Monarch Lions Archive
What began as a few friends in Regina daring each other to compete became, in 2015, the first Monarch Games - a tradition that reinvented itself every year: a solo gauntlet, a team war, a multi-day weekend with family and its own constitution, then a return to individual competition on the training floor. That first run went from 2015 to 2018 - and then the Games went quiet. After seven years away they came back for the 2025 10-year anniversary, and return again in 2026 in a new form. This is the archive - the events, the scores, and the story of each chapter.
2025
December 12, 2025
Seven years after the original run ended in 2018, the Games come back: the tenth anniversary chapter - ten competitors, seven scored tests, a full leaderboard, and a media archive from the night.
10
Competitors
7
Scored Events
184
Photos
2018
December 2018
Year IV moved off the gym floor and into a real training facility - and dropped the teams. Back to individual competition: a strength-and-conditioning chapter on the spin bikes and the barbell, with the crew in the first run of branded Monarch Lion gear.
Year IV
Edition
Individual
Format
Strength
Theme
2017
December 2017
The Games grew up: a two-day weekend themed Body, Mind & Soul, with family brought into the fold and the year-end AGM downtown at the Saskatchewan Hotel.
Year III
Edition
Body · Mind · Soul
Theme
Hotel Sask
AGM
2016
December 2016
Year two raised the stakes by dropping the “I.” Individual scoring was thrown out for a straight team war - a captain's draft into two sides across a weekend of team sports.
Games II
Edition
Team Draft
Format
Red vs White
Sides
2015
December 2015
Where it started - the first Monarch Games, a one-day athletic gauntlet through a Regina field house and the Golden Mile bowling lanes. Nine events, one scoring sheet, and Tamon crowned the first champion.
Games I
Edition
9
Events
46
Photos