If you've never watched Sevens rugby, you owe it to yourself to watch.

Each match lasts only ~15 minutes, there is a ton of sprinting and scoring and very little dead time.

The World Cup is interesting, no pool play, just 8 play in games, then 8 first round games, then sorted in to three mini tournaments:



The first 8 matches should be mostly blowouts, but it will be competitive from there on out.

Fiji are the favorites, around +120, while New Zealand and South Africa are the next two best sides.

USA has a shot at 8-1 and has home field advantage (it's being held at AT&T Park in SF). Really exciting team to watch, they have the two fastest players in rugby, Perry Baker and Carlin Isles, as well as a couple bruisers. They've been improving every year and got a pretty decent draw here. Should be favorites over Ireland and a flip against England if we win.

Australia, England and the US are all pretty close, with Scotland, Ireland, Argentina, France a cut below.

If you're looking for an exciting underdog, Kenya is awesome to root for. Their fans just party the entire time and they play a pretty fun style and IMO have a better shot than their 66-1 odds.

Chile/Ireland was awesome

Missed Canada/PNG, the rest were snoozers

Second round starts tonight, USA plays Ireland at 9:35 PST

You just like the tourney because it has a bunch of 8s in it?

racist ban

Tonight's matches:

7:03 PST Kenya -2.5 Scotland
7:25 PST Argentina -5.5 Canada
7:47 PST Australia -5.5 France
8:09 PST England -9.5 Samoa
8:31 PST NZ -22.5 Russia
8:53 PST Fiji -30.5 Japan
9:15 PST South Africa -20.5 Ireland
9:37 PST USA -14.5 Wales

On Kenya ml, Australia, England, NZ and Japan

Let's gooo USA

In for Carlin Isles.

#12 on USA women is a ****ing tank

Holy **** you guys

Kenya up 26-0 with like 5 minutes left, Scotland scores 3 times to make it 26-19, then Kenya gets 2 men sent off, Scotland scores in the corner as time runs out, manages to hit the difficult conversion to tie 26-26.

Then, you still kick off b/c they scored with a few seconds left, Scotland recovers and rams it in for the win so sick

As a living legend said, "Lotta action. So sick."

Japan / Fiji is ****ing wild

what % of Fijian men play international rugby for some nation? Gotta be like 75%

Gonna need some explanation for that "eyeglasses" celebration.

Chile look better than they have any right to be as a south american country without any 15s heritage. Some great counter rucking and passing interplay in that game v Tonga

I've never met anyone who enjoys life more than a Kenyan rugby sevens fan

The NBA could learn from this. Make it 2v2, eliminate all the fouls that make it unwatchable, cut the game to two minutes and anyone who scored three times in a row is set on fire

And eliminate the 10 timeouts per team.

South Africa seems good

No clue what Scotland are trying to do with this 7s team. In the past we've used it to blood young players who are likely to be a force in 15s yet now they're fielding Jack Cuthbert who was an up and coming talent ten years ago and is now over the hill without much 7s experience. They looked terrible in every aspect of this game. Some of the tackling was woeful.

Fijian rugby sevens should be classed as an aphrodesiac.

Why isn't this beautiful game more popular on TV. It's so watchable compared to the snoozefest's of other major sports. The US/NZL ladies yesterday was an amazing match.

Was England-USA as good a match as it seems?

Maybe it is coming home after all.

They were about to fight! Instead, they didn't.

More anthem time than game time.

Chile was easily the biggest surprise for me. Don't get to see them much on the regular tour, and they had like 2 balding dudes and a guy who was 5 feet tall but they played pretty awesomely together and looked really solid.

France looked better than I thought too

No idea. It's unbelievably fun to play too, and really easy to pick up.

Definitely one of the better matches of the tournament. England's try in extra time was a heartbreaker, but near perfect execution.

USA/Argentina on the other hand... :/