The 2017 Silicon Valley Sevens was a one-time international Rugby sevens competition held in San Jose, California, at the Avaya Stadium on November 4 and 5, 2017, produced and hosted by United World Sports. The tournament marked both the first such held on American soil outside of the USA Sevens and the first time the Ireland national rugby sevens team competed in the United States.
Competed alongside the international competition was the eight-team Penn Mutual Collegiate Rugby Fall Classic at Silicon Valley 7s . The first three teams announced were from the nearby universities of Stanford, Santa Clara, and USC. The collegiate competition was a double-elimination format and included schools from three different states (Arizona, California (6), and Washington).
Format The teams were drawn into three pools of four teams each. Each team plays every other team in their pool once. The top eight teams from pool play advanced to the Cup bracket. The bottom four teams go to the Bowl bracket.
Teams
Pool stage All times in Pacific Standard Time (UTC−08:00). The pools were scheduled as follows:
Pool A TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts32104131+10831114533+12631023646−10530122436−125
Pool B TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts33001127+105931118062+18631114765–186300310115−1053
Pool C TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts33008233+49932016029+31731024631+15530037102−953
Source: Rugby Today Source: SevensRugby.com
Knockout stage Bowl
MatchesBowl Semifinals
Eleventh Place
Final
Fifth place
MatchesSemifinals
Seventh Place
Final
Cup
MatchesQuarterfinals
Semifinals
Third Place
Final
Source: Rugby Today Source: Rugby Today
Tournament placings
PlaceTeam 4 5 6
PlaceTeam 789101112
Source: SevensRugby.com
Players
Scoring leaders
+Tries scored Rank Player Tries 1 Edward Jenkins 7 Maurice Longbottom 3 Stephen Tomasin 6 4 Banjamin De Vits 5 5 Lachlan Anderson 4 Liam Underwood Changshun Shan Yoshihiro Noguchi Mason Emerson Jacobe Ale Ben Pinkelman Kevon Williams Martin Iosefo
+Points scored Rank Player Points 1 Edward Jenkins 35 Maurice Longbottom 3 Nocenieli Batine 33 4 Michael Shinomiya 32 Stephen Tomasin
Source: SevensRugby.com
Dream Team The following seven players were selected to the tournament Dream Team at the conclusion of the tournament:
Maurice Longbottom Edwards Jenkins Banjamin De Vits Michael Shinomiya Ben Pinkelman Folau Niua Stephen Tomasin
Penn Mutual Silicon Valley 7s Fall Collegiate Classic Format The tournament was conducted under a double-elimination format. The winners of each first-round contest would continue in the winners' bracket and face the other winners from the first round. The two sides having won both their first and second matches advanced immediately to semifinal #1. The two sides having lost both their first and second matches were eliminated. And the four remaining sides to have posted 1–1 records through the first day of play advanced to compete in one of the two losers' bracket matchups on day 2. The winners of each of those losers' bracket contests competed against each other, with the winner advancing to play the loser of semifinal #1 in semifinal #2. The winner of semifinal #2 advanced to a winner-take-all final against the thus far undefeated winner of semifinal #1.
Source: Rugby Today
Teams
Source: Rugby Today
Competition
All times in Pacific Standard Time (UTC−08:00).
Round 1
Losers' Bracket Round 2
Winners' Bracket Round 2
Losers' Bracket Round 3
Winners' Bracket Semifinal
Losers' Bracket Round 4
Losers' Bracket Semifinal
Final
Source: Rugby Today Source: Flo Rugby
Tournament placings
PlaceTeam Record Central Washington 4–0 2Arizona 3–2 3San Diego State 3–2 4Cal Poly Pomona 2–2
PlaceTeam Record 5UC Davis 1–2USC 1–27Santa Clara 0–2Stanford 0–2
References
External links Tournament page