Dear Readers~
From November 30, 2018 until December 2, 2018 P1440 had their Top Guns tournament at their Huntington Beach event. The top guns went a little different compared to other tournaments I've done or other beach volleyball games you may have seen so I'll do my best to explain this.
The Young Guns tournament went like your regular tournament but the Top Guns tournament went a little differently. This one was split into 4 pools for each gender with each pool having 4 athletes. Each set went to 21 and each time a set ended, the winners each got points. The athletes with the most points at the end of each day advanced to the next day. The first day had 4 pools, the second day had 2 pools, and the final day had 1 pool along with the finals.
A few athletes that played in the female tournament on Day 1 were Kerri Walsh Jennings, in pool A, Emily Day and Kelly Larsen, in pool B, Kelly Claes and Betsi Flint, in pool C, and Brittany Howard, in pool D. Walsh and Day won all 3 of their games, Claes and Flint won 2 of their 3 games, and Larsen and Howard won 1 of their 3 games.
A few female athletes that made it to the next day were Walsh, Day, and Claes, from above, along with Nicole Branagh, Rebecca Cavalcanti, and Becchara Palmer. Claes won all 3 of her games, Walsh, Day, and Cavalcanti won 2 of their 3 games, Palmer won 1 of her 3 games, and Branagh lost all 3 of her games.
The females competing on Day 3 were Claes, Palmer, Cavalcanti, and Walsh. Walsh, Cavalcanti, and Palmer won 2 of their 3 games while Claes lost all 3 of her games. Those four also competed in the finals with Claes and Palmer against Walsh and Cavalcanti. The thing that made this game different was that it was Palmer and Cavalcanti competing for the gold medal. At the end of the game, the winner was Cavalcanti with Palmer taking silver.
Over on the men's side, the brackets went the same way. Day 1 had Miles Evans and Theo Brunner, in Pool A, Taylor Crabb and Casey Jennings, in Pool B, Sean Rosenthal in pool C, and Casey Patterson and Jeremy Casebeer, in Pool D. Jennings and Patterson won all 3 of their games, Evans won 2 of his 3, Crabb, Casebeer, and Rosenthal won 1 of their 3 games, and Brunner lost all 3 of his games.
On Day 2 Jennings and Casebeer were in Pool A while Patterson was in Pool B. Other players include Aleksandrs Samoilovs, in Pool A, and Ricardo Santos, in Pool B. Casebeer and Patterson won all 3 of their games, and Jennings, Santos, and Samoilovs won 1 of their 3 games.
On the final day four athletes remained on the men's side. They were Casebeer, Santos, Samoilovs, and Patterson. Samoilovs won all 3 of his games while Santos, Casebeer, and Patterson won 1 of their 3 games. The men's finals were Samoilovs and Patterson taking on Santos and Crabb. The winner was Santos with Samoilovs getting Silver. Yes Ricardo Santos that won this tournament also won the gold medal at the Athens 2004, Silver at the Sydney 2000, and bronze at the Beijing 2008 Olympics for Brazil in beach volleyball if that name sounded familiar.
Huntington Beach was the last P1440 event of 2018 so get ready for the 2019 AVP season when their first stop is Huntington Beach, California on Friday, May 3, 2018 for a joint AVP and FIVB tournament.
For those who don't know, the 2019 AVP tournament came out the day this blog goes up. The 2019 season will take place in Huntington Beach, Austin, NYC, Seattle, Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, Chicago, and Hawaii. I hope you enjoyed the summary of the 2018 P1440 Huntington Beach Top Guns competition. Don't forget to check out my other blog posts and mark your calendars for the 2019 AVP season. Visit https://avp.com/ for more information on the upcoming season. Until next time, Miller out
~J. Miller
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