The 2018 New Zealand Sevens was the fourth tournament within the

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and the nineteenth edition of the

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, and the first to be held in

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. It was held over the weekend of 3–4 February 2017 at

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Format

The teams were drawn into four pools of four teams each, with each team playing every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advanced to the Cup/5th place brackets. The bottom two teams from each group went to the Challenge trophy/13th place brackets.

Teams

Fifteen core teams are participating in the tournament along with one invited team, the highest-placing non-core team of the

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, Papua New Guinea:

Pool stage

All times in

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Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Knockout stage

13th Place

Challenge Trophy

5th Place

Cup

Tournament placings

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Players

Scoring leaders

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World Rugby

Dream Team

The following seven players were selected to the tournament Dream Team at the conclusion of the tournament:

References

External links

Tournament Page
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