The Tournament will be played in two facilities: The Waterloo Recreation Complex (Senior Division play competion for national title) and Albert McCormick Community Centre (for junior and intermediat level play).

        The Tournament will consist of a novice, junior, intermediate and senior teams competing in their own classes.  For the intermediate and senior divisions of play, there are no age restrictions and teams are placed by ability using the Ontario and Canadian Sledge Hockey Rules.

        It is anticipated that there may be 34 teams participation with 75 hours of ice time required.

        At the ParaOlympics in Nagano japan, Canada was favoured to win Canada`s only hockey gold medal in the Olympics with seven teams competing.  In 1994 in Lillehammer, Canada took the bronze in sledge hockey.

        Sledge Hockey has been growing in Canada since it was first introduced in 1980 from Sweden.  The first National Sledge Hockey Tournament was held in Medicine Hat, Alberta in 1984.  The Sledge Hockey of Canada Association was formed in 1994, the same year that it was introduced as a medal sport in the Lillehammer Olympics.