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How are the countries seeded, you ask? Well the seedings are taken from the world rankings as of Monday – December 1.

That means the six highest-ranked teams in the world sit in Band 1, and so on and so forth. 

With six pools of four, a country from each band will go into every pool.

This is how it looks…

Band 1: South Africa, New Zealand, England, Ireland, France, Argentina

Band 2: Australia, Fiji, Scotland, Italy, Wales, Japan

Band 3: Georgia, Uruguay, Spain, USA, Chile, Tonga 

Band 4: Samoa, Portugal, Romania, Hong Kong China, Zimbabwe, Canada