11th Annual 2015 European Global Challenge Information

 Bulletin I.: June 8, 2015

 Team Information

  • Rosters need to be emailed to bringitusacory@aol.com by July 1, 2015. For each player we need the players name, height, position, and date of birth and current club.
  • Uniforms: You will need one set of light uniforms and one set of dark uniforms. Remember that numbers cannot be higher than 18.
  • A rooming list needs to be turned in no later than July 4, 2015. One week before the start of the tournament I will give you specific details on the rooming list. Please email them to bringitusacory@aol.com
  • Exchange gifts: Please bring something for net exchanges with each team. Please have all your players bring tee-shirts for exchanges.
  • Tournament Information: One week prior to your departure I will provide you with all the necessary information for the tournament. Exact details will not be worked out until that time. At the moment the following teams are to coming to the Global Challenge:

U22 Brijuni Division

European Teams  

  1. Nova KBM Branik Juniors, Slovenia (U22)
  2. BFTM-Falconara Juniors, Italy (U22)
  3. Hungary Federation A U22 team
  4. Hungary Federation B U22 team
  5. Isreal Federation U22 team
  6. Italian Junior National Team (U20)
  7. One Team TBA

 USA Teams

  1.  Mountain West Conference All Star team
  2. NCVA U22 team, Northern California
  3. USA Junior National Team (U20)
  4. BIP/USA Development Team (U22)
  5. Team BIP (U22)
  6. BIP Midwest (U22)
  7. BIP SE (U22)

U17 Istria Division

European Teams

  1. Ok  Pula, Youth, Croatia (U17)
  2. Hungary Youth A National Team, Hungary (U17)
  3. Hungary Youth B National Team, Hungary (U17)
  4. Slovenia Select Federation Team (U17)
  5. Croatia Select Federation Team (U17)

USA Teams

  1. NCVA Youth, Northern California (U17)
  2. BIP Southeastern Team (U17)
  3. Northern Lights, Minnesota  (U17)
  4. AAU/Cheval Rouge (U17)
  5. Westside Youth, Southern California
  • The Technical meeting will be held the Hotel Pula on July 13th at 6:30 pm.
  • Tournament results will be updated each night along with journal entries on the Bring It USA site at http://bringitusa.com/gc15/
  • The Hotel Pula has wireless Internet access, however they charge for internet.
  • Opening Ceremonies: The ceremonies will be held in the town square of Pula on the evening of July 12, 2015 at 9 pm.  It will be hot, so all we ask is that teams have on matching shirts. It is fine to wear shorts. We ask that each team bring a flag from their country.
  •  Plan to arrive at the Hotel Pula before 3 pm if possible. All teams start with lunch on the 12th and end with breakfast on the 17th.
  • Again, exact details for the tournament will come one week before the tournament.
  • Age limits. In general the age requirements for the Global Challenge are 22 and under and U17 and under.

 

11th Annual European Global Challenge
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S Tournament
Bulletin #2
July 12-17, 2015

Pula, Croatia

ORGANIZER: Bring It Promotions

  • E-mail: bringitusacory@aol.com
  • Website: www.bringitusa.com/gc15
  • Twitter Link: https://twitter.com/11thGC
  • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bringitusaglobalchallenge
  • Contact Persons: Mr. Cory Solomon/Mr. Tim Kelly
  • Croatia Mobile:+386 40 744 518/+386 31 675 092

LOCAL ORGANIZER: OK Pula Volleyball Club
Contact persons: Mr. Boris Breszic
Mobile: +385 98 3336 51

  1. COMPETITION CALENDAR AND OTHER ACTIVITIES:

 

July 12: Arrival of Teams to Pula

  • 18:15 Technical Meeting (Hotel Pula)
  • 21:15 Opening Ceremony (City Hall, Pula)

Buses leave hotel at 20:15 and return at 22:15 from Opening Ceremonies.

