APAC VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT RULES

              I.  Rule Book:

A.   F.I.V.B. (latest edition) with APAC exceptions

B.    The 3-ball system will be used. 

C.    Warm-up Routine:  4 minutes for team A on the court, 4 minutes for team B on the court, 2 minutes serving together.

D.   All volleyball games will be played with the Mikasa MVA 200.  Warm-up balls are the choice of the host school. 

E.    APAC will not use technical timeouts as indicated in the FIVB rules.

F.    Time-outs are 30 seconds. The time between sets is 90 seconds.

G.   Copies of score sheets are to be available to coaches upon request.

H.   Substitutions per set is 8 total. A player in the starting line-up may leave the game only once in a set, and reenter, but only once in a set and only to his/her previous position in the line-up.

 

            II.  Ground Rules:

A.   The tournament will be governed by ground rules, which are instituted by the host school.

B.    Line judges are recommended for all matches, and mandatory for the semis and finals for each tournament.

C.    APAC will not allow video review, in any sport, for officiating purposes.

D.   Scheduled Games may be moved forward at the discretion of the Tournament Director (Shotgun format) – for the overall good of the tournament.

 

          III.  APAC Travelling Squad:

12 players               

                          

          IV.  Tournament Format:

The following is the APAC Volleyball Format.

A.   A round-robin is played to establish a seeding for the 6 teams to enter a play-off round. The top two seeds get a bye to start the play-off round.

B.    The round-robin phase of the tournament will be best 2 out of 3 sets with each of the 3 sets going to 25 points (win by at least two points, no ceiling).  If a third set is necessary, there will be a coin toss to determine serve.  Teams will then switch sides at 13 points.

C.    A shotgun-scheduling format may be used in order to make up time. Each Tournament Director has the flexibility to establish the shot-gun format.

D.   All scheduled matches in an APAC team sport tournament must be played, weather permitting. Request for forfeits may not be entertained.

E.    The APAC Tournament matrix will be used to determine the round-robin match-ups.

F.    Advantage seeding for single elimination tournaments with six entries will be used for the playoffs (i.e. 1 vs. bye, 5 vs. 4, 3 vs. 6, bye vs. 2).

G.   Play-off matches are standard FIVB 3 out of 5 game format.

H.   All round-robin games and the first two elimination playoff games (Games 1 - 2) will take place on days 1 and 2 of the tournament.

I.      On day 3 of the tournament, the remaining elimination games will be played (games 3-7).

J.     Teams forced into a back-to-back game situation during the transition from the round-robin to play-offs, are given a 30-minute rest before the 10-minute warm-up begins.

 

            V.  Format For The Finals:

            VI.  APAC Tiebreaker Procedure:

1.      Head-to-head result

2.     Set differential between tied teams

3.     Point differential between tied teams

4.     Set differential between all teams

5.     Point differential between all teams

6.     Coin toss

7.     APAC Tiebreaker procedure:

A. Head-to-Head

B. Each sport will have a sports-specific tiebreaker procedure. When head-to-head results in APAC team sport tiebreaker protocol do not settle a three or more team tie, we do not go back to head-to-head after a point-differential (or its sport-specific equivalent) solution has become evident. (In the event point-differential totals or its sport-specific equivalent, are a tie between two schools, head-to-head results will decide promotion.

                 

          VII.  Medical Protocol

Based on accepted Return to Play Protocols, each host school’s head medical personnel (assigned for the tournament) will determine return to play for suspected concussions and any other injuries. This assessment will be binding.

 

If a head injury occurs during an event that requires the player to be removed from the court or field, that player must sit out for a minimum of 10 minutes before being assessed and allowed to re-enter the game.