The technical meeting will be hosted online, on Microsoft Teams, at approximately 7pm on Monday 2 October.
The link for the technical meeting will be posted here closer to the tournament.
Draw, draw letter, and score bench roster will be posted here once they are complete.
The draw will be completed by approximately 20 September.
The programme and rosters will be posted here once all checks have been completed prior to the tournament.
No printed programmes will be sold.
Basketball NZ uses GameDay for all of our online draws and results.
All draws and results for representative tournaments can be found here.
Health & Safety documentation will be posted here approximately 4 weeks prior to the beginning of the tournament – approximately Wednesday 6 September.
- Boys will use a size 6 ball (Molten B6G3800)
- Girls will use the size 5 ball (Molten B5G3800)
- The use of zone defences is banned. All criteria can be found here
- Playing time is 4 x 8 minute quarters with stop clock.
- Each Affiliated Association must supply and name a referee for each Team when registering a Team. The referee must have agreed to be the team’s referee and has had previous officiating experience at this level. A referee cannot hold any position in the team as a player, coach, manager or otherwise. The Affiliated Association must cover all reasonable expenses of the referee to attend the competition.
Players that competed at the Under 15 National Championships are NOT eligible to play in the Under 13 Regional Championships as per the limitation on multiple championship participation.
Players age regulations can be found a the Age Definitions for BBNZ National Competitions document
All other BBNZ competition rules can be found here (page 8).
- It is compulsory for all players participating in all age grade (under 19’s and younger) competitions, leagues and tournaments run by BBNZ and its members to wear a protective mouthguard when they are on court and the game is in play
- The No Mouthguard, No Play Policy is to be firmly enforced
- Players are not permitted to share mouthguards
- Mouthguards of any colour may be worn (except in FIBA events where they must be non-coloured/transparent)
Please click here to view the BBNZ Mouthguard Policy.
Contact email: tournaments@nz.basketball | phone: (04) 498 5950
