[RhysJR]

I guess they’re trying to go down the route of the international football tournament, with trying to give each edition a unique identity. Arguably they should have used something less obvious, but when ITV Sport does this kind of stuff it tends to work well on screen. If it works in it’s own right people won’t mind the axing of World In Union so much.

That is certainly true on World Rugby's part. After the rebrand from the IRB to World Rugby in 2014/15, they dropped the long-standing blue and green RWC logo, to have more individual design for each tournament based on a stylised version of the new World Rugby logo (they also had a weird idea for 2011 onwards of flipping the logo so the blue (sky) was on the bottom and the green (land/pitch) was on the top).

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I don’t think “World in Union” was used for the world feed titles for Japan in 2019 iirc? But there was still a version recorded though and it may have been used in the opening ceremony.

Correct, there was different music used for the world feed titles and background music in 2019. The same tune was also used for the 2021 Rugby World Cup (for women in 2022) and the 2022 Sevens Rugby World Cup, but adapted to sound more fitting to the host nation.

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There was an official version of World in Union, but that did not feature in the world feed or on ITV.

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