In the men's championship,
Dartmouth defeated
Army 32-10. In the women's championship,
Army defeated
Penn State 14-5.
Men's tournament
Overview
The tournament consisted of four round-robin pools of four teams. All sixteen teams progressed to the knockout stage. The top two teams from each group progressed to the quarter-finals in the championship competition. The bottom two teams from each group progressed to the quarter-finals in the challenger competition. Over 10,000 fans turned out to watch Day 1 of the tournament.[3]
The following are the overall win/loss results and points differentials for the 8 quarterfinalists:
Dartmouth 6-0, +85
Army 5-1, +23
Utah 4-2, +24
Central Washington 3-3, +7
Arizona 3-1, +80
Cal 3-1, +65
Texas 2-2, 0
Penn State 2-2, -20
Women's tournament
Format
The tournament consisted of two round-robin pools of four teams. All eight teams progressed to the knockout stage. The knockout stage is single elimination with no bronze medal match.
These players were chosen based on the impact they had made during the tournament and also based on their potential to succeed at higher levels of rugby. Of this group of players,
Peter Tiberio and
Blaine Scully have already played for the
USA Sevens national team.
Al Caravelli, head coach of the USA Sevens national team, attended the tournament, and confirmed in TV interviews during the tournament that he was scouting several of these 14 players for the national team.