Honk If You Have Your Own Tournament Series

[johnny2suede]

Are You kidding me? Another tournament series? Just when I thought the sport was going through some sensible consolidation and purged Triple Crown, here comes another tournament...World Amateur Inline Hockey Series. And Rich, you consider this major news? In what sense?

Ok, let's figure a chronology of tournament series. I'll lead off and get it started:

1. USAC/RS (Later changed to that more elegant sounding USARS) Nationals
2. Koho Cup (Later to become Tour Pacific Cup)
3. NARCh
4. Six Pac

Now this board has a heavy subscription of historians in the sport. Pick up from number 4 and let's see who can take us through Roy's WAIHS, like in WOZ.

The winner gets a license plate holder that reads:

HONK IF YOU HAVE YOUR OWN TOURNAMENT SERIES

PS. Don't agrue with the first 4, that is 100% accurate. You will show your ignorance if you dare to debate that.

[sixpacusa]

Wow, I appreciate the Recognition! Thanks you Johnny2suede!

However, The ranking order as I remember may be

1. USARS
2. Pacific Cup (Tours no longer a sponsor)
3. NARCH
4. AIRHS (a break up between Paul and Todd)
5. Six Pac USA

I do know that Top Cat (Patty worked with us locally as a rink operator in 96) and Coastal Cup spawned off of the Six Pac Concept. There are others as well. TOHRS came in somewhere around here too, perhaps Tony can set us straight.

This will be a fun post to watch. Clocking 13 years in the biz...it will be funny to see who remembers what! Thanks again Jonny2suede



<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by sixpacusa on 03/17/05 08:58 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

[Rebecca]

IROC - Inline Roller Hockey of Champions, organized by Anthony Legotti after his split from Todd Melton (Long Island/Eastern states) for about 2 years around 1997

Big One Tournement Series - Organized by Chris Rallo out of Maryland/VA/DC area. Lasted about 2 years, around 1998. Not a fan here of Mr. Rallo. If anyone ever runs into this guy, they may want to post on IHC.

Unknown name (Can't remember this one) but orgnaized by a duo out of Florida (prior to TORHS), a young guy named TJ something. Operated on the east coast. Don't think this series is around though the partners could be. Recall this one for about 2 years also around 1996/7. This was a decent series. Anyone remember the name? I thought for some reason that these guys had one of the first V-From sponsorships, but I could be wrong. I don't even think it was called V-Form then, it was pre-V-Form possibly.





Rebecca

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[NLane]

Doesn't Iron man have a national event?

[Bliz]

This new series is an international event, is it not.

[johnny2suede]

AIRHS first tournament was late 1995, Six Pac was in operation then. TORHS started after the 1998 NARCH FInals in Atlanta, where Tony and Laura lived at the time and saw the event and are still trying to clone it.

[SpiderRat]

Tony and Lori not only cloned it, they made it better. I remember playing in the TORHS national in Chicago in 1999, thinking, TORHS is going to be better than NARCH one day. Sure enough, TORHS has become better than NARCH.

Blah Blah Blah, Shoot the puck already

[Brooklynite10]

I disagree. NARCH is still a step above TORHS. Ask the NHL.

[johnny2suede]

"TORHS has become better than NARCH."

Every year, about twice the number of teams attend the NARCh Finals than the Torhs Finals. And the same is true for Winternationals. Guess those teams don't hallucinate as well as you do.

[sixpacusa]

With out going back to old schedules, I believe you are correct on AIRHS starting a few months after Six Pac. Do you remember when Triple Crown started?

Who are you Johnny2suede? How far back do you go? I began on the rink level in 1992.

Can you chronologically list the major contenders in date order? I think that would be an interesting fact for people to see. Here is my best shot -

USARS
PACIFIC CUP
NARCH
SIX PAC USA
AIRHS
NHL Breakout (Bauer days)
USAHIL
TORHS
COASTAL CUP
TOP CAT
NHL Rules (RS Sports)
TRIPLE CROWN
ECHO
2HOT4ICE (ATLANTIC CUP)
HOT SHOT HOCKEY
AAU (USARS)
CONTINENTAL CUP (Top Cat)

Rebecca can you cut and paste and add in your knowledge of omitted venues?

[SpiderRat]

Better doesn't always mean more. Did you attend last years finals? I did, TORHS was better in my "hallucinating" eyes. Better venue, better times, better prizes, better talent. Look at the Pro series for example. Man, can't somebody have an opinion around here???

Blah Blah Blah, Shoot the puck already

[SpiderRat]

I give NARCH one year before the NHL dumps them.

Blah Blah Blah, Shoot the puck already

[Falcons77]

WOW!! I havent heard Rallo in years!! Would be interesting to see whats up with that....

[roye]

I completely understand the oversaturation of Inline Hockey Tournament series here in the US. If you noticed I am actually not running an additional Tournament series but rather using exisiting events as qualifiers for one event.

This event was created specifically with the thought of international competition in the United States.

And by the way the first tournament I ever played in was the Rollerblade Cup in 1992 in Missasugua, ONT. There were 12 teams from NY, MI, FL, Canada and Mass.

[shadow]

I am not trying to correct anyone, but I believe Sixpac is in their tenth year anniversary. Take a look at their regional flyers?

USAC/ USARS started inline in the early 80's
Then followed some hometown Tournaments (mom&Pop's)
North American Roller Hockey Championship Started by Dave Fromm. (circa 1993)
Triple Crown (circa 1993) Outdoor Ball
Koho/Pacific Cup
NARCH (1994)
Six Pac (1995)
AIRHS (1996)
NHL Breakout
K?HA -USA Hockey Inline took over in 1996
USAHIL - 1996
RHI-A short lived
AAU (1998)

The rest are flip a coin as to their dates of start are alomost to close to guess. Most of these evolved between 1999 and 2002. IT almost seemed as, once The Demise of AIRHS came many other series sprouted up.

ECHO
TORHS
2HOT4ICE
TOPCAT
NHL Rules
HOT SHOT
COASTAL CUP
Continental Cup (2003)
State Wars (2005)

All of these tournaments have played a Major role in the sport of Inline Hockey. Some did not do it much good but did not harm it, they were just plain fun.

In my opinion for what it may or may not matter the ones to watch are AAU, 2HOT4ICE, Torhs and of course NARCH.
I am sure if any of you really wanted the facts you could contact the owners of each one and they would be glad to help.

As far as a new tournament series, did we need one, NO but on the other hand NEW Blood doen't always hurt. Some poeple wait and learn form other fortunes and mistakes a like.