2015 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix

Volleyball competition held in United States

The 2015 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix was the 23rd edition of the annual women's international volleyball tournament played by 28 countries from 26 June to 2 August 2015. This was the first time that the Group 1 final round was held in Omaha, Nebraska, United States.

Qualification

• All 28 teams of the 2014 edition directly qualified.
•  South Korea withdrew from the tournament.
•  Colombia qualified through the 2014 Pan-American Cup.

Format

• The second time the World Grand Prix will feature 28 teams.
• During the Intercontinental Round, Pools A to O will play matches in three stand-alone tournaments, for a total of 9 matches per team. Pool P to S will feature two stand-alone tournaments, for a total of 6 matches per team.
• Six teams will qualify for the World Grand Prix Finals featuring the top five teams from all matches (if the hosts are one of the top five teams, then the sixth top team also participates).
• The last ranked team of Group 1 after the Intercontinental Round could be relegated if the winner of the Final Four of Group 2 can meet the promotion requirements set by the FIVB.

Pools composition

The pools composition was announced on 1 December 2014.^[1]

Competition schedule

Squads

There are 25 players in team rosters. Maximum of 12 regular players and maximum of 2 liberos can be selected to play in each week. The full rosters of 25 players of each team can be seen in the article below.

Pool standing procedure

1. Number of matches won
2. Match points
3. Sets ratio
4. Points ratio
5. If the tie continues as per the point ratio between two teams, the priority will be given to the team which won the last match between them. When the tie in points ratio is between three or more teams, a new classification of these teams in the terms of points 1, 2 and 3 will be made taking into consideration only the matches in which they were opposed to each other.

Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser

Intercontinental round

• All times are local.

Group 1

Ranking

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Week 2

Pool A

• Venue: Indoor Stadium Huamark, Bangkok, Thailand

Pool B

• Venue: Beilun Gymnasium, Ningbo, China

Pool C

• Venue: Başkent Volleyball Hall, Ankara, Turkey

Week 3

Pool D

• Venue: Ginásio do Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil

Pool E

• Venue: Saitama City Memorial Gymnasium, Saitama, Japan

Pool F

• Venue: DS Yantarny, Kaliningrad, Russia

Week 4

Pool G

• Venue: PalaCatania, Catania, Italy

Pool H

• Venue: Hong Kong Coliseum, Hong Kong, China

Pool I

• Venue: Porsche-Arena, Stuttgart, Germany

Group 2

Ranking

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Week 2

Pool J

• Venue: Žatika Sport Centre, Porec, Croatia

Pool K

• Venue: Guillermo Angulo Coliseum, Carolina, Puerto Rico

Week 3

Pool L

• Venue: Estadio Cincuentenario, Formosa, Argentina

Pool M

• Venue: Arena Samokov, Samokov, Bulgaria

Group 3

Ranking

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Week 1

Pool N

• Venue: Zhastar Sports Palace, Taldykorgan, Kazakhstan

Pool O

• Venue: Gimnasio Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico

Week 2

Pool P

• Venue: Coliseo Gran Chimu, Trujillo, Peru

Pool Q

• Venue: Salle omnisports Cheraga, Chéraga, Algeria

Final round

Group 3

• Venue: AIS Arena, Canberra, Australia
• All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10:00).

Week 3 (Final four)

Semifinals

3rd place match

Final

Group 2

• Venue: Hala Globus, Lublin, Poland
• All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00).

Week 6 (Final four)

Semifinals

3rd place match

Final

Group 1

Week 5 (Final Six)

• Venue: CenturyLink Center Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, United States
• All times are Central Daylight Time (UTC−05:00).

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Final standing

Awards

• Most valuable player

  Karsta Lowe

• Best Outside Hitters

  Natalia Pereira

  Kelsey Robinson

• Best setter

  Molly Kreklow

• Best Middle Blockers

  Juciely Cristina Barreto

  Christa Harmotto

• Best libero

  Anna Malova

• Best Opposite

  Nataliya Obmochaeva

Statistics

The statistics of each group follows the vis reports P2 and P3. The statistics include 6 volleyball skills, serve, receive, set, spike, block, and dig. The table below shows the top 5 ranked players in each skill plus top scorers as of 2 August 2015.^[2][3][4]

Best scorers

The best scorers determined by players who scored points from spike, block, and serve.

Best spikers

The best spikers determined by players who successfully spike in percentage (%success).

Best blockers

The best scorers determined by players who had the most numbers of stuff block divided by numbers of sets which her team played (average stuff block/set).

Best servers

The best scorers determined by players who had the most numbers of ace serve divided by numbers of sets which her team played (average ace serve/set).

Best setters

The best scorers determined by players who had the most numbers of running set divided by numbers of sets which her team played (average running set/set).

Best diggers

The best scorers determined by players who had the most numbers of excellent dig divided by numbers of sets which her team played (average excellent dig/set).

Best receivers

The best scorers determined by numbers of excellent receive minus fault receive in percentage (%efficient).

References

1. World Grand Prix Group 1 match schedule approved Archived 8 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine
2. "Group 1 statistics". fivb.org. 2015-07-07.
3. "Group 2 statistics". fivb.org. 2015-07-07.
4. "Group 3 statistics". fivb.org. 2015-07-07.

External links

• Official Website