2020 USA Sevens explained

Series:Sevens World Series XXI
Countries: United States
Date:29 February – 1 March 2020
Trophy1:Cup
Matches:45
Tries:280
Top Point Scorer: Napolioni Bolaca (53)
Top Try Scorer: Alec Coombes (7)
Marcos Moneta (7)
Prevseason:2019
Nextseason:2022

The 2020 USA Sevens was held in Los Angeles, played at Dignity Health Stadium in Carson in a return to California after a decade in Las Vegas. The rugby sevens tournament was the sixth event of the 2019–20 Sevens World Series for men's teams, and the seventeen edition of the USA Sevens. South Africa won the tournament, defeating Fiji by 29–24 in extra time.[1]

Format

The sixteen are drawn into four pools of four teams. Each team plays every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advance to the Cup playoffs and compete for gold, silver and bronze medals. The other teams from each pool go to the classification playoffs for ninth to sixteenth placings.

Teams

Fifteen core teams played in the tournament along with one invitational team, South Korea.

Pool stage

All times in Pacific Standard Time . The pools were scheduled as follows:

Pool A

width=175 Teamwidth=25 abbr="Played" Pldwidth=25 abbr="Won" Wwidth=25 abbr="Drawn" Dwidth=25 abbr="Lost" Lwidth=32 abbr="Points for" PFwidth=32 abbr="Points against" PAwidth=32 abbr="Points difference" PDwidth=25 abbr="Points" Pts
330011649+609
31118571+146
31118583+26
300338121−833

Pool B

width=175 Teamwidth=25 abbr="Played" Pldwidth=25 abbr="Won" Wwidth=25 abbr="Drawn" Dwidth=25 abbr="Lost" Lwidth=32 abbr="Points for" PFwidth=32 abbr="Points against" PAwidth=32 abbr="Points difference" PDwidth=25 abbr="Points" Pts
32108329+548
31114860−126
31024150−95
31023467−335

Pool C

width=175 Teamwidth=25 abbr="Played" Pldwidth=25 abbr="Won" Wwidth=25 abbr="Drawn" Dwidth=25 abbr="Lost" Lwidth=32 abbr="Points for" PFwidth=32 abbr="Points against" PAwidth=32 abbr="Points difference" PDwidth=25 abbr="Points" Pts
33007919+609
32015946+137
31024164−235
30033383−503

Pool D

width=175 Teamwidth=25 abbr="Played" Pldwidth=25 abbr="Won" Wwidth=25 abbr="Drawn" Dwidth=25 abbr="Lost" Lwidth=32 abbr="Points for" PFwidth=32 abbr="Points against" PAwidth=32 abbr="Points difference" PDwidth=25 abbr="Points" Pts
33008431+539
31025357−45
31024350−75
31024587−425

Knockout stage

Cup

Tournament placings

PlaceTeamPoints
22
19
17
415
513
612
711
810
PlaceTeamPoints
98
107
116
125
134
143
152
161

Players

+ Dream Team[2]
Forwards Backs
Lachie Miller
Stedman Gans
Napolioni Bolaca
Carlin Isles

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cup Final . World.Rugby . 2 March 2020.
  2. https://www.sport24.co.za/Rugby/Sevens/2-blitzboks-crack-nod-for-la-sevens-dream-team-20200302 "2 Blitzboks crack nod for LA Sevens Dream Team"