Elite Cup Update:

Although no final decisions have been made about the Elite Cup for the upcoming season, prospects appear dim for 2014, as negotiations are ongoing but may be futile. As was reported by Rugbymag.com recently, the five remaining Elite Cup teams have failed so far to come to an agreement regarding the season.

As Seattle-OPSB is not participating in the upcoming Pacific Rugby Premiership, including one of the best teams in the country in the competition would provide several benefits. However the geographical location of the teams provides the most obvious impediment. Four East coast teams (NYAC and Old Blue in New York, Life in Georgia and Boston) voted 3-1 not to have Seattle-OPSB join in a five team conference. The travel costs are obvious, and unless every team had a comparable cost structure, some type of resource leveling would have to be agreed upon if the costs were to be part of a level playing field. We do not know if this was a sticking point, but we know from experience that cost sharing was a contributing factor in the demise of the Super League.

Another sticking point was apparently the scheduling of the games. NYAC wanted to have the flexibility to not play on USA Eagles camp weekends. Not an unreasonable request you might think, but this would definitely put a squeeze on the available weeks to run the competition. We talked to Boston’s Chris Williams, and he mentioned that one possibility would have to be mid-week games, with Elite Cup games on the weekends and Division 1 games mid-week. This might be attractive for the average spectator, but Williams felt it would not be fair to the D1 teams to ask them to move, especially since the D1 schedule has been in place for months.

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Elite Cup on hold?

Reports are the Elite Cup is on hold (at best) for 2014, as the teams were not able to agree on the make up of the teams and schedule for the Spring competition. This will likely throw the schedule of Boston into turmoil, as well as Old Blue and NYAC. We will keep you posted…..