The Springbok Sevens side will set up their fourth consecutive pool decider with South Sea magicians Fiji in four tournaments, as they swept aside Spain and defending World Series champs Argentina in their first two pool games in Perth on Saturday.
While the other three games have been close nail-biters, with Fiji winning two of the three, including an extra time win last week in Singapore, you have to ask how much this will dilute the excitement around the SVNS series when the same teams play each other over and over.
Gone are the days when the Series had shocks and minnows advancing, and now it is replaced with a top eight, no room for error series that may please the marketers, but is hardly likely to sell the game further.
Yet despite that, the Blitzboks will have the opportunity again to top the pool - and beat Fiji like they did in Cape Town to try and set up a run to the title.
The two times the Blitzboks have lost to Fiji in pool games, they have failed to make the final in Dubai and Singapore, but when they won they took the tournament title in Cape Town.
Fiji survived a scare from Spain, when the Spanish side missed a conversion to send the game into extra time, with the scoreline ending 26-24. But the Blitzboks will know they have a tough game ahead of them in any case.
Against Spain first half tries from Shilton van Wyk and David Brits set up the win, but the second half scores from Zain Davids, Zander Reynders and Luan Gilomee set up the 33-14 win.
Then against Argentina, first half tries from Christie Grobbelaar and Davids - the latter from a beautiful step inside to beat two Argentina defenders, kept the Blitzboks in front at halftime against a Marcos Moneta try.
The Blitzboks could have scored but a last pass to Siviwe Soyizwapi was dropped on the line and Argentina turned it over and ran 80 metres to score through Santino Zangara.
The winning try came from a sensational break by Donavan Don, chased down by speedster Moneta, he toyed with him, selling him the dummy twice before going on his own to score.
Argentina tried hard, but the Blitzboks defence held out to win the game and setup the showdown with Fiji.
The Blitzboks face Fiji at 12.52pm (CAT, GMT+2). All games are live on SuperSport.
