Rugby World Cup Sevens in San Francisco July 20-22. I have an extra ticket for all sessions.

[Roar More]

Anybody interested?

 

[Ranger Dan]

Sounds like a great time. I admire the sport and watch now and then. I’d like to see something like this, but maybe I should see some local games in person before I fly 3000 miles for a long weekend without the wife.

 

[Roar More]

Sounds like a great time. I admire the sport and watch now and then. I’d like to see something like this, but maybe I should see some local games in person before I fly 3000 miles for a long weekend without the wife.

A number of games will be televised by NBC sports channel.

 

[UncleLar]

Penn State sophomore Kayla Canett starts for the Women's Seven team. Fellow Penn Stater Hope Rogers (team MVP on PSU's 2013, 2014 national champions) is in the player pool but hasn't been playing.

 

[Roar More]

Penn State sophomore Kayla Canett starts for the Women's Seven team. Fellow Penn Stater Hope Rogers (team MVP on PSU's 2013, 2014 national champions) is in the player pool but hasn't been playing.

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Thanks for the info, Unc. Sounds like one more reason to wear PSU gear. Happy to see she is wearing Lavar's number

 

[UncleLar]

Thanks for the info, Unc. Sounds like one more reason to wear PSU gear. Happy to see she is wearing Lavar's number

Just for the record, that video was from Penn State's national championship this past spring. Not sure what number Kayla wears for the Women's Eagles Sevens.

BTW - here's a great video of a play hat Hope Rogers made against England this past spring in Sydney. Rogers was playing for the Sevens then, but didn't play during the recent action in Paris where Kayla competed. We'll have to wait and see if either, or both, are on the World Cup roster.

 

[anon_1eeb2b426hv3y]

Just for the record, that video was from Penn State's national championship this past spring. Not sure what number Kayla wears for the Women's Eagles Sevens.

BTW - here's a great video of a play hat Hope Rogers made against England this past spring in Sydney. Rogers was playing for the Sevens then, but didn't play during the recent action in Paris where Kayla competed. We'll have to wait and see if either, or both, are on the World Cup roster.

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Looking at those stadium seats, I'm guessing there are a LOT of extra tickets floating around. Almost looks like they aren't offering $1 tickets at the local gas station/hot dog shop or free drinks to anyone who stays for the entire game.

 

[palmettolion]

Rugby Sevens has easily become my 3rd favorite sport on TV, behind college football and wrestling. Faster pace(compared to normal rugby), no commercial breaks, fast restarts after a tackle and constant action. Wish it was on TV more often.

 

[Roar More]

Rugby Sevens has easily become my 3rd favorite sport on TV, behind college football and wrestling. Faster pace(compared to normal rugby), no commercial breaks, fast restarts after a tackle and constant action. Wish it was on TV more often.

I got hooked during the Olympics. Fast paced and wide open. Two seven minute halves per game and a single elimination tournament over three days. I highly suggest taking in some of the televised games. I would be interested in hearing the views of our board community.

 

[UncleLar]

Looking at those stadium seats, I'm guessing there are a LOT of extra tickets floating around. Almost looks like they aren't offering $1 tickets at the local gas station/hot dog shop or free drinks to anyone who stays for the entire game.

Well that was played in Sydney Australia so I don't know that it has any relevance to what attendance will be like in San Francisco. That said, even though Rugby has greater popularity in California than anywhere else in the US, I don't expect tickets to be all that hard to get.

 

[anon_1eeb2b426hv3y]

Well that was played in Sydney Australia so I don't know that it has any relevance to what attendance will be like in San Francisco. That said, even though Rugby has greater popularity in California than anywhere else in the US, I don't expect tickets to be all that hard to get.

Maybe it has greater popularity in CA than anywhere in the US (and we're plenty willing to pay $$ to attend all sorts of events). But if its barren in Sydney, where women's rugby is way more popular in terms of players per million (see below), I'd say that is at least relevant.

http://www.scrumqueens.com/features/worldwide-popularity-women’s-rugby-2016

I hope it's a great time and a successful tourney.

