We have our top eight.
After 15 regular season rounds, Super Rugby Pacific has arrived at the playoffs, with the eight quarterfinalists confirmed after a busy set of fixtures on Saturday.
By virtue of the Chiefs' 80th minute try against the Blues, it is the Hurricanes who have top seeding for the finals and now sit in the box seat for the 2024 title.
The Crusaders, Force, Moana Pasifika and Waratahs are all officially on holiday - their seasons are done.
Read on as we review some of the Super - And Not So Super - action from Round 15
SUPER
HURRICANES CHEERING AFTER LATE CHIEFS FIVE-POINTER
You can imagine the scenes inside the Hurricanes' teamroom at Sky Stadium when Josh Ioane split two defenders and dived over the Eden Park tryline a few hours north in Auckland.
That one action denied the Blues an attacking bonus point the hosts had all but locked up and handed home-ground advantage in the playoffs to their north island rivals. It was a brutal finish for the Blues, who had taken top spot from the Hurricanes a few weeks earlier, although there is still a chance Vern Cotter's side could yet host the final.
Consider this: if this weekend's quarterfinals follow the script, then it will be the Blues hosting the Brumbies in the semifinals. In the 28 years of Super Rugby, no Australian team has ever won a playoff game in New Zealand in 15 attempts.
That is an incredible statistic to overcome, though one that may also be moot if the Reds can produce something extraordinary this weekend in Hamilton. If not, then it will be the Hurricanes hosting the Chiefs in the other semifinal which, given Australia's collective playoff drought in New Zealand, looks the tougher assignment.
So, in a weird way, Ioane's try may turn out to be a blessing in disguise for the Blues.
Still, that try will have put a little extra spring in the Hurricanes' step this week. What coach Clark Laidlaw has done in his first season in charge is quite remarkable, particularly given the absence of reigning World Rugby Player of the Year, Ardie Savea.
The Hurricanes have standout performers across the park, while the growth in Brett Cameron and Ruben Love has been vital in the 2016 champions' ascent to top spot.
BOWEN WON'T FORGET STARTING DEBUT - BUT HE SHOULD RECALL IT FOR THE RIGHT REASONS
It's going to take some time for young Waratahs No. 10 Jack Bowen to get over his late penalty shank against the Reds on Friday night. In a moment that basically summed up the Waratahs' season, Bowen hooked his 40-metre attempt so badly that it would have needed two sets of posts further to the left for it to be any chance of sailing through.
When Fraser McReight secured yet another breakdown steal a few moments later and shovelled the ball over to Seru Uru to boot into the stands, several Waratahs players fell to the ground in despair, Bowen among them.
But when the disappointment subsides, Bowen will reflect on an otherwise accomplished performance that saw him score one try and have a hand in two others as he led a stirring second-half NSW comeback.
Bowen first put a hard-running Jed Holloway - who had one of his best games of the year - into a hole for the Waratahs' opening try, before he then crossed off a ricochet grubber-kick from centre Joey Walton. Finally, the No. 10 held up a perfect pass to put Izaia Perese into a hole, the replacement then putting Dylan Pietsch away for the run to the line.
Bowen, who was Australia's fly-half at the Under 20s World Championship last year, now finds himself in an interesting position for next year. With Tane Edmed off contract and rumours swirling that Carter Gordon could head to Sydney following the Melbourne Rebels' demise, Bowen could be the only fly-half on the Waratahs books next season -- or one of three.
In the meantime, a few extra hours of goal-kicking won't go astray.
While Bowen's opposite Tom Lynagh had earlier missed a simple attempt himself, the Reds youngster stepped up from 49 metres a few minutes later to nail what would be the match's defining play.
CRACKING REDS TRY A WORLD AWAY FROM THORN ERA
Queensland were a lot of things under former coach Brad Thorn, but one thing they were not was a creative and ruthless attacking team. Les Kiss has added those team traits this season, and the Reds climbed from eighth to fifth as result.
Had it not been for two golden point defeats, they could well have been hosting a quarterfinal this weekend. Instead, they face a tough challenge against the Chiefs in Hamilton, a team they have however enjoyed recent success against.
And if the Reds can produce more of the play they produced in the first half against the Waratahs, then they will right in the contest on Friday evening.
One play was particularly sumptuous, the Reds perfectly executing a sweeping backline move that finished with Josh Flook on an open run to the line for Queensland's second try.
It started with Lawson Creighton looping round Hunter Paisami, the Reds fly-half drawing Waratahs centre Joey Walton before offloading to Jock Campbell. The Reds fullback then drew Mark Nawaqanitawase with a pass to Fraser McReight, the flanker icing the move with a final pass to Josh Flook who ran away to score.
It was the kind of play you'd put up on a projector to show junior backs how the game should be played. The timing and execution of the passes, the depth of the support players and the straightness of the running - this Reds try really did have it all.
NOT SO SUPER
JACOBSON RULING DOES NOT HELP SOUTHERN PUSH
You get the feeling we might hear a little bit more about Luke Jacobson's collision with Finlay Christie in Saturday's clash at Eden Park.
At the time, it looked like Jacobson would be seeing a straight red from referee Ben O'Keeffe. But after several replays and a couple of minutes of deliberation, O'Keeffe ruled that the action was worthy of only a penalty.
However, given it was direct head-on-head contact, with force, it was clear that Jacobson should have at least seen a yellow, with the mitigation for the incident reducing the sanction from a red.
What the replays did show was that in trying to make a cleanout on Ricky Riccitelli, Jacobson unintentionally collected Christie having glanced up off the hooker's shoulder. But the Chiefs captain was still leading dangerously with the head, and a yellow really should have been forthcoming as a result.
Immediately there was outrage on social media, particularly from those rugby fans in the northern hemisphere who believe that the southern hemisphere does not take head contact and the ongoing issue of concussion seriously enough.
And in this case it was justified.
What rulings like this do is add to that narrative and make it harder for changes to the laws, specifically the red-card replacement law which has overwhelming support in the south, but still many objectors in the north.
The argument against is that it does not treat foul play seriously enough, despite punishing the offending player directly by not letting them return to the park. It allows that player to be replaced after 20 minutes instead.
It remains to be seen whether Jacobson is cited for the weekend's incident, but there is still great inconsistency with the way officials in Super Rugby Pacific have ruled on head-on-head contact this season.
Just last week in Hamilton, Hurricanes prop Raymond Tuputupu was red-carded and later handed a three-week suspension for head-on-head contact, despite there seemingly being enough mitigation for a yellow, given he had dipped at the hips to make the tackle and his opponent Tupou Vaa'i was also low into contact.
It seems Super Rugby Pacific is still sorting itself out when it comes to foul play, while the chances of the 20-minute red card being enacted into the lawbook slip further and further away.