Newsletter #1

Welcome to the first edition of the ABVT Newsletter.

The purpose of this Newsletter is to provide open communication to all athletes, coaches, officials and anyone interested in keeping up to date with everything to do with the ABVT. Our aim is to provide a Newsletter before each event at a minimum or as important information comes to hand.

The Australian Beach Volleyball Tour (ABVT) is the premier elite domestic Beach Volleyball series in Australia. The tour attracts Australia’s best athletes and welcomes international wildcard entries while bringing to the sand a spectacle of exciting talent!

The tour has been developed to provide a competition that is professionally delivered and fair to all who participate. Providing an environment that encourages ever increasing levels of competition that are the prime ingredients in maximizing the enjoyment of everyone involved and providing competitive playing opportunities for the top level beach volleyball athletes in Australia.

2021 ABVT IS FIVB HOMOLOGATED

We have received confirmation from the FIVB that the 2021
ABVT will be Homologated. This means all Division 1 events in the ABVT will
attract World Tour Points, depending on overall finishing position. Players
finishing 9th and above (all Main Draw teams that progress from their pools)
will be awarded with a range of points depending on their final finishing
position.

This is great news especially since no athletes have been able to earn any WT points in 2020.

CHANGES TO ABVRS

Due to the Global Pandemic (COVID-19) VA has made the decision to change the ABVRS (for the 2021 ABVT Summer only) which means the ABVRS will be back-dated to include the domestic summer 2019/20 and FIVB 2019 to account for domestic players unable to play due to social-distancing restrictions and World Tour events not being held.

Please see excerpt below from the ABVT Sport Regulations:

“All approved Australian entries will be ranked using the ABVRS. The ABVRS, as default, shows player points from their best 10 results since 28th June 2019 (adjusted for the COVID-19 impacted 2020 season). For the purposes of an ABVT Tour Event, a team’s seeding will be based on the combined points of both players for their best 5 events each since 28th June 2019. This will set from 10 days prior to the first day of competition”.

Link to ABVRS found here.

2021 ABVT STOPS

COBRAM-BAROOGA CLASSIC

Thompsons Beach
22 – 24 January

U19/21's AUSTRALIAN BEACH VOLLEYBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS

Thompsons Beach
25 – 27 January

SCARBOROUGH BEACH OPEN

Scarborough Beach
5 – 7 February

MANLY BEACH OPEN (AUS CHAMPS)

Manly Beach
19 – 21 February

ABVT TOUR FINALS

Coolangatta Beach
12 – 14 March

2021 ENTRY FEES

$220/team

Team Entry
Playing Uniforms
2 Pairs of Archie's Thongs

$180/team

Team Entry
Playing Uniforms
2 Pairs of Archie's Thongs

NOMINATION INFORMATION

Nominations for the 2021 ABVT are now open. Nominations close 3 weeks prior to each event, see nomination closing dates for each event below:

Cobram-Barooga Classic
1st January
Scarborough Beach Open
15th January
Manly Beach Open
(Aus Champs)
29th January

ABVT Finals
19th February

MIKASA CUP

Mikasa have kindly donated two (2) large trophies to be presented to the highest points ranked teams, per gender, at the conclusion of the Summer which will be accumulated from all State Open events only. Both teams will be crowned the winners of the Mikasa Cup for the 2020/21 Summer (formerly known as the Challenger Cup).

ARCHIE'S THONGS

The world’s comfiest thongs?
We certainly think so!

Volleyball Australia has partnered with Archies thongs for the 2021 ABVT. All athletes who enter into any of the ABVT events will recieve a FREE pair of thongs, to check out their range click on the link below