Cancellation of Men's Newcomer Tournament

28.04.2005

We regret to inform the European lacrosse community, especially the newcomers, that the tournament in Riga has been cancelled due to the small number of participating nations.

Here is a word from the Latvian Lacrosse Association:

"April 13th, 2005.

Dear Lacrosse Friends, it has been a while since we sent you our previous letter.

However, we have received too few applications from too few European Newcomers’ countries.

Therefore we have to regret but we are forced to cancel this planned Newcomers’ Tournament, which was planned this coming August.

I am sorry for those people who wanted to come and play lacrosse in Latvia. We have received quite a few complaints that the tournament is too expensive, however all costs was discussed and approved by European Lacrosse Federation. Since the number of teams were too little that could mean even additional costs, which could not be acceptable also for ourselves.

Sticks up!!!

Aigars Grinbergs
President
Latvian Lacrosse Federation"

We regret to hear about the cancellation and hope that no emerging nation is too disappointed! There will be new opportunities in the future! A big "Thank you" to everybody in Latvia who has been involved in the preparations and the organisation!!!