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The Rugby World Cup Sevens goes a year from now in San Francisco.

Monday afternoon Pacific Time, a schedule format was discovered live on the tournament website — but with no fanfare which prompted some confusion.

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The first thing everyone noticed was there didn’t appear to be an groups; just knockout games. However, references elsewhere on the site suggest the format is to be six pools of four teams, as one would expect in a 24-team men’s tournament.

USA coach Mike Friday expressed bafflement on Twitter after the apparent draw was revelead: “So in theory to win the RWC7’s you could only have to win 3 games…who has come up with that and who was consulted?” (It’s actually four games for a seeded team to win, but you get the point. A normal tournament sees the champions play six games)

Friday said he hadn’t been consulted and was looking to find out who came up with this proposed schedule.