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FIVB Youth And Junior World Rankings
The FIVB Youth and Junior World Rankings is a ranking system for men's and women's age-group (U- categories) national teams in volleyball. The teams of the member nations of Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), volleyball's world governing body, are ranked based on their ranking in each FIVB appointed international tournaments, like FIVB Senior World Ranking system (until 2020), the previous senior world ranking system. The rankings are used in international competitions to define the seeded teams and arrange them in pools. Specific procedures for seeding and pooling are established by the FIVB in each competition's formula, but the method usually employed is the serpentine system. The FIVB Youth and Junior World Rankings are composed of: *FIVB Youth World Rankings for boy's under-19 and women's under-18 *FIVB Junior World Rankings for men's under-21 and women's under-20 while FIVB under-23 World Rankings are dissolved. Calculation method The system of point attributio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summer Olympic Games since Tokyo 1964. Beach volleyball was introduced to the program at the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics. The adapted version of volleyball at the Summer Paralympic Games is sitting volleyball. Basic play The complete set of rules is extensive, but play essentially proceeds as follows: a player on one of the teams begins a 'rally' by serving the ball (tossing or releasing it and then hitting it with a hand or arm), from behind the back boundary line of the court, over the net, and into the receiving team's court. The receiving team must not let the ball be grounded within their court. The team may touch the ball up to three times to return the ball to the other side of the court, but individual players may not touch th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fédération Internationale De Volleyball
The International Volleyball Federation commonly known by the acronym FIVB (''Fédération Internationale de Volleyball''). Is the international sports governing body, governing body for all forms of volleyball. Its headquarters are located in Lausanne, Switzerland, and its current president is Fabio Azevedo of Brazil. History Before the FIVB was founded volleyball was part of the International Amateur Handball Federation. The FIVB was founded in France in April 1947. In the late 1940s, some of the European national federations began to address the issue of creating an international governing body for the sport of volleyball. Initial discussions eventually lead to the installation of a Constitutive Congress in 1947. Fourteen national federations representing five different continents attended the meetings where, between 18 and 20 April, the entity was officially formed, having French people, Frenchman Paul Libaud as first president. The first Asian volleyball championship was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIVB Senior World Ranking System (until 2020)
The FIVB world ranking system (until 2020) is a calculation technique previously used by Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) for ranking men's and women's national teams in football. The ranking system was introduced by FIVB until 31 January 2020 as using for seeding teams participating 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan before an update to an earlier system, and was replaced during the 2020 FIVB Volleyball Nations League with a revised Elo-based system. The system is still used in FIVB World Junior and Youth Rankings. Calculation method The system of point attribution for the selected FIVB World and Official Competitions below is as follows: *Olympic Games final and qualifying tournaments: included for 4 years and points are also granted for the qualification matches, to the best non-qualified teams. *World Championship final and qualifying tournaments: included for 4 years and points are also granted for the qualification matches, to the best non-qualified teams. *W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serpentine System
The serpentine system, also known as snake seeding, is a method of organization used in competitions to define the seeded teams and arrange them into pools. The ''n'' ranked teams that will be involved in the tournament are distributed in ''m'' pools according to the following algorithm In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm () is a finite sequence of Rigour#Mathematics, mathematically rigorous instructions, typically used to solve a class of specific Computational problem, problems or to perform a computation. Algo ...: For instance, 12 teams would be organized in four-team pools as follows: To improve competitivity, this method is sometimes used in conjunction with the drawing of lots. The serpentine system is used only for some of the teams involved in the competition ("seeds"), and the rest are distributed in pools following a drawing of lots. Sports terminology Tournament systems {{Sport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Women's U19 Volleyball European Championship
The 2018 Women's Junior European Volleyball Championship was the 26th edition of the competition, with the main phase (contested between 12 teams) held in Albania from 1 to 9 September 2018. Participating teams * Hosts ** * Qualified through 2018 Women's U19 Volleyball European Championship Qualification ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** Preliminary round ''All times are Central European Summer Time ( UTC+02:00).'' Pool I *venue: Dhimitrag Goga Sport Hall, Durrës Pool II *venue: Olympic Park, Tirana 5th–8th classification ''All times are Central European Summer Time ( UTC+02:00).'' *venue: Dhimitrag Goga Sport Hall, Durrës 5th–8th semifinals 7th place match 5th place match Final round ''All times are Central European Summer Time ( UTC+02:00).'' *venue: Olympic Park, Tirana Semifinals 3rd place match Final Final standing Awards *Most valuable player *: Valeria Battista *Best setter *: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship
The 2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship will be the twentieth edition of the FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship, contested by the women's national teams under the age of 20 of the members of the ' (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The final tournament was held in Mexico from 12 to 21 July 2019. Mexico played hosts for this event for the fourth time. The finals involved 16 teams, of which 15 came through qualifying competitions, while the host nation qualified automatically. Of the 16 teams, 15 had also appeared in the previous tournament in 2017, while Rwanda made its first appearances at an FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship. China is the defending champions, having won their third title in Mexico. Qualification A total of 16 teams qualified for the final tournament. In addition to Mexico, who qualified automatically as the hosts, another 10 teams qualified via six separate continental tournaments while the remaining 5 teams qua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
