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There is a new sevens tournament being launched in the USA later this year, called the Las Vegas 7s $1 000 000 Championship:
- The tournament is fully sanctioned by USA Rugby and is being run by an organisation called the American RFL.
- The inaugural tournament is due to take place in the northern autumn, later this year.
- 16 teams will compete in a straight knockout format, with the entire US$1 000 000 going to the winner.
- It will be played at an outdoor gridiron arena (an earlier plan to play it in a smaller indoor arena was shot down by the USA sevens coach).
- The tournament will be based around an open-entry format. While qualifying is currently a little fluid, the 2008 tournament will be a mixture of US and international entrants. The plan is for future editions to use open regional qualifying tournaments, around the USA, to decide the 16 participants.
- The organisers are currently shopping-around a television package to networks over there. There will be a 2 hour special covering the tournament itself; however the main focus will be a subsequent 13 episode "reality" show following the journeys of the players in the lead up to, and during, the tournament.