s e v e n i s a j o u r n e y

This weekend was the 2008 Wellington Rugby Sevens, which made news around the globe (in the obscure odd-stuff pages, anyway) for banning Borat costumes.

The Sevens, for the uninitiated, is a three-day international sporting event featuring in total 44 games of seven-a-side rugby. Seven guys per team, with halfs lasting seven minutes each. It’s like rugby, only really really fast.

It’s effectively also a three-day city-wide party, and, oddly enough, a gigantic team-cosplay contest amongst the fans. Go figure.

See if you can spot the Marge Simpson team. There were apparently three actually-transforming Transformers, but I’ve only seen photos of the red one. Also spotted a badly framed photo of what looked like a team of very well-done Oompa-Loompas.