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The 2017 Fast5 Netball World Series was the eighth staging of the annual Fast5 Netball World Series, and the fifth to be played under the new Fast5 rules, which replaced the older fastnet rules introduced in 2009. The tournament was held in Australia for the second time with the venue being at Hisense Arena in Melbourne.[1]
The 2017 tournament was contested by the same six teams that competed last year.
Date and Venue
The 2017 Fast5 Netball World Series was played in Melbourne, Australia over two days, from 28–29 October. All matches were held at Hisense Arena, which has a capacity of 10,500.[citation needed]
Format
18 matches were played over two days, under the Fast5 rules of netball. Each team played each other once during the first two days in a round-robin format. The two highest-scoring teams from this stage progressed to the Grand Final while the remaining teams contested the third-fourth place playoff match and fifth-sixth place playoff match.
Teams
The tournament is being contested by the six top national netball teams in the world, according to the INF World Rankings:
| Saturday 28 October (round robin matches) | |||||
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| Game | Time (AEDST) | Match | Details | ||
| 1 | 13:45 |  Australia |
34-21 |  Malawi |
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| 2 | 14:30 |  South Africa |
29-37 |  Jamaica |
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| 3 | 15:15 |  New Zealand |
30-37 |  England |
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| 4 | 16:00 | Australia |
23-26 | Jamaica |
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| 5 | 16:45 | England |
43-15 | Malawi |
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| 6 | 17:30 | New Zealand |
40-26 | South Africa |
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| 7 | 18:15 | Jamaica |
31-24 | Malawi |
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| 8 | 19:00 | England |
43-33 | South Africa |
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| 9 | 19:45 | Australia |
40-30 | New Zealand |
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| Sunday 29 October (round robin matches) | |||||
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| Game | Time (AEDST) | Match | Details | ||
| 10 | 12:15 | Malawi |
26-28 | South Africa |
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| 11 | 13:00 | Australia |
19-28 | England |
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| 12 | 13:45 | New Zealand |
23-30 | Jamaica |
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| 13 | 14:30 | Australia |
31-18 | South Africa |
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| 14 | 15:15 | New Zealand |
29-27 | Malawi |
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| 15 | 16:00 | Jamaica |
47-38 | England |
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Standings
| Sunday 29 October (Placement Matches) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Game | Time (AEDST) | Match | Details | ||
| 16 | 17:45 | Malawi |
17-28 | South Africa |
5th/6th Playoff (Replay) |
| 17 | 18:35 | Australia |
34-15 | New Zealand |
3rd/4th Playoff (Replay) |
| 18 | 19:25 | Jamaica |
29-34 | England |
Final (Replay) |
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