2019-2020 World Sevens Series
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Full time: New Zealand 33 - 7 Canada
Another good game. A bit messy at the end, but the defence held.
The game against Samoa (2.28am) is going to decide who finishes on top in this pool, with Samoa also having won both it's first two games.
The BF7s will play their next game against France at 1.02am. France is going to be a more difficult opponent and that will also be a battle for the top spot in the pool.
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The Fijians were on the wrong end of a lopsided penalty count aganst the Argies who managed to score a try in injury time of the second half to win as Fiji had a player in the bin (the second carding against them!)
Having said that what is happeneing in the bowl division with what looks like the bottom eight teams having just the one match on the final day. Seems starnge to spread the tournament out by a day but chop the best part of half a dozen games from the bowl not to mention straight knock out in the cup division with the losers of the quarter finals heading to the aftermatch function with no more games.
Presumably this reduction must be because of the inclusion of a womans division? Surely they can use two fields to ensure the continuation of the programme what we have become accustomed to over the years.
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@Higgins The Dubai 7s already had both a men's and women's tournament, so shortening the tournament by no longer playing certain games is not due to including a women's tournament. The Dubai 7s were always played on 3 days (it's just structured differently by starting both the men's and women's tournament on the same day and playing the men's and women's finals on the same day).
We saw the same (playing fewer games) in the women's only tournament in Glendale in October. I'm still wondering how they are awarding points to the teams that going out in the knock-out games at the same time and no longer play each other. In Glendale, they didn't get the same number of points, so I assume it has to do with competition points and points differential after the pool stage, but I've actually never seen it explained or reasons given.
