I might have to try that out as well since the Delores Park game wasn’t going on.
we played strip polo last nite at around midnight in the middle of campus. it was a blast, though my boys got slightly chilly…
Nick,
We don’t really have teams going up. We have one team of pretty new players going.
Zack and I (from Slapdick) are going up and teaming up with Dumptruck (chicago) to form the ultimate team… Sucking Dick Bought This Van
Also, one of our players, Jason, is teaming up with a New York team.
Unfortunately, we won’t be playing as slapdick, but DT should be a pretty good sub for Pat. Its gonna be fun as hell.
I think we are going to hold a fall tourney in DC.
I seriously can’t wait for Sunday morning! I’ll try to take photos to post next week.
Nick, post your damn photos from this weekend already, jerk.
I’ll post my pictures when I’m good and ready. Or when I get some spare time. I do have a pretty crucial shot of you and that sexy kitten… and by sexy kitten I mean that little grey cat.
I know, thats why I want you to post the damn photos!
I just noticed I said crucial when I meant to say darn cute! So darn cute.
dude, what is your flickr address anyway? i’m not sure we are friends on there…
you can see my photos from this weekend here: http://flickr.com/photos/ryandudek/sets/72157605294332169/
actually, my girlfriend took all of those…
and mattb used dumptruck’s camera to take the greatest photo of our team:
needs to be cropped and colour corrected.
OTB twice and three broken spokes last nite. i gotta fashion me some disc wheels.
My flickr address is non existant that’s why we aren’t friends on there. I wish someone had gotten a photo of Dumptruck elbow dropping Ben when we played yalls. That would have been most epic.
Also, If there is anyone from NY that has some of the yellow pipe to spare I would like to talk to you.
Nick, go check out construction sites, they leave it out and throw away all kinds of it. I’m gonna look in to finding some of it in DC, if I do, I’ll let you know.
I really think we could have beat you guys. It was a close game and we caught shitty bounces, but that happens in polo. Also, the tie to Boston was complete shit. Their goal was off of a shot that deflected off another mallet, bounced ten feet in the air, then curved on the ground another twelve feet with a crazy spin and went in. Super lucky. If we had won those two games, we would have been tied for second, but would have taken third due to Ottawa scoring more goals. Then we would have gotten wool jerseys!
Thats polo though, sometimes you make mistakes and the other team capitalizes. Some times people get super lucky on a shot. I’m not saying we didn’t get any lucky shots, I just wanted to win those two games. Especially the tie to Boston.
Grudge match in Ottawa?
Our game was a good one and a close one no doubt about that. I don’t know if Richmond is going to have a full team up in Toronto. Ian and I are planning on coming up and if we can get on some teams as extras that would be great ( I’m looking at you Robbie and Alexis and I have mentioned it on the hard court site)
I think we could have held Ottowa off after our first goal if Bainesworth hadn’t dislocated his shoulder, but as you said, that’s polo. That’s what I dig on about it.
Oh shit, I didn’t realize that happened during Ottawa. Tying them was probably the most satisfying feeling of the tournament.
I didn’t mean Toronto, I meant Ottawa, at the NSPI, August 1-4 (polo on the 2-3)
i went to the cyclists union movie night, bike messengers and union volunteers were parking bikes and gaurding them, a bike valet, news to me! 4 parking spaces for cars can hold like 80 bikes the whole night was wicked fun
but i asked the bike messengers there about the polo at the cmwc coming up…it will be the biggest polo tournement ever, over 30 teams already registered and enough “free agents” he called them to form at leat 7-10 more teams so I wont have any trouble finding teammates
biggest . tournement. ever.
and ottawa is only 60 bucks by bus, i hope there are complete newbs looking for a teammate with no experience, dude said there would definitely be some. you know when I got here I though bike messengers would be all cool and snobby by what I read about them on the intertubes, but they were out parking bikes for complete strangers and shit until midnight
Ottawa Bike Polo:
http://www.myspace.com/malletsofmayhempoloclub
Epic fail #1 of the New York tournament… Tink gardening all weekend.
Epick Fail #2… Angelo going to Home Depot instead.
Tink was actually doing work for his job as well, I just decided to only mention the gardening.
Sorry that Zack and I aren’t the DC party kids. You guys did get my pretty hyper on those false cokes though.
any players coming up to cmwc good enough to have a handicap like me and still win…?
…please make me look cool while playing too
I will be at cmwc. It will be intense.
I got hit in the face Monday with a wood mallet head on the end of a golf club. I love this game.