Finals Week Draw Info 16-21 August

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This information has been sent out to all our weekend club basketball contacts this week, ahead of round tekau mā ono

2025 CBA Winter Club Finals Week Draw

 

We’re down to the final weekend of the season now (and a handful of nights after that)! For those of you whose season has finished we hope it was enjoyable, and for those still playing for something, we hope your team plays well in their last game(s)!

Notes For This Week

  • Rule Expectations – For the games over Finals Week, we have a higher expectation for behaviour around these. In particular:
    • Assistant Coaches/Managers – cannot talk to the referees (unless explicitly invited by the referee to help with something), only the Head Coach can (this will be clarified prior to the game if there is multiple members on the team staff)
    • No Shooting on the Hoops – only teams involved in the game can shoot on the hoops, not members of the public (e.g. during during timeouts and quarter breaks)
  • Own Duty – all games over Finals Week are “Own Duty” which means each team needs to have two capable people ready to fulfil the scorebench roles

  • General Grand Final Schedule – we will be using this as a rough timeline for each game:
    • On-Court Warm-up Time – this will still be at least five minutes for teams (once the game before has finished)
    • Grand Final Referees – Prior to the game, the CBA will announce the Referees Selected for the Grand Final (in the final minute before tip-off)
    • First Team Awards – for most of our A grades, we will be publicly recognising the CBA First Team for that grade at Half time of the associated Grand Final. The teams will have their three minutes to talk after this has finished. (First and Third Quarter will still be one-minute breaks)
    • End of Game – we will present the Grade Trophy to the winning team, announce the Finals MVP, and take a team photo on their bench, as quickly as possible!

 

We’re really excited to see how the change of format works this year (four separate days for our Weekend Club Grade Grand Finals).

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