Fivb quebec maindraw

The qualification round has ended and its now time for the main draw. Four Canadian men's teams and six Canadian women's teams have made the main draw. The female team of Cowley-Mingay entered the main draw last night via the "lucky losers" draw and are matched up against #1 seeded Kessy-Ross of the United States. While I am writing this, it is one hour before any of the games begin, and the rain is coming down pretty hard. Follow us on twitter for updates regarding rain delays. Matches, results and live scores below.

Canadian Women's Teams in the Main Draw

Altomare-Humana-Paredes	vs.	Talita-Antonelli 0-2 (10-21, 12-21)
Bansley-Maloney	vs.	Tanaka-Mizoe 2-1 (28-26, 17-21, 22-20)
Broder-Voth	vs.	Fendrick-Hanson 0-2 (15-21, 12-21)
MacTavish-Rodrigue	vs.	Lima-Vivian 0-2 (14-21, 15-21)
Lessard-Martin	vs.	Giaoui-Benhamou 2-1 (21-17, 18-21, 15-11)
Cowley-Mingay	vs.	Kessy-Ross 0-2 (4-21, 12-21)

Men's teams and live streams after the jump.

UPDATE: All but one men's team (Redmann/Saxton) and two women's teams (Lessard/Martin and Bansley/Maloney) lost their first match. Regardless, all teams will play a second match today. Should a team lose for a second time, they are eliminated from the event. If it is their first loss, they still have a chance to win again today to return to competition.

UPDATE 2: The second round is well under way. Scores as they come in below:

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FIVB: Quebec Press Conference (Live Video)

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FIVB: Quebec Qualification (Live Video)

Fivb quebec quali

Day one has completed with Country Quota matches complete. Day two brings the one and only day of qualification in the 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour stop from Quebec City, Canada. This is a pretty small qualification round with most teams in both genders getting byes past the first round. Some teams are even getting byes into the main draw. For a complete list of men's and women's Canadian and American matches, scores and live streams, check out all the information below.

Canadian Men's Matches in Qualification

Round 1

	Hinchey-Vandenburg	def.		Fecteau-Boutin-Wheelan	2-0 (21-18, 21-15)
	Miramontes-Virgen	def.		Humana-Paredes-O'Gorman	2-1

More matchups after the jump.

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FIVB: Quebec Country Quota (Live Video)

Fivb quebec country quota

So I am currently in the air on my way to Quebec City, Canada for the next stop on the 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour. Quebec City is the only North American stop on the FIVB this year so many Canadian and American teams are utilizing this event as an opportunity to gain some international experience and maybe even get a few entry points to their names. Sandwiched between grand slam events overseas, some of the teams that regularly compete on the tour are skipping the Quebec event in favour of a week off. Country quota matches take place on Tuesday July 19th with many Canadian teams and a few American teams taking part. As always, check back to Kill on Two for scores, results and live streams.

Canadian Women's Teams in Country Quota

	Altomare-Humana-Paredes
	Billings-Vlcek
	Broder-Voth
	Cowley-Mingay
	Martin-Schaerli
	Savoie-Rancourt
	Cross-Whitaker

More CQ teams from the Canada and the USA as well as live streams after the jump.

UPDATE: All action is done for the day. Results are down the page after the jump.

beach, fivb, mens, womensCameron KerrJuly 18, 2011altomare, cowley, humana-paredes, keenan, mingay, quebec, valjas, whitaker

FIVB: Moscow Finals (Live Video)

Fivb moscow finals

It's the first day of finals on the of the 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour in Moscow. A very regular sighting in the final four, with three of last week's top four teams coming back for more. The powerhouse of Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh who finished fifth last week in Gstaad are looking for some more hardware as they are in the semi final action. For live streams, results and brackets below

Women's Brackets

More brackets and live streaming video links after the jump.

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FIVB: Moscow Main Draw (Live Video)

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FIVB: Gstaad Grand Slam Finals (Live Video)

Fivb gstaad finals

Today marks the end of another stop on the 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour. The women's event has already completed and the Brazil powerhouse of Juliana-Larissa claiming another gold medal over Xue-Zhang Xi of China. On the men's side of the tournament, the gold medal match is about to begin and we have the live streaming links so you can watch it along with us.

Women's Brackets

Men's Brackets

Live streams and video links after the jump.

beach, fivb, mens, womensCameron KerrJuly 10, 2011alison, dalhausser, emanuel, gstaad, juliana, larissa, rogers, xue, zhangxi

FIVB: Gstaad Grand Slam (Live Video)

Fivb gstaad

Qualification round is now complete and main draw action is underway in the FIVB beach volleyball World Tour grand slam stop in Gstaad, Switzerland. This is a dual gender event and Canada is represented by two teams for each gender. The team of Lessard-Martin still is the only one of the four to have direct entry into the main draw play, so the other three must battle it out in the qualification round. Here are a list of the teams and their opponents thus far.

