2023-2024 World Sevens Series
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@canefan seems incredibly stupid move. I went there to see cricket over Xmas. Was too hot for cricket even. It will risk the health of players.
This new series smacks of dollar payoffs over commonsense. And it will hurt Fiji NZ Argentina and Samoa and make the second tier teams more competitive with bigger crowd support and less travel.
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@mikey07 Yes. It's the top eight ranked teams playing quarter-finals, semi-finals and a final (and play-offs for 3rd/4th, 5th/6th and 7th/8th) like they always do.
Edited to add that in that 'Grand Finale' they do not only play for the win of that final tournament, but they also seem to play for the overall title (which is a change from the existing format). The new format seems to prevent that a team that has won all previous tournaments automatically gets the title, regardless of the result at this 'Grand Finale' tournament. So - if I understand it correctly - as long as you make the top 8, you can still become the overall winner of the Series (which seems wrong to me).
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@KiwiMurph said in 2023-2024 World Sevens Series:
So the earlier rounds are the round robin and the final round in Madrid (Grand Finale) is the playoffs essentially?
Yup, 7 runs which gives you ranking. Then play offs, which include 9-12 playing versus top 4 of the next bunch down to compete in the next season.
Pay parity for make and female athletes, as well as same games etc
All centrally run, unlike it used to be
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@Stargazer said in 2023-2024 World Sevens Series:
What's up with changing "sevens" to SVNS?
I bet they couldn't get sevens.com (it leads nowhere) so they came up with a silly abbreviation that they can copyright and get the url for
It's even worse because of the sponsor - HSBC SVNS
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@SBW1 sadly it probably needs to have more "festival" around it, outside the rugby, in the stadium and surrounds (and let the fans come and go from the actual stadium.
Not sure there's much more they can do to make it appealing on TV, apart from make it easier to access the media and easily watch games if you missed them - not many people want to sit down for 10 or so hours to watch.
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@Bones said in 2023-2024 World Sevens Series:
Not sure there's much more they can do to make it appealing on TV, apart from make it easier to access the media and easily watch games if you missed them - not many people want to sit down for 10 or so hours to watch.
Yep. Used to work O.K when I recorded it on Sky box. Could fast forward to the games that I wanted to watch and avoid the dross. Doesn't work so well with streaming.
Sky now do a highlights package of the Kiwi games, which is good, but also slightly annoying that they don't just show the whole thing. I's only 14 minutes FFS do they need to cut it down to 8? The problem with a highlights package of sevens, is that 9 times out of 10 the team in possession is the one that scores, so as soon as the passage of play that they have picked up on starts, that is the team likely to score. They generally don't show the turnover that led to that possession so unless there is an intercept you know who is going to score. Not conducive to exciting viewing.
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@SBW1 said in 2023-2024 World Sevens Series:
Really surprised that Rugby 7s hasn't yet caught the eye of big money, has the potential to be a money spinner like Twenty Twenty Cricket. An easy watch, simple format.
It just goes for too long though, it's 10 hours/day over 3 days and sometimes even 4. Unless your a fan your not really going to choose to sit down and watch it. I'm sure most fans probably don't even bother to watch the full event either.
T20 is a good 3/4 hour filler and then it's all over - it's just much easier packaged (and digested) for TV audiences.
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