Last updated: March 25, 2024
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The World Bike Polo Organizing Committee was established on 12 October 2017 as an informal group of members from official or semi-official roles across the five bike polo regions: Asia, Australasia, Europe, Latin America and North America. Its main objective is to improve communications and organization across the world, with a focus on questions relating to the World Hardcourt Bike Polo Championship (often referred to as âWorldsâ or âWHBPCâ).
The group operates by consensus, and does not make decisions for the community. Instead, we work to make sure that questions that need to be addressed internationally get addressed internationally. Each region has input via their regional committee rep (see list below).
For example, the Committee called for hosts for the last two World Championships, and facilitated a process in 2018 when there was more than one bid to decide on the winning bid.
Where the committee cannot reach consensus on a course of action, it defers to past practice or to regional approaches. For example, there is no consensus on how the World Championships itself should be run and so decisions are left to the host as has been practiced for some time. There is no consensus on a world rule set or a process for deciding one, and so regions are left to decide for themselves what rules to use.
Conversations of the group are practical in nature and focused on ensuring a World Championship is held and that the community gets to decide who hosts.
Asia (äșæŽČ)
Kinson Woo (èĄć»ŁćŻ)
Representative of Japan Hardcourt Bikepolo Association
Australia/New Zealand
Nick Dixon-Wilmshurst