04th
February 2012
Midnight
Madness This Evening
Weather
permitting this evening the Vigie Multi Purpose
Sports Complex will come alive as early as 7:00pm
with netball entertainment at its highest level
and that’s when the St. Lucia National
Netball Association stages it most talked about
showpiece dubbed “Midnight Madness Netball
Festival”.
According to the 1st Vice President of the SLNNA
Gene Leon a total of nine teams conristing of
nine players only, inclusive of one male player
are expected to engage each other in the festival.
The participating teams namely - Naughty School
Girls, Sexy Night Bees, Micoud UFC, Dynasty,
Divalicous Dreamers, Shamrock, Sharkrons, while
the other two teams will disclose their found
name on the evening.
Apart from the creativity of the mode of dress
in keeping with the midnight madness theme;
this event will feature modification of the
rules of netball, in line with Fastnet which
is a new format of netball introduced by the
International Federation of Netball Associations
(IFNA) three years ago.
This style of netball is comparable to now popular
Twenty20 cricket and according to IFNA; Fastnet
is designed to make games faster and more television-friendly,
with the ultimate aim of raising the sport’s
profile and attracting more spectators and greater
sponsorship. This evening’s showpiece
at the VMPSC will be no exception.
The new rule allows for power plays. Each team
can separately nominate one “power play”
quarter, in which each goal scored by that team
counts for double points. Each quarter lasts
only six minutes, compared with 15 minutes in
normal international netball competition. Breaks
in between quarters are two minutes each. Injury
time-outs are 30 seconds only; standard rules
allow for one initial two-minute injury time-out. |
