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  • Who’s Qualifying for the New AVP League???

    Today on the blog, we’re going to turn our attention to the AVP. In nine days, a new season of the AVP kicks off with a Heritage Series event at Huntington Beach. In past seasons, this would be the first of 6-8 standalone tournaments put on by the AVP. This…

  • Chile 3-sets to Gold, Ittlinger/Borger Strike Back & Much More

    Let’s start with Chile Cousins Marco and Esteban Grimalt started the 2024 season with a first round (qualifier) exit in the Recife Challenge. They then took a 9th in the Saquarema Challenge, another first round (qualifier) exit in Guadalajara, and a 13th in the Tepic Elite 16. They then go…

  • Side out like you’re supposed to. That, & life’s too short to bet the under.

    On May 14, 2018, The United States Supreme Court struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA), which had made sports betting illegal in most (48) states since 1992. In doing so, the US Federal Government allowed individual states to create their own sports betting legislature. As of…

  • Trevor and Theo Punch Back

    Last week, we talked about the NORCECA qualifier #2, played on Friday April 5th at Manhattan Beach. In it, the right to compete in the NORCECA Continental Tour Finals (May 11-15) was won by Miles Evans and Chase Budinger, winning in the finals against the team they narrowly trailed in…

  • Bet The Beach Live, Guadalajara Bet Slip, New Logo, and the Norceca Qualifier

    If you missed the announcement yesterday, we have some big news on the live programming front over here at Bet The Beach. Starting tomorrow, April 10th, we’ll be live on YouTube every Wednesday night at 9p Eastern, 6p Pacific. It should be a combination of all the content we do,…

  • Cuba, 80 Points, Laura Ludwig’s Back & More

    Today’s blog is a bit of a grab-bag (if you couldn’t already tell from the headline). We’re 3 events into the final 10 of this Olympic quad, and there is a TON to talk about. So let’s go! Cuba. Cuba. Cuba. Admittedly, the Cuban Men’s duo of Noslen Diaz Amaro…

  • Super Spike Episode 1

    Tonight was the debut of of our new, live, weekly show, Super Spike Sessions, over on our YouTube channel. If you didn’t get a chance to check it out live, here it is. I took on the American Circuit, attempt #1. We hung out, talked some Doha and Recife, previewed…

  • Sideout Live Blog

    I was 5 years old in 1990 when the beach volleyball cult classic Sideout was released in theaters. I then went 33 years before I realized this movie existed. When I heard it had appearances from a bunch of volleyball legends, my interest peaked. From Wikipedia: “Many professional beach volleyball…

  • Doha Recap

    The 2024 beach volleyball season kicked off this past weekend in Doha, Qatar with the first Beach Pro Tour Elite 16 of the year. We’ve talked plenty in recent weeks about the qualification cycle for the 2024 Olympics in Paris, France. Specifically, how these last 10 events (5 Elite 16’s…

  • Doha Elite 16 Preview

    Tomorrow, the first Beach Pro Tour event of the 2024 season begins in Doha, Qatar, in the same location the 2023 season ended, just 3 months ago. Eighteen of the twenty teams (10 per gender) invited to the Pro Tour Finals in December will be back out on the sand…