The Organization

Outdoor Capital District (OCD) Volleyball is an organization that seeks to encourage participation in volleyball through promotion of summer volleyball tournaments within the Albany, New York area. OCD has been running competitive grass volleyball tournaments and leagues for almost 30 years.

Pick-Up

OCD promotes volleyball in the area by announcing a place to play pick-up volleyball two nights out of the week. Pick-up is free and requires you to bring a partner to the pick-up location. Pick-up works like this: you go to a court that appears to be running the same format that you would like to play (i.e. men's, women's, coed). If the net is holding competition that is within your range announce that you would like to challenge on that court. The team's playing will let you know where you stand in line (in case there are any challenges before your match). Your first match on the net you challenge will begin when your turn in the order of team's that have challenged comes up. Starting in the summer of 2006, a pick-up game should be rally to 21 or 25, but it is up to the owner of the net you are playing what the format of the game is. Other things to bring to pick-up include a volleyball, a net if you have one, mosquito repelant, water, etc. See our pick-up web page for more information.

Tournaments

OCD hosts 6 - 8 tournaments each summer within the Albany, NY area. Our tournaments are held on the weekend with each day featuring a different format. Saturday's format consists of 2x2 competition for same sex pairings (i.e. a pair of women compete against another pair of women). Sunday's format consists of 2x2 competition coed reverse pairings (coed reverse means that women hit at the net, and men hit behind a 10 ft. line placed on the court). Our tournaments feature a range of levels and typically we have Open, (AA on Sunday), A, BB, B competition. All tournaments consist of pool play with playoffs following. Starting in 2006, all games will be to 21 or 25 using the rally scoring system. See our registration web page for more information and pricing. Prizes are generally awarded to the top two finishers in each level, with the top two levels receiving cash and the remaining levels receiving prizes. For each levels that has more than 2 pools, the 3rd and 4th place teams will receive cash or prizes. We guarantee a cash prize of $200 a team for 1st place (4 teams make a pool) and $100 a team for 2nd place in Open. We increase these amounts as the number of teams increase. For the A level, we guarantee $80 a team for 1st and $40 a team for second. Quality prizes are consistently given out to winners in non-cash levels.

USA Volleyball (USAV) Association

OCD VOLLEYBALL is affiliated with USA Volleyball (USAV) through its member USAV region IREVA. Everyone playing in an OCD tournament must be a registered member of USAV.

Tournament Perks

• Lunch is free - each tournament we order out for pizza and provide water all day
• Serving Contest - each player (male/female) who serves the most untouched aces in pool play gets movie tickets

Acknowledgments

Those of us here at OCD VOLLEYBALL would like to thank our sponsors for their financial assistance as well as supporters of OCD VOLLEYBALL who have helped in the past and continue in the future. We would especially like to thank Debbie Singer for her dedication to running the organization in years past.

To contact us please call us at 518-229-6689 or email us at:

Managing Members: fffTim Stewart: tim@ocdvolleyball.org f,ffJennifer Sangiacomo: jen@ocdvolleyball.org ff, fDeb Singer: deb@ocdvolleyball.org