Teams playing in the Ohio Valley Region-Molten® National Bid Qualifier will be seeded on their best 4 results.

Seeding for the Ohio Valley Region-Kaepa® USA Girls' Volleyball Championships will be based on all tournament results reported and verified through the Tuesday preceeding each tournament. The region reserves the right to reclassify a team into the National or Regional divisions if deemed appropriate. Seeding will be based on the coefficient of the top 5 finishes for all Regional teams and the top 6 finishes for all National teams. Teams will not be placed in the Gold division of Regional Championships with fewer than 3 results. Head-to-head competition will be the first criteria for breaking ties, with the number of tournaments played the second criteria.

Tournaments very early in the season shall be seeded at the discretion of the tournament director, based on the previous season's final ranking, Regional Championship finish, National or Regional Challenge finish, and USAV Championship finish.

Seeding Point Values

Points of Note

1. If an National team plays in a Regional level tournament in their own or the next higher age division (e.g. 14 National plays in a 14 Regional or 15 Regional tournament), regardless of their finish they will receive 1 point for that tournament, which will be averaged into the National team's total points.

2. If a team switches age divisions in the middle of the season, one of two scenarios can happen:

   1. A team moves up (e.g. 14 Regional moves to 14 National) — Any points earned in a Regional level tournament will be disregarded and thrown away for any seeding purposes. They will not be penalized, but it will be treated as they never played in it.

   2. A team moves down (e.g. 14 National moves to 14 Regional) — This usually happens because the team has not performed well. Consequently, none of their finishes or resulting points will be altered.

3. On the Rankings web page, there will be two columns of points:

   1. Total points / avg. points (all tournaments) — This is mainly for the teams who play out of region, and these standings can be used for those teams that need to submit regional rankings for qualifiers, etc. and as tie breakers for OVR Regional Championship seeding

   2. Total points / avg. points (top 5 (Regional) or 6 (National) tournament results) — These are the points that will be used for OVR Junior Championship seedings.

4. Any tournaments played after the OVR Regional Championships will not be counted for the standings considering this is used to seed the OVR Regional Championships.

5. All requests for verification of team's results must come through a director or coach of that team's club. Requests will not be accepted from players and parents. All OVR tournament results will be available online, and the majority of tournament directors of out-of-region tournaments make their results available online on a separate website.

6. Levels for certain tournaments may be designated as "adjusted". Contact Bill Zehler (zehler@ovr.org) for the circumstances leading to any of those adjustments.

7. If you have any questions about the seeding system, please contact Bill Zehler (zehler@ovr.org), OVR Girls' Program Director.

See Also

• Validation of the OVR Juniors' Seeding System