The 2018 Fast5 Netball World Series was the ninth staging of the annual

Fast5 Netball World Series The Fast5 Netball World Series is an international Fast5 netball competition that was contested for the first time in October 2009. The new competition features modified Fast5 rules, and has been likened to Twenty20 cricket and rugby sevens. The ...

, and the sixth to be played under the new

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rules, which replaced the older fastnet rules introduced in 2009. The tournament was held in Australia for the third time at

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. The tournament was contested by the same six teams that competed last year.

Overview

Format

18 matches are played over two days, under the

rules of netball. Each team plays each other once during the first two days in a round-robin format. The two highest-scoring teams from this stage progress to the Grand Final while the remaining teams contest the third-fourth place playoff match and fifth-sixth place playoff match.

Teams

The tournament is contested by the six top national netball teams in the world, according to the

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Fixtures

Round-robin

Finals

Final Placings

References

Official Link
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