On the one hand, great to see investment in Asian and PI rugby - really interested to see how it develops. On the other hand, the competition name is almost as stupid as the proposed rule changes. If you don't like rugby, why are you bothering to arrange a rugby competition?Rapid Rugby, the brainchild of Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest, will include the Perth-based Western Force as well as teams from Samoa, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Fiji, plus another backed by a private consortium based in a country yet to be revealed.
The teams would contest 56 games over 14 rounds, prior to four finals over three weeks, with the winners taking a $1 million first prize.
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The league was expected to introduce some innovative changes to their gameplay, reducing games to 70 minutes and include rolling substitutions. Teams scoring a PowerTry, which starts from inside their own 22, would get nine points, without a conversion.
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