2023-2024 World Sevens Series
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Perth will replace Sydney as a host city for the next two seasons of the World Series.
HBSC SVNS – Festival dates
Dubai, UAE – 2-3 December, 2023
Cape Town, South Africa – 9-10 December, 2023
Perth, Australia – 26-28 January, 2024
Vancouver, Canada – 23-25 February, 2024
Los Angeles, USA – 2-3 March, 2024
Hong Kong SAR, China – 5-7 April 2024
Singapore, Singapore – 3-5 May 2024
Madrid, Spain – 31 May-2 June, 2024
All dates and venues correct at time of publication and are subject to change.
HSBC SVNS set to supercharge rugby’s global appeal as the ultimate festival of immersive experiences ｜ HSBC SVNS
Eight iconic festivals, immersive experiences, the world’s best men’s and women’s athletes, HSBC SVNS launches with a bold ambition to supercharge rugby’s growth
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This is from an earlier article on that website:
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Remodelled Sevens World Series to include seven rounds, in eight iconic global destinations, across seven months, kicking off in December 2023
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Fully combined and equal men’s and women’s Series with number of men’s teams reduced from 16 to 12, aligning with the Olympic competition model
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Annual ‘Grand Finale’ event will crown Series champions and offer pathway opportunity for four men’s and women’s teams to achieve promotion from the Challenger Series
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Innovative vision to build a leading sports and entertainment brand by widening the event experience offering and engaging with youth culture
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Hosts, competition dates and new brand identity to be unveiled in coming months
The remodelled Sevens World Series will include seven festival style events, in seven iconic global destinations, across seven months, featuring the best 12 men’s and 12 women’s teams and is set to kick off in December 2023.
In a move designed to attract a younger, more diverse and global fanbase while generating greater revenues to reinvest in players and teams, the transformed Series hosting model will see World Rugby EventsCo assume greater responsibility for the delivery of the events, working in partnership with host organisations.Following consultation with the participating nations, the men’s Series will reduce from 16 to 12 teams, aligning with the Olympic competition model and bringing the number of men’s and women’s teams even, while allowing for more optimal match scheduling opportunities.
An annual ‘Grand Finale’ event will take place in the seventh round, which will see the top eight ranked teams after six rounds compete to be crowned Series champions, while the teams ranked ninth to 12th will join the top four ranked teams from the Challenger Series in a high stakes relegation play-off competition which will see four teams secure their places in the next edition of the Series. The four unsuccessful teams will go into regional competitions to qualify for the next Challenger Series, which comprises of 12 men’s and 12 women’s teams competing in the second level of international rugby sevens.
In another ground-breaking development, men’s and women’s teams will receive equal participation fees, with a 70 per cent uplift in World Rugby’s investment in participation fees in the new model.
Player welfare considerations remain paramount and the reduction in the number of tournaments will allow players to perform at the very best of their ability every time they enter the pitch, while also supporting the ambition to deliver more environmentally sustainable events in line with the World Rugby Environmental Sustainability Plan 2030 launched earlier this year.
The new Series follows a widespread and comprehensive consultation process, involving representatives from participating teams, existing tournament hosts, player welfare representatives and fans.
Sevens World Series reimagination set to grow fans and revenues ｜ HSBC SVNS
World Rugby has outlined an exciting new framework for the future of the Sevens World Series. The remodelled Series will include seven festival style events, in eight iconic global destinations, across seven months, featuring the best 12 men’s and 12 women’s teams and is set to kick off in December...
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@Stargazer said in 2023-2024 World Sevens Series:
What's up with changing "sevens" to SVNS?
Fuck off. Just... a minute after referencing "Idiocracy" in another thread, I feel the need to do it again.
And I'm sure I did it last week.
We truly are... we're approaching the brink of the "Idiocracy Age"... before that eventually gets shortened to "1st tru-good dum-dum time".
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@Kruse said in 2023-2024 World Sevens Series:
@Stargazer said in 2023-2024 World Sevens Series:
What's up with changing "sevens" to SVNS?
Fuck off. Just... a minute after referencing "Idiocracy" in another thread, I feel the need to do it again.
And I'm sure I did it last week.
We truly are... we're approaching the brink of the "Idiocracy Age"... before that eventually gets shortened to "1st tru-good dum-dum time".
I despair. And I'm a fucking drunken-idiot.But, but, electrolytes?
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@Stargazer said in 2023-2024 World Sevens Series:
How hot is it in Perth end of January?
Pretty hot isn't it? Always looks bloody hot when you see them playing cricket at that time of year at the WACA
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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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