The 2018 Paris Sevens will be the final stop on the 2017/18 HSBC World Sevens Series. The grand finale of this season will be held at the iconic Stade Jean Bouin from the June 9-10. It will be held concurrently, beside the Women’s competition which begins on Friday.
It will be another great weekend, as have all nine previous tournaments on the World Series circuit. Yet Fiji and South Africa will fight for the series crown, as those two teams have the highest points going into this deciding final round.
The South Seas islanders have a seven point advantage over the Blitzboks. It means, for Fiji to win back the crown, they will need to just finish in third place; that’s if the Boks win in Paris. Fiji finishes any lower though, then South Africa could go back-to-back – but that is aside from the point.
Winning in France, that is the goal. It might be a ‘showdown’ between the number one and two teams, but all men’s teams who run out on Saturday will be doing the same. Aiming to end the regular season on a high.
With that known, with the scenario of who could finish as the top ranked side after the 2018 Paris Sevens, it is up to the collective strengths of each of the 16 teams to reach deep within.
Like the main picture illustrates, in 2016/17 it was the season that South Africa ‘aced’. They finished the series in style. So the real question is, can Fiji complete the task? Can they show that recent form is a consistent level? [like many have presumed].
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