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2017 Americas Rugby Championship

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Matches played
  
9

Top scorer(s)
  
Ben Cima (36)

Tries scored
  
57 (6.33 per match)

Date
  
4 February – 4 March 2017

Countries
  
Argentina XV  Brazil  Canada  Chile  United States  Uruguay

Attendance
  
34,338 (3,815 per match)

The 2017 Americas Rugby Championship will be the second series of the Americas Rugby Championship (sometimes informally called the "Americas Six Nations", a reference to Europe's Six Nations Championship), which is the top elite tournament for the Americas nations. It will be contested by Argentina XV (Argentina's secondary national team), Canada, United States, Uruguay, Brazil, and Chile. All matches will be full international test matches with caps awarded, including for Argentina XV players and their opponents, but Argentina XV matches will not count to World Rankings for either team.

Contents

Fixtures

The tournament will be played in a round-robin format, with each team playing the five others once. The fixtures were announced on 6 September 2016.

Week One

Notes:

  • This was Brazil's first victory over Chile since 2014, and their largest margin of victory over Chile in their history.
  • Josh Reeves and De Wet van Niekerk made their international debuts for Brazil.
  • Vittorio Lastra, Nicanor Machuca, Gonzalo Martínez and Franco Velarde made their international debuts for Chile.

    • Notes:

  • Ben Cima, Matthew Jensen, Will Magie, Peter Malcolm, Alex Maughan and Dino Waldren made their international debuts for the United States.
  • Francisco Berchesi, Felipe Inciarte, Rodolfo Garese and Diego Pombo made their international debuts for Uruguay.

    • Notes:

  • Spike Davis and Peter Tiberio made their international debuts for the United States.

    • Notes:

  • This was Canada's 100th test victory.
  • Martín Mendoza and Arturo Seeman made their international debuts for Chile.
  • George Barton, Matt Beukeboom, Giuseppe Du Toit, Cole Keith, Conor Keys, Oliver Nott, Reegan O'Gorman and Robbie Povey made their international debuts for Canada.

    • Notes:

  • Matheus Rocha, Ariel Rodrigues and Endy Willian made their international debuts for Brazil.
  • Manuel Diana and Lorenzo Surraco made their international debuts for Uruguay.

    • Notes:

  • Lucas Albornoz made his international debut for Canada.
  • Siaosi Mahoni made his international debut for the United States.
  • The 51 points scored by the United States are the most pointed conceded by Canada on home soil against the Eagles.

    • Week Four

    Notes:

  • Andrew Turner and Calvin Whiting made their international debuts for the United States.

    • Notes:

  • Kainoa Lloyd made his international debut for Canada.
  • This was Uruguay' largest winning margin over Canada, surpassing their only ever other victory of Canada (25–23) set in 2002.

    • Statistics

    Updated through Week 3

    References

    2017 Americas Rugby Championship Wikipedia
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