2009 Paris B.F.F. Tournament (17-18 October 2009)

The 2^nd edition of the Paris Bicycle Film Festival Tournament held in the 4^th district of Paris 17 & 18 October 2009. 36 teams were registered for this week-end. Those teams came not only from different French regions (Rhônes-Alpes, Normandy and Ile-de-France) but also from various European countries (Germany, Spain, Italy, United Kingdom, Switzerland). Even some American and Canadian players were there!

The Paris BFF Tournament started with a qualifying round on Saturday 17, where 36 teams were divided in 6 groups of 6 teams each. Only the 4 first teams on each group were qualified for the double elimination round played on Sunday 18.

This tournament has been won by the 2009 European Champions, L’Equipe (Genève, Switzerland), which came from the loser's bracket, facing in final Apologies Accepted (Paris, France) who had sent in the loser's bracket Los Poloholics Toros (Munich, Germany) before the final and Malice International (London, U.K.) before the semi-final.

Ile-de-France Tournament for bike schools (4 October 2009)

The Youth Commission of the F.F.C. Ile-de-France Committee have had a good idea to place, more than a year ago this bike polo regional tournament in the schedules of the bike schools. Even though there was competition with cyclo-cross events, not less than 29 children aged from 8 to 16 and coming from 5 clubs (A.V. Thiais, C.S.M. Clamart, C.S.M. Puteaux, E.S. Gervais-Lilas and Parisis A.C.) and from 4 districts (Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val de Marne et Val d'Oise) had fun in this first appointment. Let's hope other events like this will be organised in the following years.

The C.S.M. Clamart and the E.S. Gervais-Lilas, supported by the Youth Commission, have organised this event on the La Motte stadium in Bobigny. Patrick Roy himself, as General Secretary of the French Cycling Federation and as President of the F.F.C. Ile-de-France Committee, went to this first edition of the Ile-de-France Tournament for bike schools.

This Sunday 4 October was divided in two parts: introduction of bike polo and training for young cyclists and their coaches in the morning, matches in the afternoon.

Since it was their very first time, children were slipped in several groups for, first, watching a video introducing cycle polo before hearing explanations on the roots of this sport, the used material and the international 5 player rules.

In a second phase, they learned how to use a mallet, first without ball, then with a ball.

In a third working group, they learned how to use their mallet on their mountain bike, without ball, then with a ball. Finaly, they learned how to shoot the ball.

Many adults did not stay without moving: some of them tried to use a mallet and a ball with their own bikes.

After the lunch (thanks to Clamart!), coaches made 7 teams of 4 children. Even if the international 5 player rules were teached, the decision was taken to not put any goal keeper in any team in order to give more probabilities to children to score in the 5 minute matches. 

Each team met the 6 others in short matches of 5 minutes each. Teams could be made with young cyclists from one or several clubs. The children choose themselves the names of their teams: the F.C. Nutella, the Fédération Française de Polo-Vélo (French Bike Polo Federation), the Rois du Pignon Fixe (the Kings of fixed gear, even though they had all a free wheel !), theTeam Polo-Vélo (Bike Polo Team), the Colombiens (the Colombians), the Bosses du Polo-Vélo (the Bike Polo Bosses) and the Béliers de Gervais-Lilas (the Gervais-Lilas Rams).

A victory gave 3 points, a tie: 2 points, a defeat: 1 point and a forfeit: 0 points.
If, after all qualification matches, two teams had the same number of points, the decision between both teams would have followed the conditions below (in order of priority):

their match result
overall goal-average
number of goals scored
number of goals lost to the opponant.

Matches results

Tournoi VEloveLO (12 September 2009)

The "VEloveLO" hardcourt bike polo tournament has been held in Paris 4 in the frame of the opening of the new cycling track "Morland - Hôtel de ville".

For some absolute beginners such as Cyril (Dans ta gueule, Puceau !) or Ludovic Laurent (Les Béliers de Gervais-Lilas), it was time to start to play hardcourt bike polo. For those who had not a team and who wanted to try hardcourt bike polo, some initiatic games were played between some matches of the tournament.

2009 Hardcourt Bike Polo World Championship

Ranking of the 2009 Hardcourt Bike Polo World Championship

1/ Team Smile (Seattle, Washington, USA)

2/ Balls Deep (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)

3/ Faceless Emotion (New York City, New York, USA)

4/ Wisconsin A (Wisconsin, USA)

5/ Mallets of Mayhem (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) and RVA (USA?)

7/ Mad Bike Polo (Madison, Wisconsin, USA) and NYC/Philly (USA)

9/ all other 40 teams...

2009 North American Hardcourt Bike Polo Championship

Ranking of the 2009 North American Hardcourt Bike Polo Championship

1/ Team Smile (Seattle, Washington, USA)

2/ Balls Deep (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)

3/ Beaver Boys (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA)

4/ DD Booster Club (New York City, New York, USA)

5/ Mallets of Mayhem (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)

6/ Ken (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)

7/ Skid and Destroy (Portland, Oregon, USA)

8/ Bob’s Your Uncle (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)

9/ Rampant Murder Cake (Chicago, Illinois, USA)

10/ Poloreo (Seattle, Washington, USA)

11/ all other 25 teams...

