Vancouver has made the cut in the slimmed-down HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series, rebranded as HSBC SVNS. The revamped competition features eight events, each offering men's and women's play.
Last season's Seven Series consisted of 11 men's and seven women's events. All the women's competition took place in tandem with stops on the men's circuit.
The new-look schedule begins Dec. 2-3 in Dubai followed by stops in Cape Town (Dec. 9-10), Perth, Australia (Jan. 26-28), Vancouver (Feb.
23-25), Los Angeles (March 2-3), Hong Kong (April 5-7), Singapore (May 3-5) and Madrid (May 31-June 2). That means no events in London, Sydney (Australia), Hamilton (New Zealand) and Toulouse (France) all of which hosted stops last season.
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