The Heineken Shield kicks off the CRFU domestic rugby season. The previous year’s winner of the DART - Alex Alexander Memorial Championship plays the winner of the DART - Vase to kick the new season off and this puts the winning club in the poison to win the 'Triple'. As yet this has never been one by a club.  

Heineken is the title sponsor for this event.

The DART - Alex Alexander Memorial Championship is a a double round robin tournament between all four domestic clubs each year. The team finishing with the highest number of compeition points wins the championship. The Championship is also used to seed the teams from 1 to 4 for the DART Vase championship and forms part of the CRFU 'Triple'.

The DART vase is the last of three domestic championships that form the CRFU 'Triple' which has yet to be won by any club since it's inception in 2008. The Dart Vase is played over two rounds at the end of the DART Alex Alexander Memorial Championship rankings have been finalized. The team in 1st place plays the team in 4th place and the team in 2nd place plays the team in 3rd in a straight knock out. The winners play off for the DART Vase. This is the last domestic XV a side game of the season.

The Appleton Chalenge Cup is played between the four clubs at the conclusion of the regular season. The national selectors select their 30 man International squad from the four Cup Teams for the Spring internationals and they go to camp and do not participate in the Appleton Challenge Cup. The remaining players are integrated with U19 players and four new squads develop who then play in the Appleton Challenge Cup.

The Estella Scott Summer Sevens Series is the domestic sevens series. It is used by the National selectors who put one or two Maples Academy sides into the tournaments to select the National sevens side. There are usually betwen 6 and 8 mens teams and 3 to 5 womens teams. The series is played over 5 weekends in October with the team with the highest amount of tournament points being awarded the title each year. The tournaments serve as a training camp for the national sevens team before they head to the annual NACRA regional sevens.

The John Gibson Hangover Invitational is a social game, played on the afternoon after the club dinner as a light hearted addendum to the season in which we invite the visiting Speaker at the club dinner, normally a former international, to have a run around with us on the pitch. Invitational players have included Shane Williams, Martin Bayfield, Gavin Hastings, Gregor Townsend and Doug Howlett in recent years