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<blockquote data-quote="Beerfalo" data-source="post: 697098" data-attributes="member: 71326">There&#039;s a couple reasons I can think of, though I&#039;m not positive as I&#039;m not affiliated with anything BCRU. 1) Traditionally rugby is a winter sport and unlike most of Canada, Lower BC and V.Island are suitable for &quot;year round&quot; rugby. They do take a two month winter break which I think is weird.2) Summer is their 7s season and apparently that&#039;s a thing out there. I can&#039;t picture a 7s season in Alberta outside of junior levels. I mean we have like three 7s tournaments but that&#039;s it really.3) This one I can understand. BC has universities playing alongside regular clubs. If they play during the winter months they&#039;ll have their players available to them. I believe UBC has three teams, UVic has two or three, SFU has one. I thought there was a couple more but I can&#039;t think of them. Having a summer season could really hurt these teams.4) The BC leagues get a good amount of out of province players. I know a bunch of players from Alberta go play in BC once our seasons are done. There&#039;s a couple Calgary Hornets out there, some St Albert starters, Leduc has two Fijian backs who play in BC(those guys should NOT be playing Div 2 rugby in Alberta), two guys from my club went out there. That&#039;s all I really paid attention to and I&#039;m sure there&#039;s some more. If they had a summer schedule they&#039;d probably have a drop off in talent, at least for a bit. Ideally BC would run alongside the rest of Canada but I won&#039;t hold my breath. Still a summer schedule wouldn&#039;t make a two month winter break necessary. You&#039;d also be able to play during the nice beautiful summer weather. We could also have a national club championship. I&#039;m sure this year, St Albert RFC(I hate them so much) could hold their own against Balmy Beach or Burnaby Lake but we&#039;ll never know. And then there&#039;s teams like Montreal Irish, Swilers RFC, Assassins RFC, Campion Grads and Halifax Tars. Probably not as strong as the first three but you never know. It took me way longer than I would have liked to find the other provincial champions. I&#039;m sure there are other benefits to BC joining the rest of Canada but I had a cardio training session and I&#039;m too tired to think of anything else.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Beerfalo, post: 697098, member: 71326"] There's a couple reasons I can think of, though I'm not positive as I'm not affiliated with anything BCRU. [B]1)[/B] Traditionally rugby is a winter sport and unlike most of Canada, Lower BC and V.Island are suitable for "year round" rugby. They do take a two month winter break which I think is weird. [B]2)[/B] Summer is their 7s season and apparently that's a thing out there. I can't picture a 7s season in Alberta outside of junior levels. I mean we have like three 7s tournaments but that's it really. [B]3)[/B] This one I can understand. BC has universities playing alongside regular clubs. If they play during the winter months they'll have their players available to them. I believe UBC has three teams, UVic has two or three, SFU has one. I thought there was a couple more but I can't think of them. Having a summer season could really hurt these teams. [B]4)[/B] The BC leagues get a good amount of out of province players. I know a bunch of players from Alberta go play in BC once our seasons are done. There's a couple Calgary Hornets out there, some St Albert starters, Leduc has two Fijian backs who play in BC(those guys should NOT be playing Div 2 rugby in Alberta), two guys from my club went out there. That's all I really paid attention to and I'm sure there's some more. If they had a summer schedule they'd probably have a drop off in talent, at least for a bit. Ideally BC would run alongside the rest of Canada but I won't hold my breath. Still a summer schedule wouldn't make a two month winter break necessary. You'd also be able to play during the nice beautiful summer weather. We could also have a national club championship. I'm sure this year, St Albert RFC(I hate them so much) could hold their own against Balmy Beach or Burnaby Lake but we'll never know. And then there's teams like Montreal Irish, Swilers RFC, Assassins RFC, Campion Grads and Halifax Tars. Probably not as strong as the first three but you never know. It took me way longer than I would have liked to find the other provincial champions. I'm sure there are other benefits to BC joining the rest of Canada but I had a cardio training session and I'm too tired to think of anything else. [/QUOTE]

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