1. Following round-robin pool play, teams will first be ranked within their pools using the tie-breaking measures from the World Lacrosse Event Hosting and Competition Manual (included below)
   • Due to Ghana’s withdrawal from the event, all pool play games against them for teams in Pool B will result in a 1-0 win for the competitor. This result will be dropped in the overall combined ranking (see below).
2. Following the completion of pool rankings, a combined ranking will be calculated for all 19 teams, with A-pool occupying the first four positions, and the remaining 15 teams ranked
   5-19 based on the following:
   • Placement within pool (#1-4)
     • #1s will be compared against each other to be ranked #5-8
     • #2s will be compared against each other to be ranked #9-12
     • #3s will be compared against each other to be ranked #13-16
     • #4s will be compared against each other to be ranked #17-19
     • Comparison will utilize the following
     • For teams ranked #1-3 in your pool after pool play, the following measures will be used considering only pool play games against teams seeded #1-3 in your pool:
       • Wins
       • Goal differential (goals for minus goals against), capped at 12 per game
       • Goals conceded (fewest)
       • Goals scored (highest to lowest)
       • Coin flip
     • For teams ranked #4 in your pool after pool play, the following measures will be used considering all pool play games:
       • Wins (highest to lowest)
       • Goal differential, goals for minus goals against (highest to lowest), capped at 12 per game
       • Goals conceded (lowest to highest)
       • Goals scored (highest to lowest)
       • Coin flip
3. Teams ranked #1 – #4 advance to the quarterfinals
4. Teams ranked #5-12 (all #1s and #2s in pools B-E) advance to the first round of the playoffs
5. Teams ranked #13-16 move on to a placement bracket playing 2-3 games to final placement
   • #13 will receive a bye
   • #14 v #19
   • #15 v #18
   • #16 v #17

Winners play two more placement games.
Losers move to a round-robin format and play two more games.

Playoffs – First Round

• 5 vs 12
• 6 vs 11
• 7 vs 10
• 8 vs 9

1. Winning teams move to quarterfinals.
2. Losing teams move to placement bracket towards ninth place

Playoffs – Quarterfinals

• QF1 // 1 vs [winner 8 vs 9]
• QF2 // 2 vs [winner 7 v 10]
• QF3 // 3 vs [winner 6 vs 11]
• QF4 // 4 vs [winner 5 vs 12]

1. Winning teams move to semifinals.
2. Losing teams move to placement bracket towards fifth place

Playoffs – Semifinals & Medal Games

• SF 1 // [winner QF1] v [winner QF4]
• SF2 // [winner QF2] v [winner QF3]

3. Winning teams move to gold medal game.
4. Losing teams move to bronze medal game.