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In order to qualify for the tournament, teams would have to go through regional qualifiers. At the main tournament, three nations qualified for the world championships: host, China , South Korea and Qatar . China defeated South Korea in the championship game, 106-96; Qatar defeated Lebanon , 77-67 in the third-place matchup.


FORMAT

  • The teams will be divided into four groups (Groups A-D) for the preliminary round.

  • Round robin for the preliminary round; the top two teams from each group advance to the quarterfinals.

  • Group A's and C's topnotchers are grouped with Group B's and D's runners-up (Group I) while Group A's and C's runners-up are grouped with Group B's and D's topnotchers (Group II) for a round-robin play.

  • All of the bottom two of Groups A-D are grouped togther also in Groups III and Groups IV, but these teams are not able to "qualify" for the semifinal knock-out round.

  • The topnotcher of Group I meets the runner-up of Group II while the topnotcher of Group II meets the runner-up of Group I in the sudden-death semifinals.

  • The winners in the semifinals dispute the championship while the losers dispute the third-place trophy, all sudden-death games.



PRELIMINARY ROUND


Group A



Group B



Group C



Group D



QUARTERFINALS


Group I



Group II



5th/6th Place



BOTTOM 8


Group III



Group IV



9th/10th Place



13th/14th Place



BRACKET

  September 15 - "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Harbin" class="copylinks">Harbin '''''''''86'''61
  September 15 - "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Harbin" class="copylinks">Harbin 83'''''''''85'''
  September 16 - "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Harbin" class="copylinks">Harbin '''''''''106'''96
  September 16 - "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/Harbin" class="copylinks">Harbin '''''''''77'''67




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