Super Rugby 2025
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@Duluth said in Super Rugby 2025:
@Canes4life said in Super Rugby 2025:
How do they determine a lucky loser? If the top seed is knocked out, surely they should get a second bite of the cherry. What a shambles.
The article says it's the highest seeded loser. So if the top seed losses, yes they have a second chance
Seems fine to me. I don't understand the negativity
When was the last time 1st lost to the bottom seed? Or even 2nd losing to the second from bottom seed? The stupidity here comes from the 3v4 potentially being a dead rubber.
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@Duluth said in Super Rugby 2025:
Your complaint only makes sense if that game is scheduled last
Is it?
We won't know this until the schedule is released in a couple weeks. If it's scheduled first then I get their decision making but if it's scheduled last then they are morons.
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Second is ok too
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Teams will play 14 regular season matches, consisting of seven home games and seven away games, and be allocated two byes.
I am happy that there will be an equal number of home and away games, assuming that there is no Super Round to fuck things up again.
Teams will play four teams twice, with a focus on rivalry match-ups, and the six remaining teams once
Let's wait to see the details.
Also, there will be three family-friendly Sunday afternoon games. I wonder who will get those games?
And, SR starts a week earlier (Friday 14 February).
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is it better than top 8?....yes....could it have been better...also yes
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@gt12 "The three winners of the Qualifying Finals will progress to the Semi-Finals.
They will be joined by the highest-seeded losing team (the ‘lucky loser’), who will drop one seeding for the Semi-Final draw."
The way this reads if the top seed loses they only drop to 2nd so still get a home semi ! . -
@Daffy-Jaffy said in Super Rugby 2025:
@gt12 "The three winners of the Qualifying Finals will progress to the Semi-Finals.
They will be joined by the highest-seeded losing team (the ‘lucky loser’), who will drop one seeding for the Semi-Final draw."
The way this reads if the top seed loses they only drop to 2nd so still getting a home semi ! .Firstly, points off for reading the article
Secondly, WTAF?
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This is the result of setting up a dedicated, independent commission?
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@Daffy-Jaffy said in Super Rugby 2025:
@gt12 "The three winners of the Qualifying Finals will progress to the Semi-Finals.
They will be joined by the highest-seeded losing team (the ‘lucky loser’), who will drop one seeding for the Semi-Final draw."
The way this reads if the top seed loses they only drop to 2nd so still get a home semi ! .why is that necessary? (asking the world, not you @Daffy-Jaffy )....they have seedings already...why do we need to add a second level of complexity?
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@antipodean said in Super Rugby 2025:
This is the result of setting up a dedicated, independent commission?
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@gt12 said in Super Rugby 2025:
If the number 1 seed loses in the first week, do they also lose their home field advantage? They should do - whoever loses should automatically be the 4th seed.
I guess it's out of fairness to whomever is seeded second.
i.e. Assuming:
1 loses to 6
2 beats 5
3 beats 4Seeding becomes 2, 1,3,6
Your way - 2 would have to play 1, through no fault of their own.
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@Chris-B said in Super Rugby 2025:
@gt12 said in Super Rugby 2025:
If the number 1 seed loses in the first week, do they also lose their home field advantage? They should do - whoever loses should automatically be the 4th seed.
I guess it's out of fairness to whomever is seeded second.
i.e. Assuming:
1 loses to 6
2 beats 5
3 beats 4Seeding becomes 2, 1,3,6
Your way - 2 would have to play 1, through no fault of their own.
It was nice of you to highlight how much of a fucking stupid idea this is.
Edit: in that case, they should go down to play 3 away.
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So ultimately, they've gotten rid of 1 finals match and also added an extra bye round.
What a watered-down half arsed farce of a competition.
NZR won’t ever entertain the thought of a longer season. They only care about high performance metrics that relate to the All Blacks - which show the All Blacks performances have gotten progressively worse each year since they reduced Super Rugby down to 14 matches....
So much for 'high performance'. NZR are a bunch of clueless idiots.
