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Award-winning artist Stormzy announced as Dubai 7s Festival headliner

Stormzy performs at All Points East Festival 2023 during his 'This Is What We Mean Day' at Victoria Park on August 18, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Jim Dyson/Getty Images)

Less than two months out from the start of the new SVNS Series season, British rapper and singer-songwriter Stormzy has been announced as the headline act to close out the Emirates Dubai 7s Festival this December.

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On Wednesday, it was revealed the global award-winning artist will bring the three-day festival to an end with what is set to be an unforgettable performance. Stormzy is expected to perform hit songs including ‘Big for your Boots’, ‘Shut Up’ and ‘Vossi Bop’.

Stormy has released three albums and they’ve all reached top spot on the UK charts, with two receiving nominations for the UK’s prestigious Mercury Music Prize. In 2023, Stormzy was nominated for the BET Award for Best International Act.

 

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Fans will also have an opportunity to see Stormzy’s athletic side on November 30 as the multi-award-winning musician takes to the padel court. Stormzy will compete against some of his friends in a mini tournament on the opening day of the SVNS Series event.

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“Stormzy is one of the biggest names in music and we couldn’t think of anyone better to close our biggest festival to date,” Emirates Dubai 7s Festival Director, Mathew Tait, said.

“The Dubai 7s is always a fun-packed weekend with something for everyone and there is no doubt that Stormzy’s impact will be huge for each one of our festival goers.

“Not only are we all excited to see Stormzy on the stage and on the padel court, but I also urge fans to stay tuned for more exciting announcements from us in the lead-up to the long weekend.”

The Saturday headliner for the Emirates Dubai 7s Festival will be announced soon.

Last year at the Dubai Sevens, Australia brought an end to New Zealand’s long-lasting unbeaten streak to claim Cup Final glory in the women’s draw. Jorja Miller scored a hat-trick for the Black Ferns Sevens but they still fell to a 26-19 loss at The Sevens Stadium.

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Bienne Terita opened the scoring in the first Cup Final of the 2023/24 season in just the first minute, and that effort was later followed by a Teagan Levi double. Maddison Levi secured the win by running away for a score in the 16th minute.

After that game, South Africa went head-to-head with Argentina in a blockbuster decider. Argentina has recently emerged as one of the heavyweights in the sport, while South Africa had a point to prove after a poor campaign the season before.

Impi Visser and Shilton Van Wyk scored a try as the Blitzboks took a 12-nil lead. While Los Pumas Sevens hit back through Matias Osadczuk with two minutes left to play, time just wasn’t on their side as the South Africans held on for a 12-7 win.

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JW 23 minutes ago
The raw data that proves Super Rugby Pacific is currently a cut above

Your links are private if you were intending them to be shared.


URC us doing very well with it’s competitiveness given that each group has it’s own salary caps and entirely different makeups, from clubs, to provinces, to franchises and regions. One group might be teams from the most populace country with the biggest rugby base while another the smallest, with the least amount of rugby players to chose from.

On average, just about one SRP game every weekend has been decided in the last five minutes!

I would also be interested in a average clock length (don’t need to go into the whole BIP hole) showing how long the last phases are taking (because one team is trying to still alter the match points outcome in some way) to complete before the game finally ends. I don’t know if its more common this year but in general I wonder if its a stat that can show how good games are/were?

17.7%

You really had the same reversed 10 points lead % as you had lead changes after the 75th?


Some of these values while standing out numerically against each other have a much less correlative impact than some that tighter differences which might only stick out a small amount. While SRP’s ones might not necessarily be such examples (and here I’m still going off the basic principle that everyone knew this was happening, even though I was challenged about that assumption) they have had the advantage of the fixtures being were doctored even more than normal. In this instance its irrelevant whether they were doctored or not of course, but I think it’s pretty safe to say that there hasn’t been a lot of cross over of worst v best yet. Maybe it just feels like that because the worst are so much better this year? I definitely think that it is undeniable that all the bottom teams (that remain) have gotten better.


So I would be very interested in another weight graph of the games still, but regardless I don’t think it’s fair for SRP to claim anything over the other leagues yet. Certainly as I have said numerous times about the Top 14, it’s sub par compared to what it’s billed up to be, but that is the only league in this group that has promotion and relegation, which is the antitheses of a competitive league, so a trade off there.


Thank you very much for sharing your research though Dmitri, I hope you find another topic to get interested about!

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