Canadian Men's Teams

	Redmann-Saxton
	Binstock-Van Huizen

Canadian Women's Teams

	Bansley-Maloney
	Lessard-Martin

As I mentioned earlier, we have passed the qualification stage and are now into main draw action. Here are the results of the Canadian duos during their qualification matches.

Match scores and live streaming video links after the jump.

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Jose Cuervo Pro Beach Volleyball Series

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FIVB: Stavanger Grand Slam Main Draw (Live Video)

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FIVB: Rome World Championships Finals (Live Video)

Fivb rome finals

After a week of competition, the 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships from Rome, Italy will be coming to an end today with finals action from both the men's and women's side of the tournament. On the men's side we have an all Brazil final with Marcio Araujo-Ricardo facing Emanuel-Alison. The women's side of the tournament bring another rematch between rivals as Larissa-Juliana of Brazil face May-Treanor-Walsh of the United States. As always, we have the matches, brackets and live streams listed below for those interested.

Women's Matches

	Xue-Zhang Xi	vs.		Klapalova-Hajeckova	Bronze Medal Match	10:35 a.m. EST
	May-Treanor-Walsh	vs.		Larissa-Juliana	Gold Medal Match	1:15 p.m. EST

Men's Matches

	Plavins-Smedins, J.	vs.		Brink-Reckermann	Bronze Medal Match	11:35 a.m. EST
	Marcio Araujo-Ricardo	vs.		Emanuel-Alison	Gold Medal Match	2:45 p.m. EST

Brackets and live stream links after the jump.

beach, fivb, mens, womensCameron KerrJune 19, 2011alison, brink, emanuel, juliana, larissa, marcio, may-treanor, reckermann, ricardo, rome, walsh, xue-zhang

FIVB: Rome World Championships Elimination (Live Video)

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The elimination round has begun over in rome for the 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships. Only one Canadian team made it out of pool play on the women's side of the tournament and into the round of 32. That was Heather Bansley and Liz Maloney. The tournament would end here for them as they played Jen Kessy and April Ross of the USA and lost 2-0. On the men's side of the tournament, pool play is still finishing up with the lone Canadian men's team of Ben Saxton and Christian Redmann playing the number three seed of Marcio Araujo-Ricardo from Brazil. Redmann-Saxton are currently 1-1 in pool play and would need a win here for a chance to go on.

Edit: Christian and Ben did lose their last pool play game but did make it to the round of 32 in the elimination round. Volleyball Canada cites their points f/a ratio:

They advance by being among the eighth best third place finishers thanks to their solid total points for and against ratio of 1.00. The top-two in each of the 12 pools all advance as well to the round of 32.

Live stream links below, and we will put the brackets up once we get down to quarter finals.

Canadians in Pool Play Today

Marcio Araujo-Ricardo

def.

Redmann-Saxton

2-1 (23-21, 17-21, 15-11)

Canadians in the Round of 32

Kessy-Ross

def.

Bansley-Maloney

2-0 (21-14, 21-14)

Live Streams after the jump.

beach, fivb, mens, womensCameron KerrJune 16, 2011bansley, brazil, kessy, maloney, redmann, rome, ross, saxton, usa

FIVB: Rome World Championships (Live Video - Day 2)

The 2011 Beach Volleyball Swatch World Championships take place this week in Rome, Italy. There are three Canadian teams in the tournament, two women's and one men's. We have a total of six live streams going on from the tournament, so chances are if there is a match playing live, we've got it. The three Canadian teams in the tournament are:

Canadian Teams

	Lessard-Martin
	Bansley-Maloney
	Redmann-Saxton

Full schedule and live streams after the jump.

beach, fivb, mens, womensCameron KerrJune 13, 2011bansley, italy, lessard, maloney, martin, redmann, rome, saxton

FIVB: Beijing Grand Slam Finals (Live Video)

Today the men's and women's finals take place in the FIVB Beijing Grand Slam. Photo: fivb.org

Today is the final day for the 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball Beijing Grand Slam event with both the men's and women's tournaments concluding today. Action begins in a couple hours with an all American semi final on the women's side of the tournament. Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor together in their first tournament back since May-Treanor's injury a few weeks ago. For live stream links, brackets and semi final match ups, check out the link below.

Women's Semi Finals

	Walsh-May-Treanor	us.		Ross-Kessy
	Menegatti-Cicolari	vs.		Holtwick-Semmler

Men's Semi Finals

	Brink-Reckermann	vs.		Prudel-Fijalek
	Alison-Emanuel	vs.		Bellaguarda-Heuscher

Brackets and Live Stream links after the jump

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FIVB: Beijing Day Four (Live Video)

Misty May-Treanor passes the ball at the 2011 FIVB Beijing Grand Slam. Photo: fivb.orgWith yesterday's Canadian men's teams losing both of their remaining pool play games each, the women's team of Martin-Lessard is the only remaining Canadian team in the tournament. Annie and Marie have their first match against a team from Georgia tonight and if they win, will go on to face Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh in the second round. Live stream links posted below, enjoy.