Tunisia’s volleyball team is intensifying its preparations for the volleyball World Cup in Japan that kicks off November 17th, Tunisian press reports. According to La Presse, the team will train for two weeks at home, beginning October 20th, before heading to Seoul where the team will play three friendly matches with their South Korean peers. National coach Jacob Antonio said he would rely on the same 12-member squad that reached the finals of the Volleyball African Nations Cup in Durban, South Africa last month. magharebia.com
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November 10th, 2007 at 10:06 am
Interested in the game that implemented offensive and defensive scoring in this kind of sport 15 years before the FIVB changed from side-out to rallypoint scoring?
Ignus Fatuus “Fool’s Fire”
Affliction…(1:5)
When the Federation International de Volleyball (FIVB) disemboweled volleyball of its side-out scoring system, they eviscerated the sport of some of its most prolific competitive features.
Symptom…(2:5)
If the FIVB had any sense of balance, intuitive perceptions, or integral rational when they attempted to remodel volleyball’s scoring system, they would have benefited far better, if they would have put more mental effort into working with the intrinsic values of volleyball’s side-out scoring system. The serve is the catalyst by which this kind of team net sport best operates.
Diagnosis…(3:5)
Under the rallypoint scoring system, the team in service is handicapped with the serve, and the receiving team is in the dilemma of having the scoring advantage for the disadvantages of the serve. Rallypoint’s anemic, self inflicting, and unearned point scoring system and its anticlimactic methods of winning set or game, are not examples of how anomalies may have to be solved when working to develop an equitable offensive and defensive scoring system.
Therapy…(4:5)
Under the side-out scoring system, a served ball is a challenge and a threat because it can’t be penalized error points to the advantage of the receiving team. However, it is the responsibility of the team with serve to provoke a competitive situation of cause and effect. When a team in service fails to fulfill the character of its role, a penalty situation would be defined and enforced: A penalty where a point would be lost.
If a service team fails in its responsibility to successfully challenge its opponents off the serve, it should be penalized a point. From this method, a service team’s opponent would benefit by increasing its lead, reducing the service team’s lead, or gaining the lead if both teams are tied. But, there would be no unearned points awarded, non competitive action would be devalued, and each team would have to gain set/game point off its earned points and competitive skills.
However, in order for the serve to be valuable enough to compete for in an offensive and defensive side-out scoring system, the receiving team would be limited to two hits off a served ball and three hits during volley.
And, only the first serve of the person rotating into the service position would be subject to penalty. Otherwise, all that would be created, would be an inversion of the sport under the rallypoint scoring system, where every non-competitive action off any serve, is an unearned point.
Antecedent…(5:5)
The descriptions written up under “Therapy” of how to develop an offensive and defensive side-out scoring system are not suggestions, they are instructions. The basic ideas, as they have been described, come from the creation of the first team net sport of this kind responsible for the concept, development, and competition of these methods of play.
In the process of designing and modifying the side-out scoring system for offensive and defensive scoring, it was essential to the success of the project to experiment with new ideas. The products of those efforts included unrestricted hitting and kicking, multiple point scoring, penalty point, vertical areas of scoring, and a quarter set system of play.