OK here it is to contextualize this survey;
it started after a tournament in Rouen ( world famous “Epiphanie”) that was a mixte between “mixed gender team priority subscriptions” then oppened to anyone.
The tournament was running perfect as every other years till the final. Then in the final we had a “combat de coqs” between 6 worlds champs males players and the atmosphere was not reflected every other games before.
From that the french community started to have discussions about MIXED GENDER MANDATORY TOURNAMENT. This discussion became european cause we share opinion on the poloverse topic
“Polo in Europe is so much more of a boys club than in NA”
One of the principal argument against mandatory mixed was number of FLINTA players around Europe and their level.
Then Elena suggest me to make a survey to have a more concret idea of FLINTA number in Europe, their level and their volontee or not to make championships mandatory mixed gender.
The survey is more specific about championships because it is where EUROFLINTA are under represented ( you can see that also in David Barthod topic after Wolrds in Perpignan: WHBPC 2023 - Statistics
FLINTA representation in Euro Bike Polo
We (some euro FLINTAs) created this anonymous survey to better understand where the community stands on mandatory mixed.
Then non FLINTA wanted to give their opinion on a survey too so we had the idea to make it also worlwilde because it could really help next big championships organisations to suggest format that could satisfy a majority.
May also motivates more FLINTA to be part of championships organisations and descisions taking…
Woods and I made the new survey which is here to indicate what everyone think. I know it is not perfect but it is still a good INDICATIVE tool.
I will share results from now then let other people answering too and give finals results friday the 15 of March.
It is ONE answer by person and you can come back to your account to change your mind…
WHICH BIKE POLO DO YOU WANT TO PLAY?
Collecting WORLDWILDE opinions about formats and mixed gender bikepolo teams in championships