About the tournament

Apparently, there is no better way to honor the memory of your friend, team-mate, and great man, than inviting everybody to play the game that he loved so much. Therefore in 2016, we decided to establish a tournament to remember our friend Frank Menschner. This event grew up to the respectable counterpart of the world-famous Aleš Hřebeský Memorial. It has a more relaxed atmosphere and it is mainly a platform for European teams to gather, learn, and get game experience. The playing system with points for each period makes the course of the tournament enjoyable and competitive.

The tournament starts on Thursday morning and ends with the Saturday night final game that decides who will be the lucky winner of the tournament. But it is not the crucial point. The first and foremost aim of everybody is to play good lacrosse enjoyable for spectators and collectively remember and honor our old friend Frank.

Frank Menschner (20. 9. 1959–15. 5. 2015)

In 2001, Frank arrived in Radotín with Rebels, the first American team to ever participate in the Aleš Hřebeský Memorial, and he faithfully attended every single annual memorial up until his untimely death in 2015. He was a keen promoter and supporter of the tournament and the game of lacrosse. He died suddenly due to a serious disease shortly after returning from his final visit to Radotín.