The BMBA invitational will be an exciting new junior basketball competition format that has an entire focus on player and team development. Six team groups will be formed and initially, competitions will be played across a school term. The intention is to grow this across a two-term season as more teams enter.

To begin with, our one-term format will include six teams playing each other in a round-robin format where every team plays each other at least once. While these games will have a scoreboard and a team that wins and a team that loses, no ladders will be kept. The entire purpose of these lead-up round-robin games is the development of players. We want coaches to be focused on development and not winning.

In this format having your players try something new in game conditions whether it be a new dribble, a shot attempt or running a play will not impact on your team whether you win or lose.

Instead, coaches will be encouraged to use these games to develop and educate their players for an end of term round robin tournament, where over two weekends the same teams will play in competitive games where ladders will be kept and the top two teams will play off in a grand final to crown that term/season champions.

Ultimately, our preference is for a two-term season, where teams will play each other across fifteen rounds and then participate in an end-of-season round-robin tournament.