2023-09-06 05:39:08
Come on, it’s time to get started. Do you want to follow the Rugby World Cup, or at least pretend as best you can with your loved ones? You must first know the basic rules, starting with knowing how to count the points. And no, it’s not that complicated. Explanations.
5 points: one try
Only one solution is offered to the team that you will support (probably the XV of France) to register 5 points: score a try. For this, the ball must be “flattened behind the opponents’ goal line, in the end zone”, specifies World Rugby, the international federation which defines the rules.
The referee may also award a team a penalty try. This penalty try penalizes “an act of unfair play by an opponent without which a try could have been scored”. As for a try, the referee will put the whistle in his mouth and raise his arm vertically, with his back to the goal line, to signal the penalty try. This penalty attempt earns 5 points and automatically the 2 additional points of the transformation, even if it does not take place, therefore 7 points in total.
In the course of history, the try initially counted for nothing, since we simply counted the kick that followed. In 1893, the test was worth 3 points (2 additional points for the transformation), then in 1971, 4 points. It wasn’t until 1992 that the try itself awarded five points to the team scoring it, while the conversion continued to be worth two points. The first 5-point try in history was scored by All Blacks winger Va’aiga Tuigamala after five minutes against Australia on July 4, 1992.
3 points: a penalty or a drop
After the try, a team can also collect 3 points for certain actions. She can first take advantage of her opponent’s faults to recover a penalty, except for small faults such as forwards which give rise to a scrum. If the referee whistles a penalty, the team can then decide to shoot at goal. Within 60 seconds, the scorer of the team must therefore place the ball on a plot at the place of the fault, then kick it between the posts to score 3 points.
But that’s not the only way to score 3 points. A little rarer – it doesn’t happen every game but it’s still quite used – the drop also allows you to score these precious little points. For this, in the course of the game, an attacking team can choose to make a drop, i.e. a player hits the ball with his foot, in a half-volley (just after the rebound) between the poles, and therefore score 3 points.
2 points: a transformation
In the event of a scored try, the team tries each time, in stride, a conversion to score two additional points. This is the only case where you can score two points in rugby. To convert a try (and therefore score 7 points in total), you must kick between the poles from a place chosen by the scorer, in the line where the try was scored. If the try was scored very close to the sideline, the goalscorer must move back from this point until he finds the ideal angle, in his opinion, to take his conversion.
Note that the goalscorer can also choose to perform his transformation in the form of a drop, even if this is very rare. Unlike the penalty, he has 90 seconds to convert the try. If he misses his kick, his team still scores the 5 points of the try.
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