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So we’ve reached the great divide, and the split into five divisions has taken place. But what actually happens now?

It's pretty complicated but we will try to simplify it here to assist your enjoyment over the rest of the season, and hopefully spike your interest in what is going on in the competitions where your own club doesn't have a direct interest.

Across five new competitions there is everything to play for.

Super League Super 8s
The flagship competition which will ultimately decide the four sides who will enter the play-offs, the two who reach the Grand Final in October and the Champions.

The top division of eight sides will play each other once (either at home or away) and build on the points which they amassed in the first 23 rounds of the season. Those in the top four have four home games and three away with those in the bottom four playing on the road on four occasions each.

At the end of the extra seven rounds the top four sides go into the play-offs with the league leaders, and Minor Premiers, playing at home to the fourth placed side and the runners up at home to third. The winners of these two games to on to play the Grand Final at Old Trafford to determine the Champions.

Qualifying 8s
This second division contains the bottom four Super League and top four Championship sides at the end of the regular rounds. All sides play one another with the Super League sides who finished ninth and tenth, and the Championship sides who finished first and second playing four games each at home.

All teams start this phase with zero points and are aiming for a top three finish which would see them automatically in Super League in 2018. The teams who finish in the bottom three places will play Championship rugby in 2018.

The teams who finish fourth and fifth play off in the sudden death ‘Million Pound Game’ at the home ground of the fourth placed side. The winners of this game join the top three in Super League while the losers will play 2018 in the Championship.

Championship Shield
The bottom eight sides from the Championship regular rounds will play one another with the peril being a bottom two finish. All points from the first twenty-three rounds are carried forward, and the sides who finished outside the bottom four in the regular season get four home games.

The top four sides at the end of the extra seven rounds go into a play-off which follows the same structure as that in the Super League Super 8’s, with the eventual winner being awarded the Championship Shield.

The two sides finishing in the bottom two places be relegated and play their rugby in Championship One in 2018.

Championship One Super 8’s
The top eight sides from Championship One get a new competition but retain their points from the first fifteen rounds.

The top four clubs get four home games and at the end of the extra seven games the top placed club is automatically promoted. The teams in positions two to five will play-off, using the same structure as the Super League play-offs to determine the other promoted side.

Championship One Shield
The remaining eight teams also retain their points from the first fifteen games and play off against one another with the sides who finished the first fifteen rounds in ninth to twelfth positions getting four home games.

At the end of the extra games the top two play off in a sudden death final for the Championship One Shield.


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Posted by RLFANS News Hound on Tue 25th Jul 2017 4:10 PM | Views : 45999 | Replies : 37 | BACK TO STORIES
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