Rainbow Rockers Curling League

Ottawa's Gay and Lesbian Friendly Curling League

Over the Rainbow Bonspiel 2024

Posted on by webmaster

Attention 2SLGBTQI+ curlers and allies!

The 2024 Over the Rainbow Bonspiel (OTRB) is set to happen on January 25 to 28, 2024 at the Ottawa Curling Club, home of the Rainbow Rockers Curling League (RRCL). Note, this flagship event of the RRCL’s season and premier event among 2SLGBTQI+ curling leagues falls on a new weekend this year.

We are excited to host you at the club and in Ottawa for a fun-filled weekend. Please join us for great curling, fair play, good sportsmanship, courteous rivalry and all the camaraderie that goes with it.

The OTRB will be open to 40 teams with spots allocated to both local and out-of-town teams. More details will follow in the coming weeks. For now, curlers can expect a four-game guarantee that includes three round-robin games and a qualifier game, playoffs will consist of five divisions and prize money for the winning teams and runners-up have been increased significantly.

This always popular bonspiel includes many of the solid elements of past OTRBs as well as several enhancements this year, including added sponsorships, enhanced entertainment, a silent auction, plenty more prizes and giveaways, live streaming, live results, and much more. There will even be a prominent Canadian curler as our guest and keynote speaker.

Registration is expected to open in early October and more registration details will be posted in August.

Come! Curl on our ice and skate on our canal!
It will be Frozen but Fierce.

Bonspiel opportunity!

Posted on by Steve Horwood

My name is Scott Cooke and I am a member/organizer for a gay sport league in Hamilton.

I am working closely with Goldline and Grandslam of Curling to get more LGBTQ2+ exposure in curling and we have a couple things coming up this year that I wanted to extend to the Ottawa Rainbow Rockers Curling League.. 

On Sept 23 us and Goldline will be hosting a UnitedWeCurl bonspiel to kick off the year at the Oakville curling club. We will be looking for both experienced and rookie LGBT teams to play (probably a recreational and competitive division). We will be sourcing teams from Hamilton and Toronto and wanted to reach out to see if there are any teams in your club that would be interested. 

We are also working with Grandslam of curling to host pride nights at the October slam in Niagara and April slam in Toronto on a weekend with free tickets, potential ice time and meets with LGBT pro curlers. 

I wanted to reach out and see if participating in any of these of initiatives would be of interest to your club?

Cheers!

Scott Cooke

[Interested curlers/teams should reach out to Scott directly at: [email protected]]

https://oakvillecurlingclub.com/index.php/component/eventbooking/holding/unitedwecurl-pride-bonspiel

Posted on by Steve Horwood

Hello Rainbow Rockers,

A few announcements in the final weeks of our season ….

End of Season Rainbow Banquet – Sunday, April 16th, 2023:
This season’s closing banquet will be held on Sunday, April 16th @ 7ish. In addition to the banquet there will be regular season games at 1pm, 3pm & 5pm.

Champions will be crowned in each of the divisions and ALL teams take home cash!

Bonus prizes will be added to the cumulative 50/50 draw!

Banquet Time: 7ish
Cost: $20 (currently full-time members only) – PLEASE BRING CASH IF POSSIBLE (alternatively e-transfer to [email protected])

We will have a signup sheet at the club this Sunday only.
There is limited availability so please signup on Sunday. If you do not curl this Sunday, please email “[email protected]” to request a ticket, and send an e-transfer to “[email protected]”. [you must do BOTH]

Details of the final banquet will be forthcoming.

Registration for the 2023-2024 Season:
There are 2 steps to register for next season:

1) pay your $50 deposit in cash, cheque, or e-transfer at the banquet
2) Register online at: https://rainbowrockers.org/online-registration/ – register as a team or as an individual.

You must complete both steps by May 1st in order to complete your registration.
Starting May 1st we will accept new member registrations.

Thank you for a great 20th season! Good luck in the last few games !

Steve/Patrick/Bill//KevinV/Peter/Mike/Chad/Brian/KevinM/Andrew.

Nominations for 2023-2024 RRCL Executives

Posted on by Steve Horwood
The Rainbow Rockers Curling League exists because of the hard work of a committee of volunteers who love to curl and give back to their community. Please take the time to participate in the process of creating the executive committee for next year and help ensure the continuation of our Rainbow Rockers Curling League.

Nominations for the 2023-2024 Executive Committee are now open.We are especially needing nominations for an OTRB Bonspiel Chair. This Bonspiel Chair position will be vacant at the end of this season.

We are also accepting nominations for the positions of President, Secretary, Treasurer, Promotions/Events Coordinator, Drawmaster, and Membership Coordinator. Current members of the the Executive Committee are standing for (re)election to these positions.

Only current, full time members of the league may make nominations or be nominated to serve on the committee. For more information on the roles of the executive committee, please see www.rainbowrockers.org/executive-committee. Nominations will be open until 12:00pm April 7th, 2023. A member must be nominated by two or more current full-time members in order to be considered for a position on the executive committee. Members may nominate themselves. Nominees will be contacted by the election coordinator by e-mail to confirm that they accept the nomination.

Nominations can be submitted by sending an e-mail to [email protected]. In your nomination message please state your name and clearly indicate who you are nominating and for which position you are nominating the person for.In order to be accepted as a candidate for the executive committee, nominees must respond, confirming that they are willing to stand for election and to fulfill the duties for the entire 2023-2024 season.
Should there be more than one nomination for any position, an election will be held for that position(s). Further information will be provided after the nomination window has closed on April 7th.