- Best Performance by a South African:
- Aimee Barrett-Theron’s consistently excellent refereeing, especially her clear communication
- Best hair:
- Raquel Kochhann of Brazil
- Worst hair:
- Pauline Bourdon-Sansus of France, for deliberately having hair like The Predator
- Try of the tournament:
- South Africa, against New Zealand. Starting with all their players – all of them! – in a lineout, from which a maul, and then 15 phases of pick and go from the forwards. Beautiful!
- Worst name:
- “Jorja” Miller of New Zealand. What a tragedeigh!
- Is that all?
- Ilona Maher, the over-hyped American with the lipstick off of tiktok who thinks WWE is something worthy of her time.
- Best minnow:
- I was impressed by all of the minnows. Despite some massive blow-out scores all the games were entertaining. But if I have to single out one team it has to be Spain, especially for their performance against New Zealand.
- Beef On The Hoof Award for a forward thundering down the pitch:
- This could have gone to any number of large South African ladies, but in the end it had to go to DaLeaka Menin of Canada.
- Award for Deserving An Award Despite Being French:
- Madoussou Fall Raclot, who refused to play basketball despite being 6’2″. Like Morwenna Talling she is just involved all the time and without her hard work her team mates wouldn’t have the opportunities they had.
- New Player of the tournament:
- Braxton Sorenson-McGee of New Zealand, a complete unknown with no significant international experience before the tournament.
- Player of the tournament:
- Morwenna Talling of England. I first noticed her during the WXV this time last year, where she didn’t do anything flashy but she was just a work-horse that enabled everyone around her. That continued in the Six Nations and again throughout the World Cup.
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