Do we want to go to the Ft. Lauderdale Ruggerfest on February 19 - 21, 2016? http://www.ftlruggerfest.com/ Write-up of last year's tourney: http://www.thisisamericanrugby.com/2015/03/ft-lauderdale-ruggerfest-success.html We talked about it at the AGM, and Mark Price was very into it. It will provide good opposition to lead us into the season. There are often national sides from the Caribbean islands, as well as teams from England. The Premier Division final match last year pitted the USA Eagles from the 90s-early 00s against the Pumas from that same era. So, the level of play is what we want in a pre-season excursion. Since it is a domestic tournament, we don't need to worry about passports and other such issues. Flights and rooms are pretty inexpensive down there. It's also pretty fun. All of that said, we weren't able to put together a solid team for Aspen. If we are going to pull off Ft. Lauderdale, we will need buy-in from the team, and someone responsible to spearhead it (someone with far more time/energy to devote to it that I can do right now). The logistics will need to be handled well in advance. -- Aaron C. Bennett acbenett@umich.edu 720-256-0447

I'm in with the Quins for this! I live in Rockledge, Florida, about 2 1/2 hours north of Lauderdale and we can use my place as a staging, jumping off, or whatever place. Obviously we would want to be closer to the action when it's tourney time but if some fly in and out of Orlando or want to stick around Florida longer, I'm available to pick up and drop off. Southwest is running a special flights to Lauderdale and Orlando (about 40 minutes from my house) $134 each way until 9/24. If there is interest I can take the lead and run with it (aka ...give it to my wife to take care of) Nixon On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Aaron Bennett via Rhino < rhino@lists.denverharlequins.com> wrote: > Do we want to go to the Ft. Lauderdale Ruggerfest on February 19 - 21, > 2016? > http://www.ftlruggerfest.com/ > > Write-up of last year's tourney: > > http://www.thisisamericanrugby.com/2015/03/ft-lauderdale-ruggerfest-success.html > > We talked about it at the AGM, and Mark Price was very into it. It will > provide good opposition to lead us into the season. There are often > national sides from the Caribbean islands, as well as teams from England. > The Premier Division final match last year pitted the USA Eagles from the > 90s-early 00s against the Pumas from that same era. So, the level of play > is what we want in a pre-season excursion. Since it is a domestic > tournament, we don't need to worry about passports and other such issues. > Flights and rooms are pretty inexpensive down there. It's also pretty fun. > > All of that said, we weren't able to put together a solid team for Aspen. > If we are going to pull off Ft. Lauderdale, we will need buy-in from the > team, and someone responsible to spearhead it (someone with far more > time/energy to devote to it that I can do right now). The logistics will > need to be handled well in advance. > > -- > Aaron C. Bennett > acbenett@umich.edu > 720-256-0447 > > _______________________________________________ > Rhino mailing list > Rhino@lists.denverharlequins.com > > http://lists.denverharlequins.com/mailman/listinfo/rhino_lists.denverharlequins.com > >

Has there been any interest in this? Nixon On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Aaron Bennett via Rhino < rhino@lists.denverharlequins.com> wrote: > Do we want to go to the Ft. Lauderdale Ruggerfest on February 19 - 21, > 2016? > http://www.ftlruggerfest.com/ > > Write-up of last year's tourney: > > http://www.thisisamericanrugby.com/2015/03/ft-lauderdale-ruggerfest-success.html > > We talked about it at the AGM, and Mark Price was very into it. It will > provide good opposition to lead us into the season. There are often > national sides from the Caribbean islands, as well as teams from England. > The Premier Division final match last year pitted the USA Eagles from the > 90s-early 00s against the Pumas from that same era. So, the level of play > is what we want in a pre-season excursion. Since it is a domestic > tournament, we don't need to worry about passports and other such issues. > Flights and rooms are pretty inexpensive down there. It's also pretty fun. > > All of that said, we weren't able to put together a solid team for Aspen. > If we are going to pull off Ft. Lauderdale, we will need buy-in from the > team, and someone responsible to spearhead it (someone with far more > time/energy to devote to it that I can do right now). The logistics will > need to be handled well in advance. > > -- > Aaron C. Bennett > acbenett@umich.edu > 720-256-0447 > > _______________________________________________ > Rhino mailing list > Rhino@lists.denverharlequins.com > > http://lists.denverharlequins.com/mailman/listinfo/rhino_lists.denverharlequins.com > >

We are going to play against Salt Lake City instead. On Saturday, October 17, 2015, Eric Nixon <eric.nixon10@gmail.com> wrote: > Has there been any interest in this? > > Nixon > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Aaron Bennett via Rhino < > rhino@lists.denverharlequins.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','rhino@lists.denverharlequins.com');>> wrote: > >> Do we want to go to the Ft. Lauderdale Ruggerfest on February 19 - 21, >> 2016? >> http://www.ftlruggerfest.com/ >> >> Write-up of last year's tourney: >> >> http://www.thisisamericanrugby.com/2015/03/ft-lauderdale-ruggerfest-success.html >> >> We talked about it at the AGM, and Mark Price was very into it. It will >> provide good opposition to lead us into the season. There are often >> national sides from the Caribbean islands, as well as teams from England. >> The Premier Division final match last year pitted the USA Eagles from the >> 90s-early 00s against the Pumas from that same era. So, the level of play >> is what we want in a pre-season excursion. Since it is a domestic >> tournament, we don't need to worry about passports and other such issues. >> Flights and rooms are pretty inexpensive down there. It's also pretty fun. >> >> All of that said, we weren't able to put together a solid team for Aspen. >> If we are going to pull off Ft. Lauderdale, we will need buy-in from the >> team, and someone responsible to spearhead it (someone with far more >> time/energy to devote to it that I can do right now). The logistics will >> need to be handled well in advance. >> >> -- >> Aaron C. Bennett >> acbenett@umich.edu <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','acbenett@umich.edu');> >> 720-256-0447 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Rhino mailing list >> Rhino@lists.denverharlequins.com >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Rhino@lists.denverharlequins.com');> >> >> http://lists.denverharlequins.com/mailman/listinfo/rhino_lists.denverharlequins.com >> >> > -- Aaron C. Bennett acbenett@umich.edu