Competition Format

In Malaysia, teams are divided in pools and seeded automatically based on the 3x3 Federation Ranking.

As we have 16 teams registered by gender, a Qualifying Draw is needed to bring it down to 12 teams per gender. The 6 lowest-ranked teams at cut-off (with Malaysia, as hosts, as a exception) will play a qualifying draw during the morning of Day 1. Teams are split in pools of 3 and both pool winners advance to the Main Draw of the U18 Asia Cup.

In the Main Draw, teams are split in 4 pools of 3 teams per gender. The pools are not determined through a draw, but automatically created through the 3x3 Federation Ranking of the participating countries as of 1 March 2017. All teams play every other in their respective pools. The best 2 in each pool qualify for the quarter-finals.

In case teams are tied in the pools, the tie-breakers are as follows:

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);
3. Most points scored in average (without considering winning scores of forfeits).

If teams are still tied after those three steps, the one(s) with the highest seeding win(s) the tie-breaker.

After the pools, the teams play knock-out games all the way to the final.

Pool games are played on Days 1 & 2, and the knock-out games on Day 3.