Buca 2026 @ Surly Festival Field

New location for Buca 2026!

The 22nd annual Mike “Buca” Lundberg Memorial Rugby Tournament will be held March 7th, 2026 at Surly Festival Field! For the first time ever, we are moving our snow rugby tournament to the Twin Cities.

520 Malcolm Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414

HISTORY

In 2004, the Mike Lundberg Memorial Tournament started as a fun opportunity to play winter rugby for men and women of all skill levels while donating 100% of the proceeds to help defray the costs of Mike’s treatments. Sadly, Mike lost his long battle with Leukemia in 2008. At the request of his family, we have continued the tournament to celebrate his life and help a member of the Minnesota rugby community in need.

This year our beneficiary will be Joe “Rubber” Lang, one of our old boys who is unfortunately battling a very rare occurrence of cancer returning after beating it 20 years ago. All proceeds from the tournament will go to Rubber and his family.

JOIN IN!

The event is free and open to the public! Come on out and learn about rugby or support your favorite player as they get tackled into a snowbank. You can also support the fundraiser by buying a Supporter ticket to pre-pay for this year’s Tourney Shirt and pick it up at the event.

Players

The tournament is open to all ruggers, from both men’s and women’s clubs college age and up. Teams are co-ed, mixed-team, so come with all your teammates or come by yourself! You’ll be put on a random team picked from the entire pool of players. Pre-register by buying a Player ticket below; your Tourney Shirt is included!

Check in starts at 10am and rugby will start by 11.

Sponsors

There are two sponsorship levels this year: $200 gets your company’s, organization’s, or personal logo featured on the back of our tournament shirts and the continuously updated sponsor section on this page, and $100 gets you all the same but just the name will be featured. Both sponsorship levels get you a Tourney Shirt as well! The 2025 Tourney Shirt is below:

2025 Buca Tourney Shirt

If you would like to donate straight to Rubber’s fund, feel free to purchase any level of ticket below and write “Donation” as part of your name. Every cent raised goes directly to Rubber and his family.

If you have any questions, or would like to pay via cash, check, or Venmo, please email Brent at btguimon@gmail.com.

Hotels

We have a dual brand hotel sponsor this year that is located right next to Surly if you’re looking for somewhere to stay. The links below will give a slight discount to book a room. Unfortunately we’re sharing the weekend with a hockey tournament, so rooms are filing up fast!

Hampton Inn:
https://www.hilton.com/en/book/reservation/deeplink/?ctyhocn=MSPUAHX&flexibleDates=true&srpCodes=LHHT28

Home2 Suites:
https://www.hilton.com/en/book/reservation/deeplink/?ctyhocn=MSPTCHT&flexibleDates=true&srpCodes=LHTP48

Facebook

Keep in touch and up to date on all the announcements by joining our Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/share/1JnpMNXN75/

Let’s play some *snow* rugby!

Tickets

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2026 Buca Player
Play Snow Rugby!
$25.00
Unlimited
2026 Buca Supporter
Pre-pay for this year’s Tourney Shirt! Pick up shirt at event.
$30.00
Unlimited
2026 Buca Donation
Donate $10 to Rubber’s fund
$10.00
Unlimited

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21st “Buca” Winter Rugby Tourney

March 1, 2025 @ 09:00 19:00

It’s time for our annual cold-weather get together!

All proceeds support our beneficiary, Joe “Rubber” Lang, who is battling a very rare occurrence of cancer returning after beating it 20 years ago.

Buca is an open co-ed tournament hosted by the St. Paul Jazz Pigs where teams are picked at random, so showing up with your team, a couple friends, or by yourself is totally an option! We recommend bringing all your friends though, it’s just more fun that way.

Players: Cost is $40 or $35 pre-registered for Senior Players, $30 or $25 pre-registered for College Players. Check in and/or Day Of registration is from 9-10 with rugby following. You get a tournament shirt, a fun filled day of rugby, a fried chicken dinner at the social post tourney complete with a raffle and other festivities, and a bar crawl through River Falls that night.

Spectators: Watching the action is free, but if you’d like to join in on the chicken dinner, raffle, and festivities at the social, you can! $20 or $15 pre-registered.

Sponsors: If you or your company would like to sponsor the tournament and have your logo on our shirt, we’d love to have you! Payment can be made online as well, and email Brent at btguimon@gmail.com about your logo.

New for this year, we’ve reserved a block at the Radisson River Falls and offering rooms at $109 for the night! Use code “SPJP” (Saint Paul Jazz Pigs) or click the link: https://www.choicehotels.com/reservations/groups/NJ50G8

Join the conversation! Announcements and updates can be found on the Facebook event at: https://www.facebook.com/share/15ZLLPXDt9/

Hoffman Park

547 Hanson Dr
River Falls, Minnesota 54022 United States
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15th Annual Mike Lundberg Tournament

In 2004, the Mike Lundberg Memorial Tournament started as a fun opportunity to play winter rugby for men and women of all skill levels while donating 100% of the proceeds to help defray the costs of Mike’s treatments. Sadly, Mike lost his long battle with Leukemia in 2008. At the request of his family, we have continued the tournament to celebrate his life and help a member of the Minnesota rugby community in need.

We are required by USA Rugby to verify the CIPP of all tournament participants. Verification will take place Friday, March 2nd at 2:00 pm. IF YOU ARE NOT CIPP REGISTERED AT THAT TIME, YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO PLAY. THERE ARE ABSOLUTELY NO EXCEPTIONS.

More details about registration to come.