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TABLE OF CONTENTS WELCOME TO FINLAND .......................................................................................................................................... 3

COMPOSITION OF DELEGATIONS ......................................................................................................................... 3

ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES ................................................................................................................................. 3

FINANCIAL CONDITIONS ........................................................................................................................................ 3

REGISTRATION ......................................................................................................................................................... 4

COMPETITION .......................................................................................................................................................... 4

Age groups and participants ............................................................................................................................. 4

Tournament format ............................................................................................................................................ 4

Tournament rules and Official game ball ........................................................................................................ 4

Game venues ....................................................................................................................................................... 4

Game schedule .................................................................................................................................................... 5

Practice schedule ................................................................................................................................................ 6

Referees and National Instructions .................................................................................................................. 6

ACCOMMODATION & SERVICES ............................................................................................................................ 7

Meals .................................................................................................................................................................... 7

Water and ice supply .......................................................................................................................................... 7

Laundry ................................................................................................................................................................ 7

Towels ................................................................................................................................................................... 7

Internet ................................................................................................................................................................. 7

Accreditations ...................................................................................................................................................... 8

Tickets ................................................................................................................................................................... 8

Team meetings .................................................................................................................................................... 8

OPERATIONS .......................................................................................................................................................... 10

Live stats ............................................................................................................................................................. 10

Rosters ................................................................................................................................................................ 10

Game Videos ...................................................................................................................................................... 10

Video streaming ................................................................................................................................................ 10

Contact persons ................................................................................................................................................ 10

TECHNICAL MEETING ............................................................................................................................................ 11

CEREMONIES AND AWARDS ................................................................................................................................ 11

REMINDER OF IMPORTANT DEADLINES ............................................................................................................. 11

LOCAL INFORMATION .......................................................................................................................................... 11

Kisakallio Sports Institute ................................................................................................................................ 11

Lohja ................................................................................................................................................................... 12

Getting there...................................................................................................................................................... 12

Useful facts of Finland ...................................................................................................................................... 12

Map of Kisakallio ............................................................................................................................................... 13

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WELCOME TO FINLAND Finnish Basketball Association (LOC) is delighted to officially invite you and welcome you to this years’

Nordic Championships (NC) to be played in Kisakallio, Finland on June 26-30, 2017.

You are reading 1st Bulletin for the participating countries and teams. Should it not include all the

information your team needs, please do not hesitate to contact us.

In short, we are looking forward to organizing a fine tournament in the wonderful surroundings

provided by Kisakallio, where everything is within walking distance.

COMPOSITION OF DELEGATIONS Each national team is allowed a maximum of 18 participants: 12 players, 4 staff members, 2 team

delegation members.

In addition, each nation is requested to send 4 referees and 1 referee instructor to the tournament.

Please see separate section “Referees and Instructors” of this Bulletin for further details.

Please note that there is very limited amount of rooms available in Kisakallio. In case there are needs

for larger number of extra rooms, please see separate section “In-coming groups” of this Bulletin. In

case of individual needs, please contact LOC.

ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES Details concerning arrival and departure are to be sent with the rest of information requested in

registration process (see later).

LOC will provide one transportation for each nations’ delegation arriving and departing Helsinki Airport

or harbors of Helsinki or Turku. Please note that no other transports will be provided by LOC.

FINANCIAL CONDITIONS The participation fee for each participating team is 200€. The cost per participant is 59€ per night. Same

price applies for referees and referee instructors.

Based on information provided by participating countries with registration forms by May 19, LOC will

send invoices to all participant nations on May 26 at the latest. Invoices will include all participation

fees, possible extra accommodations, meals and snacks requested by participants.

Payments are to be made no later than June 7.

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REGISTRATION Number of persons of each delegation, registration of referees and National Instructor are to be made

no later than May 19 by using enclosed form “Registration”. Details of arrival and departure of each

delegation are required in the same form.

COMPETITION Age groups and participants Participating nations are Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

Age groups of Nordic Championships 2017 are Women and Men U18 (born 1999) and U16 (born 2001).

Tournament format In each respective age group a round-robin will be played. Final standings will be determined by official

FIBA rules.

Tournament rules and Official game ball All games will be played according to standard FIBA rules. Official game balls will be Molten.

LOC will supply 12 basketballs for all practices and games.

