The USA leg of the iRB HSBC Sevens World Series Day One 8 February 2013 in Las Vegas, threw up quite a few surprises.
First up and England cannot progress to the Cup as they fell back to earth with a bump. Losing to both Fiji and Portugal. Kenya also had a bad start losing to Canada and must now beat South Africa to be sure to reach the Cup quarters. The other surprise results were Argentina going down to Wales and Australia Spain. So we have four sides confirmed into the quarters and they are Fiji, South Africa, New Zealand and Samoa.
Here are all the day one results and we called 5 wrong:
Results Pools Day One
01. 08 Feb 16:00 England 17-26 Fiji Pool A
02. 08 Feb 16:22 Scotland 12-10 Portugal Pool A
03. 08 Feb 16:44 Kenya 12-19 Canada Pool B
04. 08 Feb 17:06 South Africa 45-0 Uruguay Pool B
05. 08 Feb 17:28 New Zealand 21-0 France Pool C
06. 08 Feb 17:50 Argentina 7-17 Wales Pool C
07. 08 Feb 18:12 Samoa 19-12 Spain Pool D
08. 08 Feb 18:34 Australia 26-7 United States Pool D
09. 08 Feb 18:56 England 5-21 Portugal Pool A
10. 08 Feb 19:18 Scotland 12-14 Fiji Pool A
11. 08 Feb 19:40 Kenya 12-7 Uruguay Pool B
12. 08 Feb 20:02 South Africa 17-5 Canada Pool B
13. 08 Feb 20:24 New Zealand 40-5 Wales Pool C
14. 08 Feb 20:46 Argentina 14-12 France Pool C
15. 08 Feb 21:08 Australia 14-24 Spain Pool D
16. 08 Feb 21:30 Samoa 12-7 United States Pool D
Day two and Portugal and Scotland will be hoping for an upset to proceed, Do not expect England to help the old enemy. Kenya must look to beat South Africa to get through. If France beat Wales Argentina could still get through and Spain could spoil things for Australia unless they can beat Samoa. Great to have so much down to the wire. Pick in bold:
Pool Fixtures Day two
17. 09 Feb 12:00 Fiji v Portugal Pool A
18. 09 Feb 12:22 Canada v Uruguay Pool B
19. 09 Feb 12:44 France v Wales Pool C
20. 09 Feb 13:06 Samoa v Australia Pool D
21. 09 Feb 13:28 England v Scotland Pool A
22. 09 Feb 13:50 Kenya v South Africa Pool B
23. 09 Feb 14:12 New Zealand v Argentina Pool C
24. 09 Feb 14:34 Spain v United States Pool D