{"id":24622,"date":"2024-12-05T13:31:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T13:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=24622"},"modified":"2024-12-05T13:31:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T13:31:14","slug":"guyana-gears-up-for-rugby-americas-north-sevens-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/guyana-gears-up-for-rugby-americas-north-sevens-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Guyana Gears Up for Rugby Americas North Sevens Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Travis Seymour | November 6, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In less than two weeks, 18 teams from across the region will converge at the Larry Gomes Stadium in Trinidad and Tobago for three days of intense action in the Rugby Americas North (RAN) Sevens tournament. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Teams will battle it out for the coveted title of the region\u2019s top sevens team, with Guyana set to rely on their speed as a key advantage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s tournament will see the teams split into Tier 1 and Tier 2 brackets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The champions from the Men\u2019s Tier 1 division will secure a spot in the 2025 World Rugby HSBC Sevens Challenger, while the top two teams, excluding Canada who has already been pre-qualified, will qualify for the 2025 Junior Pan American Games\u2019 Sevens competition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the Men\u2019s Tier 2 winners will be promoted to Tier 1 in 2025 under a promotion-relegation system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former national captain Claudius Butts highlighted that speed has always been a defining strength for the Guyanese team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He believes they will use this to their advantage as they strive to reclaim their position as leaders in regional rugby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Butts emphasized that Sevens is the best route for Guyana to reassert their dominance in the sport, stating, \u201cIt\u2019s our main strength, and we are working on it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Tier 1, Guyana will face tough competition from Barbados, Bermuda, Canada, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Mexico, and host nation Trinidad &amp; Tobago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tier 2 teams include Cura\u00e7ao, Dominican Republic, St. Vincent &amp; the Grenadines, and Turks &amp; Caicos Islands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, the USA Men\u2019s and Canada Women\u2019s teams earned spots in the Paris Olympic Games by winning the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Travis Seymour | November 6, 2024 In less than two weeks, 18 teams from across the region will converge at the Larry Gomes Stadium in Trinidad and Tobago for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24623,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24622\/revisions\/24623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}