2017 World Rugby Pacific Challenge | |
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Countries |
Fiji (1 team) Japan (1 team) Samoa (1 team) Tonga (1 team) |
Date | 10–18 March 2017 |
Champions | Fiji |
Runners-up | Japan |
Matches played | 6 |
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The 2017 Pacific Challenge was the twelfth World Rugby Pacific Challenge. Four teams featured in the tournament which was hosted in Fiji. The format was a round-robin competition without additional finals play-off matches. The hosts Fiji Warriors finished the tournament undefeated to claim the title, with Junior Japan as runner-up.
Following the announcement of World Rugby's global law trials which began on 1 January 2017 in the southern hemisphere, World Rugby Pacific Challenge in 2017 incorporated several law variations focused around the scrum and ruck areas. These were:
The four teams competing were:
Source: rugbyarchive.net