FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour

The FIVB World Tour is an intercontinental tournament series for beach volleyball players. For individual tournaments, the World Series, which today consists of Grand Slams, Open and the two -yearly World Championships developed in the early 1990s.

  • 2.1 Grand Slam
  • 2.2 Open
  • 2.3 World Cup
  • 3.1 Main Draw
  • 3.2 Pool System
  • 3.3 Qualification
  • 3.4 Country Quota

History

The first beach volleyball tournament under the auspices of the FIVB took place in 1987 on Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro instead. It was about 22,000 U.S. dollars prize money. The winners of the event were the Americans Sinjin Smith and Randy Stoklos. 1988 that Karch Kiraly and Pat Powers, who were inferior to their compatriots in the finals last year, win the tournament in the city at Sugarloaf for themselves. 1989, there were in February, the last individual tournament again in Brazil's second largest city; Smith and Stoklos won for the second time the title. In July of the same year the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Series was born. The first of three tournaments took place in Jesi. Winners were again Smith and Stoklos that could also secure the overall victory of the first tour in 1989/90. 1990/91 there were already four tournaments; Italy, Japan and Brazil was added as the host country France. 1991/92 new venues presented in Spain and Australia, the tour had grown to seven tournaments. In August 1992 there was the first time a women's event of the FIVB. In Almería Karolyn Kirby and Nancy Reno were successful.

By early 1996, a tour season always went for two years and ended in February or March. Since then, the FIVB Tour winner will be announced at the end of the calendar year, so that there are two times were in 1996 this title ( the first for the 1995/96 season, which ended in February, the second title for the overall winners of the tournaments from March to December ). In 1997 there were already 20 events. This included the first official beach volleyball World Championships in Los Angeles, where the Brazilian Olympic champions Pires / Silva and her compatriots Pará / Guilherme won the title. In 2003, the World Series to the Swatch FIVB World Tour because of the FIVB won the Swiss watchmaker as title sponsor. The contract was extended in 2008; the term ended in 2012.

In 2009, Julius Brink and Jonas Reckermann the first German beach volleyball world champion in Stavanger, the tour consisted this year of sixteen women and fourteen men competitions including the World Championships.

FIVB Tour Champions

Tournaments

Grand Slam

The 32 qualified for the main draw couples undergo a first preliminary round into eight groups of four teams. The first of these round pool qualify directly for the knockout stages, where they meet the winners of the pairings between the Second and Third. This and the following matches will be played in the knockout system. After the semi-finals of both the title and the third place will be played. In the Grand Slams, the prize money of 220,000 U.S. dollars. The winners will receive $ 33,000 of it and also 800 world ranking points.

Open

The tournament was played until 2012 at the Double knock out to the semi-finals. Since 2013, the procedure is identical to the Grand Slam. In the open it is to win a total of 75,000 U.S. dollars prize money. The winning team will receive $ 11,000 and 500 ranking points.

World cup

The main field consists of 48 teams contest the preliminary round in twelve pools of four teams. The group winners, second - and third - best eight qualify for the round of the last 32 teams that will take place in the knockout system. From the second round is the procedure the same as for Grand Slam and Open. In a World Cup, a total of 500,000 U.S. dollars will be distributed, of which the winning team will receive $ 60,000 plus 1000 points for the world rankings ..

Rules

Main Draw

At the main competition of a Grand Slam or Open tournament take part 32 pairs. 22 pairs qualify award for national associations points by the FIVB. Among the 22 teams there are at least two duos from the host country, and which are placed at the positions of at least one night ( at a lower point when the nations score is higher). In addition, the FIVB and the organizer allocated on a wildcard to eligible teams. The remaining eight teams will be determined by a qualification. Among the 24 couples who are eligible directly for the main draw, only three teams per nation exclusively of wild cards are allowed.

Pool System

In the pool each duo plays against every other team, so there are a total of six games. Each winner of a match receives two points, the loser one point, even if he gives up due to injury or can not compete. A couple that does not compete for other reasons, does not receive a point. In the event of injury-related cancellation of a team, the pixel distribution looks like this: The winner receives two points, 2-0 sets of 0-0 ball points for each set. The absagende team receives one point, 0:2 and 0:21 sets ball points for each set. In the case of a task, the same rule applies with the difference that the ball points and rates achieved so far include. One example: Team A leads 21:17, 4:3, has to give up due to an injury as a team B. Team A gets 2 points, 2-0 sets and 21:17, 4:3 ball points. Team B scores a point, 0:2 sets and 17:21, 3:21 ball points.

For the next round, there are special rules. The group first, second and third - qualify for the additional tournament ( except World Cup, there are only the eight best third on), the group Fourth eliminated. If two teams have the same number of points determines the direct comparison on the better placement. If three teams level on points, decides the ball points quotient of the encounters of these three teams among themselves about the order. This may occur in the final table of the pool comprehensible results. As an example of Pool F Fuzhou Open men serving in April 2013. Latvians have both a better rate as well as a better ball point ratio than the Chinese, still lying on the table behind the Asian team because they compared the meetings of the three same number of points best teams among each other have the worst ratios in the ball points.

Qualification

At the World Cup, there is no qualification. In the other two competitions to determine up to 32 teams in two rounds, the remaining eight participants in the main competition.

Country Quota

The Country Quota was carried out until 2012. There are several teams played a nation of the number of participants, who may participate in the qualification. For example, in the Grand Slam in Gstaad 2010, two German women's teams were set for the main draw, four more had registered for participation. Since only two teams could be allowed for the main qualification that four other teams had in the Country Quota in single elimination System two winners play to no more than a total of four German participants to make possible the main competition. Had the same Grand Slam held in Berlin, had all four other teams to take part in the qualification, as the host country for up to six pairs could participate in the main competition. Since the 2013 season, no Country Quota is more played.

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