Tickets for HSBC SVNS Perth go on sale now
Tickets go on sale today for the inaugural HSBC SVNS series in Perth as Western Australia welcomes the world’s best sevens rugby players on 26-28 January 2024.
The three-day event takes place at HBF Park and is set to feature the best 12 men’s and 12 women’s rugby sevens teams and will be the third of eight events of the reimagined HSBC SVNS series.
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World Rugby’s revamped and rebranded global celebration of sevens kick starts a thrilling year for the sport gearing up towards the Olympic Games Paris 2024.
HSBC SVNS PER is set to host an electrifying spectacle over three thrilling days of competition, with the likes of the Aussie sevens men’s and women’s teams, Olympic champions Fiji, perennial favourites South Africa, Samoa, USA and the formidable New Zealand All Blacks Sevens all taking part.
With a bold ambition to supercharge rugby’s global reach and appeal by being more accessible to younger, leisure-hungry audiences, HSBC SVNS PER will deliver the ultimate in immersive experiences – a unique festival of sport, entertainment and culture set against the stunning backdrop of Western Australia.
Tickets are available from as little as AUD$35, providing a day of world class rugby, plus access to the Bathers bar, food markets and all day live music.
For those seeking a more premium and exclusive setting, next level hospitality experiences feature a fast-track entrance into the stadium, premium food and drink, a full programme of fun and entertainment in private lounges and the best seats in the house.
Ready to bring the party down-under! 🏉🇦🇺
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Located in the heart of Perth, the capital of Western Australia – a famed travel destination with a globally renowned record in hosting cultural and sporting events – HBF Park is Perth’s premier rectangular stadium providing world class sporting and concert events to all fans.
Recently upgraded ahead of hosting the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, HBF Park has hosted several major music concerts including Ed Sheeran, Justin Bieber, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Elton John and is the home of Perth Glory and Western Force.
With less than one year until the Olympic Games Paris 2024 gets underway, the action will be intense from start to finish with World Rugby’s revamped competition formula set to provide rugby sevens fans with even more excitement, jeopardy and entertainment.
Under the new model, the HSBC SVNS series features seven regular season events plus a Grand Final. The top eight placed teams based on cumulative series points will secure their opportunity to compete in the new ‘winner takes all’ Grand Final in Madrid, where the women’s and men’s HSBC SVNS champions will be crowned.
Madrid will also play host to the high stakes relegation play-off competition where teams ranked ninth to 12th will join the top four teams from the World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series, with the top four placed teams securing their place on HSBC SVNS 2025.
“We are excited for tickets to go on sale this week for the highly anticipated Australian leg of HSBC SVNS, with teams, athletes and fans looking forward to experiencing Perth as a world-class city, sport hub and global destination,” says World Rugby Sevens General Manager, Sam Pinder.
“HSBC SVNS PER will bring together a truly immersive festival of rugby, food, music and experiences to create the ultimate weekend-long get together for young people and will undoubtedly be the hottest ticket in town to kick off a busy and exciting year in 2024.”
World Rugby and Tourism Western Australia acknowledge the traditional custodians throughout Western Australia and their continuing connection to the land, waters and culture. We pay our respects to all Aboriginal peoples; Elders past, present and emerging.
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IRB 7s CURCUIT;
Hopefully the IRB WR 7s rugby circuit RE imagine their format even more and change the way they format their games soon, so all the top teams play each other often. Otherwise why watch the 7s IRB rugby circuit when it’s not a real competition. Especially when the IRBS 7s format usually means only the top teams can win this bias tournament, which makes the IRB 7s circuit very boring!
Presently the IRB champions aren’t the real champions as a team of champions beats a big pool of teams at every IRB circuit, that aren't necessarily the teams that make final. Making the comp worth watching because presently winning on the IRB circuit depends on who you play. Making the game a shame not a game!
By having all of their IRB 7s series top 12 teams put in TWO pools of six teams, ranked in each pool from the previous IRB sevens ladder standings. POOL ONE 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11: POOL TWO 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12:
Would create a real competition as then all the IRB circuit teams would regularly play each other. Then have the top two teams from each pool after their round robin of 30 games play in the semis for the bronze Final and the big FINAL. Which still takes seven games to the win the Final, but is very competitive spectator wise. Which is 63/4 competitive games spread over three days.
Or 128 games in the men’s and women’s divisions held over 3 days, which should be accomplishable. With 14 manned squads for nutrition and two or three rugby fields at each location?
And by having the bottom four teams after the IRB circuit having to challenge the top two teams from the challenging series. Would create a pool of 6 teams playing in a round robin or three to make the top four as core teams. To RE merge with the IRBs top 8 IRB teams for the next years IRB circuit. Giving the new challenging teams ‘time’ to develop their game!
They also need to evolve the rules of the game to speed the game up a heap to save time to score more tries, the games have become predictable and boring!
Making the 7s IRB circuit very good to watch that would eventually pay for itself, ‘you’d think!
MENS POOLS:
POOL ONE;-----------------POOL TWO;
1st NEW ZEALAND------------------2nd ARGENTINA
3rd FRANCE---------------------------4th FIJI 5th AUSTRALIA-----------------------6th SAMOA
7th SOUTH AFRICA------------------8th IRELAND 9th USA---------------------------------10th GREAT BRITIAN
11th SPAIN----------------------------12th CANADA
WOMEN’S POOLS
POOL ONE;-----------------POOL TWO;
1st NEW ZEALAND------------------2nd AUSTRALIA 3rd USA--------------------------------4th FRANCE
5th IRELAND-------------------------6th FIJI
7th GREAT BRTIAN-----------------8th JAPAN
9th CANADA-------------------------10th SPAIN 11th BRAZIL-------------------------12TH CHINA
By Adopting these five 7s rugby ELVS would mean all the squads on the 7s rugby IRB circuit could win a tournament or two. And would stop the IRB circuit’s predictable boring outcomes?
Who wants to watch a one-sided comp where many squads can’t win it because of its rules? What are ELVs for. These rules would speed the game up and improve its spectacle dramatically. In the order they’re in?
The IRB sevens squads need to have 14 in their squads to have a seven manned bench to help rehydrate the team if these five 7s EVLs were used?
1/ Seven points awarded for a try under the posts, would save a lot of time, to get more tries.
2/ Use the drop goal-line drop-out. Which should already be a law as it’s very hard in sevens rugby to hold a player up over the goal-line, and that type of defence deserves a break. To get to kick the ball away from their goal-line!
3/ All conversions to be taken by the person who scored the try, even if it’s a forward because a scrubbed conversion by a forward would create plenty of time for an extra try or six. Making it far easier to get six quick unconverted tries to win, than to get 4 converted tries to ‘WIN’ a game.
4/ Having one-minute yellow cards for all deliberate knocks-ons and for some cynical game momentum changing fouls, that stops a try from being scored. Would suit any team as having two-minute ‘yellow cards’ is far too long and destroys the games spectacle.
5/ Having two-minute replacement red cards” for dangerous play, and put that player on TMO ‘RE view for a game or for a few game suspensions.