“Having eight rounds is a huge step forward for the women’s game and having six of them alongside the men will be great for the exposure of the game. This includes using previously collected information about your interests to select ads, processing data about what advertisements were shown, how often they were shown, when and where they were shown, and whether you took any action related to the advertisement, including for example clicking an ad. USA Rugby CEO Ross Young added: "We first want to congratulate the City of LA on the awarding of the event from World Rugby. Necessary cookies enable basic functionality on our sites such as page navigation, access to secure areas, authenticating logins, and the delivery of other core functions. The move from Las Vegas will see the two-day event return to the home stadium of the MLS side, LA Galaxy and the NFL's LA Chargers, Dignity Health Sports Park in California - the same venue earmarked to host rugby sevens in the LA 2028 Olympic Games. In the new year both the men and women will travel to Hamilton, New Zealand where they will play their third combined event on 25-26 January before both travelling to Sydney, Australia for 1-2 February. We would also like to use advertising cookies, which collect information, and combine it with previously collected information, to select and deliver advertisements for you, and to measure the delivery and effectiveness of such advertisements. USA Rugby oversees four national teams, multiple collegiate and high school All-American sides, and an emerging Olympic development pathway for elite athletes. World Rugby Chairman Sir Bill Beaumont commented: “2020 is going to be the biggest year on record for the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series, with more women’s and combined events than ever before, and with the series acting as key preparation for those teams competing in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. 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Click here for the latest club news. “Through the Sevens Working Group we are continuing to work very hard in close collaboration with all stakeholders, including host and participating unions, International Rugby Players, and our commercial and broadcast partners to achieve our shared objective of a spectacular return to HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series action as soon as it is safe to do so and we continue to plan and prepare for all remaining events in the 2021 Series. In 2019 World Rugby announced new-look men’s and women’s Series for a four-year cycle, including six combined events, as the women’s series increased to eight rounds for the first time in its history. After a comprehensive consultation process and constructive dialogue with the host organisations, it has been decided that the combined men’s and women’s Dubai and Cape Town rounds of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series 2021, which were provisionally scheduled for 26-28 November and 4-6 December, 2020 respectively, will not take place due to the ongoing and dynamic global nature of the COVID-19 pandemic. World Rugby Chief Executive Brett Gosper said: “While we share in the disappointment of players, teams, fans, hosts and everyone involved with the popular events in Dubai and Cape Town, this is a prudent decision taken with the health and wellbeing of the global rugby community and wider society as our top priority and guided by the relevant government and international public health authority advice. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of these sites will not then work. Rugby Stubhub ... even the season series against the Cincy, and push the tiebreaker between the two teams all the way to the "last 20 games +1" … “Rugby sevens is growing rapidly in popularity in the United States, and with both men’s and women’s USA teams finishing in the top two last season, taking the event to Los Angeles will provide us with a great opportunity for us to reach new audiences as we look ahead to the LA 2028 Olympic Games.”. The men’s and women’s competitions will both culminate in Paris, France on 30-31 May at the Stade Jean-Bouin. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of these sites will not then work. Rugby sevens is expected to be one of the hottest tickets of the Tokyo Games, following the huge success of Rugby World Cup 2019 in Japan, which captured the nation’s hearts, filled stadiums and created millions of passionate new rugby fans and participants across Japan and Asia. USA Rugby is charged with developing the game on all levels and has over 125,000 active members. For more information on the series, visit www.world.rugby/sevens-series and follow @WorldRugby7s. The HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series is an annual multi-stop global competition that began in 1999. Numbers highlighted in green indicate that the team finished the round inside the top 8. World Rugby confirmed the winners of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series 2020 Awards, as Ireland's Jordan Conroy made the Dream Team as top try scorer and … On the Los Angeles tournament, Beaumont added: “We are delighted that Los Angeles will again host the USA round of the men’s competition after such a successful Rugby World Cup Sevens 2018 in San Francisco, which reached record attendance and broadcast figures. In the women’s series, the USA Women’s Sevens is hosted in Glendale, Colorado, which was the season opener in 2020 and was since moved to later in the schedule alongside the Canada Women’s Sevens in Langford, British Columbia, which is also a standalone event. The growth trend continued in broadcast viewing figures with Futures Sport & Entertainment reporting a 20 per cent increase in total cumulative average audience for the year-to-date in 2020, with 13.9 million fans reached compared to 11.7 million by the same stage in 2019. World Rugby has confirmed the schedule for the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series 2020 in what will be the biggest season to date, with Fiji and New Zealand fighting to retain the men’s and women’s titles respectively. The working group will also review opportunities for HSBC World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series events in 2021. 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The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone. The women’s competition will increase from six to eight rounds for the first time in the history of the HSBC World Rugby Women’s Sevens Series, with six of those being combined men’s and women’s events, while the men’s circuit will once again be contested across 10 rounds. HSBC Global Head of Brand Partnerships Jonathan Castleman said: “Our decade long partnership with the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series remains one of the most successful elements of our global partnership programme. The penultimate stop on the women’s circuit will take place in Langford, Canada on 2-3 May with the ninth men’s round being hosted at Twickenham Stadium in London, England on 23-24 May. “This is extremely encouraging as we enter a new era for rugby sevens which promises to bring fans even more excitement both on and off the field.”.