2019-2020 World Sevens Series
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Due to the RWC, this is going a bit unnoticed but after the first pool games, the BF7s also won their last pool game against
England: 36 - 0.This morning they played Ireland in the Cup QF and won 36 - 10.
The BF7s play the USA in the Cup SF at 9.23am.
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@Stargazer - I don't think other sports particularly need to lose players for the US to be strong in 7s. Raw demographics is enough when you are 70 times the size of NZ and you only need a small fraction of that to have even tried the game.
Good luck to them.
Something else with this Glendale tournament is they seem to have dropped some of the women's consolation finals this year. No more 7th and 11th playoffs it seems.
Perhaps this is to better allow the combined women's/men's tournaments to be crammed into a 2-day schedule. Dunno.
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@Kiap said in 2019-2020 World Sevens Series:
@Stargazer - I don't think other sports particularly need to lose players for the US to be strong in 7s. Raw demographics is enough when you are 70 times the size of NZ and you only need a small fraction of that to have even tried the game.
Good luck to them.
Something else with this Glendale tournament is they seem to have dropped some of the women's consolation finals this year. No more 7th and 11th playoffs it seems.
Perhaps this is to better allow the combined women's/men's tournaments to be crammed into a 2-day schedule. Dunno.
Yes, I noticed this, too. I wonder how they determined 7th and 11th place as they have ranked these teams in the standings (Russia 7th, Ireland 8th; and Fiji 11th, Brazil 12th) and awarded Series point accordingly. Based on standings after the pool games? In the case of Fiji and Brazil, the points differential as the tie breaker?