{"id":59,"date":"2019-08-25T19:48:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T19:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2019\/?p=59"},"modified":"2019-08-25T19:48:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T19:48:13","slug":"ventspils-to-host-baltic-cup-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2019\/2019\/08\/25\/ventspils-to-host-baltic-cup-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Ventspils to host Baltic Cup 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dates<\/strong>:<br \/>\nSeptember 13-15, 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Venue<\/strong><i>:<br \/>\n<\/i>Olympic Centre\u00a0\u201cVentspils\u201d, Sporta street 7\/9, Ventspils, LV-3601, with 3 courts<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocventspils.lv\/en\">https:\/\/www.ocventspils.lv\/en<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Participants\u2019 countrie<\/strong>s:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Estonia<\/li>\n<li>Latvia (host of Baltic Cup 2019)<\/li>\n<li>Lithuania<\/li>\n<li>*<strong>wild card &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>team from any other country<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Age categories:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Men 40+; 45+, 50+; 55+; 60+; 65+; 70+; 75+<\/li>\n<li>Women 30+, 35+; 40+; 45+; 50+, 55+<br \/>\nAge determined at December 31, 2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Competition format:<br \/>\n<\/strong>At least 2 teams have to apply in each age category, with a maximum of 4.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>4-team format<\/strong>: Teams are playing Semi-Finals and the Finals:\n<ul>\n<li>Pair I of Semi-Final: Lithuania vs Estonia<\/li>\n<li>Pair II of Semi-Final: Latvia vs *wild card;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>3-team format<\/strong>: Teams play each other. Guests play in two days (one game per day), host team plays two games per day;<\/li>\n<li><strong>2-team format<\/strong>: Teams play each other (4&#215;8 min) twice or only one full time game (by mutual agreement of parties)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>* In case of non-defined situations, the host \u2013 Latvian Organizer has rights to choose a competition format.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Playing rules:<br \/>\n<\/strong>The official FIBA basketball rules, except the playing time. It sets at 4 x 8 minute quarters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Awards<\/strong>:<br \/>\nThe winner of each age category will be awarded with the Baltic Cup trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Draft of the\u00a0<strong>Program<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>September\u00a013, 2019<br \/>\nArrival<br \/>\nGames will start at *3 p.m. in 3 courts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>September\u00a014, 2019<br \/>\nGames will be played from 10 a.m. to 7 p.p. in 3 courts<br \/>\nAWARD ceremonies\u00a0at *15:00 and 19:00 in\u00a0O\/C Ventspils<br \/>\nCLOSING PARTY\u00a0at 20:00 (place will be announced later)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>September\u00a014, 2019<br \/>\nSome games would be played just in case of short of time limit on Saturday<br \/>\nDeparture! Good bye until next year in Lithuania!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*time of activities could be changed due to the number of the teams and competition format in each age category<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dates: September 13-15, 2019 Venue: Olympic Centre\u00a0\u201cVentspils\u201d, Sporta street 7\/9, Ventspils, LV-3601, with 3 courts https:\/\/www.ocventspils.lv\/en Participants\u2019 countries: Estonia Latvia (host of Baltic Cup 2019) Lithuania *wild card &#8211;\u00a0team from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":61,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/baltic-cup-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}