Details:

• One team per county where transplant and dialyzed play together. At least one female player must be on court at all times during the match.
• If there are not enough players to form a national team, team managers collect names of people interested from their country and submit them to the LOC before the games begin. There should be provision for at least one multi-national team to form and to participate.
• Participation in the volleyball competition counts as one of the maximum five events.
• The first round will be played as a "round-robin" where each team in a group plays against each other team in the group. The top team(s) in each group will then progress to the knock-out stages, which will use standard seeding procedures.
• The first round will be games of two sets to 25; rally scoring, win by 2 or first team to 27.
  Ties between teams are broken by considering the scores of the sets.
  The team with the best ratio of points scored divided by points lost is the winner.
  The bracketed playoff round will be the best two of three games, games to 25 points, rally scoring, win by 2 or first team to 27.
  Third games, if needed, to 15 points.

How to get there:

The volleyball tournament is hosted by SC Heuchelhof at the sports hall Berner Straße 5, 97084 Würzburg.

Please use tram lines 3 (direction "Heuchelhof") and 5 (direction "Rottenbauer") and exit at "Berner Straße". Follow the tram for some meters and turn right. You need about 30 minutes from the city center.