How to organize a volleyball tournament?

Question

The first idea is to organize an "inter-companies" tournament, for example advertising agencies or law firms.

The other one is something more informal where any teams sign up.

These are for indoor volleyball.

Which type of "bracketing" is the easiest and fastest?

Answer 1

i think u need to be more specific about ur Q?  , are u refering to beach volleyball, indoors volleyball, have some doubts about the rules, how is the structure of a specific tournament with any given number of teams... detail gorgeous, DETAILS.

Answer 2

sorry but pretty you are

thank you

you can use your relatives and friend to get enough people

Answer 3

With friends.

Answer 4

Put an add in the local newspaper.

Answer 5

Round Robin. Find club teams that will enter and create the tournament round robin style. 2 Divisions 8 games to 20 points.

top 4 teams go into the playoffs then a championship. Be cool and have a cash prize or a trophy. woohoo Volleyball!

Answer 6

Depending on the type of tournament you're running and the purpose of the tourney, there's actually quite a bit involved in putting a tournament together.

Some key things you need to consider before even approaching the volleyball court are:

-What format are you going to play?  doubles, quads, sixes?

-Are you running mens, womens, coed or reverse coed?

-Is the tournament going to be grass, sand, indoor or pool?

-Are you offering prizes?

-Do you plan to feed the contestants?

-Why are you holding the tournament?  If its for fun, ask for donations to pay for the food/drink.  If its for a charity, ask them what they're fund raising goal is and then figure out your entry fee from that.

If you're just playing for fun with friends and family, its pretty simple . . . pick a date, tell people what to bring, pick a court and go have fun.

If its a charity or club event, you'll have to do quite a bit more planning.  You'll need the event sponsors (the charity that hired you to run the event, plus any businesses that may wish to sponsor the tourney).  You'll need to find a place to host the event.  How many courts do you have?  The fewer number of courts you have, the fewer number of teams your tournament can efficiently support.  If you're playing indoors you may need special permission to use the facility or have to go through special "usage rights" classes to host events there.  If you're playing in a park, you may need to clear it with the parks and recreation department or whoever owns/operates the park (grass or sand).  Once you get permission to use the courts you'll have to think about providing those courts, particularly outdoors.  Some parks may have a few sand/grass nets available, but in order to run larger tournaments you'll need to provide additional nets (more common with grass tourneys).  (I know some tournaments ask registrants to bring nets for a discounted entry fee.)

Once you have the permissions and courts issue figured out its just a matter of determining the format (may need this before you get sponsors and permissions), working with your sponsors, advertising your event (flyers, newspapers, online groups, league night announcements, radio . . .), designing/ordering prizes and/or shirts, figuring out how much help you'll need to run the event and lining that up.  You'll also need to determine how play will be handled.  Will it be round robin pool play followed by a single or double elimination bracket?  Will it be a straight elimination thing?  The number of courts you have may dictate which of these you go with.  

The day of the event will be relatively chaotic, but being prepared goes a long way towards running a smooth event.  Do as much of the leg work as you can before the day of the event, so that when you get to the event you're ready to start pool play or the tournament itself.  Be there early.  I can't stress how important it is to be to the site early to get things ready to go.  I can't tell you how many tournaments I've gone to where the event organizers that showed up 5 minutes before play was supposed to begin (or even late).  Being there early allows you to get the stuff done that you won't have time to worry about close to start time (signs, trash cans, court setups, etc).

There can be a lot of behind the scene stuff going on or there can be minimal stuff happening.  It all depends on the size of your tournament and what the purpose is.  By no means is this list inclusive of everything that has to happen to pull off a great event, but it should be a starting point to give you some ideas about the stuff that has to be done.

Answer 7

You can play with your family and friends or just a bunch of people that get along!!