The X-Cross Tournament is also a new feature for this title and it's pretty challenging, to say the least.
The harassment of the only woman among a team competing in Cross Assault tournament — by her coach, no less — has become a rallying cause.
Mr. Bakhtanians, whose actions during the Cross Assault tournament were captured on video, later issued a statement in which he apologized if he had offended anyone.
In February, shortly after the Cross Assault tournament, LevelUp, an Internet broadcaster of gaming events, barred two commentators who made light of sexual harassment on camera and issued a formal apology, including statements from the commentators.
The clubs would need the permission of their respective unions to take part in a new cross-border tournament.
Red Bull's Crashed Ice World Championship consists of five ice cross downhill tournaments, only one of which takes place in the United States.
"The fact we are a cross-border tournament makes us different and it is something we should cherish," said Davies, the former Wales and Lions wing.
The idea of clubs running a cross-border tournament spooked the chairman of the International Rugby Board, Bernard Lapasset, a close friend of Pierre Camou, who succeeded him as FFR president in 2008.
As the trophyless men from the banks of the River Avon prepare for tomorrow's profoundly testing match on the shores of the Mediterranean, where defeat against the three-times European champions will leave their chances of making the knockout stage of the elite cross-border tournament hanging by the slenderest of threads, another link springs to mind.
That much was obvious yesterday as Gloucester sought to capitalise on the previous week's win at Murrayfield and heap some pressure on Munster in the race for a place in the knockout stage of this fiercely competitive, if politically unstable, cross-border tournament.
From the outside, the WRU's stance seemed to be that as the regions had nowhere to go, locked into the Pro12 and unable to play in a cross-border tournament without the union's permission, it was under no obligation to make concessions.
