Players

•  Men - 4 Men per team
• Women - 4 Women per team
• Mixed - 2 Women and 2 Men per team

Format 

• 3 team round robin events
• Winners advance to medals round and play a 3 team round robin for
  Gold, Silver and Bronze

Rules

• Team disqualified if it does not have 4 players
• Games played to 6 points (do not need to win by 2)

Start

• Toss pallino and 1 person from each team rolls bocce - closest begins game
• Whoever throws the pallino then throws their one bocce ball
• All players must stand in a row to toss their bocce ball
• Must toss pallino at least 15 feet
• Teams take turns rolling the bocce balls trying to get closest to the pallino
• The team with 1-4 balls closer than the closest opponent's ball to the pallino gets the point(s). A team can have 1-4 points earned each round
• The team that wins points throws the pallino - rotate so each player throws
• If a ball is touching the pallino, that scores 2 points
• Teams/officials use a string to determine distance of the balls from the pallino
• Officials write down winners and final score

TIE BREAK RULES

If all teams win 1 and lose 1 game:

• First tie break is Point Differential - Add each team's total points scored and subtract total points of their opponents for their two games
• Second tie break is Head-to-Head play - If team A and B are tied and B won when they played each other B is the winner
• Third tie break is Total Points Scored
• Fourth tie break is Fewest Points Allowed
• Fifth tie break is a Coin Flip