From humble beginnings in 1976, the Hong Kong Sevens has grown into the city's leading sports event, famed throughout the world. This year, as the tournament celebrates 40 years, we're taking a ride through the SCMP archives to see how the event became the jewel in the sevens crown. 

And if you see yourself or a friend in any of the pictures in our eight-part series, click here to enter your best memories of the Sevens and the most original/entertaining answers will win a pair of three-day tickets to this year’s Cathay Pacific/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens from March 27-29.  

We start part 3 in 1986, the 11th tournament, which saw the debut of a little Welsh wizard called Jonathan Davies - though his team went out in the quarter-finals - while off the pitch there was rancour over Australia's attempt to set up a rival world series sevens tournament in Sydney.

In front of a 25,000-strong crowd, a Zinzan Brooke-inspired New Zealand beat the French Barbarians 32-12 in the final - cue that "Sevens heaven" headline yet again - and by the end of the tournament the row with Australia had been resolved. 

DON'T MISS: Part 1 of our look through the archives

1987 saw the arrival of a Sevens tradition that caught organisers by surprise, with a rash of streakers becoming part of the action. Was there something in the beer that year? A more liberal environment? Or just a case of monkey-see, monkey-do? Whatever the case, most years since have seen a pitch invader or two.