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The Shanghai Sevens, announced last month with some fanfare, is apparently off for 2017.

Multiple sources confirm the event, which was supposed to run this coming October, won’t actually happen until 2018.

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That’s disappointing: the event was almost certain to provide some serious thrills. The best eight men’s teams in the world were going to play for a big cash prize in Shanghai.

But a new tournament has emerged, and just in time.

The Silicon Valley 7swill run at Avaya Stadium in San Jose, Nov. 4-5 and will feature a dozen teams.

Fiji, Japan, Australia, Canada, Chile, China, England, Ireland, New Zealand, Samoa and Tonga will join the host USA for the tournament. Six of those teams were in the top eight of the 2016-17 World Rugby Sevens Series; of the other six, only Samoa and Japan were regulars on last year’s series. Japan was relegated at the end of the year, a big disappointment given their fourth-place finish at last year’s Rio Olympics.