Posts by brahmin

Maybe we need to add number of players on court to the challenge system??

Go back and look at the World League and World Grand Prix.

In WL, 11 teams played 20 times or more. In 28 years of playing.

Of those 11 teams, only Japan (1), France (7) and Poland (9) made the Final Round less than 10 times.

So I would say than at worst 10 of those 11 were punching their weight.

Over to the World Grand Prix it has been more consolidated only 9 teams playing more than 18 times in 25 years.

Of those 9 teams only Germany and South Korea made the Final Round 4 times each, while the other 7 teams, were each in at least 12 times or more in the finals. The Netherlands had played in 14 WGP and made the Finals 6 times, more than any other team with fewer appearances.

So even with the big Women’s teams, it is still pretty consolidated as well.

The way the VNL is set up makes sense to me. Some countries/teams form the core of the sport. Hopefully those countries have sponsors that are interested and international in nature to want to be part of the game.

Teams still have to go and perform on the court. Turkey in my mind came out of nowhere this past year in the Women’s VNL, but lost their way a little bit in the World Championships. However, if you look at the top of the sport, you’ve got 5 men’s and women’s teams that are basically even in the biggest tournaments. This brings tension in matches, which make it better for us in the stands.

You will see some surprises, but they are few and far between.

Money was the reason why the World League & WGP expanded. Sadly, many of the lower teams could not make any money traveling all over the world.

Teams were rewarded points based on their results. The FIVB took away the Continental Championship Points, which hurts the teams standings in the rankings. So essentially the FIVB has limited many countries to scoring points through World Champs and Olympic qualifying. Yet, we have continental champs in odd years, which count for 0 points. Then you wonder why teams get bad seeding for the World Champs and Olympics?

FIVB knows who’s got cash, hence why there is 12.

For the million dollars it sure pays more than Montreux.

Ranking points for VNL will be given shortly, probably this year. It is stupid to not have your biggest annual tournament not to be given points.

Very few teams will take a risk and throw a youngster in immediately. Today could have used kurogo right out of school but didn’t. Kurogo with Saori Kimura in the same lineup? Nope that’s too insane to try.

The splash start at high school championship. If a player takes her team far, it get them noticed. Now if you go to the powerhouses you already have expectations to some degree.

The Middle Blocker as a foreigner is a tough call, now with the 1 + 1 Asean player format, you can get one for each middle and outside/opposite. Teams with good middle blockers already, such as Toyota with Araki could then bring in a second middle from an Asean country.

In the past when you only had one player available, the outside hitter or opposite were the way to go, from an offensive basis.

In Conference Records of Final 8 Teams

Western Conference

Hisamitsu Springs 5-1, 16 points

JT 1-1, 4

Toyota 2-0, 6

Toray 2-0, 6

JT Marvelous 4-2, 12 points

Hisamitsu 1-1, 2

Toyota 1-1, 4

Toray 2-0 6

Toray Arrows 2-4, 5 points

Hisamitsu 0-2, 0

JT 0-2, 0

Toyota 2-0, 5

Toyota Auto Body Queenseis 1-5, 3 points

Hisamitsu 0-2, 0

JT 1-1, 2

Toray 0-2, 1

Eastern Conference

NEC Red Rockets 4-2, 12 points

Ageo 0-2, 1

Denso 2-0, 6

Hitachi 2-0, 5

Saitama Ageo Medics 3-2, 9 points (1 match to play against Denso)

NEC 2-0, 5

Denso 0-1, 0

Hitachi 1-1, 4

Denso Airybees 3-2, 9 points (1 match to play against Ageo)

NEC 0-2, 0

Ageo 1-0, 3

Hitachi 2-0, 6

Hitachi Rivale 1-5, 3 points

NEC 0-2, 1

Ageo 1-1, 2

Denso 0-2, 0

V.LEAGUE has announced the license levels for the Men's league in 2019-2020 season on February 14, 2019.

Teams are required to have an S1 license to be promoted to V1. Additionally teams are required to have S2 license to be promoted to V2 from V3. Expansion clubs are given an S3 license to start.

