Touch My Brum 2019

We hope everyone has recovered from the weekend.

The results page for Touch My Brum 2018 is now available

We hope to announce the date for Touch My Brum 2019 in the next couple of weeks.

The winners for touch My Brum 2018 are
Calthorpe Cup – Team Ginderella
Beorma Shield – Loving Life
Eden tankard – Leeds Hunters

A full breakdown of scores will be given in the next few days

Plan is now disco nap, then off to Eden, Birmingham who have the amazingly fabululous and talented La Voix on stage this evening.

The morning results table is below

Team	Played	Points	Match Points
Berkshire Unicorns	4	6	17
Birmingham Bulls	4	8	25
Bristol Bisons	4	4	12
Cardiff and Baba	4	3	11
Chester Centurions	4	0	0
Leeds Hunters	4	2	9
Loving Life	4	4	11
Northampton Outlaws	4	7	23
Renegades A	4	8	18
Renegades B	4	2	4
Sheffield Vulcans	4	0	5
Shuttlerush Jaguars	4	0	5
Shuttlerush Panthers	4	2	9
Spartan Arrows	4	3	9
Spartan Pistons	4	4	8
Spartan Shooters	4	5	14
Swansea Vikings	4	4	10
Team Ginderella	4	8	35
Team Trunter	4	5	5

Not long to go now until the start of Touch My Brum 2018.

Registration is at Eden (Sherlock Street, Birmingham, B5 6NB) this evening from 9pm. Then the tournament starts at 10.00am tomorrow.

The group schedules are now up on the website, and will be updated as the tournament progresses.

For those still travelling down, have a safe trip, and we’ll see you this evening or tomorrow.

All teams will be split into groups for morning play on Saturday – playing every team in your group once with all results fed into the overall league to determine tiers for knockout play in the afternoon.

Teams were randomly drawn to create the groups, which we can now announce below (NB: if you have registered as an individual player/Barbarian and we have not already contacted you, we have assigned you to the Cardiff Lions, who needed extra players).

Group 1

Spartan Pistons

Renegades A

Shuttlerush Panthers

Chester Centurions

Berkshire Unicorns

Group 2

Spartan Arrows

Bristol Bisons

Swansea Vikings

Leeds Hunters

Northampton Outlaws

Group 3

Spartan Shooters

Birmingham Bulls

Renegades B

Team Trunter

Sheffield Vulcans

Group 4

Cardiff Lions

Shuttlerush Jaguars

Team Ginderella

Loving Life

We have 19 squads registered this year with over 200 players competing for our three titles. This is how the day will be set up:

Morning play

First matches kick off at 10am. Teams will be split into four groups (three groups of 5 teams and one group of 4 teams), where all teams will play each other once, for four games per team (three games per team in the smaller group). The smaller group will have an extra result added which will be calculated from an average of their other three results. All results will be fed into one big league, to determine overall standings. After morning play has finished the top 7 teams in the league will progress to the top tier (Calthorpe Cup), the next 6 teams will progress to the second tier (Beorma Shield) and the last 6 teams will progress to the third tier (Eden Tankard) for afternoon play.

Afternoon play

• Calthorpe Cup – Play will follow a traditional knockout route with a quarter-final, semi-final and final. One team (determined by random draw) will receive a bye through the quarter final
• Beorma Shield – All teams will play a quarter-final match. The winning three teams will then all play each other once in a mini-league to determine the winner of the tier
• Eden Tankard – Same as Beorma Shield

This means that the lowest number of games a team will play on the day is 4, and the maximum is 7, with most teams playing at least 5

Registration for Touch My Brum was due to close today, however we have had a few teams asking for registration to stay open a little bit longer.

So we will be closing registration at 23:59 on Sunday. We do have an invoice option available to make it easier for teams to enter.

There is no upper limit on age, and no restrictions on sexuality, gender, or experience. If you don’t want to play Touch (forwards, we’re looking at you) we do have some volunteering opportunities available.

Register here – buy tickets

If you have any questions, then please do get in touch – secretary@birminghambullsrfc.com

For clubs wishing to register for Touch My Brum we are able to offer an invoicing option.

To take advantage choose the ticket type ‘Play Group Discount – Invoiced’ and check out as normal. We will then send you an invoice for the tickets.

Just before we jet off for the weekend to Bingham Cup, there are few updates for Touch My Brum.

Changes to tickets.

Our ticketing provider (Ticket Tailor) have added some new features for group tickets.  If you have purchased a group ticket, you will now get individual tickets for each attendees. This should make it easier for people arriving at different times. You may get updated tickets sent over the weekend, so do not panic.

Accessibility Statement Updated

We have updated the Accessibility Statement . If you have any queries that are not answered here, then please do get in touch.

It’s getting real

Someones garage is starting to look like TMB HQ as all of the equipment and supplies are starting to arrive.

Volunteers & Referees

We’ve still got room for volunteers and referees on the day to help with the running of the tournament. If you are interested get in touch.

.Tickets

Tickets are on sale now, following the Registration menu above.

 

Registration for this year’s Touch My Brum tournament is now open. (link to registration page).

Held on Saturday 21 July 2018 this promises to be a great tournament. Last year saw over 20 teams from all over the UK (and beyond) compete for one of the three prizes.

We’ll add more information to the site as we go  along, so keep popping back. In the meantime you can keep up with what is happening by following us on Twitter – @TouchMyBrum and also Instagram @TouchMyBrum.