Welcome to New York! On behalf of Metropolitan New York Rugby Union’s Host Committee, I am happy to welcome you to Emirates Airline USA Rugby All-Star Sevens, held in New York for the second straight year.
The Tournament
Opening Ceremonies to be at 9:40 am on Saturday, featuring renown opera singer Stephen Gaertner singing the national anthem. The match schedule will be posted shortly but matches will start at approximately 10 am Saturday and run all day until approximately 5 pm. Matches resume on Sunday at approximately 9:40 and run all day with short breaks until the womens and mens finals at 2:00 and 2:30 pm respectively. The afterparty is at Papillion Bistro, East 54th St between 5th and Madison from 4:3o0 onwards.
The Venue and Facilities
The competition will be held on new high-quality artificial turf fields on Randall’s Island Both the match field and a warm-up field are dedicated to the tournament all day on Saturday August 28th and Sunday the 29th. Information about the facilities is posted here. There will be bleachers, tents for players, officials and VIPs, portajohns, food service including beer and wine, a videotaping service, athletic trainers and medical professionals on site, event T Shirts for sale, and a concession with merchandise and information about USA Sevens in Las Vegas 2011. We hope to repeat last year’s arrangements for laundry service and ice baths for competitors.
SCHEDULE
| 7s All Stars Championships – August 26-28, 2010 | |||||||
| Date | Time | Team | Score | Team | Score | Competition | Report |
| 8/26/10 | 11:00 AM | MARFU | 21 | USA Devel. | 7 | Pool Play | Link |
| 8/26/10 | 11:20 AM | South | 15 | West | 12 | Pool Play | Link |
| 8/26/10 | 11:40 AM | NRU | 20 | Pacific | 0 | Pool Play | Link |
| 8/26/10 | 12:00 PM | Midwest | 22 | SoCal | 17 | Pool Play | Link |
| 8/26/10 | 1:40 PM | MARFU | 15 | South | 10 | Pool Play | Link |
| 8/26/10 | 2:00 PM | USA Devel. | 22 | West | 0 | Pool Play | Link |
| 8/26/10 | 2:00 PM | USA Devel. | 22 | West | 0 | Pool Play | Link |
| 8/26/10 | 2:20 PM | NRU | 20 | Midwest | 5 | Pool Play | Link |
| 8/26/10 | 2:40 PM | Pacific | 20 | SoCal | 5 | Pool Play | Link |
| 8/26/10 | 4:20 PM | MARFU | 29 | West | 0 | Pool Play | Link |
| 8/26/10 | 4:40 PM | South | 20 | USA Devel. | 7 | Pool Play | Link |
| 8/26/10 | 5:00 PM | NRU | 30 | SoCal | 5 | Pool Play | Link |
| 8/26/10 | 5:20 PM | Midwest | 0 | Pacific | 10 | Pool Play | Link |
| Date | Time | Team | Score | Team | Score | Competition | Report |
| 8/28/10 | 10:00 AM | MIdwest | 15 | West | 5 | Bowl Semi | Link |
| 8/28/10 | 10:20 AM | SoCal | 0 | USA Devl. | 0 | Bowl Semi | Link |
| 8/28/10 | 10:40 AM | Pacific | 0 | MARFU | 17 | Cup/Plate Semi | Link |
| 8/28/10 | 11:00 AM | NRU | 5 | South | 22 | Cup/Plate Semi | Link |
| 8/28/10 | 12:40 PM | West | 15 | SoCal | 10 | 7/8/2011 | Link |
| 8/28/10 | 1:00 PM | MidWest | 0 | USA Devl. | 12 | Bowl Final | Link |
| 8/28/10 | 1:40 PM | NRU | 15 | Pacific | 0 | Plate Final | Link |
| 8/28/10 | 14:40:00 | MARFU | 24 | South | 0 | Cup Final | Link |
Please join me in thanking the members of our incredibly hard-working Host Committee, who have all contributed countless hours towards this weekend’s success. We would especially like to thank Emirates Airline, Gilbert, World Rugby Shop and Canterbury and Opro for their support of USA Rugby. We also heartily thank the following organizations for their loyal support of this event:
- Village Lions RFC
- Old Blue RFC
- Gotham Knights RFC
- New York Rugby Club
We hope you enjoy your visit to New York and look forward to hosting USA Rugby and its All Stars in future.
Metropolitan New York Rugby Football Union, Inc.
Toby Butterfield, Met NY President
Watch the matches LIVE at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/usa-rugby
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For anyone who is interested, photos from the All-Star Sevens tournament are posted at http://www.brownhoundphotos.com
(We were the official photographers for the tournament.)
There are almost 700 photos of both the men’s and women’s teams in action.