2017 AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour | |
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League | Association of Volleyball Professionals |
Sport | Beach volleyball |
Duration | May 4 –September 3, 2017 [1] |
TV partner(s) | NBC NBCSN |
The 2017 AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour was a domestic professional beach volleyball circuit organized in the United States by the Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP) for the 2017 beach volleyball season. The 2017 AVP Tour calendar comprises the "Gold Series" tournaments and "Open" tournaments.
Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two players on a sand court divided by a net. As in indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is to send the ball over the net and to ground it on the opponent's side of the court, and to prevent the same effort by the opponent. A team is allowed up to three touches to return the ball across the net, and individual players may not touch the ball twice consecutively except after making a block touch. The ball is put in play with a serve—a hit by the server from behind the rear court boundary over the net to the opponents. The rally continues until the ball is grounded on the playing court, goes "out", or a fault is made in the attempt to return the ball. The team that wins the rally scores a point and serves to start the following rally. The four players serve in the same sequence throughout the match, changing server each time a rally is won by the receiving team.
The Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP) is the biggest and longest-running professional beach volleyball tour in the United States. Founded in 1983, the AVP is headquartered in Newport Beach, California. The AVP operates as a 3-tiered development system with AVPFirst, a youth program; AVPNext, a developmental circuit; and the AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour itself.
This is the complete schedule of events on the 2017 calendar, with team progression documented from the semifinals stage. All tournaments consisted of single-elimination qualifying rounds followed by a double-elimination main draw.
A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final match-up, whose winner becomes the tournament champion. Each match-up may be a single match or several, for example two-legged ties in European football or best-of series in American pro sports. Defeated competitors may play no further part after losing, or may participate in "consolation" or "classification" matches against other losers to determine the lower final rankings; for example, a third place playoff between losing semi-finalists. In a shootout poker tournament, there are more than two players competing at each table, and sometimes more than one progressing to the next round. Some competitions are held with a pure single-elimination tournament system. Others have many phases, with the last being a single-elimination final stage, often called playoffs.
A double-elimination tournament is a type of elimination tournament competition in which a participant ceases to be eligible to win the tournament's championship upon having lost two games or matches. It stands in contrast to a single-elimination tournament, in which only one defeat results in elimination.
Gold Series |
Tournament [2] | Champions | Runners-up | Semifinalist #1 | Semifinalist #2 |
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Huntington Beach Open [3] Huntington Beach, California US$75,000 May 4–7 | 21-16, 21-17 (0:51) | |||
Austin Open [4] Austin, Texas US$75,000 May 18–21 | 21-12, 21-19 (0:52) | |||
New York City Open [5] New York City, New York Gold Series US$87,500 June 8–11 | 21-16, 25-23 (0:53) | |||
Seattle Open [6] Seattle, Washington US$75,000 June 22–25 | 21-13, 13-21, 15-11 (1:07) | |||
San Francisco Open [7] San Francisco, California US$75,000 July 6–9 | 24-22, 21-19 (1:03) | |||
Hermosa Beach Open [8] Hermosa Beach, California US$79,000 July 20–23 | 21-16, 17-21, 15-11 (1:13) | |||
Manhattan Beach Open [9] Manhattan Beach, California Gold Series US$112,500 August 17–20 | 23-25, 21-18, 15-10 (1:15) | |||
Championships [10] Chicago, Illinois Gold Series US$112,500 August 31 – September 3 | 21-19, 21-19 (0:49) |
Tournament [2] | Champions | Runners-up | Semifinalist #1 | Semifinalist #2 |
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Huntington Beach Open [11] Huntington Beach, California US$75,000 May 4–7 | 21-13, 21-19 (0:36) | |||
Austin Open [12] Austin, Texas US$75,000 May 18–21 | 14-21, 21-16, 15-11 (1:00) | |||
New York City Open [13] New York City, New York Gold Series US$87,500 June 8–11 | 24-22, 21-15 (0:46) | |||
Seattle Open [14] Seattle, Washington US$75,000 June 22–25 | 21-17, 24-22 (0:48) | |||
San Francisco Open [15] San Francisco, California US$75,000 July 6–9 | 21-13, 21-8 (0:39) | |||
Hermosa Beach Open [16] Hermosa Beach, California US$79,000 July 20–23 | 21-17, 21-13 (0:45) | |||
Manhattan Beach Open [17] Manhattan Beach, California Gold Series US$112,500 August 17–20 | 21-18, 21-18 (0:55) | |||
Championships [18] Chicago, Illinois Gold Series US$112,500 August 31 – September 3 | 21-17, 21-18 (0:45) |
Prior to the 2017 season, the AVP adopted two rule changes:
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Finish [29] | US$150,000 tournaments | US$175,000 tournaments | US$200,000 tournaments | US$225,000 tournaments |
1 | 750 | 900 | 1050 | 1200 |
2 | 640 | 768 | 896 | 1024 |
3 | 540 | 648 | 756 | 864 |
5 | 450 | 540 | 630 | 720 |
7 | 370 | 444 | 518 | 592 |
9 | 300 | 360 | 420 | 480 |
13 | 240 | 288 | 336 | 384 |
15 | 210 | 252 | 294 | 336 |
17 | 190 | 228 | 266 | 304 |
19 | 170 | 204 | 238 | 272 |
21 | 150 | 180 | 210 | 240 |
25 | 120 | 144 | 168 | 192 |
-1 | 100 | 120 | 140 | 160 |
-2 | 82 | 98 | 114 | 130 |
-3 | 66 | 78 | 92 | 106 |
-4 | 52 | 62 | 72 | 82 |
The 2017 AVP Awards Banquet was held on November 4 in Newport Beach, California. [30] The season's top performers were chosen based on statistics, player votes and AVP national ranking points earned during the year. [31]
Award [32] | Men | Women |
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Best Blocker | ||
Best Server | ||
Best Defender | ||
Best Offensive Player | ||
Most Improved Player | ||
Newcomer of the Year | ||
Most Valuable Player | ||
Rookie of the Year | ||
Team of the Year |
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