Sixbia Rugby League

The Sixbia Rugby League, or SRL, is a Rugby League competition based in Sixbia.

## History

The SRL was created in 1905 with four teams; the Coastville Ducks, Martlestowe Vipers, Northern Vikings and Samland Royals. In 1911, the league decided to expand, by adding the top two teams from the Coastville Rugby League, Eastern Sixbia Rugby League and League Samland. In 1912, six teams were added. With interest in the game in Northern Sixbia decreasing, the Vikings were removed from the league in 1920. In 1933, the Brancaland Rugby League Football Competition was established, which only consisted of teams from the English speaking region of the country, as it was the only area where the game was popular. This is important later! Back to the SRL, in 1925, the SRL decided to add one more team from each of the three cities the competition was based in. In 1938, there was a push to remove the Ducks, Vipers and Royals, as they weren't representing their entire city anymore. It was eventually decided that the Ducks would rename to Coastville City, the Vipers would play some games in Skattiat as the Martlestowe-Skattiat Vipers, and the Royals would merge with the Yarmies to become Samland-Royal Shore. In the late 50's, the SRL wanted to expand North, adding the Randsbourne Flamers and Gorge Gap Wizards in 1957, who both lasted two seasons, before folding, with average attendances of a few hundred per game. The league expanded again in 1970, when League Samland folded. The SRL offered to let four of the clubs enter, and set up a new SRL Samland League. In the 1980's, a lot of the clubs started to financially struggle due to the expensive plane trips, and several mergers were proposed. In 1984, the Depstone Seals and North Samland Squirrels became the North Samland Seals. In 1985, the Martlestowe-Skattiat Vipers became just the Martlestowe Vipers. In 1986, the Baygaard Flamingos folded. In 1991, a plan was established to extract the competition into three separate leagues, based in each city. The plan was to slowly take place over three years. In 1992, the Ducks, Vipers and Samland Royal Shore were all relegated to their cities existing competition. In 1993, the last two teams in each of the three citywide comps were folded. In 1994, the year where the last 9 teams were supposed to play one final season, two things happened. 1- The Sixbian TV stations Channel 24 and Sixbia Sport offered to broadcast all of the games on national television, if the league were to stay intact, rather than just one game a week. 2- Sixbia invaded Northern Brancaland, and annexed the English speaking regions. The 1994 season carried on as usual, and in 1995, the money from the TV stations was enough to save the league. In 1996, the Ducks, Vipers and Samland Royal Shore rejoined, alongside a new team, known as the Randsbourne Leopards. In 1995, the Brancaland Rugby League Football Competition was reduced from 10 teams to 8, removing the two teams from outside what was now known as the Sixbian Senley Territory. A four year plan was established to merge the BRLFC into the SRL. In 1996, the best local teams from each city were promoted into the new Senley Territory Rugby League. After 1997, the two last placed teams in the BRLFC were moved into the STRL, and the same in 1998. In 1999, the four last Brancaland Rugby League Football Competition teams all played their first season in the Sixbia Rugby League.