In 2008, Serbia lost for Brazil,Italy and Russia 3-0 in the preliminary round. And lost to Cuba 3-0 in quaterfinals but it was really close 26-24/25-19/26-24, it could have gone either way....
That`s why I don't like having only 12 teams and divided only in 2 groups, is boring, because does not matter if you finish in 1st or 4th, all that matters is the quaterfinals, just look Brazil and Russia in 2012...
They should have 16 teams, divided in groups of 4, then only the first 2 teams in each group reach the quaterfinals...