8th Oceania Youth Basketball Tournament Report ... - Fiba Oceania

Pre-Tournament Training
Under the supervision of Brigitte Delaveuve, a strong and
committed group of volunteers were recruited for the scoretable
and statistics teams. In the months leading up to the
tournament the teams practiced under game conditions as well
as theory sessions.
The FIBA Live Stats program was introduced to the statisticians
by FIBA Oceania staff member Judy Smith during her visit
earlier in the year. Further training opportunities arose during
Judy‟s following visits.
Score Table and Statistics Report
Volunteers Management & Confirm Rosters
The score table and statisticians rosters were completed and
distributed prior to the tournament. Because of the extensive
training regime undertaken prior to the tournament, Brigitte was able to put volunteers into teams, and
placed them in the stadium closest to their homes. This meant Mont Dore and Vallee du Tir were both
serviced with 2 sets of score table and statistics teams.
Attendance
It is a pleasure to report that all 30 score table and statisticians were reliable and competent for the
tournament. Each team was rostered „game on/game off‟ which suited the participants perfectly, enabling
them to take some rest between their games.
Uniforms
All score officials were provided with official tournament shirts. The Chairperson wore the FIBA „Clean
Game‟ orange shirt, ensuring that the chairman was always dressed in a different colour to the bench
officials.
Competition Administration, the Website, Live Stats
As is now the standard practice for all FIBA Oceania events, the
FIBA Organizer program was used to set up and run the
competition, and a tournament website was set up under
www.fibaoceania.com The website received 83,839 page hits
during the tournament, which equated to 727 Mb of traffic. This is
a great result and shows the value of the website to families across
the Pacific.
We were able to use the FIBA Live Stats program, which enabled
viewers across the world to connect to the internet and watch the
game via statistics webcasting. Unfortunately we experienced
problems with the continuity of internet access at Mont Dore,
resulting in some games not being „live‟. However, all game
statistics were uploaded to the website when internet access was available, giving viewers access to full
game statistics. Congratulations to Brigitte Delaveuve for her efforts in training the statisticians for the
tournament. Given that the statisticians had only been introduced to the Live Stats program 6 months before
the tournament, they did an outstanding job. They were accurate and efficient, and were able to learn the
final parts of the program (webcast, cross referencing with score sheet, uploading results) very quickly.
Recommendation:
Internet access must be available at least 2 days before the start of the tournament, allowing time for
the system to be tested.
There must be spare toner cartridges (and other consumables) stored at the venue for replacement
purposes.
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