Competition Format

The FIBA 3x3 Asia Cup 2017 feature 15 men's and 12 women's teams.

Since more than 12 teams registered for the men's competition, the 6 lowest-ranked teams at the November 1 2016 cut-off date (except the hosts) will play a qualifying draw in the morning of October 27 2017. Teams will be divided in 2 pools of 3 teams with the winners of each pool and the best 2nd-placed team advancing to the main draw.

Men's Teams directly qualified for the main draw (world rank on November 1 2016 in brackets):
Mongolia (hosts), Japan (16), China (22), New Zealand (27), Qatar (28), Kyrgyzstan (32), Bahrain (35), Kazakhstan (43), Sri Lanka (44)

Men's Teams headed for the qualifying draw:
Turkmenistan (47), Chinese Taipei (49), Australia (51), Lebanon (62), Malaysia (63), India (81)

With 12 teams registered for the women's competition, no qualifying draw is played.

In the main competition, teams are divided into 4 pools of 3 and seeded automatically based on the 3x3 Federation Ranking. 

Each team plays the other 2 in their respective pools. The top two teams from each pool qualify for the quarter finals and then play knock-out games all the way to the final.

With the exception of the bronze-medal game, there will be no classification games. Overall standings and pools standings are determined by the following 3x3 standing rules:

1. Most wins (or win ratio in case of unequal number of games in inter-pool comparison);
2. head-to-head confrontation (only taking win/loss into account and applies within a pool only);
3. Most points scored in average (without considering winning scores of forfeits).
If teams are still tied after those steps, the one(s) with the highest seeding win(s) the tie-breaker.

On top of the men's and women's competition, there is a Shoot-Out Contest (men & women).

All competitions will be played with the official 3x3 ball.