title: 2016 World Rugby Pacific Challenge
text: # 2016 World Rugby Pacific Challenge
  
  The 2016 Pacific Challenge was the eleventh World Rugby Pacific Challenge. Four teams featured in the tournament which was hosted in Fiji. The tournament was won by Fiji Warriors, who defeated Samoa A by 36–0 in the final.
  
  ## Format
  
  The teams played against each other initially in a round-robin competition, after which the top two sides played off in a final and the bottom two sides played off for third place. The 2016 Pacific Challenge was also a testing ground for the new points system that World Rugby was trialling, where tries were valued at six points instead of five and penalty goals and drop goals were valued at two points instead of three.
  
  ## Teams
  
  The four teams competing:
  
  * Junior Japan
  * Samoa A
  * Fiji Warriors
  * Tonga A
  
  ## Table
  
  | Team | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | For | Against | Diff | BP1 | BP2 | Pts |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Fiji Warriors | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 134 | 34 | +100 | 3 | 0 | 15 |
  | Samoa A | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 98 | 56 | +42 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
  | Junior Japan | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 58 | 94 | -36 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
  | Tonga A | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 26 | 132 | -106 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
  | Updated: 21 March 2016 Source: World Rugby |||||||||||
  