Rugby Americas North Sevens
The Rugby Americas North Sevens is the rugby sevens competition for the confederation of North American and Caribbean rugby. It periodically serves as the regional qualifying competition for the Rugby [World Cup Sevens|World Cup Sevens] and the Rugby [sevens at the Summer Olympics|Rugby sevens at the Olympics]. In the early years of the competition the List of [international rugby union teams#National teams – band classification|tier two] teams from North America did not always participate or only sent representative sides outside of tournaments for World Cup qualification or Olympic qualification.