Age:
Year 5&6: Schools must bring players who are not in the school 'A' team. Players in the 'first' team cannot attend this event.
Date:
3rd November 2021
Time:
13:00-15:00
*Times are subject to change so please keep an eye out
Venue:
Primary School Host TBD
Rules:
⇒ Each team has 6 players on the court at the start of a game. |
⇒ 3 games. Games last 2 minutes. |
⇒ 3 balls in the Dead Zone at the start of a game
⇒ At a game’s start 3 players from each team run to gain possession of the balls. Balls must be taken or passed to the back of the court before the first attempts are made.
⇒ The Leading team, in the game, has 5 seconds to throw balls at their opponents, when it has possession of more than two balls. Throws must be ‘Valid Attempts’. Leading teams can retain possession of one ball.
⇒ When you catch a throw from an opposing player, they are out and one of your players comes back in. Players are allowed to fumble a ball while catching; but they must retain possession at the end of the catching action, while remaining on pitch, and without ball touching any other player or any other ball, object or surface.
⇒ Catches bring players who are out back into the game in rotation – FOFI (first out – first in).
⇒ You can use a ball in your possession to block a thrown ball, but you are out if the ball is knocked from your hands when you try to block the incoming ball.
⇒ You win a game by putting out all the opposing team, or by having more players left on court at the end of the game.
⇒ Substitutions are allowed between the 2-minute games. You are out When a ball hits you directly, which is thrown by an opponent When an opposing player catches your throw; When you step into the Dead Zone (hands/arms are allowed); When you touch a boundary line or touch the floor/wall/barrier over a boundary line or on the opponent’s side of the court; |
When the referee calls you out, for any reason.