Is there a flow chart that I missed that shows the tournament structure? If not, can one of you JO veterans explain how it works. If it's different for different age groups, I am interested in 14 Open.
Thanks in advance!
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Volley Flower |
How is JO Open Tournament Structured? |
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First tiime going to JOs. I was trying to find out how the tournament was structured (i.e., a flow chart), but all I could find was the overall playing
schedule. It shows "pool play" on the first three days, and then "finals" on the fourth day.
Is there a flow chart that I missed that shows the tournament structure? If not, can one of you JO veterans explain how it works. If it's different for different age groups, I am interested in 14 Open. Thanks in advance! |
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RIP THREAD |
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From the 17s thread...they know everything!
There are 4 pools of 7 teams, so the girls play 6 matches in their pool over 3 days (2 matches a day). Then the teams are ranked for Bracket play on the 4th Day. The ranking goes like this: 7th place => Flight 4 6th place => Flight 3 5th place => Flight 2 4th place => Flight 1 1st Place gets a bye into Gold Bracket (there will be 8 teams on Day 4) Still on day 3 2nd & 3rd place (8 teams) play a cross over match to see who advance to Gold. Winners (4 teams) advance to Gold to set up the 8 team bracket play and Losers advance to Bronze. The first match on Day 4 pits 1st vs. winners of crossovers to see who advance to Gold Semi's and losers play for Silver. |
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Volley Flower |
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Thanks! That's very helpful! Two questions:
1) is it the same format for 14 Open? 2) are the matches 3 out of 5 or 2 out of 3 in the 7 team pool? (Only playing two 2 out of 3 matches a day doesn't seem like much volleyball). |
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..3 out of 5 starts at 16U. 2 out of 3 for younger ages.
Here's the link for the Manual. Read it cover to cover as a "newbee" as it does have some differences and requirements than an NQ. Let me know when you're done and I'll test you! http://www.usavolleyball.org/juniors/08_gjo.asp |
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dv33 |
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It's different for 14 Open because they don't play 3 out of 5. It's best 2 of 3, with, I believe, the initial pool played out over 2 days.
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kcvbfan |
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There are 4 pools of 7 played the first 2 days, 2 out of 3. Top 3 in each pool change pools and play a 3 team pool third day. Top 2 from each go to single
elimination GOLD bracket on the 4th day. After the 2nd day the bottom 4 in each pool reshuffle into 4 - 4 team pools. All those pool winners play in the
Bronze, 2nds play in flight 1....etc.
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Volley Flower |
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Thanks for the perfect explanation kcvbfan!
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