Tournament Rules - MG Mixer 2022.

1. All players must be fully vaccinated. THIS IS A VENUE REQUIREMENT, and will be enforced by QR check-in at the Netball Centre. 
2. Masks should be worn inside where practical & when players are not playing. 
3. NO family or spectators will be allowed inside the venue, only players.
4. Players cannot play in more than one team or one division, and are being asked not to mix with other courts/ players unnecessarily. 
5. The minimum number of players a team must field is 5. If playing with 5 players, the "phantom" rule applies.  Adding fill-in players for that team will be at the discretion of the Tournament Director.
6. A duty team must provide a minimum of 1x first referee, 1x second referee, 2x lines judge, and 1x scorer. Failure to do so will attract a penalty from the dutying team's game points in the ranking.
7. For all Mixed division games, a team must field a balance of 4 male and 2 female players. If not, the captain of offending team must nominate a 'female' player to equal an opponents male/female mix. These “female” players must not attempt to attack above the net; block; or jump serve. Breaching these restrictions will allow the opposing team to win the point.
8. There is no restriction on the arrangement of male and female players in the rotation.    
9. All pool games and semi finals & elimination games will be timed & best of 3 sets of 25/25/15 with the 1st and 2nd sets to 25 points and where a third set is required, it will be first to 15 points – see rule 10/11.
10. Each court will have 10 mins warmup and 45 mins gameplay. 
11. All Gold medal games will be untimed but still best of 3 sets of 25/25/15.
12. If a game is timed, and the buzzer goes, & a point is being played, it will continue then count toward the scores. The game will then stop unless a golden point is needed.
13. If 2 teams have a 1 set all tie, then the points will be added to get a winner. If points are also equal in a 1 set all tie, then a golden point will be played.
14. Any 2^nd sets that have a winning score of 15 pts and over (with 2pts advantage) will be deemed a winning set if the game is timed and the timer runs out.  
15. Any third set that has a winning score 8 pts and over with advantage of more than 2pts (if time runs out) will be deemed a winning set if the timed games ends.  
16. If a game is timed, there will be no timeouts in the last 5 minutes of play.
17. Teams only have 1 timeout (90 secs) per set played.
18. If teams finish at 1 set all, and equal on points, and tied scores in the 3^rd set, a Golden point rule will decide the winner.
19. A Golden Point is played if set and score counts are equal, and it is an equal points result --   then 1 point is played, after captains toss to choose for the serve. Play begins after the toss, there is no time out allowed. Winner of golden point will be the team declared the winner. 
20. Unlimited substitution rule will be applied to all divisions & games.
21. All disputes and protests will be dealt with by the Tournament Director and his/her decision is final.
22. Net Heights, Women = 2.24m / Men & Mixed = 2.43m