Technician Beach Tour

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The Techniker Beach Tour is the highest-ranking and, since 2006, only national tournament series of the German Volleyball Association (DVV) in beach volleyball . Until summer 2017 it was called Smart Beach Tour because of the main sponsor at the time . The final of the German championship has been held in Timmendorfer Strand since 1993 , where the Ahmann-Hager-Arena at the pier has been set up every year since 2003 to hold the tournament .

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Venues 2019

The tournament series, which is held annually from June to August, consists of eight tournaments, some of which take place in central squares in large cities and some on the beaches of the North Sea and Baltic Sea . Each tournament takes place on a weekend from Friday to Sunday.

In the 2019 Tour, there will be sixteen teams per tournament for men and women. These qualify with a high number of points in the DVV ranking list or receive a wildcard . There are four groups of four in the main field. In each group, two teams play against each other, then the respective winners and losers meet. The group winners qualify directly for the quarter-finals, while the second and third determine further participants in a round of 16. From the round of 16, the game is played in a simple knockout system up to the final. This is followed by the award ceremony of the three best women and men teams on the center court.

Participation is equally possible for German and foreign teams. The latter, as well as junior teams, can receive a wildcard. The tournaments are played on three to four playing fields. Entry to the games in the tournament series is free. Seat reservations can be made for a fee.

Media and Marketing

In 2018 the tournament series was organized for the first time by the DVV and its marketing agency DVS.

Since the Techniker Beach Tour 2018, the games have been shown on the center court in a free live stream on the Internet. In addition, some tournaments are broadcast on free TV on the ProSieben Maxx broadcaster .

Overview of the tournaments

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Munich Munich Bonn Bonn Dresden Norderney eat Frankfurt Muenster Muenster Norderney Muenster Muenster Muenster Muenster Muenster Muenster Dusseldorf (F)
Leipzig Hamburg Norderney Leipzig Erfurt Leipzig Norderney Norderney Hamburg Norderney Hamburg Hamburg Hamburg Hamburg Nuremberg Dresden Dusseldorf Dusseldorf (M)
Hamburg Norderney Erfurt eat eat eat Dresden Hamburg Norderney Frankfurt Muenster Binz Jena Dresden Dresden Dusseldorf Nuremberg Dusseldorf (F)
Tegernsee Leipzig Hamburg Dresden Kühlungsborn Fehmarn Munich Muenster Heidelberg Hamburg Mannheim Cologne Dresden Jena Kühlungsborn Nuremberg Dresden Dusseldorf (M)
Norderney Hanover Munich Binz Sankt Peter-Ording Binz Usedom Fehmarn Leipzig Heidelberg Cologne Sankt Peter-Ording Binz Duisburg Duisburg Kühlungsborn Sankt Peter-Ording Hamburg (F)
eat Dresden eat Sankt Peter-Ording Fehmarn Sankt Peter-Ording Sankt Peter-Ording Bonn Sankt Peter-Ording Leipzig Binz Dresden Sankt Peter-Ording Binz Binz Sankt Peter-Ording Fehmarn Hamburg (M)
Berlin Zinnowitz Leipzig Fehmarn Munich Munich Fehmarn Leipzig Cologne Sankt Peter-Ording Sankt Peter-Ording Kühlungsborn Nuremberg Sankt Peter-Ording Sankt Peter-Ording Leipzig Zinnowitz
Mannheim Castle Bremen Cologne Norderney Bonn Bonn Sankt Peter-Ording eat Bonn Kühlungsborn Nuremberg Kühlungsborn Kühlungsborn Hamburg Zinnowitz Kühlungsborn
Warnemünde Binz Dresden Munich Bonn
Dresden Sankt Peter-Ording Binz
Binz Constancy Sankt Peter-Ording
Zinnowitz Kühlungsborn Cologne
Dortmund eat Constancy
Kühlungsborn Wangerooge Wyk
Constancy Wyk Wangerooge
Sankt Peter-Ording Frankfurt Frankfurt
Frankfurt Bonn Castle
Wangerooge
Castle
Bonn
Masters - Supercup

history

The first national tournament series in German beach volleyball took place in 1992, four years before the sport's Olympic premiere. The first German championship was held in Damp that same year . In 1993 Frank Mackerodt and his agency MNP took over the organization and set up a Masters series. Participation in a tournament in Los Angeles had piqued his interest. Timmendorfer Strand became the venue for the German championship and has remained so to this day. Jörg Ahmann and Axel Hager won the title there and, with their bronze medal at the 2000 Olympic Games, sparked increased interest in Germany. Since 2003 the venue in Timmendorfer Strand has been called the Ahmann-Hager-Arena . In the years around the turn of the millennium, the largest prize money was paid, between 300,000 and 400,000 euros. At the time, the German tournament series was one of the largest events of its kind alongside the FIVB World Tour and the American AVP Tour.

In 2003, however, Mackerodt had to file for bankruptcy and the tour was redesigned with Renault as the new main sponsor. Three years later, the Smart Beach Tour began. The Masters were abolished. Instead, some of the tournaments were held as Supercups from 2008 to 2017. After a legal dispute over TV and marketing rights, the DVV and the Munich agency sportsandevents , which had organized the German beach volleyball tour for over ten years , parted ways in December 2012 . The tournament series was reorganized for the 2018 season.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany , the Techniker Beach Tour has been canceled for 2020. The “ Comdirect Beach Tour” will be held as an alternative . It is a shortened tournament series to qualify and prepare for the German Championship 2020 .

Web links

Commons : Techniker Beach Tour  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Die Techniker and 7Sports new partners for Beach series. beach-volleyball.de, September 21, 2017, accessed on November 28, 2017 .
  2. ^ History of the sport of beach volleyball. beach-volleyball.de, accessed on July 1, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b A reunion with Axel Hager. beach-volleyball.de, October 14, 2008, accessed on July 1, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b c d A reunion with Frank Mackerodt. beach-volleyball.de, accessed on July 1, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Current situation of beach volleyball in Germany. (PDF) DVV, accessed on July 1, 2018 .
  6. ^ Legal dispute over German tour. beach-volleyball.de, December 11, 2012, accessed on July 1, 2018 .