Twenty-eight matches in fourteen rounds across two courts. Every team plays seven and works three or four.
28 matches in 14 rounds, 9:00 am to about 7:30 pm (10 hr 30 min). Each team plays 7 and works 3 or 4.
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 %.
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Each round, four teams play, two work and two rest. In this order nobody plays three in a row or works two in a row. Fourteen rounds is still a very long day, about 10 and a half hours at 45 minutes a match.
Most one-day events split eight teams into two pools of four instead: six rounds each on its own court, then crossovers. Show both pools and the crossovers on one sheet.
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.
Fourteen rounds of two matches each.
Two pools of four finish in six rounds plus crossovers, so most tournaments do that. One pool of eight gives every team seven matches and a full ranking, which suits a league.