 

[UncleLar]

Maybe it has greater popularity in CA than anywhere in the US (and we're plenty willing to pay $$ to attend all sorts of events). But if its barren in Sydney, where women's rugby is way more popular in terms of players per million (see below), I'd say that is at least relevant.

http://www.scrumqueens.com/features/worldwide-popularity-women’s-rugby-2016

I hope it's a great time and a successful tourney.

I don't think the tournament is going to draw all that well but there's plenty wrong with your comparison.

1. You are evaluating attendance at a meaningless game between two different countries (England and the US) a half a globe distant from the venue where they were playing (Sydney Australia). Is it the least bit surprising that few Aussies showed up for the match.
2. You are comparing spectating with participating. They aren't the same. Baseball is a more popular participating sport than football but it certainly isn't for for spectating..
3. The sports you are comparing, while related, are different. Rugby sevens is different than rugby union, much like seven on seven football is different than gridiron football. The participation stats that you pulled up are for rugby union. When the Rugby Union World Cup was held in Australia, it drew quite well (over 2,000,000 fans with stadiums at 83% capacity). Rugby sevens though is new. It doesn't draw all that well in the usual rugby countries, but it does draw OK in the US (at least it does in the Penn Mutual Collegiate Championship run in Philadelphia, in a good part due to promotion by NBC). Will it draw in San Fran? Who knows.
4. The event in San Francisco is the World Cup. The game in Sydney was just a normal tournament. Many championships draw well even if individual competitions don't.
5. The Sevens World Cup consists of both men's and women's teams. In most sports, there is significant difference in attendance at men's games verses women's games.

By no means am I suggesting that the tournament is going to draw well. I just think that empty stands in a women's non championship England vs US match in Sydney Australia has zero correlation with overall attendance at a World Cup tournament on the other side of the globe. If nobody showed up for a women's soccer match between Latvia and Senegal in Spokane Washington last spring, would that suggest that attendance for the men's World Cup in soccer in Russia was likely in jeopardy this summer? I don't think so.

 

[anon_1eeb2b426hv3y]

I don't think the tournament is going to draw all that well but there's plenty wrong with your comparison.

1. You are evaluating attendance at a meaningless game between two different countries (England and the US) a half a globe distant from the venue where they were playing (Sydney Australia). Is it the least bit surprising that few Aussies showed up for the match.
2. You are comparing spectating with participating. They aren't the same. Baseball is a more popular participating sport than football but it certainly isn't for for spectating..
3. The sports you are comparing, while related, are different. Rugby sevens is different than rugby union, much like seven on seven football is different than gridiron football. The participation stats that you pulled up are for rugby union. When the Rugby Union World Cup was held in Australia, it drew quite well (over 2,000,000 fans with stadiums at 83% capacity). Rugby sevens though is new. It doesn't draw all that well in the usual rugby countries, but it does draw OK in the US (at least it does in the Penn Mutual Collegiate Championship run in Philadelphia, in a good part due to promotion by NBC). Will it draw in San Fran? Who knows.
4. The event in San Francisco is the World Cup. The game in Sydney was just a normal tournament. Many championships draw well even if individual competitions don't.
5. The Sevens World Cup consists of both men's and women's teams. In most sports, there is significant difference in attendance at men's games verses women's games.

By no means am I suggesting that the tournament is going to draw well. I just think that empty stands in a women's non championship England vs US match in Sydney Australia has zero correlation with overall attendance at a World Cup tournament on the other side of the globe. If nobody showed up for a women's soccer match between Latvia and Senegal in Spokane Washington last spring, would that suggest that attendance for the men's World Cup in soccer in Russia was likely in jeopardy this summer? I don't think so.

You win.

Neither of us expect the tournament to draw well. But it won’t be for the factors I incorrectly assumed would be relevant to the why.

 

[Roar More]

An entire game lasts maybe 15 minutes, so nobody attends just one game. They are tournament settings

 

[UncleLar]

That's a valid point.

 

[N&B4PSU]

I presume this means going to San Francisco? Ouch. Even for a good cause I'm gonna say... pass.

Reminds me football season is not far away and the RPO is gearing up...