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<blockquote data-quote="gingergenius" data-source="post: 313787" data-attributes="member: 33219"><p>Well the Olympics takes place over 2 weeks, rather than a long weekend, so potentially they can have a larger tournament without the risk of the players getting tired.</p><p></p><p>I'd suggest 2 pool stages, with 32 teams.</p><p></p><p>You'd have 3 levels of seeds, and if we based this on last year's world series results, taking nation changes into account, then you get:</p><p></p><p>1st seeds: South Africa, Fiji, Great Britain, New Zealand, Argentina, Kenya, Samoa, Australia</p><p></p><p>2nd seeds: USA, Portugal, France, Tonga, Canada, Cook Islands, Zimbabwe, Japan</p><p></p><p>3rd seeds: host nation (Brazil), Georgia, Uruguay, Germany, Niue, Mexico, Tunisia, Uruguay, and then 8 more teams made up of members of the Arabian Gulf who are good enough, members of the West Indies, and/ or China/ Sri Lanka/ Taiwan/ South Korea/ Spain.</p><p></p><p>8 groups would have one member from the first two seed levels, and two from the bottom, so an example of a group could be South Africa, USA, Brazil, Niue. Having the host nation automatically qualify is really important if rugby is to build. There will be a party atmosphere around in the 7s anyway, and awareness of rugby will already be much higher. With their own team to cheer on, even if it is for 3 matches, the hosts would be far more connected with the event, and that teams' performance could kickstart them competing more regularly on the 7s circuit.</p><p></p><p>After the initial group stages, you'd expect all the small nations to have gone out. Since its Olympic, they won't have a plate, but the experience for them would be great, and there'll be at least one game in the pool that they can think of winning. After this, I'd have another pool stage with the 16 remaining teams (where the competition can get serious), and then QF, SF, Final. So the finalists would play 9 games in total, and everyone would have at least 3.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gingergenius, post: 313787, member: 33219"] Well the Olympics takes place over 2 weeks, rather than a long weekend, so potentially they can have a larger tournament without the risk of the players getting tired. I'd suggest 2 pool stages, with 32 teams. You'd have 3 levels of seeds, and if we based this on last year's world series results, taking nation changes into account, then you get: 1st seeds: South Africa, Fiji, Great Britain, New Zealand, Argentina, Kenya, Samoa, Australia 2nd seeds: USA, Portugal, France, Tonga, Canada, Cook Islands, Zimbabwe, Japan 3rd seeds: host nation (Brazil), Georgia, Uruguay, Germany, Niue, Mexico, Tunisia, Uruguay, and then 8 more teams made up of members of the Arabian Gulf who are good enough, members of the West Indies, and/ or China/ Sri Lanka/ Taiwan/ South Korea/ Spain. 8 groups would have one member from the first two seed levels, and two from the bottom, so an example of a group could be South Africa, USA, Brazil, Niue. Having the host nation automatically qualify is really important if rugby is to build. There will be a party atmosphere around in the 7s anyway, and awareness of rugby will already be much higher. With their own team to cheer on, even if it is for 3 matches, the hosts would be far more connected with the event, and that teams' performance could kickstart them competing more regularly on the 7s circuit. After the initial group stages, you'd expect all the small nations to have gone out. Since its Olympic, they won't have a plate, but the experience for them would be great, and there'll be at least one game in the pool that they can think of winning. After this, I'd have another pool stage with the 16 remaining teams (where the competition can get serious), and then QF, SF, Final. So the finalists would play 9 games in total, and everyone would have at least 3. [/QUOTE]
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