Actually you can. We’re at Bicentennial Plaza right now putting up the boards for the court. If you’re already in town, stop on by and give us a hand. Think of it this way, you’ll get to be the first ones in the pile for pickup when we’re done.

In case you missed it on the LOBP Thread, we’ve got some details on the weekend’s festivities:

Basic Schedule

• Friday
  • 3 pm – Pick up at Daley Bicentennial Plaza
  • 8pm – Registration at Reggie’s Rock Club, 2105 S State St. Show up at least to collect your registration info and sign the event waiver. If you don’t sign, you don’t play.
• Saturday
  • 9:00 am – Breakfast / Team check-in at Daley Bicentennial Plaza
  • 10:00 am to 8:00 pm – round-robin matches
• Sunday
  • 9:00 am – Breakfast / Teams meet at Daley Bicentennial Plaza
  • 10:00 am to 2:00 pm – finish remaining round-robin matches
  • 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm – single elimination brackets
  • 6:00 pm – Final Match
  • 8:00 pm – Closing Party at Cobra Lounge (235 N. Ashland Ave)

Schedule of matches

Saturday
East West
10:00:00 Simpson Joker
11:00:00 Birdie Julian
12:00:00 Williams Maija
13:00:00 Joker Birdie
14:00:00 Julian Maija
15:00:00 Simpson Williams
16:00:00 Birdie Maija
17:00:00 Julian Simpson
18:00:00 Joker Williams

Sunday

10:00:00 Maija Simpson
11:00:00 Williams Birdie
12:00:00 Joker Julian
13:00:00 Birdie Simpson
14:00:00 Maija Joker
15:00:00 Williams Julian

Single Elimination bracket

16:00:00 1st place 4th place
17:00:00 2nd place 3rd place
18:00:00 FINAL

Each match will consist of two 25-minute halves and a five-minute halftime. There will be 5 minutes between each match. In addition, due to some of the additions noted below, we have accounted for this schedule to run a bit over.

We’ve also set up a good ole Google map of important locations around the city.

We’re starting to put all of those hard worked plans into action. Prep for the construction of the boards has already started and soon we’ll be setting up in Bicentennial Plaza in Millennium Park right downtown.

We’ve already got some friends from afar in town and we can’t wait til the rest of you get here. Keep counting the days. I know we are.

We’re making the final arrangements and getting ready for what will surely be some of the best polo this year.

Chicago’s Matt Lane teamed up with friends Brian Dillman from Milwaukee and John from Madison to form Team Europe and defeat Team Silent Majority (Chris Roberts, Alexis Mills, and Mark Capriotti). But Matt Lane was not the only Chicagoan in Savannah. Chicago’s Joe Panizzo and Greg Valentine teamed up with Birdie Watts from Milwaukee to form Team Matthew Robert Lane (a nice homage to a fellow Chicago slayer) and secured themselves a ninth place finish.

More details and awesome stories when our slayers come back home.

As usual, Chicago Hardcourt sent down its best slayers to compete in our regional championships for a chance to qualify for this year’s North American Hardcourt Bike Polo Championship to be held in Calgary this fall.

Chicago fought hard this year with two teams qualifying for North Americans. Chicago’s Chris Williams teamed up with Como friends Pete Abram and Nick Kruse to grab a seventh place finish. And Chicago’s Team Machine Politics (Ben Schultz, Joe Panizzo, and Matt Lane) took second place, losing a close match up with our good friends and rivals the Beaver Boys (Brian Dillman, Eric Kremin, and Joe Burge) from Milwaukee.

There was some amazing polo this year at Midwests. We even had some amazing upsets. Charlie Hill from Columbia, MO lead his team to an amazing and unexpected third place finish earning him this year’s MVP.

Bloomington did it right this year. Despite being a small club and a fairly young club, Bloomington was able to set up an impeccably run top notch tournament and provide awesome hospitality for everyone who came down. Awesome job guys and thanks for all the awesome times.

Chicago Hardcourt sent three of its finest poloistas; Megan Mazzei, Suzy Bichl, and Kelly Strosser, to participate in this best of the best all ladies polo tourney. Our slayers from Chicago didn’t hit the podium this year, but fun times were had and amazing polo was played.

We’ll give you more of the awesome details when our ladies come back to the midwest.

Chicago, being an out of region club, was only able to send one of it’s fine players to compete in Little Rock and compete he did. Chris Williams teamed up with Como friends Pete Abram and Nick Kruse to take third place and secure a spot in the North American Championship tourney this fall.

Awesome stories and pictures after we extract them from Chris.

On Saturday there were messengers racing around town and on Sunday there were polo players slaying on the courts.

It might still have been cold outside last weekend, but Chicago’s ‘Lefty’ Joe Panizzo, teamed up with Milwaukee’s left handed Zack Rueter, were definitely hot taking second place. There was plenty of ‘lefty bullshit’ to go around but Milwaukee’s Brian Dillman and Joe Burge overcame the abundance of lefty opponents and defended their title taking first place once again.