Fifteen matches in eight rounds across two courts, with a work team on each court.
15 matches in 8 rounds, 9:00 am to about 3:00 pm (6 hr). Each team plays 5 and works 2 or 3.
Show one team's day
Type scores as matches finish. The table re-sorts with the tiebreakers you pick.
USA Volleyball style: match record, head-to-head, set %, point %.
| Place | Team | Matches | Sets | Set % | Points | Point % |
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Two matches at once use four teams playing and two working, which is all six. So in seven of the eight rounds every team is either on court or holding the whistle, and the one round with a single match gives three teams a break. Even so, nobody plays three matches in a row and nobody works two rounds in a row. If you want more rest between matches, the one-court schedule gives it, at the cost of a much longer day.
Events don't all use the same rules, so pick yours above the standings. The USA Volleyball tie-break flow chart for junior qualifiers goes: match record first. Two tied teams are split by their head-to-head match. With three or more, a team that beat all the others goes first and one that lost to all of them goes last; then set percentage (sets won out of sets played), then point percentage. Volleyball World events rank on matches won, then match points, then set ratio (sets won divided by sets lost), then point ratio, then the match between the tied teams. Their match points (3 for a 3-0 or 3-1 win, 2 for 3-2, 1 for a 2-3 loss) are for best of 5. For best of 3 the international option uses FIVB's best-of-3 scale: 2 for a win, 1 for a loss. Once every match is played that can't change the order, so set ratio does the work. Regions set their own order too: Ohio Valley's pool sheets use match record, set percentage, then point differential, and never use head-to-head in a three-way tie. Many rec pools count sets won (a count, not a percentage), which the "Sets won first" option does.
With two pools, the usual finish is a crossover: each pool winner plays the other pool's runner-up, and the winners meet in the final. The third-place teams work the crossovers, and the loser of the first crossover works the final.
Seed the pools in a snake so they are even: pool A gets seeds 1, 4, 5, 8 and pool B gets 2, 3, 6, 7. With 6 to 8 teams, pick 2 pools above to get both pools, the crossovers and the final on one sheet.
Yes. It takes 8 rounds instead of 15. In every full round four teams play and the other two work. One round has a single match, which gives three teams a break.
No. Nobody plays three matches in a row and nobody works two rounds in a row, even though everyone is busy in seven of the eight rounds. One court gives more rest between matches, but takes almost twice as long.
Eight rounds, so about 6 hours at 45 minutes a match.