BODYARMOR STATE GAMES

Description

Get ready for an action-packed weekend at the Greensboro Sportsplex on June 14-15, 2025, as the 2025 BODYARMOR State Games Basketball Tournament takes center stage! Join North Carolina’s biggest multi-sport festival and one of the largest State Games in the country, where over 12,000 athletes and 600 teams compete in 30 different sports. Experience high-level competition, showcase your skills, and be part of this incredible event!

• Tournament (Showcase)
• All teams
• Boys & Girls: 11th-2nd
• Ability: Elite/Competitive/Developmental
• $275.00 entry fee
• 3 game guarantee
• Exposure Certified

General Information

5P SPORTS TOURNAMENT RULES & REGULATIONS

📝 REGISTRATION & CHECK-IN
Required at Check-In:
Official team roster (printed from your team account).
Grade report for each player.
Birth certificate for each player.
Coaches must be present to sign for and receive their passes.
 
📋 ROSTER RULES
Roster Limit:
Maximum of 15 players per team.
Proof of Age & Grade:
Age: Clear photocopies of birth certificates, adoption papers, or immigration documents.
Grade: Current-year report card or official school document showing grade level.
These documents must be available at check-in and throughout the tournament. They must be presented upon request by the Tournament Director.

Roster Changes:
No additions allowed after the tournament begins.
If a player is listed on the official roster but not present at the start, they may join upon arrival.
 📅 SCHEDULE
The schedule will be posted on Exposure Events.
Download the app from the Apple or Google Play Store.
Follow your team to receive real-time updates via text or email.
👕 COACH ATTIRE
Coaches must wear a collared coach’s shirt or a team t-shirt with the team name.
Shorts are allowed.
Not allowed: Flip-flops or hats.
 
⏰ GAME TIME IS GAME TIME
We aim to avoid forfeits. If a team is a no-show, we’ll try to reschedule, but make-up games are not guaranteed.
 
🏀 TOURNAMENT GAME RULES
General Rules:
Governed by National High School Federation (NHSF) rules, with the following exceptions
:
Game Format:
Grades 7–11: Two 16-minute halves, Size 7 (29.5) basketball.
Grades 3–6: Two 14-minute halves, Size 6 (28.5) basketball.

Timing & Uniforms:

No game starts early unless both coaches agree.
Minimum 2-minute warm-up and 2-minute halftime (can be shortened by mutual agreement).
Home team: Light uniforms, sits left of scorer’s table.
Visitor team: Dark uniforms, sits right of scorer’s table.
Teams warm up on the basket opposite their bench.

Timeouts:
5 total: 3 full timeouts and 2 thirty-second timeouts.

Overtime:
2 minutes, clock stops on all whistles.
Fouls & Conduct:
5 fouls per player.
2 technical fouls = ejection from current and next game.
Fighting or unsportsmanlike behavior may result in disqualification at the Tournament Director’s discretion.
Equipment Responsibility:
Teams are responsible for their own warm-up and game balls.
We are not liable for lost items.
Forfeits:
Two forfeits = disqualification from bracket play.
Mercy Rule:
If a team leads by 20+ points, the clock runs continuously (except for injuries or timeouts).
If the lead drops below 10, normal clock rules resume.
 🏆 BRACKET SEEDING & TIEBREAKERS
Tiebreaker Order:
Head-to-head result.
Point Differential (max ±15 per game).
Fewest Points Allowed (across all pool games).
Total Points Scored.
Coin Toss.
Point Differential Rules:
Win = +15 max
Loss = –15 max
In multi-team ties, only games among tied teams are considered first.
Tie Scenarios:
2-Team Tie: Head-to-head result decides.
No Head-to-Head: Point Differential used.
Same Point Differential: Fewest Points Allowed decides.
3-Team Tie: Head-to-head ignored; Point Differential among tied teams used.
Still Tied: Use all games for Point Differential, then Fewest Points Allowed.
Note: Forfeits are recorded as 15–0.

CONCUSSIONS
 As a sanctioning body of athletic events, shares the concerns being raised on a national and local level regarding concussions and concussion symptoms in participants, coaches/ managers and umpires/referees in sanctioned activities.

We encourages its directors, umpires, coaches, referees, teams, team managers, and all adults involved in youth activities and participants to learn all they can about concussions in athletics and requires each of them and each of the directors to follow all federal, state and local laws (including concussion training and reaction laws) with regard to athletic competition

In addition, we have added the following to the rule books of each sport which does not defer to another organization for its rule book:

Upon becoming aware that a participant or coach/manager of his team has received a suspected concussion (or has been struck in the head area with any significant force), the Team Manager will not allow that person to participate in any sanctioned event and if occurring during any  sanctioned event, shall have that person removed from the playing field of any sanctioned event.

Upon becoming aware that a participant, coach/manager or official/umpire/referee has received a suspected concussion (or has been struck in the head area with any significant force), an 5P Sports official/umpire/referee or director will have that person removed from the playing field of any  sanctioned event.

Without a written medical written clearance from a licensed medical doctor to return to play, such persons will not be allowed to return to the playing field in an sanctioned event.

For officials/umpires/referees, the medical written consent must be presented to the Team Manager and retained permanently by the State Director.

For participants and coaches/managers, the medical written medical consent must be presented to the Team Manager and retained permanently by the Team Manager.

Any Team Manager, who allows a coach/manager or participant back on an 5P Sports sanctioned event playing field without first obtaining the required written consent, may be suspended by the State Director for up to one year and upon request of the State Director, may be suspended for a longer duration by the 5P Sports disbarment committee.

State Directors allowing an official/umpire/referee back in the field of play without the necessary consent will be subject to being disciplined as determined by the 5P Sports Board of Directors.

In the event of severe head trauma in an 5P Sports sanctioned activity, the 5P Sports injured person will not be moved and an ambulance will be called, unless otherwise directed by a qualified medical professional.

The parent or guardian of the injured person, however, will not be bound by this protocol and may choose a different approach consistent with their legal rights as the parent or guardian.