Game venues Susi Training Center, the official training facility for Finnish

basketball National Teams, has two courts. They are named

Susi 1 (main court, pictured) and Susi 2 for scheduling

purposes.

The main building of Kisakallio has a sports hall, which is

Susi 3 in the schedules.

Main building of Kisakallio and Susi Training Center are

around 200 meters apart from each other.

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Game schedule

SUSI 1

SUSI 2

SUSI 3

Monday 26.6. Monday 26.6. Monday 26.6. MU16 13:30 ISL - FIN WU18 13:45 ISL - FIN WU16 13:30 ISL - FIN

MU18 15:45 ISL - FIN MU18 16:00 NOR - SWE WU16 15:45 NOR - SWE

WU18 18:00 NOR - SWE WU18 18:15 EST - DEN WU16 18:00 EST - DEN

MU16 20:15 NOR - SWE MU18 20:30 EST - DEN MU16 20:15 EST - DEN

Tuesday 27.6. Tuesday 27.6. Tuesday 27.6. MU16 13:30 FIN - EST WU16 13:45 ISL - NOR WU16 13:30 SWE - DEN

WU16 15:45 FIN - EST MU18 16:00 SWE - DEN WU18 15:45 ISL - NOR

MU18 18:00 FIN - EST WU18 18:15 SWE - DEN MU16 18:00 ISL - NOR

WU18 20:15 FIN - EST MU18 20:30 ISL - NOR MU16 20:15 SWE - DEN

Wednesday 28.6. Wednesday 28.6. Wednesday 28.6. MU18 13:30 DEN - FIN WU18 13:45 SWE - ISL WU16 13:30 NOR - EST

WU18 15:45 NOR - EST WU16 16:00 DEN - FIN MU16 15:45 SWE - ISL

MU16 18:00 DEN - FIN MU18 18:15 NOR - EST WU18 18:00 DEN - FIN

WU16 20:15 SWE - ISL MU18 20:30 SWE - ISL MU16 20:15 NOR - EST

Thursday 29.6. Thursday 29.6. Thursday 29.6. WU18 13:30 NOR - FIN WU18 13:45 EST - SWE WU16 13:30 NOR - FIN

MU18 15:45 NOR - FIN MU18 16:00 DEN - ISL MU16 15:45 EST - SWE

WU18 18:00 DEN - ISL WU16 18:15 DEN - ISL WU16 18:00 EST - SWE

MU18 20:15 EST - SWE MU16 20:30 NOR - FIN MU16 20:15 DEN - ISL

Friday 30.6. Friday 30.6. Friday 30.6. WU16 9:00 DEN - NOR MU18 9:15 DEN - NOR WU18 9:00 DEN - NOR

WU18 11:15 FIN - SWE WU16 11:30 FIN - SWE MU16 11:15 DEN - NOR

MU18 13:30 FIN - SWE WU18 13:45 EST - ISL MU16 13:30 FIN - SWE

MU18 15:45 EST - ISL WU16 16:00 EST - ISL MU16 15:45 EST - ISL

SUSI 1

SUSI 2

SUSI 3

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Practice schedule

SUSI 1 SUSI 2 SUSI 3

SUSI 1 SUSI 2 SUSI 3

Monday 26.6. Tuesday 27.6. 7:30 7:30 FIN M16 ISL W16 SWE W16

8:10 8:10 EST M16 NOR W16 DEN W16

8:50 ISL M16 ISL W18 ISL W16 8:50 FIN W16 SWE M18 ISL W18

9:30 FIN M16 FIN W18 FIN W16 9:30 EST W16 DEN M18 NOR W18

10:10 ISL M18 10:10 FIN M18 SWE W18 ISL M16

10:50 FIN M18 10:50 EST M18 DEN W18 NOR M16

11:30 11:30 FIN W18 ISL M18 SWE M16

12:10 12:10 EST W18 NOR M18 DEN M16

Wednesday 28.6. Thursday 29.6. 7:30 DEN M18 SWE W18 NOR W16 7:30 NOR W18 EST W18 NOR W16

