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SCORIGAMI: Argentina 38, New Zealand 30 is the first 38-30 game in International Rugby history

Final · August 10, 2024

International Rugby got a brand-new final score on August 10, 2024. Argentina beat New Zealand 38-30, and in every International Rugby game since 1871, no game had ever ended that way before.

Where 38-30 sits among nearby International Rugby scores. Deeper blue means a score has happened more often; the outlined cell is the new one.

The league's previous scorigami was 36-28, Australia over Wales on July 13, 2024, 28 days earlier. This is International Rugby's 4th new final score of the 2024 season, and the grid now holds 23.4 percent of every realistic final score.

Its closest neighbors show how tight the score space had become: 39-30 had happened 1 time and 38-31 had still never happened. It lands on the high-scoring frontier of the grid, the sparse territory that only fills in on the rare night the points pile up.

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