• Coaches should ensure an updated email address is in AES. Reminder/update emails will be sent to email addresses associated with the registration of the team.
• All rosters should be updated in AES, this will be your official roster or a printed USAV roster turned in at the gate.  Any changes that have to be made the morning of the tournament, will be submitted in writing to the gym manager.  Team name, team code, and USAV member numbers will be required.
• Start time may vary per division and location. Estimated start is between 8AM-9AM. It is important that you check AES through Friday for any changes. Make sure you check that you do not officiate before you play your first match in planning your arrival time.
• Every Coach should check in at the gate to get any updates if applicable. 
• Every team is responsible for bringing your pens, pencils, and other items to keep score.
• Warmups: 2-4-4 for each team's first match. Then a reduced warmup for the rest of the day, 1-3-3.
• 11-18U: All pool play matches will be 2 sets, starting at 4, play to 25, no cap. (17U & 18U will play 3 sets, start at 4, play to 25, no cap.) 
• 11-18U: All bracket games will be 2 of 3.  1st 2 sets, start at 4, play to 25, no cap. IF set, start at 0, play to 15, no cap.
• It is the coach's responsibility to check AES frequently throughout the day to make sure there are no mistakes in score entry.  If a mistake is found, notify the gym manager or email lesvbtournaments@gmail.com, immediately.
• 11 and 12 Division:
  • There is a step-in line to serve from whose back edge is no more than 9’10” from the back edge of the main end line. 
  • If a player serves 3 consecutive points in a row in a single service, they must back up to the normal service line for the remainder of that service.
  • If you have boys playing in this division, remember only 2 boys can be on the court at the same time.
• Southern Region Volleyball does not allow boys to play in any division 13U-18U.

A.  Teams qualifying for the playoffs but tied for position only shall not compete in a playoff set to determine position.  Rather, each team’s position shall be determined by the priority system described below.  However, no teams shall be eliminated from the playoffs based solely upon points or a point system, except for the gold/silver format tournaments.  

B.   IF TWO TEAMS ARE TIED FOR TWO PLAYOFF POSITIONS for the tournament championship, or when re-seeding four team pools to play extra/cross pool matches to meet the SRVA requirement that each team play at least eight sets per tournament. [Example: two teams advance to the playoffs for a tournament championship and the top two teams in the pool are tied]

NO PLAYOFF SET IS NECESSARY. INSTEAD, determine the higher-seeded team by:

1. Head-Head (if applicable): the result of the match between the two teams, first on sets won and lost.

2. If the two teams are still tied, best set percentage record using total sets played, and if still tied. 

3. If the two teams are still tied, the higher seed is determined by: highest point percentage using total sets played.

4. If still tied, a coin toss will determine playoff positions.

5. IF THREE OR MORE TEAMS ARE TIED FOR THE SAME NUMBER OF PLAYOFF POSITIONS for the tournament championship, use steps 3 and 4 above.

            **The team with the highest point percentage has the highest finish in the pool, the team with the second highest point percentage is second in the pool, and so on. All teams proceed to the tournament championship based in their finish using steps 3 and 4 above.

Note: Point percentage is determined by dividing each team’s total points scored by the total points scored by all the team’s opponents in that pool using all sets played. The team with the highest point percentage has the next highest finish in the pool.

Set percentage is determined by dividing the sets won by each team by the sets lost by that same team using all sets played.