Event: BVA Oceanside Invitational<br>Date:May
26-27, 2001<br>Qualifier: None (Invite
only)<br>Seedings: TBD <br>Main Draw Saturday 9AM to 5PM<br>Sunday
9AM start<br>Finals scheduled for approximately 2:30
PM on Sunday<br>Where: Southside of the
Pier<br>Directions From I-5 take the Mission Avenue exit WEST. This
will deadend into Pacific. <br>The pier is in front of
you.<br><br>Men's Competition:<br>Dain Blanton (Laguna Beach, CA) /
Eric Fonoimoana (Hermosa Beach, CA) <br>Dax Holdren
(San Diego, CA) / Todd Rogers (Santa Barbara, CA)
<br>Gaston Macau (Miami, FL) / Chad Turner (Clearwater, FL)
<br>Andrew Pelski (Fort Lauderdale, FL) / Jim Walls (Pompano
Beach, FL) <br>Adam Roberts (Myrtle Beach, SC) / Brian
Soldano (Fort Lauderdale, FL) <br>Brian Rutland (Fort
Lauderdale, FL) / Jim Van Zwieten (Pompano Beach, FL)
<br>Matt Heath (Delray Beach, FL) / Eric Wurts (Fort
Lauderdale, FL) <br>John Hyden (San Diego, CA) / Dan Landry
(San Diego, CA) <br>Format: 8-team double elimination
tournament. Matches will be played<br>best 2 out of 3 games
using the FIVB Rally Point Scoring (RPS)
system;<br>Games 1 and 2 will be played to 21 points, game 3 will
be played to 15<br>points. Each game must be won by
a 2-point margin. <br><br>Prize Money Distribution:
<br>1st (Gold Medal) $5,000 <br>2nd (Silver Medal) $3,500
<br>3rd (Bronze Medal) $3,000 <br>4th $2,750 <br>5th (2
teams) $2,250 <br>7th (2 teams) $2,000 <br><br>Women's
Teams:<br>Misty May (Costa Mesa, CA) / Kerri Walsh (Saratoga, CA)
<br>Jennifer Holdren (San Diego, CA) / Liz Masakayan (San
Diego, CA) <br>Karen Truessel (Switzerland) / Denise
Koelliker (Switzerland) <br>Tammy Pelski (Fort Lauderdale,
FL) / Tammy Rau (Fort Lauderdale, FL) <br>Teri Van
Dyke (Deerfield Beach, FL) / Karen Helyer (San Diego,
CA) <br>Dana Atkinson (Huntington Beach, CA) / Katie
Lindquist (FountainValley, CA) <br>Tammy Liley-Liebel (San
Diego, CA) / Lynda Johnson Black (San Diego, CA)
<br>Barbara Nyland (San Diego, CA) / Sharman Mitchell (San
Diego, CA) <br>Format: 8-team double elimination
tournament. Matches will be played<br>best 2 out of 3 games
using the FIVB Rally Point Scoring (RPS)
system;<br>Games 1 and 2 will be played to 21 points, game 3 will
be played to 15<br>points. Each game must be won by
a 2-point margin. <br><br>Prize Money Distribution:
<br>1st (Gold Medal) $5,000 <br>2nd (Silver Medal) $3,500
<br>3rd (Bronze Medal) $3,000 <br>4th $2,750 <br>5th (2
teams) $2,250 <br>7th (2 teams) $2,000 <br><br>Hotel
Days Inn Oceanside<br>1501 Carmelo Drive<br>Oceanside,
CA 92054<br>Phone: 760-722-7661<br><br><br>VIP
Parking From Mission Avenue. Go Right on Pacific and go
one block to Pier View <br>and go right. The lot is
on the left. You must have a parking pass to
enter.<br>Public Parking There is metered parking all around the
pier and a few pay lots.<br>Format: Invitational
<br>Players Scheduled : <br><br>Tickets FREE<br>Site Delivery
Info Beach Volleyball America Event<br>301 North The
Strand<br>Oceanside, CA 92054<br><br>Courtesy of AVP Pro Paul Baxter:
5/24/01 <br>The tourney in Oceanside this weekend has
been reduced to an exhibition. There will be 4-6
<br>teams. E.Fonoi-D.Blanton will be the #1 seed, with the
rest of the draw being filled in with <br>Florida
teams.Any teams that are contracted with the new AVP were
not invited to play<br>in the event. <br>Courtesy Of
Lynn Chu: 5/24/01<br>As for Oceanside, I'll be
attending the event and covering it for About.com's web
site. So, <br>you'll have to check for results there.
I'll have more info once I get to the event
and<br>hopefully they'll have a computer I post info to. If not,
then you'll have to watch for it on <br>the BVA site
or About.com site.