After the enormous success of the inaugural Rochdale Swarm International Mixed Tag Rugby League Festival, the Swarm are proud to announce the date for the 2010 event.
Saturday the 29th of May will see an even bigger event with more teams and more nations represented.
The 2009 Festival saw International teams from Bruff (Limerick, Ireland), The Tullochan Tigers (Loch Lomond, Scotland), The Celtic Barbarians (Bridgend, Wales) as well as a Fijian Representative side organised by the Rochdale Fijian Association take the field against teams from across England.
In what was the largest ever adult Tag Rugby League Festival staged in the UK the eventual winners were local side the Littleborough Lightning.
The Festival is a showcase for this non-contact version of Rugby League.
It is played as a 7-a-side game with a minimum of 2 members of the opposite sex on the field at all times i.e. 2 women 5 men or 4 women 3 men etc.
Tag Rugby League is incredibly popular in Australia and New Zealand were it is known as OzTag or KiwiTag. In Australia alone there over 50,000 registered players.
Across the water in Ireland Tag Rugby is also very popular with in excess of 20,000 players.
The Rochdale Swarm are at the forefront of promoting the game of Tag Rugby League in England, which is showing steady growth, especially in London were Try Tag Rugby Ltd are having a lot of success in promoting Tag especially since Rugby Legend Iestyn harris came on-board as a director.
To enter the Rochdale Swarm International Mixed Tag Rugby League Festival 2010 email
mark.wynn@talk21.com for more details or go to the events Facebook page at
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event ... 482&ref=ts