Three weekends of intense netball action get underway tomorrow at the start of the annual Kurangaituku netball tournament.
Netball Rotorua is again hosting the tournament that started in 1933 with six teams competing over one weekend and has grown to become the biggest netball tournament in New Zealand.
This weekend it is the turn of C, D, E and F grade teams, followed next weekend by A, B, C, D and Masters grades teams and the following weekend features the creme of the country's intermediate and high school teams.
Netball Rotorua's Mary Thompson said the tournament was always held at the end of the season and teams often chose to come to the city and make it their end of year celebration.
There are even teams coming from Australia to take part.