8:10 FIN M18 ISL W18 EST W16 8:10 FIN W18 SWE W18 FIN W16

8:50 NOR W18 DEN W16 SWE M16 8:50 NOR M18 DEN M18 EST M16

9:30 EST W18 FIN W16 ISL M16 9:30 FIN M18 ISL M18 SWE M16

10:10 DEN M16 NOR M18 DEN W18 10:10 DEN W18 DEN W16 EST W16

10:50 FIN M16 EST M18 FIN W18 10:50 ISL W18 ISL W16 SWE W16

11:30 SWE W16 SWE M18 NOR M16 11:30 EST M18 NOR M16 DEN M16

12:10 ISL W16 ISL M18 EST M16 12:10 SWE M18 FIN M16 ISL M16 SUSI 1 SUSI 2 SUSI 3 SUSI 1 SUSI 2 SUSI 3

Referees and National Instructions Nordic Championships 2017 will use a three-referee system for all games. In addition, there will be

annual FIBA Europe Referee Clinic arranged for participating referees.

All participating nations are asked to bring 4 referees and 1 National Instructor to the tournament as

agreed at the Nordic meeting. It’s preferred that one of the referees is a FIBA referee and other are

considered as future FIBA referee candidates.

Please note that all referees and instructors should be available for the games for the whole duration

of the tournament.

Head of Refereeing of the Finnish Basketball Association, Mrs. Kati Nynäs will be responsible for making

the game schedule for referees and handing out individual feedback together with the National

Instructors and a representative from FIBA Europe’s Competition Department.

Registration of referees and National Instruction are to be done by using enclosed form “Registration”.

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ACCOMMODATION & SERVICES The players of U16 will be accommodated in rooms of four and the players of U18 in rooms of three.

Coaches will be accommodated in two double rooms and delegation members have one double room

at their disposal. LOC will do its best to accommodate each national team close to each other.

Meals Individual participation fee of 59€ includes breakfast, lunch and dinner per day. All meals are served in

buffet style.

On the day of arrival, teams are entitled to dinner and on the day of departure teams are entitled to

breakfast and lunch.

Teams can request snack and extra lunch/dinner for the day of arrival/departure at their own cost.

Snack costs 6,50 €/person, extra lunch/dinner costs 10 €/person.

Teams are requested to pre-order all the extra snacks and meals during registration process (see later).

In case team decides to order extra meals, drinks or other services during tournament, payment shall

be made directly to the restaurant of Kisakallio.

Water and ice supply Quality of tap water in Finland is considered one of the best in the world making it extremely safe to

drink. Bottled water is not provided by the LOC.

Ice is available to the teams at main arena, Susi Training Center, and can also be requested from the

restaurant staff at the main building.

Laundry Laundry service is provided by Kisakallio to the teams at their own cost. Laundry will be dropped

off/brought back to reception of main building according to the hours to be determined by LOC.

Washing one set of uniforms (includes 12 pieces of game shirts, shorts and shooting shirts) will cost

15€. Payments are made directly to the reception, when picking up laundry. Please note that this price

is only for game gear.

If you want to wash other personal items (socks, t-shirts, polo-shirts etc.) the price is 25€/bag. Washing

bags will be provided by the reception. Payments are made directly to the reception, when picking up

laundry.

Towels Besides the towels available in the rooms, LOC will not provide extra towels for the teams.

Internet Wireless Internet connection is available in public areas and rooms of Kisakallio free of charge.

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Accreditations Individual participation fee of 59€ includes a tournament pass, which entitles free entrance to all

games.

Tickets Tickets will be sold to the games on game venues. Daily ticket will cost 5€, which entitles to entrance to

all games played during particular game day. Tournament pass will cost 20€ and it covers all games of

the tournament.

Each national delegation will receive 5 complimentary Tournament passes for their VIP’s (Secretary

General, President, federation staff). This doesn’t include accommodation!

Team meetings Four meeting rooms in the main building are available for team meetings. Meeting rooms are equipped

with projector and screen. To reserve a meeting room, team can reserve 60-minutes at a time from the

reception of Kisakallio, which controls the schedule of meeting rooms. As a general rule, reservations

will be done on a first-come, first-served basis.

Please note that there is special arrangement for pre-game team meetings for teams playing in either

court (Susi 1 or Susi 2) of the main arena, Susi Training Center, which only has two locker rooms. Due

to lack of sufficient amount of locker rooms, two extra meeting rooms are provided for teams to hold

their pre-game team meetings. These extra meeting rooms are located in the Ice Hall, which is on the

way to, just 15 meters apart from, Susi Training Center.

Court Susi 3 has four locker rooms, which teams playing there can use for their pre-game meetings.

