Blitzboks: Sevens World Championship fixtures
The Blitzboks will be hoping to fare better in the winner-takes-all World Championship in Los Angeles this weekend than they did in Sevens Series league campaign.
The Blitzboks finished as one of the top eight men's teams at the end of the Singapore event [which took place at the start of April], and will head into the winner-takes-all World Championship in Los Angeles on 3-4 May at Dignity Health Sports Park.
LA will also play host to the high stakes promotion and relegation play-off competition that sees the top four men's and women's teams from the Sevens Challenger join the bottom-four ranked teams in the Sevens Series standings at the end of the sixth round in Singapore to fight for the highly coveted places in future Sevens Series events.
Every single member in this current Blitzboks squad has been part of at least one career sevens tournament victory, something Philip Snyman feels can be replicated in the USA.
'This format, with only eight teams competing in two pools, is challenging, but we have beaten France, Great Britain and Argentina before this year, so I am confident that we will progress to the semi-finals on day two,' he said.
The Blitzbok coach said he has some game plans ready for the pool matches: 'We have a variety of combinations available, and I am looking at the best ones for each opponent.
'We had a poor match in our last outing against Great Britain, France remain a very competitive team and Argentina have just won the series, so it will be really challenging.
'Our record in the once-off tournaments has been good though and I know we leave Cape Town on Sunday well prepared and determined to finish the season with a performance that everyone can be proud of.'
Saturday, 3 May
21h12: Blitzboks vs France
Sunday, 4 May
00h13: Blitzboks vs Great Britain
03h45: Blitzboks vs Argentina
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