Chelsea Pedlars annual tournament

Twelve teams were there: Team Cheltenham, the Chelsea Pedlars 1 & 2, Dublin, Eurotalk, the Hardcourt All Stars, Insanos Velos, the Mosquitos, the Oakenden Pedallers 1 & 2, Team Ramrod, etc.

Dublin won in final by 7 - 1 against the Hardcourt All Stars, this usually dedicated hardcourt team having beaten the Oakenden Pedalers 1 before (3 - 2).

2009 Chelsea Pedlars Annual Bike Polo Tournament rank

1/ Dublin
2/ Hardcourt All Stars
 3/ Oakenden Pedalers 1
4/ Chelsea Pedlars 1
5/ all other teams

2009 European Hardcourt Bike Polo Championship

Writting all matches results would be a heavy work. Just have a look at the following pictures, you'll know everything you may know about scores:

Ranking of the 2009 European Hardcourt Bike Polo Championship

1/ L’Equipe (Geneva, Switzerland)
2/ Malice International (London, UK)
3/ Poloholics Toros (Munich, Germany)
4/ Discordia - Dans ta gueule, Puceau ! (Paris, France)
5/ Cosmic3 (London, UK)
6/ Fabulous French Fuckers (Paris, France)
7/ BAD Polo (London, UK)
8/ Bärlin (Berlin, Germany)
9/ Rotten Apples (London, UK)
10/ Zombie United (London, UK)
11/ Fixa Club (Barcelona, Spain)
12/ Netto Superstars (Manchester, UK)
13/ The Toffs (Oxford, UK)
14/ Les Débutantes (Paris, France)
15/ Candy Colored Clowns (Karlsruhe, Germany)
16/ Fen Boy 3 (?) et MoM (Karlsruhe, Germany)
18/ No Polo.No Talk (London, UK)
19/ Dreipracht (Karlsruhe & Francfort, Germany)
20/ DBAA (Rouen, France)
21/ Mallet Force (Berlin, Germany) et Skidheadz (Barcelona, Spain)
23/ La French Cavalry (Paris, France) et Poloholics Anonymous (Munich, Germany)
25/ Drof Ox Flailer 3 (Oxford, UK), Blood, Sweat and Beers (Manchester, UK) et Rock ‘n’ Rollin Fixie Rider Club (Paris, France)
28/ Team Sparton (Lyon, France) et Downham Allstars (?)
30/ Broken Legs (Rouen, France)
31/ 3 Less Horses (Oxford, UK) et Cambridge 2 (Cambridge, UK)

2009 C.P.C.V. Tournament

Organised by the Panamessagers, this tournament had for frame the 1^st Bike Messengers Paris Championship and was played 3 May 2009 in the (empty) fountain of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris (France).
 

16 teams, including a team from London, England (la Schmoove), three teams from Rouen, Normandy (the Broken Legs, les Jupettes, Don't Be An Asshole) and two teams from the French Cycling Federation (la Pame for the Panamessagers and the Rams (Béliers in French) of Gervais-Lilas for the E.S. Gervais-Lilas), played this hardcourt bike polo tournament. Some teams were made with women, as the Jupettes and the Anglophones.

This tournament was played under the double elimination rules: a team losing for the first time had a second chance to play until the second and definitive defeat in the resit group.

	2009 C.P.C.V. tournament rank 1/ les F.G.F. - Franco-Greek Fuckers (Ile-de-France) 2/ Dans ta gueule, Puceau ! (Ile-de-France) 3/ la Schmoove (England) 4/ Les Béliers de Gervais-Lilas (Ile-de-France) 5/ La Pame (Ile-de-France) & V.A.F. - Venez Avec vos Femmes (Ile-de-France) 7/ Les Anglophones (United States of Paris) & les Marteaux Players (Ile-de-France) 9/ Les Broken Legs (Normandy), les Jupettes (Normandy), D.B.A.A. - Don't Be An Ashole (Normandy) & la Polo Rocket (Ile-de-France) 13/ Rock'n'Rollin' (Ile-de-France), X-rated (Ile-de-France), Cyclotron (Ile-de-France) & Polochistolo (Ile-de-France)

 

2009 Rouen Tournament

Rank of the 2009 Rouen Tournament

1/ Seattle Super Stars (United States of America)
2/ Bad Polo (United Kingdom)
3/ Fabulous French Fuckers (France)
4/ Dans ta gueule, Puceau ! (France)

Another video on Seine-Maritime.TV.

2009 Paris Championship

The first urban bike polo Paris Championship (teams with 3 players, games on hardcourt) is hled from 1 February and 1 May 2009 at the Champ de Mars or Petit Palais, Paris, France.

Each of the 8 registered teams play 3 matches against the other teams. The first team who scores 5 goals wins the match. Each victory gives 1 point. The winner of the Paris Championship will be the team who will have won the biggest number of matches.

Results of played games

2009 urban bike polo Paris Championship rank

Next matches issued on http://liguebikepoloparis.blogspot.com.

BFF Paris 2008

Held in the Champs de Mars in Paris, a bike polo tournament, uban style, has been organised in support of the first Bicycle Film Festival in Paris.

Among 16 teams from the USA, the UK, Germany and France, here are the first ranks:

1) Mad Bike Polo (U.S.A.)

2) Dans ta gueule, Puceau ! (France)

3) Les Canons de Karlsruhe (Germany)

4) the Fabulous French Fuckers - FFF (France)

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