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The season's circuit consists of eight tournaments held in five continents, generally beginning in November or December and ending in May or June.Teams compete for the World Rugby Series title by accumulating points based on their finishing position in each tournament.England, Argentina and the United States have placed in the top three for several seasons but have not won the series title.At the Series launch, the chairman of the International Rugby Board, Vernon Pugh, described the IRB's vision of the role of this new competition: "this competition has set in place another important element in the IRB’s drive to establish rugby as a truly global sport, one with widespread visibility and steadily improving standards of athletic excellence.[7] New Zealand won the first six seasons in a row from 1999–2000 to 2004–05,[8] led by players such as Karl Te Nana and Amasio Valence.[11] In the 2009–10 season, Samoa who finished seventh the previous year shocked the world – led by 2010 top try-scorer and World Rugby Sevens Player of the Year Mikaele Pesamino – by winning four of the last five tournaments to overtake New Zealand and win the series.[21] The World Series will consist of seven scheduled tournament stops from the 2024–25 season, which generally fall in the same order and timeframes.Key: * indicates a tied placing Non-core teams are also invited to compete in every season of the World Rugby Sevens Series under previous formats.In case teams are tied after pool play, the tiebreakers are:[65] As of the 2009–10 series, four trophies are awarded in each tournament.The calendar includes stopovers in many of the usual destinations, from London to Langford, plus three new cities (Malaga, Seville and Toulouse) to replace traditional hosts Australia and New Zealand.[69] Originally, the six pool winners of the Hong Kong Sevens, plus the two highest-finishing second-place teams, advanced to the Cup.From 2013 on, the Hong Kong Sevens was played under the same 16-team format used in the rest of the series, with typically 15 core teams plus an invited team (for Hong Kong, usually the winner of the HSBC Asian Sevens Series) competing in the main draw of the tournament.World Rugby introduced a new scoring system for the 2011–12 series, in which all teams participating in a tournament are guaranteed points.[74] The International Rugby Board reached a 5-year deal with HSBC in October 2010 that granted them status as the first-ever title sponsor of the Sevens World Series.Through the agreement, HSBC acquired title naming rights to all tournaments in the World Series, beginning with the Dubai Sevens on 3 December 2010.Toward the bottom end of the scale is Ireland, offering its players a €18,000 to €23,750 development contract, less than minimum wage.