S1 Licenses (10 all teams in V1)

Panasonic Panthers

Toyoda Gosei Trefuerza

JT Thunders

Toray Arrows

JTEKT Stings

Suntory Sunbirds

Sakai Blazers

FC Tokyo

Oita Miyoshi Weisse Adler

VC Nagano Tridents

S2 Licenses (12)

Fujitsu Kawasaki Red Spirits (V2)

Tokyo Metropolitan Police Fort Fighters (V2)

Daido Steel Red Star (V2)

Toyota Auto SunHawks (V2)

Tsukuba United SunGAIA (V2)

Saitama Azalea (V2)

Kinden Trinity Blitzs (V2)

Tokyo Verdy (V2)

Nagano GaRons (V2)

Voreas Hokkaido (V3)

Veertien Mie (V3)

Hyogo Delfino (V3)

S3 Licenses (4)

Kinki Club Sfida (V3)

Nara Dreamers (V3)

Tokyo Toyopet Green Sparkle (V3)

Safilva Hokkaido (Expansion team for 2019-2020 to play in V3)

So there will be no promotion or relegation this year from V2 to V1 leagues.

Final 8 Interconference Records

Toyota Auto Body Queenseis 8-0, 24 points

NEC 2-0, 6

Saitama Ageo 2-0, 6

Denso 2-0, 6

Hitachi 2-0, 6

Hisamitsu Springs 7-1, 18 points

NEC 2-0, 5

Saitama Ageo 1-1, 3

Denso 2-0, 5

Hitachi 2-0, 5

Toray Arrows 6-2, 17 points

NEC 1-1, 3

Saitama 2-0, 6

Denso 1-1, 3

Hitachi 2-0, 5

JT Marvelous 4-4, 15 points

NEC 1-1, 3

Saitama Ageo 1-1, 4

Denso 1-1, 4

Hitachi 1-1, 4

NEC Red Rockets 2-6, 7 points

Hisamitsu 0-2, 1

JT 1-1, 3

Toyota 0-2,0

Toray 1-1, 3

Denso Airybees 2-6, 6 points

Hisamitsu 0-2, 1

JT 1-1, 2

Toyota 0-2, 0

Toray 1-1, 3

Saitama Ageo Medics 2-6, 5 points

Hisamitsu 1-1, 3

JT 1-1, 2

Toyota 0-2, 0

Toray 0-2, 0

Hitachi Rivale 1-7, 4 points

Hisamitsu 0-2, 1

JT 1-1, 2

Toyota 0-2, 0

Toray 0-2, 1

Final 8 Schedule Updated with NEC's win to clinch the East

Standings to Start the Final 8

Hisamitsu 6

NEC 6

JT 4

Ageo 4

Toyota 2

Denso 2

Toray 0

Hitachi 0

March 2

Hisamitsu vs. Denso

Toyota vs. Hitachi

NEC vs. Toray

March 3

Hisamitsu vs. Toyota

JT vs. Ageo

Denso vs. Hitachi

March 9

Hisamitsu vs. Toray

NEC vs. Toyota

JT vs. Denso

Ageo vs. Hitachi

March 10

Hisamitsu vs. Hitachi

Denso vs. Toyota

NEC vs. JT

Ageo vs. Toray

March 16

NEC vs. Denso

Hisamitsu vs. Ageo

Hitachi vs. Toray

JT vs. Toyota

March 17

NEC vs. Hitachi

Hisamitsu vs. JT

Denso vs. Toray

Ageo vs. Toyota

March 23

NEC vs. Ageo

Toyota vs. Toray

JT vs. Hitachi

March 24

NEC vs. Hisamitsu

JT vs. Toray

Ageo vs. Denso

Challenge Stage data is now updated with today's results

Challenge Stage will be only single round robin.

Points to start will be

Okayama 1

Kurobe 1

PFU 0

Schedule for the Challenge Stage

March 9

Kurobe vs. Okayama

March 16

Kurobe vs. PFU

March 17

Okayama vs. PFU

Challenge Match (Promotion-Relegation Matches) will be a best of 2, with a 25 point "Golden Set" if tied at 1 win each.

