaukee and Chicago.
The standings after 4 games a piece had Milwaukee on top followed by Chicago, Madison and the mix n match Minneapolis team.
Dane Hanman from MKE was there and took lots of great photos. No surprises there!
Sounds like it was a blast! Hope everyone got some quality time with Dude the dog!
December 21st, 2010 | Published in News | Comment
If you saw this tweet from @Surlybrewer you might be wondering what the purpose is of those things on the wheels. They are wheelcovers used for a sport called Hardcourt Bike Polo. We use these covers to block shots as well as keeping people’s mallets and feet out of the spinning spokes. They also protect the wheels from getting broken. Dustin, aka Mr Do, had these wheelcovers specially designed by Jinxy to include his favorite brew. Check the can of Furious in his hand.
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If you need any more explanation check out Mr. Do’s videos on Vimeo. He’s one of the most prolific and also one of the best videographer/editor’s covering the emerging sport of bike polo.
December 13th, 2010 | Published in Tournaments | Comment
Minneapolis’ Git Sum vs St Louis’ King Shin Beef, at the Midwest Open Bike Polo Tournament
Definitely the most exciting game of polo Minneapolis has ever been a part of. Do yourself a favor and watch in full screen mode. Minneapolis has faced up against King Shin Beef in many tournaments rarely, if ever, getting the best of them. This is the last game of round robin play on Saturday. Minneapolis was 2-1-1 and this point and needed a win to crawl out of the very competitive afternoon bracket.
They got the win and advanced to Sunday’s tournament. Placing in the top 16 of 50 teams. Congrats Git Sum! You made us all proud.
