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  • Updated 2025 Combined Beach Volley Calendar

    It didn’t take long for the Bet The Beach combined 2025 calendar to need some updating. With the Beach Pro Tour announcing some schedule changes late last week, and some more clarity from the AVP on the league qualification events, an update was necessary. The most major change was a…

  • 2025 AVP/BPT Schedule

    With the AVP announcing its 2025 schedule yesterday, we now have a complete look at the AVP/Beach Pro Tour schedule for the upcoming season. A quick glance highlights an awesome season to come: We’ll talk all about it tomorrow night on The Off-SZN Show, 9p ET, 6p PT, on our…

  • Day #1 as Commish of the OSSI

    If you missed Episode #3 of The Off-Szn Show last night, you may be unaware that today was my first day as commissioner, tournament director, general manager, and head honcho of The Off-SZN Simulated Invitational (OSSI). Let me be the first to tell you, running a professional beach volleyball tour…

  • Brandie vs. AP: A Breakdown

    In the third set of the women’s gold medal match in the 2024 Summer Olympics, Brazilian blocker Ana Patricia Ramos and Canadian blocker Brandie Wilkerson had a heated exchange. Following a missed hit by Melissa Humana-Parades, Brandie and AP exchanged some words. Fingers were wagged, forcing the down ref to…

  • Quarterfinals Live Blog: USA v. Switzerland

    3:58p: Just got home from work, I’ve been avoiding all updates from today’s previous games. I’m going to hide here in the blog until I get a chance to catch up on the rest of today’s games. I’m sitting down JUST in time to catch USA v. Switzerland live. We…

  • Olympic Mega Blog (Part #2)

    Last week, in our Olympic MEGA BLOG PART 1, we did a deep dive into the men’s odds to win gold in Paris. This week, we turn our attention to the women’s side. Similar to the men, there’s one team (Brazil’s Duda Lisboa and Ana Patricia Ramos) that the books…

  • Let’s Score the Comment Battle:Trevor vs. Miles

    This past weekend in Ostrava, 18 months of Olympic Beach Volleyball qualification came to an end.  Today, 18 of 24 qualifying spots per gender have been earned. Six spots remain per gender, left to be filled. The first of those spots is the wildcard allotted to the host nation this…

  • Ostrava: The Final Stop

    Sixteen months ago, the 2024 Olympic qualification window opened with a Beach Pro Tour Elite 16 event in Doha, Qatar. The beach volley Vikings, Anders Mol and Christian Sorum, took gold in Doha that weekend, and the young jump-setting duo of David Ahman and Jonathan Helvig took silver. On the…

  • AVP Huntington Recap

    The first AVP Heritage Series event of the 2024 season is in the books and IT. WAS. AWESOME. What a weekend! There’s nothing better than setting up 3 screens and watching 24 hours of some top level beach volley over the course of 3 days. Congrats to the winners, of…

  • The 2024 AVP Season Has Arrived

    It has been 254 days since the last AVP event, Championship Sunday at AVP Chicago. That day, Trevor and Theo would get their second AVP win as a team, following a win at AVP Hermosa earlier in July. They beat Chase Budinger and Miles Evans in the semis and then…