March 30

3rd place in V1 Challenge Stage vs. 2nd place in V2 Final 6

March 31

3rd place in V1 Challenge Stage vs. 2nd place in V2 Final 6

Schedule for Final 6 has been announced.

March 2

Himeji vs. 6th

2nd vs. 5th

3rd vs. 4th

March 3

Himeji vs. 5th

2nd vs. 4th

3rd vs. 6th

March 10

Himeji vs. 4th

2nd vs. 3rd

5th vs. 6th

March 16

4th vs. 5th

2nd vs. 6th

Himeji vs. 3rd

March 17

4th vs. 6th

3rd vs. 5th

Himeji vs. 2nd

Challenge Stage will be only single round robin.

If PFU loses once then Kurobe will finish 5th in the East.

Points to start will be

Okayama 1

Kurobe/PFU 1

PFU/Kurobe 0

Schedule for the Challenge Stage

March 9

E5 vs. Okayama

March 16

E5 vs. E6

March 17

Okayama vs. E6

So right now here is what the Final 8 points will look like prior to NEC's match today. IF NEC win in <5 sets, they will finish 1st in the East and Ageo will finish 2nd. IF NEC lose or do not take 3 points, then it will have to wait until next Saturday's Ageo-Denso match.

Hisamitsu 6

NEC/Ageo 6

JT 4

Ageo/NEC 4

Toyota 2

Denso 2

Toray 0

Hitachi 0

With NEC still to play today the schedule for Final 8 is out

March 2

Hisamitsu vs. Denso

Toyota vs. Hitachi

E1 vs. Toray

March 3

Hisamitsu vs. Toyota

JT vs. E2

Denso vs. Hitachi

March 9

Hisamitsu vs. Toray

E1 vs. Toyota

JT vs. Denso

E2 vs. Hitachi

March 10

Hisamitsu vs. Hitachi

Denso vs. Toyota

E1 vs. JT

E2 vs. Toray

March 16

E1 vs. Denso

Hisamitsu vs. E2

Hitachi vs. Toray

JT vs. Toyota

March 17

E1 vs. Hitachi

Hisamitsu vs. JT

Denso vs. Toray

E2 vs. Toyota

March 23

E1 vs. E2

Toyota vs. Toray

JT vs. Hitachi

March 24

E1 vs. Hisamitsu

JT vs. Toray

E2 vs. Denso

Ehime hosted the National Games in 2017 and created some calendars, including one for beach volleyball

Umu11 wrote:

I am sorry but can anyone explain why Russia can go but Italy can’t?

I have been meaning to write this, maybe it was shared and discussed back in the time but I will share anyway. I listened to a podcast where Karch Kiraly was the guest, he said Olympic Qualification was changed most probably only for this Olympic Cycle and the reason World Cup is not considered a qualification tournament is Japan hosting the World Cup and Olympics. According to Karch, there is a rule that says a team that has been already qualified to Olympics cannot attend a qualification tournament. When I heard this, I was shocked. I mean, FIVB loves Japan and their money so very much, that they can change the rules in order to have the tournament in Japan anyway. Is Japan the one and only country that can host a FIVB tournament? He said most probably it will go back to old style, teams will be able to qualify in World Cup after 2020.

I know Brazil didn’t participate in World Cup in 2015 but I thought they didn’t want to play a meaningless tournament since they are already qualified to Olympics as host in 2016. I didn’t know this is a rule. I am suprised to myself for being suprised to FIVB and Japan relations.

Technically Japan should not host this tournament as Japan normally is the host for this event. However, with Japan hosting (as a preview to the viewing public in Japan), I would consider it similar to the FIFA Confederations Cup. A trial run (even though not using the venue in 2020).

Brazil has complained in the past that Japan always hosts, well put some money up and host the tournament then.

Japan puts up a ton of money to host big events. China could do it as well, but has not. The reason why Japan gets them more frequently is that Fuji TV and Tokyo Broadcasting System get good TV ratings for the length of the tournament. Those TV networks are on the FIVB Communication Commission.