Volleyball 2019 Discussion Thread

[VolleyRuller96 264]

The "Small Countries Division" European Championship took place the last couple of days in Faroe Islands. It is a bi-annual tournament for countries too small to participate in the Eurovolley, however due to the changes in the format of European Volleyball Championship, only 4 teams participated this year.

 

Results:

 

4. October

 

Iceland 3-1 Scotland ( 19-25 / 25-22 / 25-23 / 25-22 )

Faroe Islands  3-0  Greenland ( 25-16 / 25-14 / 25-18 )

 

 

 

5. October

 

Island 3-0  Greenland ( 26-24 / 25-21 /  25-20 )

 

 

Scotland 3-1 Faroe Islands ( 25-22 / 25-20 / 28-30 / 25-22 )

 

 

 

6. October

 

Scotland 3-0 Greenland ( 25-11 / 25-14 / 25-18 )

 

 

 

Faroe Islands 3-1 Iceland ( 25-22 / 21-25 / 25-22 / 25-22 )

 

 

FINAL STANDINGS:

 

1)   Scotland

2)   Faroe Islands

3)   Iceland

4)   Greenland

[VolleyRuller96 264]

withdrew from hosting the 2020 Nation's League finals, because the date ( 1-5 july) would interfere with their Independence Day Come on, I understand patriotism, but withdrawing less than a year before the competition starts is just so low

 

Also in related news, another great idea came from the brilliant minds of FIVB, who demands a fee of ONE MILLION DOLLAR from the federations that want to replace the U.S as host

 

Something tells me they will push the hosting to Poland again after they realize how ridiculous their demands are and that noone is going to apply for hosting rights once agaIn

[Vojthas 949]

Novara playing in one pool with ŁKS Łódź (quite close to my place). I'm praying for the game to be held in Łódź on Thursday, 6th of February.

[VolleyRuller96 264]

The German Supercup match between SCC Berlin and VFB Friedrichshfen was played on specially installed LED-panel floor, covered in invisible anti-slip glass. This type of floor was tested earlier in some minor sports, like squash, however this is the first time it was tested during a important game of any Olympic team sport, so it was a bit of a historical event.

 

 

[heywoodu 15,147]

Wow, all those screaming things like BLOCK and changing colors all the time looks annoying as hell

[Olympian1010 7,977]

2 hours ago, VolleyRuller96 said:

The German Supercup match between SCC Berlin and VFB Friedrichshfen was played on specially installed LED-panel floor, covered in invisible anti-slip glass. This type of floor was tested earlier in some minor sports, like squash, however this is the first time it was tested during a important game of any Olympic team sport, so it was a bit of a historical event.

 

 

All for this. Put it in the Olympics please. I would like to see them add “line-out” technology though.

[heywoodu 15,147]

What's the advantage if they're not using sensors for whether or not a ball is out?

[heywoodu 15,147]

Dutch federation will announce the new women's coach this afternoon. No name is known yet, but they said "bringing an Italian dictionary could be useful"

 

 

 

[heywoodu 15,147]

Apparently, this will be the new coach.

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Caprara

[VolleyRuller96 264]

We will observe a historic night today since Benfica Lisboa and Mladost Zagreb will clash in the 1st leg of the 3-rd round men's Champions League qualification fixture. This is the final qualifying stage, the winner will get to play pool C (with Sir Collusi Sicoma Perugia, Verva Orlen Warszawa and Tours VB).

 

It is important to note that neither Portugal or Croatia had qualified a team to the group stage of the Champions League since this tournament replaced European Cup Winner's Cup in 2000.

 

(Also I'm now browsing results of older competitions and am starting to regret I wasn't around to watch the ECWC matches in the 90's, it seemed too have a much better format and more teams, not to mention a team from almost made it to the group stage  in 1997 )