Tournament play rules on
VI. World Championship in Maxibasketball - Ljubljana 2001

1. There will be a minimum of 3 countries participating in each age category. There will be no more than 16 teams in each age category.
2. All teams will play at least 4(four) games, but no more than 6 (six).
3. The games will be programmed at two-hour intervals in each gym. If any team is not present at game time, it will forfeit the game.
4. There will three rest days per team during the Championship.
5. Each team will play no more than one game per day, and can not play more than three days in a row.
6. After the qualification pools it must be one rest day the semifinals and finals.
7. All the final games must be played on the same day.
8. The scoring system allows two points for win and one point for lose.
9. In a two teams tie, the team that had beat other in the pool is the winner.
10. In a three teams tie, the Olympic system will be followed:
    a) The team that had beat the others in the pool, is the winner.
    b) Each team will have a number for each game played determined by the score that is won or lost the game. This number may be positive or negative. The numbers for all the games will be totaled for each team. The team with the highest number will be declared the winner.
    c) In the event that this number (from b) is the same, then each team's scores from all games played will be totaled individually. The team that has the highest total points will be declared the winner.

Playing rules

1. There will 4 quarters of ten minutes each. There is a two minutes rest between first and second quarter and between third and fourth quarter.
2. There will be a ten minutes halftime.
3. There will be two timeouts per half, per team. There will be five minutes play in case of an overtime and one timeout per team.
4. For all other rules FIBA rules will be used.

Play shirts

1. All teams must have two play shirts, one dark and one light.
2. Shirts should be numbered from 4 to 15.

Tournament draw

1. Team drawings for game pairings will be done one month before the Championship in the presence of FIMBA and the Organizing Committee authorities

Players nationality

1. Teams must be national teams. That means: only national players in national
   teams. The only exceptions are:
   - Residents, people despite been no national citizens, are living in the country.
   - Blood nationality, those people that even having a new citizenship, (leaving in
   other country), they still have the born nationality.
   In both cases they can play.

e.g. I am living in Ljubljana, even I am Argentinean: I can play for Slovenia.
e.g. I have my USA citizenship but I have been born in Argentina: I can play for
Argentina.
In both cases the player has to choose, but both are acceptable.

FIMBA and Organizing committee of the 6th WMBC