Is Sydney still willing to host with rego at $100 per head?
Do we have enough cities willing to host qualifiers to make Brisbane's qualifier method work?

I would like to see an Aus/NZ Nats but if we can't find a host it's a moot point.

I'm personally in favour to see us split it for the greater good of the worlds bid/event if it happens and run separate AUS and NZ.

Ollie had good points about this in other threads which thinking about have changed my mind set on and agree.

Having more teams from both countries playing the the main gig at the worlds is where I would like to see us !

Thoughts

As Michael said, there are huge organisational benefits to having split, smaller tournies proposed by Ollie. The combined number of teams we can put into WHBPC15 would be the same whether it's a large joint AHBPC or not. The difference would be that we'd have a confirmed and set number from Australia and NZ. i.e. 4 Aus and 2 NZ (purely an example)

If we are running worlds, we can enter as many Australasian teams as we like into worlds. For example, 5 Aus, 3 NZ, and 2 Timaru. Auckland is opposed to separating the Australasian champs into smaller National champs.

As Nick said we need to find a host first and I think work it from there - regions that are thinking about hosting need to decide what they can and can't offer.
I am personally strongly opposed to a split event.
1. We are 1 region - if we allocate spots to NZ/Ausy its not going to be a true representation of the region - look at the results from the last two years.
2. I think it is good for us as community to come together. Especially before we host the worlds - can't beat the face to face communication and synergy that comes with that.
3. With the state of NZ Polo we need to play with Australia to keep upping our game.

I would much rather a smaller Australasian tournament if that is what was needed.

If we as a region get to decide the Ruleset for worlds then a joint Nats would be a great chance to build the experience of our refs and ensure (as much as possible) consistency of interpretation between Aus and NZ.
Speaking of refs - if we have a smaller Nats tournament we can work within our clubs to bring non-playing refs up. If we have qualifiers from some clubs for the smaller Nats then that's another chance to give refs practice.
And now that I've said this, I've got to step up and ref more.

Totally depends on the scale of Australasians and who's going to host ? It takes a lot of work to host a combine tournie. I'm just being very mindful of the amount of work that's going to have to go into "The Worlds gig"

Do we each as reps take it too the members with a generic information document and go from there with a vote ?.

Just probing this tpoic as I want the rest of the world to say "wow Australasians got it sorted" then they'll be back for more polo !

Brisbane have put our hands up to host an Australian qualifier. Two courts, maximum 24 teams. Potentially smaller city qualifiers for the big three clubs (Sydney, Melbourne and Bris). We would run a round robin over two days. No double elim. Like the French and German qualifiers.

This would make it cheaper for Perth as it's only about $4-500 for flights. As opposed to them spending $1000+ to fly to NZ. And then they would have to spend the same again for worlds.

There are many other benefits for the split but the biggest benefits are ATTENDANCE and MAN POWER.

We will have more local players traveling to worlds and playing the wild card if we split the quals.

There will be more free organisers if we split so we can focus more on worlds. Which should be our top priority.

NZ will have the chance to play top level polo at worlds, keeping the joined qualifier for that reason alone is setting ourselves up to host a poor worlds. And none of us want that.