Nassau, Bahamas - In one of the biggest and most prestigious events ever for Bahamas Rugby, Winton Rugby Field hosts more than 18 international sevens teams playing in the Men's and Women's Rugby Sevens World Cup Qualifier: The Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Canada, Cayman Islands, Guyana, Jamaica, Mexico, St Vincent & The Grenadines, Trinidad & Tobago and The United States. The games are set to take place in Nassau on October 25th and 26th.

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The USA and Canada will be favourites to take North America’s two places in the inaugural Rugby World Cup Sevens women’s competition, but they will not underestimate the threat posed by the likes of reigning Caribbean champions Jamaica along with Guyana and Trinidad & Tobago.

The Women’s Eagles will face Barbados and St Vincent & The Grenadines in Pool A on day one, while Canada have been drawn in Pool B with Cayman Islands, who will be making their Sevens debuts on the international stage, and Trinidad & Tobago.

Pool C is headed by Jamaica and also features Guyana and Bermuda, who will create their own piece of history at the qualifier in Nassau by playing their first ever women’s international match in either fifteens or Sevens.

The competition will follow the same format as the men’s event on day two, although the three sides who fail to progress to the Cup pools will play each other twice in the round robin Plate.

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