Registration
All players MUST have a confirmed play.fiba3x3 profile to play in the Rebel Sport 3×3 Quest Tour. Creating a profile is easy and takes only a minute. However, it is vitally important that after creating your profile, you need to reply to the confirmation email which will be sent to your chosen email address. There are three ways that you can register on play.fiba3x3.com:
2. Directly via play.fiba3x3.com
If you already have a play.fiba3x3.com profile it may possibly not be a confirmed account. It is important that you confirm your email in order to receive the FIBA ranking points that you earn at events.
Grades
There are grades for men and women in the following age groups:
Timings
Molten is our ball sponsor and we will use their 3×3 ‘Libertria” ball for all categories except Open men’s, who will use the Wilson 3×3 ball. Both balls are size 6, weight 7, which is the FIBA official ball size for all FIBA 3×3 events.
Uniforms
Team uniforms are encouraged but not compulsory. If you don’t have a uniform then please try to coordinate the same coloured playing top. This helps our referees immensely.
Bad Weather
In the case of bad weather please check the Basketball New Zealand Facebook page for an update. Most events have a wet-weather indoor alternative option, which we will let people know about on Facebook. However, some venues have a rain-day option (in all of these cases it is the following day). Again, please check the Basketball New Zealand Facebook page for updates.
Format
The competition format is:
Tour Rules
Rules specific to the Open Men’s Grade
The Open Men’s grade at each event (excluding Auckland Quest Final) will double as a World Tour Qualifier event, with the winner of the Open Men’s grade being eligible to play in the World Tour Qualifier Final (WTQ). The date and venue for the WTQ will be published at a later date. There will be a maximum of 10 teams in the WTQ Final. Those eligible teams that played in the Rebel Sport 3X3 Quest Tour events in the first 4 events (Auckland-West, Tauranga, Auckland-North and Wellington) will be given until 28 February 2021 to advise BBNZ of their intention to play in the WTQ Final. The winning teams in the remaining 4 events have until 15 March 2021 to advise if they will be playing in the WTQ Final. BBNZ will advise all teams whether they have qualified to play in the Final by 17 March 2021.
The winning team of the WTQ Final will receive an all-expenses paid trip to a World Tour Masters event. This trip is funded by Basketball New Zealand and will be ex-New Zealand only.
To be eligible to enter and participate in the World Tour Qualifier a player must;
a) be a New Zealand citizen, permanent resident or hold a work visa, working holiday visa or student visa, except that a player whose nationality is not New Zealand (a foreign player), may participate in the WTQ event provided that the player has been resident in New Zealand 90 days before commencement of the WTQ Final.
b) be living in New Zealand, except that where a player is a New Zealand citizen and is otherwise eligible in all respects has recently returned from overseas, in which case they can play.
Contact: David Huxford, 3X3 and National Events Manager, Basketball NZ – david@nz.basketball