The team with the most points after five round-robins advances to the Louis Vuitton Cup finals, which will determine the opponent for Oracle Team USA in the 34th America's Cup match starting Sept. 7.
The bottom four in that table will then play in a 10-team World Cup Qualifier in 2018, which will determine the final two teams for the tournament.
The second leg takes place in Zagreb on Tuesday which will determine who goes through to the World Cup finals in Brazil in June.
An off-day in September may not be crucial; getting your eye in for the autumn Tests, which will determine England's seeding in December's World Cup draw, and for Leicester's important matches to come, certainly is.
Prada now holds a 3-1 lead in the five-of-nine-race Louis Vuitton finals, which will determine the boat that will face Team New Zealand in the America's Cup.
Eastern); the men's final of the Visa championships, which will determine who will compete in the Olympic gymnastics trials (1 p.m).; the Belmont (4 30 p.m).; and Game 5 of Stanley Cup finals (8 p.m).
The game was the United States' second-to-last of the Hexagonal, the six-team tournament that determines which teams from North America, Central America, and the Caribbean go to the World Cup, which will next be held in 2018, in Russia.
Ultimately, the goal is the Breeders' Cup, which will be run in the fall at Churchill Downs.
They are prepping for the 2018 World Cup, which will be held in Russia, he joked.
Wales are preparing for the World Cup, which will be held in Sydney in August.
