Half a decade of us.
Youth-led charity basketball from Melbourne's west. Five years in, $100K+ raised for young people, and this year every team plays for a cause.
One ticket. Two days. Kids 12 and under free. Tickets from $33.08.
It started as a birthday tournament. Swipe through every year, and catch each episode of the series as it drops on our socials.
Shooters Shoot archiveSagalee turned his 23rd birthday into a basketball tournament to raise money for young people's mental health. It raised $16,000 in ticket proceeds for Foundation House.
Melbourne United; Complex, 2022
Shooters Shoot archiveYear two came back as the Final Four on 20 November 2022. By the end of that year, our school programs had reached almost 500 students.
Complex, Nov 2022
Shooters Shoot archiveYear three brought the main event back again, with the stands full of flags from every community that calls Shooters Shoot home.
Pictured: 2023
Photo @ian.yongThe main event ran over two days for the first time. That year Sagalee was named Entrepreneur of the Year at the Multicultural Youth Awards.
The Huddle, Oct 2024
Shooters Shoot archiveHalf a decade of us. Basketball, music, live performances, food, creators, the SS Market and a reimagined arcade, across two days.
28 and 29 November, RS StudiosFigures from the Shooters Shoot event page.
2024 · Photo @ian.yongShooters Shoot led Australia's first major basketball event featuring Muslim hijab referees.
"Sport has a language of its own, you don't even have to know a word of a language to understand sport."Sagalee OmerSources: Saxton speaker profile; Melbourne United. Pictured: 2024.
Seventy seconds from the 2024 main event. The people, the noise, the heartbreakers and the winners.
We're alive.
Next year, coming back.Heard on the court, 2024
They came back. 28 + 29 November.
Each team represents a community initiative, and the money raised for a team goes to it. Teams are announced on our socials, and each card flips here as it's revealed. One of the men's teams is flying in from Perth.
When the teams are revealed, each one gets its own ticket link. Buy through your team's link and you count toward their crowd. We'll update it every week.
Challenge
Sixty seconds. Play the daily challenge (the same greens for everyone today) or free play. Tap the court or hit Shoot when the white line is in the green: near the centre is a swish (3), the exact middle is a PURE (4). Three in a row gets you +3 and double points, six in a row triples them. The green shrinks as you heat up and starts moving late. When the buzzer goes, one last shot to win the game.
Sixty seconds. Flick the ball up at the hoop, or just tap where you want it to go. Two points a bucket, three for a swish, four for a PURE right through the middle. Three in a row gets you +3 and double points, six in a row triples them, ten in a row is times four. The hoop starts moving, and the last 10 seconds are the hardest.
Never ending. Tap to bounce the ball through the hoops. Through the ring is a point, dead centre is a swish worth two, and swishes in a row stack up: three for double points, six for triple. Touch the ground or a wall and it's over. Every 10 hoops it gets faster.
Run up and tap in the green to take off. Tap in the air to spin and everything drops into slow motion, tap again for a 720, once more for a 1080. When the rim glows, tap to throw it down, even mid-spin. Five judges score takeoff, height, tricks, the slam and the crowd, each to one decimal. A perfect 50.0 needs everything, including a 1080. Your three dunks add up to a score out of 150.
Shoot when the white line is in the green. Near the centre is a swish, the exact middle is a PURE. Three in a row heats you up, and at the buzzer you get one shot to win it.
Flick up to shoot, or tap where you want the ball to go.
Tap to bounce. Fly through the hoops, dead centre is a swish. Touch the ground or a wall and the run is over.
You hit the game winner. Enter this week's draw for 2 weekend passes. One entry per game winner, up to 5 a week.
The full schedule drops closer to the date. Here's what's locked in so far.
2024 · Photo @ian.yongOn the weekend this section shows live scores, what's on next and the bracket, right on your phone.
Q3 · 4:12
A scorekeeper updates a Google Sheet from their phone and this refreshes every 30 seconds. If the wifi drops, our Instagram stories carry the scores.
Bracket
No. One ticket gets you in on Saturday and Sunday.
Yes. Kids 12 and under get free entry.
Each team represents a community initiative, and the money raised for a team goes to that initiative. Full details drop with the team reveals.
Closer to the date, on our socials and right here.
Tickets are non-refundable.
Official Shooters Shoot gear. Pick your size here, then check out on our Shopify store.
Preview only: these are past drops and they're sold out. On the public site only in-stock merch shows, and this section stays hidden while nothing is in stock.
28 + 29 November · RS Studios, Maidstone
Get ticketsNext step: we choose where this lives (a page on our Shopify site, or its own address like thefifth.shootersshoot.com.au) and connect it to a simple Google Sheet, so we can update teams, the schedule and scores ourselves without touching code. Every photo is ours, from Year 1 to Year 4.
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