Silicon Valley Sevens


The 2017 Silicon Valley Sevens was a one-time international Rugby sevens competition held in San Jose, California at the Avaya Stadium on November 4th and 5th, 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.

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. The pools were scheduled as follows:

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

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Knockout stage

Bowl

Matches

Bowl Semifinals
Eleventh Place
Final

Fifth place

Matches

Semifinals
Seventh Place
Final

Cup

Matches

Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Third Place

Tournament placings

PlaceTeam
4
5
6

PlaceTeam
7
8
9
10
11
12

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Players

Scoring leaders

RankPlayerTries
1 Edward Jenkins7
1 Maurice Longbottom7
3 Stephen Tomasin6
4 Banjamin De Vits5
5 Lachlan Anderson4
5 Liam Underwood4
5 Changshun Shan4
5 Yoshihiro Noguchi4
5 Mason Emerson4
5 Jacobe Ale4
5 Ben Pinkelman4
5 Kevon Williams4
5 Martin Iosefo4

RankPlayerPoints
1 Edward Jenkins35
1 Maurice Longbottom35
3 Nocenieli Batine33
4 Michael Shinomiya32
4 Stephen Tomasin32

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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.
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Teams

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Competition

All times in Pacific Standard Time.

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

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Tournament placings

PlaceTeamRecord
Central Washington4–0
2Arizona3–2
3San Diego State3–2
4Cal Poly Pomona2–2

PlaceTeamRecord
5UC Davis1–2
5USC1–2
7Santa Clara0–2
7Stanford0–2

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