Host nation Canada | Date 11–12 March 2017 | |
The 2017 Canada Sevens will be the second edition of the Canada Sevens tournament, and the sixth tournament of the 2016–17 World Rugby Sevens Series. The tournament will be played on 11–12 March 2017 at BC Place in Vancouver, BC.
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Format
Sixteen teams are drawn into four pools of four teams each. Each team plays each of the other teams their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advance to the Cup/Plate brackets. The bottom two teams from each group go to the Bowl/Shield brackets.
Teams
The tournament will consist of the fifteen core teams plus Chile, who qualified by finishing as the best ranked non-core team of the 2017 Sudamérica Rugby Sevens.
References
2017 Canada Sevens Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA