There were nine qualifiers, with nine winners, nine seconds, nine thirds and some duplicates. Unless your team took more than one first second or third, you got quite a deal with a 25 seed. Notwithstanding the fact that seeding is highly overrated, your kids will make a bigger statement by winning their initial pool and moving into the gold bracket.

They seemed to really come on strong late in the season and the seeding really only occurs for the first seven teams then the rest of the teams are seeded so as not to have any regional conflicts. This is from the handbook: SEEDING FOR CHAMPIONSHIPS Seeding for the USA Junior Olympic Girls Volleyball Championships is determined by team results throughout the year as submitted in either Advanced Event Systems or Sign-Up-To-Play. According to these results, the top quarter of all participating teams in a tournament (first seeded teams in the first round of pool play) are seeded numerically by strength. For example, the strongest 12 teams in a 48-team tournament are determined from the entire field and then are seeded accordingly by strength from seed No. 1 to seed No. 12. Next, the second quarter of all remaining teams is determined based on information from Results Reporting. However, these teams are seeded in a different manner than the first quarter teams. They are seeded primarily in such a way that regional conflicts are avoided and secondarily seeded according to strength. In the same manner, the third and fourth quarter teams are determined. Then they are seeded first and foremost in the pools where regional conflicts do not occur, and then with stronger teams seeded higher.