Update: 3:26PM OCEANIA rugby manager Wayne Schuster said the 2017 Oceania Sevens Rugby Championship would enable minnow teams in gauging their performance against tier one teams like Fiji, Australia, New Zealand and Samoa.

“You can train as much as
you want, but it is game time in a robust competition environment that gives
you that edge.  The opportunity to play better teams more often provides a
very viable pathway to building your own performances both individually and
collectively,” Schuster said.

He said the tournament
allowed their new and upcoming teams in the competition in identifying a base
in which they could be building from in order to make sevens team in the region
stronger as a whole.