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The Hurricanes claimed their sixth successive victory when they beat the Chiefs 25-13 in their New Zealand derby in Wellington on Friday.

The Super Rugby Team of the Week has representatives from 10 of the teams again this week. Lions fullback Madosh Tambwe was Player of the Week.

The Chiefs secured their fourth successive Super Rugby victory when they beat the Blues 21-19 in a hard-fought derby triumph in Hamilton.

Creating space in the opposition defence is a skill required to be among the premier playmakers in Super Rugby so who is leading the way?

The Super Rugby Team of the Week has representatives from 10 of the teams in a weekend that saw four away victories in the six-match round. Once again Chiefs fly-half Damian McKenzie put in a huge all-round performance to be Player of the Week.

The Chiefs continued with their impressive recent form when they claimed a deserved 27-22 victory over the Highlanders in Hamilton on Friday.

The Super Rugby Team of the Week has representatives from 9 of the teams with the Chiefs and Jaguares leading the way with three players each. 

A superb all-round performance ensured a deserved 61-10 victory for the Chiefs as they outclassed the Sunwolves in Tokyo on Saturday.

The Super Rugby Team of the Week has representatives from 10 of the teams with the Chiefs leading the way with three players, Damian McKenzie, Anton Lienert-Brown and Brodie Rettalick. The All Black lock Retallick was Player of the Week after he put in a huge shift against the Bulls.

The Chiefs continued with their fine recent form when they claimed a hard-fought 41-28 victory over the Bulls in Hamilton on Friday.

Kicking for goal is an important part of keeping the scoreboard ticking over and ensuring try scoring gets full reward. Who is leading the way?

The Team of the Week contains players from nine different teams including four Crusaders and two from each of the Sharks, Stormers and Blues. Player of the Week is Cobus Wiese whose work rate against the Crusaders was immense.

The injury-hit Chiefs continued their dominant run over the Blues with a thrilling 27-21 victory in their Super Rugby encounter in Auckland.

The Chiefs will be hunting for a peculiar slice of history this weekend when they travel to Eden Park to face the Blues, looking for what would be a 13^th game without loss against the Auckland club.

The Crusaders continued where they left off in 2017 when they claimed a hard-fought 45-23 win over the Chiefs in Christchurch.

In week two there is one mouth-watering tie which catches the eye. With 10 Super Rugby titles between them, the Crusaders and Chiefs are familiar foes and look set to kick off their campaigns with a domestic derby classic.

SANZAAR has announced the referee appointments for Week 2 of the 2018 Super Rugby season.

Super Rugby and The Rugby Championship will this season adopt the Law Amendments that were announced by World Rugby in July 2017 prior to the start of the 2017/2018 northern hemisphere season. The amendments relate to the scrum (Law 20), tackle (Law 15) and ruck (Law 16).

SANZAAR has announced the referee team that will officiate the 2018 Super Rugby season. With the Super Rugby tournament format reducing to 120 regular season matches this season the referee team has been reduced from 19 to 17 referees.