This year’s championship will once again see all participating teams divided into two groups during the preliminary round. This will be in relation to the final standing achieved during last year’s championship with the champions and runners up being the top seeds for each group, while the third and fourth placed will be the second seed of the group and so on till the last team.

A single round robin league will be played within each group with the matches between the top seeds and bottom seeds being played first and the matches between the top two seeds being played last.

The final classification of the preliminary round will be determined with the top teams in each group playing for the 1st and 2nd position, the second team in each group for the 3rd and 4th position and so forth.

The top five teams will qualify for the First Division where they will play on a double round robin league, with the top team starting with a 5-point bonus, the second team on a 3-point bonus, and two points and one point each for the third and fourth team respectively while the fifth team will get no bonus points.

The first placed team will automatically qualify for the final while the 2nd and 3rd placed teams will play a 3-series semi-final to determine the second finalist. The teams will then contest a best-of-five series final to determine the champions.

The remaining teams will contest the second division title with the sixth to ninth placed teams in the preliminary round enjoying a five, three, two and 1-point bonus respectively. Following a three-round, round robin league, the top two teams in Division II will play a best-of-three series final to determine the champions.