  • Lunch served from 12.00 -16:00
  • Dinner served from 18.00 -20:00

July 13-16: Competition Dates
July 16: Championship Day Celebration 15:30 – 20:00 at Dom Sportova
Closing Party at Hotel Pula from 23:00 to 1:00
July 17: Departure of Teams from Pula

  1. HOST CITY, COMPETITION HALLS:

Host City: Pula, Croatia

Competition Halls: Dom Sportova  and Uljanik Hall    Trg Kralja Tomislava 7. 52100 Pula

  1. PARTICIPATING TEAMS:

European Teams

      1. Nova KBM Branik Juniors (Slovenia) (u22)
      2. BFTN Falconara Juniors  (Italy)  (u22)
      3. Hungary A National Selection (Hungary) (u22)
      4. Hungary B National Selection (Hungary) (u22)
      5. Israel National Selection (Israel) (u22)
      6. Italy Junior National team (Italy) (u22)
      7. Slovenia Select National Team (Slovenia) (u22)
      8. Hungary Youth A National Team (Hungary) (u17)
      9. Hungary Youth B National Team (Hungary) (u17)
      10. OK, Pula (Croatia) (u17)
      11. Croatia Select National Team (Croatia) (u17)
      12. Slovenia Youth National Team(Slovenia) (u17)

USA Teams

      1. NCVA High Performance, Northern California (u22)
      2. Team BIP (u22)
      3. BIP/ Southeastern Team (u22)
      4. BIP/USA (u22)
      5. BIP Midwest Team (u22)
      6. USA Junior National Team (u22)
      7. Mountain West Conference All Star Team (u22)
      8. BIP/Southeastern Team (u17)
      9. NCVA High Performance, Northern California (u17)
      10. Team Augusta Red (u17)
      11. Northern Lights, Minnesota (u17)
      12. Team Westside, California (u17)
  1. RULES OF THE GAME

5.1          General principle: The matches in the European Global Challenge are played according to the Rules of the game of FIVB 2005-15.

5.2          Special rules: Group play will  be 3 sets to 25 points for each set. Championship rounds will be 3 out of 5 sets in the winners bracket and 2 of 3 sets in the consolation braket.

5.3          Special rules: In order to faciliate playing time, the U17 tournament will be allowed a total number of 12 subsitutions per set with unlimited entries. Note the U22 tournament will follow standard subsitution rules of 6 total subs and 1 entry.

 

  1. COMPETITION SYSTEM

                6.1          USA vs. European Challenge (Round One/Days one and two)

The Brijuni Tournament (U22)  will consist of 14 teams. Seven (7)  European teams and seven (7) USA teams. The Istra Tournament (U17)  will consist of 10 teams. Five (5) European, five (5) USA teams .

The USA vs. European Challenge is designed to match up teams from one side of the Atlantic with teams from the other side of the Atlantic. Each team in both divisions will play four randomly selected opponts in the USA vs. European Challenge.  All matches will be played 3 sets to 25 points

Championship Tournament: (Round two/Days three and four)

Brijuni Division: (u22) The top  USA  team and the top  European team in the Brijuni (u22) division will have a first roud bye in the 14 team championship tournment. Note that all teams will continue to play in order to determine positions 1-14.

Istra Division: (u17)  The top 3 USA and 3 European team in the Istra (u17)division will have a first round by in the 10 team championship tournament. Note that all teams will continue to play in order to determine positions 1-10

All teams are guaranteed six total matches in the tournament.

First team listed wears light uniforms, last time listed wears dark uniforms.

  1. OFFICIAL RATIFICATION OF MATCHES

Seeding in the Brijuni and Itra Divisions: (round one) Each set won counts as one point. There are a possible of 12 total points for each team in round one. If after 12 total sets two or more teams are tied with the same number of points, the ratio of points scored to points against will determine the highest seed.

The championship bracket is played best 3 of 5 in the winners bracket. The consolation bracket is best 2 of 3 sets with the 3rd set to 15 points if needed.

  1. Officials

Pool play matches and the consolation braket in the championship tournament will have one up official and one score keeper. All championship matches will have one up, and one down official and one score keeper. The championship Final Match in both divisions will also have line judges.

