“OLD SCHOOL” GRASS DOUBLES, TRIPS, & QUADS RULES
Big court - 30X60
No net serves
Block is not a touch
Side out scoring
No indoor tipping (poke or rollshots only)
Hand setting should be clean and simultaneous. Hand setting for Juniors can be officiated similar to indoor.
*Serve receive with open hands NOT ALLOWED in old school rules (panel or tomahawk allowed)
*hands don’t have to be together but has to be clean and simultaneous
2 rules for Open Level and Coed AA only
1) Taking a free ball with open hands – must be clean and simultaneous
2) Setting the ball over the net – perpendicular to the shoulders of the player. Straight forward or straight backward + clean/simultaneous
Hard driven balls – slight tolerance for a double contact if:
1) ball was hard driven
2) you DIDN’T have time to change your technique
Directional Blocking - directional blocking is allowed as long as you don’t “throw” the ball. The length of contact is what should be judged by the referee
Other rules:
1) 1 drop allowed per service rotation – 2nd is a fault
2) You may go under the net to get a ball but cannot interfere with opponents on the other side
3) Can NOT enter another adjacent court to chase a ball (unless no match is taking place on that court)
4) Touching the poll at net height is a fault. Touching a pole below the net is not, unless the net is disrupted by the player.
5) If the hitting action finished in touching the net, it is a fault, even if the ball was grounded before the touch.
Work teams:
-Input scores using the Live Scoring feature in VolleyballLife
-Required to call bad contacts, net touches, foot faults, track side changes and timeouts
-Side changes occur every 4 points in games being played to 11 and every 5 points for games being played to 15
-Disagreements best settled by replay
Courtesy rule for Coed BB Doubles:
Guys must serve guys side of court (draw an imaginary line dividing the court in half lengthwise). 1 mistake allowed per GAME with no penalty. More than 1 is a side out.
Quads rules:
-All rules already listed apply to quads as well (no net serves, block is not a touch, side out scoring, no indoor tipping)
-Other considerations: 1) there is no hand passing in old school quads 2) other than serving, there is no need to rotate positionally like in 6’s
-Hand setting in quads should be officiated similarly to doubles
Tiebreaks:
-Tiebreaks for Men’s and Women’s Open 2nd place pool finishers will be settled by a 1 to 11 rally scoring play-in game.
-All other divisions: 1. Head-to-Head 2. Points among tied teams (aka head to head points) 3. Overall points
-3 way ties for 1st - 1st place decided by points among tied teams/overall points. 2nd & 3rd will play a rally scoring play-in game across all divisions
-3 way ties for 2nd - 2nd place decided by points among tied teams/overall points. No play-in game except for at the highest level division (Open or Coed AA)
For seeding playoffs:
1. Pool finish 2. Win loss ratio 3. Point differential
SHOW GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP. BE A GOOD SPORT. THIS IS JUST A GAME.
CLEAN UP AFTER YOURSELF. BE A GOOD CITIZEN!
If you want to go even deeper on Old School Rules, visit the Pottstown Rumble Rules page for more info!
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