Schedule of pre-game meetings for teams playing in courts Susi 1 and Susi 2 is listed below.

SINIVIIVA PUNAVIIVA Monday 26.6. Monday 26.6.

ISL M16 12:15-12:45 FIN M16 12:15-12:45

ISL W18 12:45-13:15 FIN W18 12:45-13:15

ISL M18 14:30-15:00 FIN M18 14:30-15:00

NOR M18 15:00-15:30 SWE M18 15:00-15:30

NOR W18 16:45-17:15 SWE W18 16:45-17:15

EST W18 17:15-17:45 DEN W18 17:15-17:45

NOR M16 19:00-19:30 SWE M16 19:00-19:30

EST M18 19:30-20:00 DEN M18 19:30-20:00

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Tuesday 27.6. Tuesday 27.6.

FIN M16 12:15-12:45 EST M16 12:15-12:45

ISL W16 12:45-13:15 NOR W16 12:45-13:15

FIN W16 14:30-15:00 EST W16 14:30-15:00

SWE M18 15:00-15:30 DEN M18 15:00-15:30

FIN M18 16:45-17:15 EST M18 16:45-17:15

SWE W18 17:15-17:45 DEN W18 17:15-17:45

FIN W18 19:00-19:30 EST W18 19:00-19:30

ISL M18 19:30-20:00 NOR M18 19:30-20:00

Wednesday 28.6. Wednesday 28.6.

DEN M18 12:15-12:45 FIN M18 12:15-12:45

SWE W18 12:45-13:15 ISL W18 12:45-13:15

NOR W18 14:30-15:00 EST W18 14:30-15:00

DEN W16 15:00-15:30 FIN W16 15:00-15:30

DEN M16 16:45-17:15 FIN M16 16:45-17:15

NOR M18 17:15-17:45 EST M18 17:15-17:45

SWE W16 19:00-19:30 ISL W16 19:00-19:30

SWE M18 19:30-20:00 ISL M18 19:30-20:00

Thursday 29.6. Thursday 29.6.

NOR W18 12:15-12:45 FIN W18 12:15-12:45

EST W18 12:45-13:15 SWE W18 12:45-13:15

NOR M18 14:30-15:00 FIN M18 14:30-15:00

DEN M18 15:00-15:30 ISL M18 15:00-15:30

DEN W18 16:45-17:15 ISL W18 16:45-17:15

DEN W16 17:15-17:45 ISL W16 17:15-17:45

EST M18 19:00-19:30 SWE M18 19:00-19:30

NOR M16 19:30-20:00 FIN M16 19:30-20:00

Friday 30.6. Friday 30.6.

DEN W16 7:45-8:15 NOR W16 7:45-8:15

DEN M18 8:15-8:45 NOR M18 8:15-8:45

FIN W18 10:00-10:30 SWE W18 10:00-10:30

FIN W16 10:30-11:00 SWE W16 10:30-11:00

FIN M18 12:15-12:45 SWE M18 12:15-12:45

EST W18 12:45-13:15 ISL W18 12:45-13:15

EST M18 14:30-15:00 ISL M18 14:30-15:00

EST W16 15:00-15:30 ISL W16 15:00-15:30

SINIVIIVA PUNAVIIVA

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OPERATIONS Live stats During the Nordic Championships 2017 all games will be covered by live stats, which are displayed on

the web site of Finnish Basketball Association at www.basket.fi.

Rosters In order to prepare printed game program and live stats for the tournament, participating countries are

asked to send a preliminary roster with maximum 16 players for all national teams no later than

June 7. Please use the attached form “Team rosters”.

A final list of 12 players including uniform numbers has to be sent June 21 at the latest.

Game Videos Games will be recorded by tournament organization. Each team will receive one USB memory to be

used for the duration of tournament. Teams shall be responsible for bringing the USB to the

tournament office in main arena before each game. After the game USB’s will be ready to be picked up

as soon as games are copied. Game videos will in .MP4 file format.

Videos of other games can be ordered through the tournament office. Price of one extra game is 10€.

Payments are made directly to tournament office when picking up the video.

Video streaming There will be live video streaming of the games played at the main court (Susi 1). Games are shown on

the Youtube channel of Finnish Basketball Association, www.youtube.com/basketfinland.

LOC is currently working on the possibility to show streams also from courts Susi 2 and Susi 3.

