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The PIPA Beach Polo World Series is an international series of
beach polo Beach polo is a team sport and close variant of arena polo. Game play A game of beach polo consists of two three-player teams as opposed to the usual four-player teams in field polo. A game consists of four seven-minute periods of play, called ...
tournaments organized by
PIPA Polo Instructors and Players Association The Polo Instructors´ and Players´ Association (with or without the apostrophe) is the usual term for the worldwide organization of polo players and instructors. The organization is responsible for both male and female players and instructors ...
in cooperation with A Quechua World of Polo. It is the largest international beach polo tour. The rules are similar to
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Beach polo tour events are played in stadiums in touristic destinations, like in
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for example where the worldwide largest beach polo arena is located. National teams compete in teams of two players each and fight in several events for the world championship title. The PIPA tournament series are featured by some equestrian but also sports media. The 2015 Beach Polo Tour took place in four destinations:
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and
Lignano Sabbiadoro Lignano Sabbiadoro (; fur, Lignan) is a town and comune within the province of Udine, in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region of north-eastern Italy. It is one of the main summer resorts in northern Italy and on the Adriatic Sea coast. History ...
.http://www.polo-ipa.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Folie04.jpg The 2016 PIPA Beach Polo World Series is in planning and will be much bigger than the years before with ten events in eight countries all across the world. The 2016 tour starts with the event in
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from June 10 to 12. Three or four more events are in planning in
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during the summer months. The tour closes again with the mega event in
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Beach polo Beach polo is a team sport and close variant of arena polo. Game play A game of beach polo consists of two three-player teams as opposed to the usual four-player teams in field polo. A game consists of four seven-minute periods of play, called ...
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PIPA Polo Instructors and Players Association The Polo Instructors´ and Players´ Association (with or without the apostrophe) is the usual term for the worldwide organization of polo players and instructors. The organization is responsible for both male and female players and instructors ...
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Polo Polo is a ball game played on horseback, a traditional field sport and one of the world's oldest known team sports. The game is played by two opposing teams with the objective of scoring using a long-handled wooden mallet to hit a small hard ...


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