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Women's Rugby Sevens SR South American Olympic Games Qualification Tournament 2019


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26 minutes ago, Nate River said:

Any chance there will be a stream? IIRC last time no qualifier (other than the men’s repechage) had a stream.

 

I do remember the stream from TYC or something like that from Argentina if I´m not wrong, from the South American Qualifier tournament for Rio. I remember the :COL win since it was the first time in my life I watched this sport :p and I admit It was really fun to watch

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34 minutes ago, hckosice said:

 

I do remember the stream from TYC or something like that from Argentina if I´m not wrong, from the South American Qualifier tournament for Rio. I remember the :COL win since it was the first time in my life I watched this sport :p and I admit It was really fun to watch

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For regular XV watchers sevens is incredibly dull. Barely any strategy involved, you just have to search the 7 most athletic guys you can. If they also happen to have the handling skills of the fijians, then you have a gold medal contender team.

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14 minutes ago, LDOG said:

For regular XV watchers sevens is incredibly dull. Barely any strategy involved, you just have to search the 7 most athletic guys you can. If they also happen to have the handling skills of the fijians, then you have a gold medal contender team.

Good thing I'm not a reguler XV watcher I guess, generally I find that one to be rather dull and slow-moving and I enjoy 7's a lot more :p 

 

Although I guess both have their charms.

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hace 7 minutos, heywoodu dijo:

Good thing I'm not a reguler XV watcher I guess, generally I find that one to be rather dull and slow-moving and I enjoy 7's a lot more :p 

 

Although I guess both have their charms.

 

You are rugby noob then :p

  

My problem with the sevens is that things like line outs, scrums and kicking in general (except for the kick off) are rendered almost meaningless while they play a huge part of strategy in XVs.

 

Of course, if you only want to watch tries being scored you will like sevens more. Maybe that's why americans like it...

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2 minutes ago, LDOG said:

 

You are rugby noob then :p

 

Oh, absolutely. Sevens is perfect for me, during regular rugby I generally just let my attention slip away and end up missing pretty much everything :p 

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1 hour ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Yeah, XV is better if you know what's going on and like strategy, sevens is better if you don't know how the game is played.

Or if you appreciate a more action packed, faster paced game.

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1 hour ago, LDOG said:

 

You are rugby noob then :p

  

My problem with the sevens is that things like line outs, scrums and kicking in general (except for the kick off) are rendered almost meaningless while they play a huge part of strategy in XVs.

But XVs just lack pace. It’s takes too long and the game is so slow. I will agree that some of the more spectacular elements of rugby can be found there though. XVs popularity will decline I think, at least worldwide, especially as most young athletes will begin to focus on Sevens.

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