Men's Volleyball FIVB World League 2017

[Melonade 4]

I swear 47 45 is soooooo unlikely?!

 

Only similar thing I've seen is when John Isner and Nicolas Mahut played a tennis match at Wimbledon that went to 70 games to 68 in the 5th set. But they were both very good at serving and not great at returning, making the chance of winning alternating games more likely.

 

 

Compared to other sports:

Winning a badminton set 43-41 (They have a limit if 30 points, so if it is 29-29 it is the deciding point, but it is a rare occurence)

Winning a table tennis set 33-31?!!? 

Winning a penalty shootout e.g. in football or hockey in the 23rd round of sudden death?!!?!? 

Or winning a golf tournament in a playoff at the 23rd playoff hole?! (A golf course usually only has 18 holes)

 

Ok I'm done and so are Venezuela, they completely gave up the last game lost it and the match in like 5 minutes  oh dear

 

Edited June 11, 2017 by Melonade

[dcro 10,210]

  On 6/11/2017 at 3:19 PM, Melonade said:

Winning a table tennis set 33-31?!!? 

 

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Not quite 33-31, but it came close to that at TT Worlds last week.

 

 

[Melonade 4]

Netherlands beat Egypt in 5 set comeback to go from 6th to 2nd in Group (top 4 qualify) 

[Tokyoyo 0]

  On 6/11/2017 at 4:19 PM, Melonade said:

Netherlands beat Egypt in 5 set comeback to go from 6th to 2nd in Group (top 4 qualify) 

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The Netherlands played very, very bad in the first two sets. After those two lost sets it was a pretty good level. I think they underestimated the Egyptians.

Well, Netherlands is 2nd now in the poule. It won't be easy, but hopefully they will qualify for the Final Four. 

[VolleyRuller96 264]

Austria  they played so well this year and they desrved at least ro qualify to Group 3 F4...

[Federer91 2,904]

I'm always amazed and frustrated at the same time, how we can play great against the big teams and subpar against the weaker ones. Beating Brazil, Poland and Russia and losing to Argentina and Canada.  

[Gianlu33 4,750]

We lost again, this World League is a nightmare for the Italian team  

[LDOG 2,432]

Our coach understimated the WL, and we are going to div II as a consecuence. De Cecco and Conte enjoying their vacations instead of being here leading the team

[VolleyRuller96 264]

Well it's a good thing I was not at home 90%of the weekend and was only able to follow livescores  i probably would smash the television from emotions if I watched live  at least we beat Canada

[Melonade 4]

Okay so apparently there was a volleyball set that ended 87-85 in the Czechoslovakia League in 1979. 

But it's hard to find evidence of it, according to http://www.volleyball-movies.net/fanclubs/discussion/the-longest-set-in-the-history-of-volleyball-329

 

63-61 happened in the German League (I don't know when) and 54-52 happened in Italian Serie A in 2002 and between Athens and Thessaloniki in 2007.

 

But in the 1970s/80s, a normal set e.g. 25-20 would last over an hour. So 87-85...!??!!