When I heard that you want to decrease the halftime break from 5 to 3 min I started to cry. Do you want us to die in the pool!? Is anyone thinking about the players!? Second thing... Did you know that the basketball field is shorter than a water polo field!? Do I have to say that they are running and we are swimming!? Handball players can play with both hands and their game balls are much smaller then ours. They are so much important things that you can change and it would have an impact on the game, and still you are trying to change some unimportant things and rules.

There is space to change rules, however I believe there needs to be more done to get every day people involved in the game themselves - aka different social/fun versions of the sport, such as beach water polo. I also think more can be done in marketing big events.

In my opinion water polo is a summer sport so I think we should be playing at open swimming pools during the summer. I mean the club season, except in the Olympic year. I can imagine music playing (low level) during the game for example like in the NBA. We need to make a show for water polo fans. And if it possible, change the Champions league introduction music because it's very old and boring :)

“This rule proposal isn't effective. We need water polo propoganda! Interesting TV concept with translations; include under water coverage; mass availability of sport.”

The biggest problem for water polo is a completely wrong calendar. Instead of playing during the winter, club season should be from March until September, and clubs should play as much as possible in outdoor swimming pools. On the other hand all competitions for national teams should take place in winter period. Exception is Olympic games. Water polo is summer sport, and clubs are much more important for development of our sport than the national teams.”

Media is primarily the way people will start to get engaged in watching water polo. We need to boost our social media platforms, make all games and tournaments accessible for everyone. Every country, team, club needs to be online and present with all games results and updates. The best marketing is word of mouth. If we engage social media and local pools to promote the sport we can slowly gain popularity. We need to push our local sport stations to show highlights (to promote the best part of the games) and eventually full games to engage our community. The bottom line is we need access to be watching games and if their is a pool their should be waterpolo offered at the establishment.

Rules: - 25 m field(we have bigger field then basketball arena and the time for attack is similar 24’ vs 30’)we are in the WATER is not our medium...we are not RUNNING, we SWIM!!! -keep 13 players or increaase the number of the roasts to maximum 14 -in London 2012 the line of 2m and 5 m on tv appeared with colors,they should develop this. Calendar: -we should change the calendar by playing more during the summer. -championships and european competitions for clubs should be played between april and october -European and world championship are lasting 2 weeks so this we can play in December(for example competition for handball woman are played in this period. Competitions: -the number of games and competitions is bigger and the time for recovery doesn’t exist anymore,they want more games but the financial level is the same or is worst,we are humans not robots!”

I think waterpolo should be played during the summer, National competitions as well, it is a summer sport and in my opinion it will be more popular in each country.

MARKETING!!! The problem isn't the rules we just have to market water polo the right way ,for example baseball in the US the sport itself is really boring but they mark it well they sell the experience ! Im from Egypt and we have few good teams but to bring the sport to the masses it has to get the same exposure like handball and football. And there is another big issue so I have been living in Switzerland for a year and whilst talking to Swiss and German people here I noticed that a lot of people don't know what water polo is and thats a huge problem ,and changing the rules wont solve it.

Of course new technologies will be great, because spectators can enjoy the time during the match, even they don’t now all rules in water polo... for example you can play music during the game, and also speaker can explain to spectators what’s happening on the game, like it was on world championship 2017! Would be good to show spectators team/player statistics before match on the big screen. I think that water polo has to be kind of fun for the people, and they will come on the game with a joy!

1.Unified application of existing rules 2.Technically well-equipped sports pools. 3.The question what a water polo game should look like and when they should be played needs to be answered by the audience first, then by PR agencies and TV experts. Coaches and especially water polo officials should have less impact on these decisions.

Many rule changes have taken place through my 30+ years of playing. Rather than improve our game it has made it harder to understand for outsiders and beginners. I believe we should return our game to a more pure form so that spectators and players can appreciate the skill required

1- The creation of two divisions for the world championship (A and B). This would have motivated the average national teams to meet the challenge of remaining in A or for others to rise to A. For those less successful to rank in the middle of the table and to compete with playable opponents. When we play against world-class champions we get crushed and we lose confidence.
2. The autonomous formation of independent national water polo federations - The current regulation requires a prior confirmation of the Umbrella organization, which I was not able to get in Tunisia despite attempts for more than twenty years.

Mehr Werbung es bringt sich nichts die Regeln zu ändern wenn nichts von Wasserball preisgegeben wird hier in Österreich kennt keiner Wasserball und mit neuen Regeln wird es auch nimmand kennen lernen wenn es nicht durch marketings und communation efforts preis gegeben wird We need more advertisement - changing the rules without promoting water polo doesn't do anything. Here in Austria, nobody knows water polo and this won't change with old rules or new rules if the sport itself is not promoted through marketing and communications.

Better International education and sports development. Better calendar planning, commercialization, and promotion of the events. Better governance in the sport internationally. Equal male and female representation at FINA. FINA employees required to have degrees in sports management and business to be qualified to make decisions.

In Belgium, we have one team (Mechelen) that plays in a 25m by 12m pool and every week they have the best spectacle, technical speed - Would be interesting to see this tested.

Callendar of competition, more publicity, to invite and support new processes in South America, to display water polo games in all the tv operators and to incentive countries like Serbia, Hungary, Italy, and others to leave their continent to improve water polo in other countries.

The rules are only one point of promoting the game. The presenation of the sport is another key factor. So what is the reason for the idea of reducing the half-time break down to three minutes? No other serious team sport is doing this. TV stations want to sell commercials or run halftime shows, the organisers drinks at halftime. The spectators in the stadium are sometimes travelling hours to be on location. So why shall we have shorther matches in big events?