  1. USA Vs. European Challenge Rournd One
European u17 USA u17 European u22 USA u22
SLO YNT NCVA Italy JNT Team BIP
Hungary A YNT West Side Hungary A NT BIP/USA
Hungary B YNT BIP SE Hungary B NT BIP SE
OK Pula AAU/Cheval Rouge BFTM Falconara BIP MW
Croatia YNT Northern Lights NKBM Juniors MWC All Stars
Israel NT NCVA
Slovenia Select USA JNT
  1. Competition Schedule

 

July 13, 2015 (All matches 3 sets)

Time Sportova 1 Sportova 2 Uljanik
8:30 NL’s – CRO (1) BIP SE  –SLO (2) NCVA –  HUN A (3)
10:00 AAU –  HUN B (4) West Side – OK Pula (5) BIPMW – Falconara (6)
11:30 USA JNT – HUN A (7) MWC – HUN B (8) Team BIP – SLO (9)
13:00 BIP/USA – ITA JNT (10) NCVA – ISR  (11) BIP SE – NKBM (12)
16:00 HUN A – BIP SE (13) HUN B – West Side (14) SLO  – AAU (15)
17:30 OK Pula – NL’s (16) Croatia – NCVA (17) NKBM – NCVA (18)
19:00 ITA JNT – USAJNT (19) Hun A – Team BIP (20) Falconara – MWC (21)
20:30 HUN B – BIP SE (22) ISR – BIP MW (23) SLO – BIP/USA (24)

July 14, 2015  (All matches 3 sets)

Time Sportova 1 Sportova 2 Uljanik
8:30 NL’s –Hun B (25) BIP SE – Croatia (26) West Side – HUN A (27)
10:00 NCVA – SLO (28) AAU – OK Pula  (29) Team BIP – HUN B (30)
11:30 USA JNT – Falconara (31) MWC – ISR (32) BIP MW – HUN A (33)
13:00 BIP SE –  ITA JNT (34) NCVA – SLO (35) BIP/USA – NKBM (36)
16:00 HUN B – BIP SE (37) Croatia – West Side (38) SLO – NL’s (39)
17:30 OK Pula – NCVA  (40) HUN A – AAU (41) Falconara – Team BIP (42)
19:00 SLO – USA JNT (43) Italy JNT – MWC (44) ISR – BIP SE (45)
20:30 HUN A – BIP  USA (46) NKBM – BIP MW (47) HUN B – NCVA (48)

 

July 15, 2015 Championship Matches (3 of 5 sets)

Time Sportova 1 Sportova 2 Uljanik
8:30 Euro #5 –  USA #4 (49) Euro #4 – USA #5 (50) USA #4 – Euro #5 (51)
10:30 USA #2 – Euro #7 (52) Euro #3 – USA #6 (53) Euro #4 –  USA #5 (54)
11:30 Euro #2 – USA #3 (55) Euro #2 – USA #7 (56) USA #3 – Euro #6 (57)
13:00 Euro #1 – W50 (58) USA #1 – W51 (59) USA #2 – Euro #3 (60)
15:00 Euro #1 – W49 (61) USA #1 – W54 (62)
17:00 W52 – W53 (63) W56 – W57 (64)
19:00 W55 – W58 Semi (65) W59 – W60 Semi (66)
21:00 W61 – W63 Semi (67) W62 – W64 Semi (68)

 

July 16, 2015 Consolation Matches (2 of 3 sets)

Time Sportova 1 Sportova 2 Uljanik
8:30 L 50 – L51 (69) L 55 – L58 (70) L59 –L 60 (71)
10:00 L49 –  L 52 (72) L 53 – L54  (73)
11:30 L56 – L57  (74)
13:00 L 67 – L 68 (76) U17 L65 – L66 (77)

 

Championship Matches: Main Court (best 3 out of 5)

16:00  (Istra Division) W65 v W66  (78) 1st and 2nd
19:00  (Brijuni Division) W67 v W68 (79) 1st and 2nd

Awards Ceremony after Brijuni (Gold) Championship Match
 
Special Notes:
 

*Teams must arrange eating times wiht the hotel if they fall outside the normal eating time.
* Water will not be provided at the tournament.
*Each night updates will be posted via twitter. So all coaches should receive the twitter updates on their
mobile phone.
*Have players bring as many tee-shirts as possible for tee-shirt exchange with other players.
*Closeing Ceremonies Party feturing 6-Pack Cukur from 11:00 to 12:30 pm at the swimming pool