We appeal to the European Bikepolo community to volunteer helping out Berlin to host this mega event. Please before filling THE FORM read the following description:
Livestreaming volunteering:
Streaming will be organised by Down Over Polo with the help of players and friends. Volunteer duties include holding the camera, commenting live or being behind the computer to change camera angles. The skills required are minimal and training takes a few seconds, but be sure it’s great fun to participate!
At this stage it is unsure whether the streaming will happen over the whole tournament or just on the Sunday.
Bar volunteering:
The bar staff will be organized by a bar captain and 2 volunteers (during one shift) that help to ensure a smooth running bar. Volunteer duties include to take over a shift of 4h and serve drinks, sell merch, refill fridges, refill drinking water, clean cups. The bar runs from Friday 28.7. to Saturday 5.8. from 9 am to 9 pm. The shifts starts each day at 9am, 1pm and 5pm.
Maintenance:
The maintenance team will be organized by one captains and 2 volunteers (during one shift) . They take care of rubbish in the area next to the courts, bar and in the players area. 3 times a day (at the morning, in the middle of the day and at the end of the day) the team will clean our area and ensures that the existing rubbish bins and rubbish bags are emptied or replaced.
Orga Desk:
The orga-desk helpers make sure that the tournament runs smoothly and on time so that everyone can play the max number of games. You also get to make silly jokes through the mic and have fun with the team-names. You’ll be talking to the refs to get the scores, put them in to the spread-sheet and operate it - so having basic skills in operating a spread-sheet and good ears to understand the mumbling refs are an advantage when helping out here. There will be 4 shifts a day of ~3 hours each.
Player’s Care:
The player’s care department is mostly responsible for managing the registration process for the tournament, and therefore if you take this job you will be more busy before the tournament than during it. During the tournament you will need to check if the bikes are legal (which is called bike check) and make sure all the teams are there and complete (which we call check in). Usually the tournament starts on Friday with a morning group and then an afternoon group, so both the check-in and the bike check have to be done in two blocks. And then you are free. We need basically 2 people before the tournament: the captain and someone to help with communication. During the tournament 2 more are enough. Maybe it could be also the contact point for conflict resolution?
Non-playing Referee:
We are looking for experienced refs who do not play themselves in the event. Every team will have to participate in reffing, but the more non-playing refs we can find, the more players can focus on the tournament. If you are passionate about reffing and want to take some of the reffing load off referees who are also active players, please sign up. Please comment on your reffing experience and which role (main ref, assistant ref) you want to take on.
