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On Friday October 12 Boston Bike Polo threw a fundraising party to raise funds for the upcoming tournament. Everyone was getting fully torqued, including Ruben, who showed up pre-torqued packing a new Ruben Cube for sound and some dope riser bars. Check it out:
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Dope ends with integrated high-rise braking system
Ruben’s been packing this for awhile, but it hasn’t been documented until now
A ruben cube brining the beats to the party
Javier Addison Tony and Jamie aka @papi_facil @theboynamedrad @tp6017 and @jamezon are about to leave Boston will be headed north at full speed pointed towards Ottowa for the legendary Bench Minor harcourt polo tournament. (Also former Bostonian Jake aka @jakemazonson is going to be there). Tony and Jav are on Brian Dillman of Milwaukee’s team, Addison and Jake are on Chris Hammersely of Lexington’s team, and Jamie is on Jason Woadie of Portland’s team. One of their teams will likely come out on . Place your bets now!!
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Boston Bike Polo is proud to announce The Commonwealth Classic. This will be the first tournament we’ve hosted in almost 2 years, and we couldn’t be more excited! See below for details.
The Commonwealth Classic
October 20 & October 21, 2012
A 3v3 Bike polo tournament open to any and all players. Saturday, Day 1, will be swiss rounds held in South Boston at Marine Park Court, and Carson Beach court if needed. Day 2 will be a double-elimination bracket held at our infamous pickup courts in Allston behind the Harvard Stadium. The number of teams for day 2 will be determined. Register at hardcourtbikepolo.org. Registration will be $30 per team. If you are in need of housing get in touch with us at The League of Bike Polo Thread here
Tentative Weekend Schedule
Friday, October 19th
5:00 – 10pm Meet & Greet, Pickup @ Allston Court
10pm – ??? PARTY
Saturday, October 20th
9 – 9:30am – Registration and team check in @ Carson Beach Court
10am – 6pm – Swiss Rounds @ Carson Beach Court and Marine Park Court
6pm – ??? more PARTY
Sunday, October 21st
11am – 3pm – Final brackets @ Allston Court
3:30 pm – Awards
Boston Polo fled the crowded urban streets this weekend to a much needed chill-cation up north where the air is clear and the sherm is pure. Our crew arrived in 3 waves on Friday and got right into a plethora of shenanigans. Toni set the pace right off the bat, and it was apparent that this was going to be fully torqued the weekend. We arrived in the midst of Burlington’s Art Hop, the biggest most twisted torqued party of the year, full of bands and parties and dj’s and sherm sticks and whiskey and mind-blowing visual displays.
Saturday started without a hitch, save the high winds, and Boston was quickly dazzling folks on the hardtop. Two all Boston teams were in the running. Scorpionbowl DMT Sherminators was Howl, Sammy and Tyler. Slash and Burn was Toni Jav and Jamie. Johan and Addison played on The Not So Means and The Pointer Brothers respectively with some out of towner homies. Farm Raised was a quasi boston team with Jake and Tyler now of North Hampton. We played three high action swiss rounds before getting rained out.
After all was said and done, Johans team scored 2nd place, Slash and Burn pulled out in 4th, and Addison and Jake’s team’s tied for 7th. Everyone walked away with some dope prizes – designer French undies, Rad Caps and way more. Thanks to Liam and all the BVT crew for putting on such a rad tournament, we can’t wait to come back!
photo/video cred (we were too torqued to take our own pics):
@medicmike
Devin of NYC polo
This will be the third year our good friends from the Burlington, VT club have put on this amazing tournament. Boston attended for the first time last year and had camping cooking polo partying shrooming beaching good time.
Toni Jav and Jamie are teaming up for the Boston Pro Team
Tyler Nick and Howl will be teaming up for The Boston Semi Pro Team
and Addison and Johan are teaming up with some other rad folks for slaying
For more details check out LoBP
The WHBPC2012 wrapped up the world polo season last week. While Boston didn’t send anyone to worlds, a few folks from our club made the rounds on the NAH circuit. Head over to the Tournaments Page to check the full results, and peep some pics + videos inside Continue reading “Another Wicked Chill Polo Season Wrapped Up”
Some call Reuben a Boston Bike Polo OG, some call him a mexican wizard and some call him drunk. But they all know that he has more polo bikes in a year than you and your club will have……. EVER. Frick, he has had a dozen this summer alone. So we’ve decided to chronicle the different steeds of Reuben from here on out. Prepare to be amazed.
Boston Bike Polo sent out a crew to the East Side Polo Invite 2012. Team Boston teamed up with Rad Caps for their Jerseys, which were undoubtably the Pro-est on the courts. This year ESPIS was a bench format, each team having an unlimited roster, with only 9 active during each game. New York Hardcourt Bike Polo hosted 6 East Coast Teams: Richmond VA, New York NY, Philly PA, Pittsburg PA, Boston MA, and Washington DC. Teams competed in round robin games on Saturday, with players grueling through 2 30min halves. Ben Schultz from Chicago was on hand to make sure reffing was at pro status. The Finals on Sunday came down to a 3 point comeback by RVA to beat NyC. Boston lost an ultra fun losers match against Philly to end up in 4th overall. We’ll get um next year, for sure!
Boston Bike Polo enjoyed podiums galore this summer making it one hot summer on paper for the best club in the East. Big ups to Jacob from Copenhagen and Nick Kruse from COMO (ESPI MVP), who joined some of our teams to add depth and euro style. Both of them are now honorary life long BBP members and we look forward to a long and fruitful relationship with them for future events. Nick Regan teamed up with Ian(RVA) and Mike (DC) at the Last Stand Again in Burlington Vermont and won it beating the reining champs in a 2 leg final. Nick walked away with the MVP award.
Although every team in Boston qualified for the North American Championships very easily, we did not send any players or teams, which was a bit of a disappointment for us, but a bonus for everybody else who went. By the looks of things only 2 or 3 players from the whole East coast actually flew out Calgary anyhow, so no shame in staying home and saving the pennies. It looks like there will be only one player from Boston going to the Worlds in Seattle in a few weeks. Good luck Jav who is playing with Jonny & Pierre from Wisconsin. We all want to be there with our close friends and champions from Seattle but timing, money and distance were all against us this time….
It has been almost a month since Boston threw a monster of an indoor event. 26 teams with the best players in the World in attendance. So much to say but I cant be bothered. The highlights for Boston was our A team (Nick(best man), Tony & Neil Young) coming 8th overall, beating Machine Politics of Chicago (Runner up in the World Championships, in the Swiss Rounds on day 1. Then on the sunday double elim they got knocked out by the World Champions by a sudden death goal, but it really could have gone either way.
Here are the results:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AqN5eYmtettFdGUtNWx6MWEwTU96Y0ZqSHlMSXVOblE&hl=en#gid=0
Here are some pictures and a video by our friend Nate from NYC.
