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Makes no sense

The last bit of this makes no sense. First - given the 2017 Silver Cup takes place from 5-8 July, that pretty much means it's a knockout comp (not a round robin) - that's minor point. The problem is the next bit - apparently 4 teams from 2017 Gold go to 2018 Gold (sure fine), but then the 4th 2018 Gold team plays the 2017 Silver winner in a "repechage" - for what with regards to World Cup 2019 - and what happens to 2nd and 3rd in the 2018 Gold? Can only the 4th place team make the intercontinental repechage? Coz that's what the page says at the moment - 1st goes to the World Cup, 4th goes to a play-off for the repechage (against the Silver Cup winner) and 2nd and 3rd are eliminated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.159.131.34 (talk) 00:58, 29 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Out of date?

Seems this is out of date (and frankly, still seems wrong). From World Rugby "Senegal and Tunisia will both step into an expanded top tier – now known as the Rugby Africa Gold Cup – in 2017 to join last year’s champions Namibia, Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe. The Silver Cup winner will replace the bottom-ranked side for the 2018 Gold Cup competition which will be the final stage of the African process with the winner qualifying as Africa 1 and the runner-up entering the Repechage tournament." (http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/news/245152 - May 2017) Implies (more sensibly) that the qualifiers are all from the 2018 Gold Cup (1st direct/2nd to repechage) with top 5 from 2017 Gold +Winner 2017 Silver making up the final group field. 134.159.131.34 (talk) 12:56, 13 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

So it's been reverted (by the usual suspect) Apparently next year we'll have the Gold Cup - including Morocco - they could well finish last, but then they'll get a play-off against the team finishing second (no idea what third, fourth and fifth placed teams will think of this idea) for a chance to qualify for the Repechage. Doesn't that strike you as just a little bit unlikely? 134.159.131.34 (talk) 03:37, 9 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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