How is the Hong Kong Sevens working in 2012?
This year in Hong Kong two 12-team competitions will take place side by side as part of the Cathay Pacific / HSBC Hong Kong Sevens.
Competition 1: A competition between the current 12 ‘core teams’ on the Series, who will begin in Pools A, B and C.
The pool winners, pool runners-up and two best third-place finishers will go through to the Cup quarter finals; the losers of the Cup quarter finals will go through to the Plate semi finals; the four not involved in the Cup quarter finals will go straight to the Bowl semi finals.
Competition 2: A competition between 12 teams from across the six IRB regions, three of whom – the two finalists and the winner of the 3rd/4th play-off – will secure core team status and join the 12 existing core teams at each round of the 2012/13 HSBC Sevens World Series. These 12 teams comprise the regional champions and others who qualified based on their performances in their regional events. Four are from Asia; three from Europe; two from North America & Caribbean; one from Oceania; one from South America; one from Africa.
The pool winners, pool runners-up and two best third-place finishers will go through to the Qualfier (Shield) quarter finals and play for the three 2012/13 Series places; the four not involved in the Qualifier quarter finals will play ranking matches.
So how are the quarter final line-ups decided in each competition?
After the pool rounds, the final position of the winner and runner-up in each pool, together with the best third-placed team and the second-best third-placed team, will be ranked in order based on the following:
- Competition Points, if teams are drawn then
- Points Difference, then
- Tries Difference, then
- Highest number of points scored, then
- Highest number of tries
Once this is decided, the teams will be ranked as follows:
Once ranked, the top 8 teams in both competitions will play a knock-out structure as follows:
For further details of the schedule, click here and select day 3 fixtures >>
Hong Kong Sevens - organisers information
Host union
Hong Kong RFU
Website
www.hksevens.com
Stadium
Hong Kong Stadium (Capacity 40,000)
So Kon Po, Hong Kong
General enquiries
Email: info@hksevens.com
Media enquiries
Edith Chung
Email: edith.chung@hkrugby.com
Recent winners
2011: New Zealand
2010: Samoa
2009: Fiji
2008: New Zealand
2007: Samoa
2006: England
2005: Fiji (RWC Sevens)
2004: England
2003: England
2002: England
