The 2021-2022 Chinese Women's Volleyball Super League is about to start the second stage of the competition after a 10-day truce. The Chinese Volleyball Association also announced the existing points of each team in the second stage in a timely manner. However, once this point was released, it caused heated discussion and complaints among fans. The reason for the fans' complaints was simple, the fourth of the first stage of each group became the first of the new group.
After watching this format and points, I have to say that it is really a "strange format". First of all, the team with the highest points in the first stage is not the first team in the group. In the first stage, the Tianjin women's volleyball team entered the second stage with 6 complete victories, according to common sense, they should be the first place in group C, but according to the existing rules of the volleyball association, the Tianjin women's volleyball team can only rank second, losing to Shenzhen, which is the fourth in the first stage group.
The same is true for the Shanghai women's volleyball team. Shanghai only lost to Jiangsu in the last game, and the rest of the matches were won, but according to the ranking, the Shanghai women's volleyball team ranked fourth, and the top two in Group D were Zhejiang and Yunnan. The reason for this strange phenomenon is that after the regrouping, the points brought by the teams to the first stage are different. The most unlucky is the Shandong women's volleyball team.
The Shandong women's volleyball team entered the second stage with the third result of Group A, but unfortunately, the teams she defeated in Zhejiang, Yunnan, Hebei and Sichuan were all divided into another group, so the Shandong women's volleyball team now has only 0 points, and the previous wins are all cleared. On the other hand, the Zhejiang women's volleyball team behind her, promoted as the fourth in group A, because she was in the same group as Yunnan, Hebei and Sichuan, so her points came to 9 points, temporarily ranking first in the group.
According to the format, if the top three in each group advance to the top six, the two teams of Zhejiang and Shenzhen have an absolute advantage, as long as they can win the next game, they are likely to advance. Shandong, on the other hand, is in a very disadvantageous position, she and Fujian, who are now in third place, are 2 wins apart, and only by maintaining the second stage of full victory can she qualify. It is no wonder that some fans will say that the Shandong women's volleyball team is not as good as losing to Zhejiang, and it is most cost-effective to take the fourth place in the first stage of Group A.
The second confusing point is that in the second stage, the number of games played by each team was different, some teams played 4 games, and some teams played 3 games. This is due to the fact that, according to the existing rules, the teams that have played in the first stage are not fighting, so the bottom four of the ab two groups only need to play 3 games, and the top three teams need to play 4 games. Such an unequal number of games will also change the points, wins, etc. of each team.