Pau - Seniors miss out by a whisker

The England Seniors team missed out on qualification for the Seniors World Championship by the narrowest of margins, a split tie. At the end of their campaign they were tied for 6th place with Italy. The qualification rules state that if two teams are tied on VPs, then the winner of the match between the two teams is the qualifier, and sadly that was Italy. Their final three results were 18 - 12 against Austria, 15 - 15 against Scotland, and 13 - 17 against Finland.