Twenty-one matches on one court, set here to timed 30-minute matches. Every team plays six and works exactly three.
21 matches in 21 rounds, 9:00 am to about 7:30 pm (10 hr 30 min). Each team plays 6 and works 3.
21 matches on one court is a long day. A second court or two smaller pools would cut it a lot.
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Type scores as matches finish. The table re-sorts with the tiebreakers you pick.
USA Volleyball style: match record, head-to-head, point %.
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Seven teams is an awkward number for a tournament, which is why it is searched so often. One full pool on one court means 21 matches. With timed 30-minute matches that is still about 10 and a half hours, so this layout suits a league night spread over several weeks better than a single day.
For a one-day event, try 7 teams on 2 courts (11 rounds), or a pool of 3 and a pool of 4 with crossovers (8 rounds on 2 courts).
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.
Twenty-one. Each team plays six and, with one court, works three.
For one day, two pools (4 and 3) with crossovers, or one pool of 7 on two courts. One pool on one court only fits if matches are short or the pool runs over several nights.
On one court, every team sits out most matches anyway, and works three of them. There is no separate bye.