Contact persons Event Director

Piia Kettunen

Mob: +358 440 208008

E-mail: piia@basket.fi

Event Coordinator

Jussi Laurila

Mob: +358 400 468202

E-mail: jussi.laurila@basket.fi

Referee Coordinator

Kati Nynäs

Mob: +358 40 5775369

E-mail: kati@basket.fi

http://www.basket.fi/http://www.youtube.com/basketfinlandmailto:piia@basket.fimailto:jussi.laurila@basket.fimailto:kati@basket.fi

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TECHNICAL MEETING There will be a technical meeting arranged on Monday, June 26 in a meeting room in Kisakallio at 13:00.

Technical meeting is mandatory for heads of delegations, heads of referees and the local organizers.

CEREMONIES AND AWARDS Flags of all participating nations will be displayed in the game venues. Pre-game ceremonies are to be

determined by LOC at later stage.

Winning team of each age group will receive a trophy and top 3 teams will receive medals. All Star

teams are also selected and awarded for each age group. All award ceremonies will be held on the final

day of the tournament. Details will be communicated to the participants by LOC before the final day.

REMINDER OF IMPORTANT DEADLINES May 19 Registration of teams and referees, extra meals ordered (Use forms: Registration, Meals)

June 7 Payments made

June 7 Preliminary rosters sent (Use form: Team rosters)

June 21 Final rosters sent (Use form: Team rosters)

LOCAL INFORMATION Kisakallio Sports Institute The youth basketball Nordic Championships will be staged in the state of the art venue of Kisakallio

Sports Institute in Lohja (Kisakalliontie 284, Lohja, +358 19 31511, jukka.kataja@kisakallio.fi).

Kisakallio can offer an accommodation in three different standards with a total of 700 beds.

Kisakallio is the official practice facility of Finnish national basketball team, Susijengi, as well as women’s

national team and Finnish junior national teams.

Facility dedicated for basketball, Susi Training Center, features two full-length courts for games (named

Susi 1, Susi 2), which can be transformed to three full-length practice courts with modern gym attached.

In addition there’s a Sports Hall with full-length basketball court (Susi 3) in the main building of

Kisakallio.

During Nordic Championships the main court of Susi Training Center, Susi 1, will have capacity of 500

spectators. Courts Susi 2 and Susi 3 have the capacity of 200 spectators.

Kisakallio has organized a number of different kind of events and tournaments such as The European

Women Ice Hockey Championship Tournament 2008, The World Wheelchair Curling Championship

Qualification 2010 and the Fin5 orienteering week 2011.

mailto:jukka.kataja@kisakallio.fi

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Kisakallio Sports Institute is surrounded by 250 hectares of wildwood, Karnaistenkorpi, which is

nationally and internationally unique.

Lohja Town of Lohja is around 15-minute-drive away from Kisakallio. Advantageously located in the province

of Southern Finland, Lohja is a part of Greater Helsinki Metropolitan region.

Town was established in 1926 and has a population of 48.000.

Getting there BY BUS

Majority of international flights to Finland land at Helsinki-Vantaa International Airport which is located

in Vantaa, 18 kilometres to the north of central Helsinki.

There are transfer bus connections from Helsinki-Vantaa International Airport Terminal 2 to Lohja 4-6

times a day, but it is advisable to travel from Airport to Helsinki Central Railway Station (25 minutes),

walk to Kamppi Central Bus Station only two blocks away from Helsinki Central and hop into one of the

hourly buses towards Lohja (from 11,50€).

The easiest way to get to Lohja from other major airport cities such as Tampere or Turku is to catch a

train to Helsinki (2 hours from Tampere or Turku) and hop onto bus in Kamppi Central Bus Station.

As there is no public transportation from Lohja to Kisakallio, it is advisable to take a taxi (15 minutes).

BY CAR

Expressways connect Lohja to Helsinki to the east, Turku to the west and Tampere to the northwest. A

drive from Helsinki city centre to downtown Lohja takes approximately 50 minutes while Turku is 1

hour 15 minutes and Tampere 2 hours 10 minutes away.

Useful facts of Finland • Official languages: Finnish, Swedish

• Currency: Euro (€)

• Calling code: +358

• Time zone: EET (UTC +2), EEST (UTC +3) during summer time

• Voltage 230 V, Frequency 50 Hz, Power sockets type F (commonly called “Schuko plug”)

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Map of Kisakallio