The Women's Volleyball Club World Cup will be held in Ankara, Turkey. According to the schedule announced by the FIVB, the first round of competition will be held on December 15, with Minas de Minas of Brazil facing the Asian Club Cup champion Altai women's volleyball team. At present, all teams have set off for the competition venue to make final preparations for winning the championship.
This year's Women's Volleyball Club World Cup, like the Men's Volleyball Club World Cup, will try 3 new rules. The first new rule is to adjust the position of the bench and the coaching bench; the second is to set a 15-second serve countdown; the third is to reduce the number of suspensions for each team and restore the technical suspension. The emergence of these 3 new regulations has also made running circles a history, and substitute players need to strengthen expression management.
According to the new rules, the bench and the coaching bench will be set behind the referee, and before it was back to the camera lens, so the reaction of the substitute players and the reaction of the coaches cannot be known to the audience. The new area is mainly set up to take care of the TV audience, so that they can more intuitively experience the changes in the arena, which also puts forward high requirements for the expression management of substitute players and coaches.
Setting a 15-second serve timer is to completely stop the running lap and group behavior. After scoring, many teams will run in circles and hug groups, especially the Chinese women's volleyball team. We can often see players hugging together or running laps to celebrate scoring, but according to the new rules, players will not have time to run laps or celebrate in groups, and once they time out, they will return their hard-earned points to their opponents.
Because of the new rules, the referee gives a scoring gesture and the time to complete the next dispense ball is 15 seconds, of which 7 seconds are ready to serve and 8 seconds to complete, as long as the timeout will be awarded to the opponent. The previous rule was 8 seconds to serve, i.e. no more than 8 seconds to prepare for a serve. The biggest difference from the old rules is the method of calculating the start time. The new rule is that after the referee gives a scoring gesture, the old rule is after the athlete gets the ball.
The third new rule is to restore the technical suspension, but from the previous 8 and 16 points per inning, it was changed to a technical suspension of 60 seconds when the 1-4 innings reached 12 minutes, and the number of active suspensions per innings was reduced, from 2 to 1, and the time was maintained at 30 seconds.
After the appearance of Hawkeye, the FIVB canceled the technical suspension in order to ensure the smoothness of the competition, and unexpectedly resumed it this time. Reducing the number of active pauses, the author believes that perhaps because many coaches use the challenge as a pause, which affects the fluency of the TV broadcast, so it is changed to 1. Of course, these 3 provisions are only in the trial stage, and whether they can be applied to other competitions needs to be observed and considered in an all-round way.