| Type: | other |
| 2016 Americas Pacific Challenge | |
| Date: | 8–16 October 2016 |
| Countries: | |
| Nations: | 6 |
| Matches: | 9 |
| Tries: | 84 |
| Top Scorer: |  Juan Cruz González (37) |
| Most Tries: | Benjamín Macome (4) |
| Succeeded By: | 2017 |
The 2016 World Rugby Americas Pacific Challenge was the inaugural rugby union tournament created by World Rugby for national 'A' teams to develop home grown talent for their national test sides.
The Americas Pacific Challenge provides the Pacific nations a chance of further competition outside their own region, as the Pacific Challenge is reduced to just the Pacific nations when Rugby World Cup qualifiers are played.
For national 'A' teams from the Americas, this new tournament replaced the pre-2015 format of the Americas Rugby Championship, which is now an annual championship elevated to test status.
The tournament was hosted by Uruguay, with all matches played at the 14,000 capacity stadium Estadio Charrúa in Montevideo.[1] Argentina XV won the tournament undefeated, with Fiji Warriors as runner-up.
With six teams in the tournament and a limitation of three matches per team, a "split pool" format was used. The field was split into two pools, with teams in one pool only playing the teams in the other. The competing teams were:[2] Group A
Group B
Final standings for combined pools:
| Rank | Team | Games | Points | Try Bonus | Losing Bonus | Table Points | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 154 | 62 | +92 | 2 | 0 | 14 | |
| 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 127 | 65 | +62 | 4 | 0 | 12 | |
| 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 97 | 103 | -6 | 1 | 0 | 9 | |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 96 | 130 | -34 | 3 | 0 | 7 | |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 74 | 106 | -72 | 1 | 0 | 5 | |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 88 | 130 | -42 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| Updated: 16 October 2016 Source: World Rugby Four points for a win, two for a draw, and no points for a bye. One bonus point for scoring four or more tries in a match. One bonus point for losing by seven or less. The tie-break mechanism for teams finishing on the same table points has not been sourced. | |||||||||||
The matches were announced on 7 September 2016.[3]
All times are local UYT (UTC-03)