Category: NAH

Unfortunately Seattle can’t make it to bench, and we’ve asked a few of the teams who are next in line, but no-one can make it as a whole club. As such Nic Maglio has volunteered to captain a Best-Of-The-Rest team, formed of players willing to travel to Lexington. Please get in contact with Nic (nic@nahardcourt.com) if you want to play, and are able to make it to Lexington in 2 weeks time.

So there is an open spot at the NAH bench tournament September 27 and 28th in Lexington. If you would like to be considered for this “best of the rest” team please send me a message, I will choose a core 5 players who can be there both Saturday and Sunday. And then the remaining 2 spots for each game will be random players who can make it there.

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Here are the provisional groups:
Group A will play Saturday 9am, 12pm, 3pm, 6pm & Sunday 10:30am
Group B will play Saturday 10:30am, 1:30pm, 4:30pm, 7:30pm & Sunday 9am

Top 4 of each group will make the single elimination on Sunday afternoon.

Check out Podium: podiumbikepolo.com/nahbench.

Now that the team list and most rosters have been finalized, we’d like to begin recruiting referees to schedule for the Bench Championship in a few weeks. Bruce and Joe will be there refereeing full time, but it would be great if we could get more non-playing referees to volunteer, and we encourage every team to provide one person to referee.

Also, you get paid $10/game to head ref, and $5/game to secondary ref!!!!

Email joe@nahardcourt.com!!! No google signup form this time, if you want to get paid and volunteer just reach out to Joe..

It’s been a few weeks since NAs, and we are hoping you’ve decided as a club whether you are coming to Lexington for the NAH Bench Champs.

The deadline for registration is Sunday August 17th. After that spots will be handed down to the next clubs. If you aren’t planning to come, please also let us know asap, so we can help other clubs make plans.

Can the following clubs please let me (tournaments@nahardcourt.com) know if you are coming, and send fees of $300 via paypal to treasurer@nahardcourt.com.

The fees cover the building of a 3rd court, park permits, and the paying of refs. Main refs will get $10 per game, assistant refs will get $5.

Qualified
San Francisco, CA
Seattle, WA
Portland, OR
Toronto, ON – confirmed, not paid
Austin, TX – confirmed, not paid
Saskatoon, SK
Tallahassee, FL
Milwaukee, WI
Boston, MA – confirmed, not paid
Lexington, KY
New York, NY – confirmed, not paid
Philadelphia, PA

Reserves (please also let me know if you would take a spot)
Ottawa, ON
Minneapolis, MN
Chicago, IL
Columbus, OH
Winnipeg, MB
Memphis, TN
Denver, CO
Columbia, MO.