A great deal of thanks go to James Hosken for effectively being helpful for bouncing ideas off of and who also set up the voting process.

Nominations for new teams (to vote for) can now be made by emailing James Hosken and will placed onto the BCU Canoe Polo Committee site on the Britain's Best Team Award poll.

From there, once you are logged in, visitors can vote for their preferred team.

So, the Latest...

The Award for Britain’s Best Team is well under way with over 90 votes having already been made. Kingston A are still the most organised outfit to get themselves in pole position which at this stage is going to be tough to topple out of the runnings, while 2nd and 3rd place for the final three way vote are still being maintained by previous leaders Viking A and Cambridge Uni.

If you think you know a more worthy team for the award or just think the teams heading the poll currently shouldn’t be there, then the only thing you can do about it is get another team nominated and voted higher than them, or at least to reach the all important top three places.

First Round Nominating/Voting will end on Thursday 22^nd of May at midnight. This will give me enough time to sort out the voting slips for the Club Champs weekend with the three way final selection being the people’s choice.

All three teams will start off with no votes and it is anticipated that those three teams might find creative ways to recruit votes from players not directly involved in that team in order to increase their chances of winning the award. Personally, I am particularly looking forward to just how creative this recruitment might be. This aspect of the Teams social skills off the water is after all a clear part of the criteria !

I have been asked about the Red and Yellow Cards negating Voting points. It was always my intension that this take place at the final stage of voting (not the first round of Nomination/Voting), based on those Send Off Forms received by the Chief Referee.

Please forgive me, but I hadn’t mentioned before, but this Award will be returned annually to the BCU Canoe Polo Committee to re-present to each subsequent winning team. Perhaps, sometime down the line, there may be a keep-sake for each winning team, but as things currently stand that is not the case.

Anyway, for more information you can follow this link for a Word document containing more information.

Just remember, the top three teams on the poll by midnight on the 22nd May will be the only ones in a chance to win this title. If your team is not there, then you had a chance to do something about it !

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IMPORTANT

Andy Dancer is the Chief Referee for the BCU Canoe Polo Committee. He should only be contacted on principle issues not directly covered by the information already provided on the Polo Committee Website. Please do not ask him things you can easily find out yourself just by reading. He is a very busy chap !

Beverley Dancer is the Refereeing Administrator. Beverley is a busy lass ensuring the database of referees is as up to date as possible (given the information she has). Please only contact Beverly if you want to know when you re-assessment is due of if you are a league organiser and want to check on the status of team's nominated refs.

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