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00:02:31 1 History
00:02:40 1.1 International sevens
00:03:38 1.2 World Series early years
00:05:54 1.3 Olympic era and professionalism
00:09:13 2 Tournament hosts
00:10:13 3 Core teams, promotion and relegation
00:10:25 3.1 Core teams
00:11:40 3.2 Promotion and relegation
00:12:19 3.3 Other qualifying
00:12:56 4 Historical results
00:13:06 4.1 Results by season
00:13:15 4.2 Team records
00:13:29 5 Format
00:16:40 5.1 Hong Kong 7s
00:19:23 5.2 Points schedule
00:20:30 6 Business
00:20:39 6.1 TV and media
00:22:10 6.2 Sponsorship
00:23:08 7 Player awards by season
00:23:18 8 Player records
00:23:32 8.1 Tries
00:23:44 8.2 Points
00:23:57 8.3 Appearances



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SUMMARY
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The World Rugby Sevens Series is an annual series of international rugby sevens tournaments run by World Rugby featuring national sevens teams. The series, organised for the first time in the 1999–2000 season, was formed to develop an elite-level competition series between rugby nations and develop the sevens game into a viable commercial product for World Rugby. The competition was originally known as the IRB World Sevens Series, but has been known officially as the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series since 2014 due to sponsorship from banking group HSBC.The season's circuit consists of 10 tournaments that generally begin in November or December and last until May. The venues are held across 10 countries, and visits five of the six populated continents. The United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, France and England each host one event. Each tournament has 16 teams — 15 core teams that participate in each tournament and one regional qualifier.
Teams compete for the World Series title by accumulating points based on their finishing position in each tournament. The lowest placed core team at the end of the season is dropped, and replaced by the winner of the Hong Kong Sevens. New Zealand had originally dominated the Series, winning each of the first six seasons from 1999–2000 to 2004–05, but since then, Fiji, South Africa and Samoa have each won season titles. England and Australia have placed in the top three on multiple occasions, but neither has won the series. The International Olympic Committee's decision in 2009 to add rugby sevens to the Summer Olympics beginning in 2016 has added a boost to rugby sevens and to the World Sevens Series; this boost has led to increased exposure and revenues, leading several of the core teams to field fully professional squads.