Beach Volleyball Rules
Striker Soccer is a SOCIAL co-ed sports league first and foremost. Games will be self-regulated but monitored by an official.
Game Format
- Three games to 21, rally scoring, cap at 23.
- A team must win by 2 points.
- 1 time out per game
- Coed: at least 2 females on the court at all times. You can always have more females on the court.
- Teams can play with a minimum of 3 players one must be female to avoid forfeit.
- Each team will use the rotation format
Forfeit
- A 10-minute forfeit time will be given at each game time.
- If a team forfeits two matches over the course of a single season, Striker Sports & Social reserves the right to remove that team from the league without refunding the entrance fee.
Serving
- Only one toss or release of the ball is allowed. Dribbling or moving the ball in the hands is permitted.
- At the moment of the service hit or take-off for a jump service, the server must not touch the court (the end line included) or the floor outside the service zone.
- After the hit, he/she may step or land outside the service zone, or inside the court.
- The server must hit the ball within 8 seconds of the next set.
- A service executed before both teams are ready, is canceled and repeated.
- The ball shall be hit with one hand or any part of the arm after being tossed or released from the hand(s).
- If the ball hits the antenna on a serve, stop play and re-serve. These rules are still under review and may be revised for, but not limited to purposes of clarity, fair play, or improvement of the competition.
Net Play & Faults
- Players may touch the post, ropes, or any other object outside the antenna, provided that it does not interfere with play.
- When the ball is driven into the net, causing it to touch an opponent, no fault is committed.
- To touch the opponent’s court with any part of the body is permitted provided that it does not interfere with the opponent’s play.
- A player may enter the opponent’s court after the ball goes out of play.
- Players may penetrate into the opponent’s free zone provided that they do not interfere with the OPPONENT’S play.
- A ball traveling to the opposing side can never touch any objects in its travel. (In our case, when the ball hits a branch during serve, attack, or, free-ball !) In these instances the play is dead, and the opposing team is granted a point.
Sets, Carries, Double Contact
- The ball may touch various parts of the body, provided that the contacts take place simultaneously. Double contact on ANY first ball is legal.
- The ball must not be caught and/or thrown.
- The ball must enter and exit both hands simultaneously, on 2nd and third contact!
Attack / Block
- To block or attack an opponent’s service is forbidden.
- A back-row player, can NOT down-ward attack a ball in the front-row. He or she may hit/set or free-ball the only upwards, in the front row.
- A player can not touch the ball or an opponent in the opponent’s space before or during the opponent’s attack hit.
- A player can not interfere with the opponent’s play while penetrating into the opponent’s space under the net.
Tie Breakers for playoffs:
1. Head-to-head competition between tying teams.
2. If still tied, it's records vs. 1st place team (or next highest team, if tied teams are tied for 1st) by winning %, regardless of # of games played.
3. If still tied, record vs. next best team, etc.