The stage is set for the 2023 Oceania Rugby Sevens Championship in Brisbane, Australia this weekend.

The event, to be played at Ballmore, will see two different competitions running at the same time: with the Olympic qualification alongside an international pool of teams who have already qualified for Paris 2024.

The men’s competition will see New Zealand, Fiji, Australia, Niue and an Oceania Selection playing against each other in the international division, while the women will feature New Zealand and Australia.

For the Olympic qualification, the two men’s pools will see Samoa, Solomon Islands, Cook Islands, American Samoa and Tuvalu in Pool A, while Tonga, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Kiribati and Nauru in Pool B.

The women’s qualification competition has Fiji, Tonga, Cook Islands and American Samoa in Pool A while Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Nauru in Pool B.

In the Olympic qualifier, 18 teams will be contesting the two spots available for Oceania in the men’s and women’s competition.

Oceania Rugby has stated that only one of 10 men’s sides will qualify for Paris 2024 while only one of eight women’s teams will book their ticket to France next year.

-RNZ