51st season’s fights will start soon. Therefore we want to review the most important news and updates.

This season we had U18 and Men National teams’ tournaments for the third time.
In U18 tournament’s final Chinese team (managed by deidei) won against Italian team (managed by dibi74) by 4 points. It was the second champions’ title in history for the Chinese U18 team. Lithuanian team (managed by Aurimas.) won the bronze medals.

In Men’s tournament Chinese team also won the gold medals.In the final China's team (managed by xxxxx) won against Lithuanian team (kkteo) by 6 points. Bronze medals were won by Italian team, managed by il_vas

This season Chinese teams also dominated in the strongest World league - they won 2 medals. Gold medal was won by JustBBZ, silver - by AC “Tauragė” and bronze - by Shadow'sTeam.

We want to congratulate the winners! We want to wish luck in the upcoming season and encourage other countries’ teams to challenge Chinese basketball experts!

As usual, we want to present newly included updates:

• The biggest update - new system of national and international leagues.
  Until now the majority of season’s matches were played in national league. A lot of national leagues have only few strong teams, so a lot of matches used to end with blow outs. From now much more matches will be played in international league and less in national league.
  • In regular season in national league teams will play in two groups. 4 best teams from each group will play in playoffs. Series in playoffs and finals will be until 2 victories. The last 2 teams will go to lower division. 9th and 10th teams will fight for staying in league with 2nd teams from lower leagues in 1 transitional match in neutral arena.
  • In International leagues regular season and TOP16 round will have groups of 8 teams. Quarterfinal series will take place until 2 victories, semifinal and final series - until 3 victories.
    More information about this update may be found in forum: http://www.bballzone.net/forum/changes-in-international-and-national-leagues-t12397.html
• With changes in leagues’ system, income from matches will also change a bit. Total sum received from matches in a season should remain similar.
• The biggest surprise in leagues will be selected in different way. From now we will have not only current strength ranking but also average strength ranking of the whole season. This ranking will be used when selecting the biggest surprise in leagues. Starting from 51st season the biggest surprises will return to all leagues.
• We decided to make two Premium package’s features available for all users:
  • In league’s page, when further rounds take place, earlier rounds’ pages will be available (for example, page of regular season during playoffs)
  • possibility to look for similar strength opponents for friendly matches (Matches - Friendly matches).
• Possibility to view schedules of past/upcoming days in league’s page.
• From now it is possible to agree on friendly match on that same day (until 21 o’clock). Not only that it will be easier to find opponent for friendly match but it will be possible to play friendly matches on the 1st and 63rd days of season. So, teams will be able to get ready for the new season and play 2 friendly matches before its start.

Plans for 51st season

• Fully accomplish the new tournaments’ system
• Fix issues that appeared after inclusion of the new tactics’ system in 50th season