2012–13 IRB Women's Sevens World Series
The IRB Women's Sevens World Series (2012/2013) was the inaugural edition of the IRB Women's Sevens World Series, organized by the IRB annual series of tournaments for women's national teams in the Rugby Sevens.In October 2012 the IRB announced that the season would consist of four tournaments - in Dubai, Houston, Guangzhou and Amsterdam - played from November 2012 to May 2013.[1] As with the male competition, series winner was the team that scored the most points awarded for winning various places in each event throughout the season.Each of the twelve team competition accumulate, six of which (Australia, Canada, England, Netherlands, New Zealand, United States) is a series of regular participants (core teams), while others might be identified through regional qualifying.The scoring system, similar to that used in the men's IRB Sevens, was announced shortly before the season kicked off.