Proposal 131: New Section 15D.2 Games and Tournaments [ Revision 2 ]
Committee: 15. BasketballSubmitted on 2025-07-20
Status: Passed on August 07, 2025
Background
Game and tournament formats cannot be standardized but general guidelines should nevertheless be provided.
Proposal
In the new Section 15D Event Organizer Rules that will probably be created by Proposal 129, addition of a new section.
15D.2 Games and Tournaments
To facilitate the organization of Unicycle Basketball tournaments, the directors may modify the game period and game duration, and may choose that the game clock is not always stopped as instructed by the FIBA rules. However, a game shall have 1, 2, or 4 periods and last no less than 10 minutes and no more than 40 minutes, and a game period shall last no less than 5 minutes and no more than 15 minutes. It is recommended to respect the clock stops at least in the last two minutes of a game.
Depending on the event duration and the number of teams, tournaments may have various forms. The director should nevertheless adhere to the following general guidelines.
- All teams shall have equal opportunities to win the tournament with respect to the tournament structure.
- To balance pools for example, the director may define groups (seeds, etc.) based on factual, verifiable criteria. In this case, these criteria must be communicated in advance. Otherwise team assignments should be made uniformly at random as much as possible.
For the basketball A tournament at Unicon, the following requirements are added.
- The tournament structure and the general schedule must be communicated to the team captains at least one week before the first day of the tournament.
- A direct elimination game shall last at least 20 minutes, with clock stops respected at least in the last two minutes of the game.
- If the number of teams permits, there must be at least semi-finals, a third-place game, and a final.
- The finals shall be played in full (4 periods of 10 minutes), with all clock stops.
Body
The new rule provides restrictions on the game format, and general (and Unicon specific) guidelines for the tournament format.
Note to all: I added a restriction on the number of periods.
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Discussion
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- Revision 2 changed by David Ilcinkas (20 Jul 13:17)
I forgot to change "final" into "finals" in the last item, sorry Gabriel.
- Revision 1 changed by David Ilcinkas (20 Jul 12:59)
Votes on this proposal:
5 out of 9 voting members have voted.
Agree: 5, Disagree: 0, Abstain: 0.