The Water Polo Pan Pacs is a tournament featuring senior teams from nations along the Pacific Rim. The tournament took its inspiration from the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships as an additional major championship for nations without strong continental championships. This was the first edition of the tournament, held at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre in Melbourne, Australia from 8–14 January 2012.

The participants were Australia, USA, Canada, China, Japan, Brazil, New Zealand (men only), and an Australian "B" team called the Barbarians.

The Pan Pacs was held in two rounds: A preliminary round where each team played all the other teams once, and a final round where the 1st and 2nd placed teams in the preliminary round play for the gold medal, 3rd and 4th for the bronze medal, and 5th and 6th for 5th place. The men's Barbarians team was not eligible to play in the final round. The women's Barbarbians team could only play in the 5th-place game in the final round.

Points in the preliminary round were earned as follows:

• Win: 3 pts
• Draw: 2 pts
• Loss: 1 pt

Men's tournament

All times are Australian Eastern Daylight Time (UTC+11)

Preliminary round

	Team	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff	Points
1.	Australia	6	5	1	0	78	26	+52	17
2.	United States	6	4	2	0	77	33	+44	16
	Australia Barbarians	6	3	1	2	62	45	+17	13
3.	China	6	3	0	3	43	59	-16	12
4.	Brazil	6	2	1	3	61	72	-11	11
5.	Japan	6	1	1	4	50	61	−11	9
6.	New Zealand	6	0	0	6	23	98	−75	6

Final round

5th-place game

14 January 2012 09:30

Match Sheet

Japan

19–4

New Zealand

Bronze-medal game

14 January 2012 11:00

Match Sheet

China

11–7

Brazil

Gold-medal game

14 January 2012 15:45

Match Sheet

Australia

10–11 (ET)

United States

Final ranking

RANK	TEAM
	United States
	Australia
	China
4.	Brazil
5.	Japan
6.	New Zealand

Women's tournament

All times are Australian Eastern Daylight Time (UTC+11)

Preliminary round

	Team	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff	Points
1.	Australia	5	5	0	0	51	26	+25	15
2.	United States	5	4	0	1	55	26	+29	13
3.	China	5	2	1	2	45	34	+11	10
4.	Canada	5	2	1	2	48	32	+16	12
	Australia Barbarians	5	1	0	4	27	41	-14	7
5.	Brazil	5	0	0	5	16	83	−67	5

Final round

5th-place game

14 January 2012 08:00

Match Sheet

Australia  Barbarians

13–8

Brazil

Bronze-medal game

14 January 2012 12:45

Match Sheet

China

6–10

Canada

Gold-medal game

14 January 2012 14:15

Match Sheet

Australia

7–4

United States

Final ranking

RANK	TEAM
	Australia
	United States
	Canada
4.	China
5.	Brazil

References

Tournament website