San Diego Tickets Finder

Okay, this is a sweet thing that is coming to San Diego. The USA World Seven Rugby Tournament, more recently known as the IRB Sevens World Series Rugby Tournament is coming to San Diego’s Petco Park. This tournament travels all over the world with locations including Dubai, South Africa, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Australia, London, and Scotland. Sevens Rugby is a little bit different than regular rugby, but it’s still fun to watch! I played touch rugby in college for a PE class and what a workout! Anyway, if you want to have your chance to see rugby played by the professionals in the US here’s your chance. For tickets here’s what you do:

First, you can check out these links and see what they have in the way of pricing:

Then also check out our favorite aftermarket ticket vendors to see what they have:

AIW Tickets has tickets for $125 and TicketsNow has seats for $140.

Here’s some more info on the tournament from Wiki:

The IRB Sevens World Series, known officially as the IRB Sevens before the 2006-07 season and also sometimes called the World Sevens Series, is a series of international rugby union sevens tournaments organised for the first time in the 1999-2000 season. The tournaments, run by the International Rugby Board, feature national sevens teams. The series was first formed to develop an elite-level competition series between rugby nations and develop the Sevens game into a viable commercial product of the IRB. In 2005-06, the tour received 1147 hours of air time, 530 of which was live, and was broadcasted to 136 countries.[1] All international teams compete for the Sevens World Series title by accumulating points based on their respective finishes in each of these tournaments. The tournaments span the globe, with the following events included in the 2006-07 tour:

* Dubai (Dubai Exiles Rugby Ground): December 1-2, 2006
* South Africa, aka George (Outeniqua Park, George): December 8-9, 2006
* New Zealand (Westpac Stadium, Wellington): February 2-3, 2007
* USA (PETCO Park, San Diego, California): February 10-11, 2007
* Hong Kong (Hong Kong Stadium): March 30-April 1, 2007
* Australia (Adelaide Oval, Adelaide): April 7-8, 2007
* London (Twickenham): May 26-27, 2007
* Scotland (Murrayfield, Edinburgh): June 2-3, 2007

In 2005-06, the most famous Sevens event, the Hong Kong Sevens, returned to the series after a one-year hiatus in 2004-05 for the IRB Rugby World Cup Sevens, which was held in Hong Kong in March 2005 and won by Fiji.

Sevens is a stripped-down version of rugby union, with seven players each side on a normal sized pitch rather than the normal fifteen. Games are much shorter, lasting only seven or ten minutes each half, and tend to be very fast-paced, open affairs. Sevens is traditionally played in a two-day tournament format, with the Hong Kong Sevens (an anomaly as a three-day event) being the most famous. It’s quicker and higher-scoring than 15-a-side rugby, and the rules are far simpler, which explains part of its appeal. It also gives players the space for superb feats of individual skill, with the fantastically athletic Samoan, Fijian and New Zealand teams particularly prone to spectacular showboating.

New Zealand and Fiji are traditionally the strongest teams, although in recent years Australia, Samoa, England, South Africa, Argentina and France have all won tournaments.