The Rugby Championship Team Picker

What Is The Rugby Championship Team Picker?

The Rugby Championship Team Picker spins through the four southern hemisphere rugby giants: New Zealand, South Africa, Australia and Argentina.

It's a tighter list than the Six Nations equivalent, but the value of a random pick is the same. Settle an argument, assign a watch party allegiance, or choose which side to back for a year.

How to Use The Rugby Championship Team Picker?

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   Open The Rugby Championship Team Picker. All 4 teams load with equal odds, Argentina, Australia and New Zealand among them.

2. 2

   Trim the field if your game calls for it: take Argentina out for an underdog run, or keep only the teams still in contention.

3. 3

   Press SPIN. The wheel settles on one of the 4 and the result card names your The Rugby Championship team.

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   Drawing for a group? Turn on Remove Winners so South Africa cannot come up twice, then spin once per person.

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   Save the trimmed wheel under "My Wheels" and the next The Rugby Championship draw opens on your teams rather than all 4.

The Rugby Championship Team Picker Use Cases

Rugby Championship watch party assignments. Fantasy rugby tiebreakers. Pub sweepstakes during the southern season.

Podcasts running random team segments, anyone broadening their rugby viewing beyond their default national side, and school rugby clubs running educational picks.

What Is on the The Rugby Championship Wheel

The wheel holds the whole The Rugby Championship field: 4 teams, each with an identical slice. Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa are among them.

Equal slices mean the The Rugby Championship draw does not quietly favour the teams you would expect it to. Argentina comes up exactly as often as South Africa, which is the part that matters when the result has to look fair to everyone watching it land.

The The Rugby Championship field of 4 is small enough that Remove Winners changes the game rather than just tidying it. Six people drawing from 4 teams take most of the wheel between them, so agree before the first spin whether the same team can go twice. If it cannot, the last person is choosing from whatever is left rather than from the full field.

Four Teams, Brutal Travel

The Rugby Championship is small but carries absurd pedigree. Its four nations, New Zealand, South Africa, Australia and Argentina, have collectively won the large majority of all Rugby World Cups ever played, making this pound for pound the densest international competition in the sport.

It began life as the Tri Nations in 1996 and became the Championship when Argentina joined in 2012, an inclusion that has aged well as the Pumas have beaten every other member.

Logistics are the tournament's hidden opponent, with fixtures spanning four countries across the southern hemisphere and travel legs that no northern competition asks of its players. Inside the tournament lives the Bledisloe Cup, the New Zealand and Australia rivalry trophy contested since the 1930s. Four teams means the wheel resolves fast, but every assignment hands you a former or current world champion's worth of history.

Tips for Fair Draws

With only four teams the wheel resolves fast, which suits quick decisions and makes it less useful as a long random pick exercise.

For more variability, combine it with the Six Nations wheel by saving a custom list of all ten teams together. The picker preserves that custom wheel between sessions.