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The elite competitions can be split into two types:
National Team championships;
City-based WT.
The top National Team competitions are the FIBA 3x3 World Championships (“WC”)
and FIBA 3x3 U18 World Championships (“U18WC”). National Federations are
responsible to select the national teams. Further National Team competitions include
inter alia FIBA Zone Championships, IOC-organised competitions and FISU World
University Championships.
The FIBA 3x3 World Tour is a series of events supervised by FIBA, consisting of a
series of “WT Masters” and a “WT Final”. The participating teams have no nationality
restrictions and represent a city. The teams participating in a WT Masters have
qualified through FIBA-designated WT Qualifiers in each WT Master’s corresponding
catchment area; the WT Final is comprised of teams that have qualified at the relevant
WT Masters.
The number of teams that will qualify for the WT Final from each WT Master as well as
the selection of the WT Qualifiers themselves are a FIBA prerogative. In the 2013
edition of the WT the best 2 teams of each of the 5 WT Masters proceed to the WT
Final, complemented with one local team and one wild card for a total of 12 teams.
The FIBA 3x3 World Tour Event Manual, developed by FIBA alongside its FIBA 3x3
World Tour operating partners, will regulate the elite events to ensure quality standards
and common look & feel in 2013. The elite events should whenever possible, be held in
conjunction with grassroots competitions, in keeping with the 3x3 spirit of « everybody’s
game ».
1.4. 3x3 Global Season
The goal of a unified 3x3 Global Season is to avoid agenda conflicts between the main
National-Team championships and the WT, as well as timing the various events to
minimise diversion from other sports. The WT Masters ought to be the pinnacle of each
catchment area’s natural season.
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