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Re: volleyball:

How often do these tourneys run? Is there significant money in them? Thanks for the info BTW, not too often you see another vball player on here.

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For doubles, they'd run 10-20 in a summer, depends on if you play just men's doubles, or reverse coed, or quads, etc. Tournies are all day events. Typically 3-6 games in pool play in the morning, games to 15 or 11 (old school scoring, not rally) depending on the number of matches.

Then lunch break and you're seeded for double elimination. First round is often 2 out of 3 games, games to 11. If there's alot of entrants, just one game to 15.

Money? Not at A/B levels. If you win you usually got town, shirts, lawn chair, a new volleyball, maybe a volleyball net, $20 gift certificate to something or other. It was usually $40-50 for a team to play, so there wasn't much money in the pool. The money largely went to run the tourney.

In the the open divisions you could make money, though usually not in a USVBA tourney, but some other tourney locall (PacNova runs a big one every july 4th). There, top prize could be $1500 or some such and you'd get teams that would travel in from out of state to play.