The fourth and final Million Pound Game in the event’s short-lived history will be arguably the most cosmopolitan and interesting, as Toronto Wolfpack host London Broncos in Canada next weekend to determine the 12th and final participant in Super League next season.

This has been a heartening year for rugby league expansionists, with Catalans Dragons becoming the first non-English winners of the Challenge Cup in the sport’s 123-year history. On Sunday the Wolfpack, formed two years ago, face the Broncos to determine who replaces Widnes in Super League in 2019.

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Toronto started Sunday in one of the Qualifiers’ three automatic promotion places but knew if Hull KR beat Widnes by 14 points or more they would be forced to go through the play‑off of fourth versus fifth. It was clear early on that would be Toronto’s fate, with the Robins beating the relegated Vikings 30-0.

Danny McGuire has been instrumental in Hull KR’s attempts to survive in their first season back in Super League, and here the half-back had a hand in three tries which put them 20-0 up by half-time against a Widnes side who exit Super League having not beaten a top-flight team since April.

It means Hull KR join Leeds and Salford as the three Qualifiers sides guaranteed top-flight rugby in 2019, with Super League now shifting its focus to the play-offs this week. The runaway league leaders, St Helens, head into the semi-finals favourites to become champions for a seventh time – they host Warrington in the first play-off game on Thursday.

On Friday second-placed Wigan welcome third-placed Castleford, who will be aiming to reach the Grand Final for a second successive year. The Warriors begin that game favourites, though, having won their past seven games on the run-in to the play-offs, as they aim to send their long-serving coach, Shaun Wane, out with another title before he departs for Scottish rugby union.

The winners meet at Old Trafford on Saturday 13 October, before British rugby league again revamps its domestic structure over the winter.