My friend Yovan told me the Rugby 7s is the equivalent of my favorite 3 things in the the world: halloween, foxfields, and uva football. Halloween because everyone is dressed up with many girls in very slutty outfits. Foxfields because everyone gets drunk at dawn. UVA football because, well it's as close as Rugby gets.
It's definitely an experience for a lifetime. First, everyone is in the south stand, where all the crazy ppl dress, get drunk, and party all day. No one really knows who is playing who. After all, places like Wales and Samoa have teams. I mean, Wales is not even a country. Second, the 7s means only 7 players are on the field vs. the normal 15. It's like a condense version of the game that lasts ~30 minutes instead of the usual 90 minutes. Third, I miss the atmosphere where people actually cared about the score. Sure, we're drunk, but we're loyal drunks.
Our experience was quite intriguing. First, the tickets, scalping, costed 1500 HKD (a little over USD 200). That's much more expensive than previous years because less tickets were released this year. For some reason, the stands were all empty but there were no tickets available. It took us 3 hours to get to South Stand. After all, it was stressful experience. But, everything was worth it. I had great fun cheering, dressing up, and generally enjoying a staple Hong Kong experience. Afterall, it was so popular that the board of directors of a company we were representing could not get rooms in hotels for their meeting and had to postone it. That's a great event.
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