The tournament organizers intend to implement a web-based process for registration of teams within the tournament. The epicenter of this effort is the team manager / team owner / team captain. From the perspective of the tournament organizers, there is only one person on each team who has the responsibility to assemble the team roster. Therefore the starting point of the team registration process is the creation of admin credentials for the this person, be they the team manager, owner or captain. This person, herein referred to as "the Admin" shall receive credentials to the NABA information system, herein referred to as "the System". These credentials shall in turn, allow the Admin to create, read, update and delete all information regarding the team that they oversee. The Admin shall need to upload to the System the following information:

• The team logo; and

• The team Head Coach; and

• The team Assistant Coach.

The Admin, by definition, serves the role of Team Captain, on each team. The tournament organizers communicate to the players exclusively through the Team Captains, who receive official communications, through the System. There is no emails, no phone calls, no verbal communications, of any kind. All communications are passed through the System, and each communication from the System to the Admin and vice versa, are archived and recorded. The Head Coach, the Assitant Coach and the Team Captain need to register with the System just like any other player would register. So the assignment of a Head Coach and an Assistant Coach is in actuality a selection process from an existing list of registered players.

The tournament organizers intend to implement a web-based process for recruitment of players within the team roster of each team. The Admin, who is the captain of the team, uses the System, to invite registered players to join the roster of the team. This invitation is a handshake protocol, whereby the the first hand is the Admin inviting the registered player to join the roster of the team, and the second hand is the registered player accepting the invitation. Player recruitment includes a mandatory GDPR disclaimer form that must be accepted by the registered player prior to being inducted into the team roster. The order of operations to recruit registered players into the roster follows the 8:4:2 roster control protocol, which in practice is implemented as follows as regards at what point which grade of registered player can be inducted into the team roster:

• The Admin cannot induct a Grade A registered player before two (2) Grade B registered players are inducted into the roster of the team. In turn, a Grade B player cannot be inducted before two (2) Grade C registered players are inducted into the roster of the team.

By assembling the roster using the above process, the end result is a talent-balanced roster.

The team organizers intend to implement a web-based process for the submission of the assembled roster of each team. To mitigate the risk that the player valuation protocol has been contaminated with bias or erroneous data, the tournament organizers shall review each submission before the roster is accepted.