2013

National Touch Series

Challenge Touch Series

Canterbury is confirmed as the location of the 4th CTS event.  News of the series finals venue will be posted here and on our Facebook page.

2012

Due to the dramatic growth of Touch in England, and the number of clubs wanting to play Touch, a review of the NTS has been undertaken to ensure it maintains its status as the highest level club tournament.

In a bid to maintain the high standards of the NTS, and allow for new and developing clubs to establish themselves on the Touch scene, a new two tier system is being launched for the 2012 season.

The introduction of the new Challenge Touch Series (CTS) aims to develop the club game and encourage more club sides to get involved at a national level. This will be tied in with development days for referees, grass root players and more elite players running alongside each Touch event.

Key points for the 2012 NTS/CTS:

• The NTS will reduce to 16 teams (from 20 teams) per event.

• The 16 teams offered a place in the NTS for 2012 will be the top 16 teams from the 2011 series.

• These teams will be required to pay a bond and to commit to all five events and secure their place. The money will go towards the NTS Finals fee in July and will be non-refundable if they do not take part in all five NTS events.

• The Finals for both the NTS and CTS will be held over the weekend of July 28th/29th at the flagship Lilleshall National Sports Centre at the newly established ‘Series Finals’ weekend.

• The CTS will be run on a similar basis to the NTS and will grow to be a strong competition in its own right.

• No NTS sides will be able to participate in the CTS.  There will also be player restrictions that will be announced soon.

• At the end of the NTS/CTS there will be promotion and relegation of teams for the 2013 competitions

Teams eligible for 2012:

NTS 2011

Round 1  Saturday April 16th – Nottingham –  (See Results page for more info)
Round 2 Saturday July 9th – London –  (See Results page for more info)
Round 3 Saturday July 23rd – Thames Valley – (See Results page for more info)
Round 4 Saturday August 6th – Bath – (See Results page for more info)
Round 5 Saturday Sept 3rd (Finals) – Manchester – (See Results page for more info)

For more details on each event, please see the google calendar on the ‘events‘ tab.

NTS 2010

Round 1 April 25th Thames Valley
Round 2 May 15th Nottingham
Round 3 June 5th Manchester
Round 4 June 19th Bath
Round 5 July 3rd London
Super/Social 8s August 7th Cambridge

There were be six events in the 2010 NTS. These were be run by affiliated England Touch members – Bath, Cambridge, London, Manchester, Nottingham, and Thames Valley.

The NTS finished with the Super 8 event, 2010 saw it being be hosted by Cambridge. The top 8 sides in the NTS table, after the previous five rounds, were invited to compete against each other in the Super 8s, where double points were be up for grabs. Making for an exciting finale to the NTS.

Teams outside the top 8 were also welcome to enter and also play off for double points in the Social 8s competition.

See the Results and Rankings pages for previous scores and winners.

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