4^th HKASA Schools Invitational Water Polo Championships

Date : 25^th and 26^th October 2003                      Time : 0900 A.M. till 1800 P.M. Daily.

Venue : Tseung Kwan O Swimming Pool

Basic Rules

• A maximum of 13 players can play on any one team during a match.
• All teams must be ready for their match with water polo caps on and seated at the marshalling area at least 10 minutes before their match is scheduled to start.
• Teams that are late for their match by more than 1 minute will automatically lose their match 5-0.
• A win is worth 3 points, a draw is worth 1 point and a loss is worth 0 points.
• Teams will ranked after day 1 according to their number of wins. If there is a tie then the goal difference (no. of goals scored minus the number of goals conceded). If there is still a tie, then the total number of goals scored will be counted.
• Any player ejected for brutality will miss the next match. Any player ejected twice for brutality will miss the rest of the competition.

Day 1

• All teams will play a round robin in their respective groups. In other words, all teams will play four matches.
• The top two teams from each group will go forward to compete for the CUP trophy and the other 6 teams will compete for the PLATE trophy.
• Matches will consist of 2 halves of 7 minutes running clock each with a 2 minute interval between halves.

Day 2

• All preliminary matches will be 2 halves of 10 minutes stopping clock.
• All Finals matches and all University matches and Girls’ matches will be four quarters of 7 minutes stopping clock with one minute interval between quarters.
• The teams playing for 9^th and 10^th place will have one match only on day 2.
• There will be no draws in the finals. Any match resulting in a draw will be resolved with a penalty shoot-out. 5 players from each team will be required to shoot. If there is still a draw, then 5 different players will shoot and so on. The goalkeeper is eligible to be one of the shooters, but one goalkeeper must be nominated to save all the shots.