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One of the primary qualifying criteria for a games to be included in an SGL Region's schedule is that it field the three classes being contested.  For the inaugural season these are:  Men's Amateur, Men's Master, and Women's.
At this time, I'm pretty sure Grandfather Mountain does not have women's classes.

In addition, only the schedule for the Southeast Region has been released so far.  It extends up into South Carolina which is roughly bisected between the SE and the Mid-Atlantic.  Some of the games mentioned fall outside the Southeast Region.

Gerry, glad to hear the reaction from someone who has studied the Highland Games as extensively as you have. 
The reasoning for leaving "Highland" out of the name . . . Americans have an affinity for three letter acronyms:  NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, FBI, CIA, NSA, etc.  We felt that "SGL" makes for a nice acronym and results in an association with the big sports leagues here in the US, whether warranted at this time or not . . .
We also did some small focus group testing on the name and logo during their development.

So, it is something of a marketing/promotional tactic directed towards one of our over-arching, long term goals:  raising the level of awareness of the Scottish Highland Games in the general sporting consciousness and greater population.

dWood wrote: rob meulenberg wrote: Oh, and one thing about your point of regional championships Tony.  There is nothing stopping people from using the SGL series as a means to determine regional championships.  I am sure one would have to coordinate with Mike to see if it could officially be linked to the SGL. For instance (for those that don't know), our Men's Am New England Champs are at Loon.  There is nothing preventing Wayne from using the NorthEast SGL season results to dictate who gets invited to Loon.  But the results from Loon would be just that.  They would not be used to dictate an overall SGL champion.   well Wayne could do that but using the SGL rankings to invite athletes could be used but why would he when Loon couldnt be considered a SGL games as they dont contest the 3 classes(no women)   that would be like using fantasy football rankings to see who plays in the superbowl...no?

Thanks for the background to the use of "SGL" and the unexpected compliment.

13 years later ... it is still a good idea ... collectively we just have to find a way to make it happen.

We cannot change the past (apart from putting stuff on websites  and claiming credit for other people's work)... but we CAN change the future. 

Here's a short video addressing one of the key aspects of the SGL vision.  Hopefully, it will answer a few more questions, too.

Not sure why the YouTube embed isn't working.  Here's the link to the SGL site: Key Aspect Video Blog

The new SGL site is up!!

We will continue to add information and content including the outstanding region schedules, and rankings as the season gets under way.

Please share the site around the Highland Games community. 

Thanks for your support!

Scottish Games League

Thanks, Dan.  The real credit for the site goes to our CTO Eric White and developer Andy Armagost.

And, yes, we will be selling SGL Tshirts and a few other items.  In fact, we will be doing a pre-order event for the shirts in the near future.