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Pool Play:
Games to 13
Round Length: 110 min
Halftime Cap: 40 min
Soft Cap (+1): 80 min
Hard Cap: 95 min
2 Timeouts per half
Halftime is at least 5 min, at most 10 min. Recommended 7 min.
Timeouts are allowed in soft/hard cap
Bracket Play:
Games to 15
Round Length: 120 min
Halftime Cap: 45 min
Soft Cap (+1): 90 min
Hard Cap: 105 min
2 Timeouts per half
Halftime is at least 5 min, at most 10 min. Recommended 7 min.
Timeouts are allowed in soft/hard cap
The three team tie-breaker problem:
When all three teams in a pool finish with 1-1 records, apply the standard tiebreakers, but you should add the following rule to the tournament: If the first two games of a three-way round robin end with the exact same score (but different winners), one additional point should be played after the second game. The pulling team and the sides should be the same as at the beginning of the second half. This point will only count in the case of the otherwise unbreakable three-way tie, where each game results in the exact same score. If each team has a point differential of zero after the last game and all three games resulted in the same score, the additional point played after round two determines the first and third place teams.
Remember, this provision only goes into effect if all three scores are identical; if merely all three point differentials are identical, that is not enough to trigger this provision. The problem with this, of course, is that where a team finishes, in part, is due to the round in which that team has a bye. But since teams know entering the final game what an identical score will cause, those two teams are in control of their fate, and the third team had a chance to impact the tie during the tiebreak point of the previous round.
Pool B Clipped Pool Play:
The schedule shows four games happening at the same time during round 2 of pool play. At the end of round 1 the winners will move to field #7 and the losers will move to field #8. On our end we will remove the two games not played. This is a workaround to allow the score reporter website to automatically calculate who will finish 2nd and 3rd in the pool as those two teams will both have a 1-1 record.