Early Spring 2026 Volleyball Melville

Additional Info

2025 SEMI PRO DATES

• 4/24
• 5/15
• 6/19
• 7/17
• 8/21 (finale)
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All Tournaments are held at All Sportz in Melville on the third Friday of every month, starting at 7pm.

2025 Semi Pro Constitution

SUPPLEMENTAL DRAFTS

There will be a supplemental draft of Available Players held 2 weeks before each monthly tournament. The supplemental draft serves two purposes. One, it will allow new players to join & franchises to officially add players to their roster for the remainder of the year. Two, it will allow franchises to use temporary players to account for absent players at the upcoming tournament.

SUPPLEMENTAL DRAFT PROCEDURE

The draft will be held roughly 2 weeks before the next tournament.

Incoming Players have until the day before the draft to declare their entry in the draft pool (must pay the joining fee)

Current Players have until the day before the draft to announce their move to a withdrawal status.

• Players can only withdraw if they've attended the most recent tournament.

Captains have until the day before the draft to announce their drops

• Players can only be dropped if they've no showed 2 consecutive tournaments.

Captains have until the day before the draft to announce their cuts.

• Each franchise can cut one player without cause per tournament

Withdrawn, dropped and cut players are entered back into the draft pool, with no guarantee of getting drafted again.

The supplemental draft order will be in reverse order of ELO. The 'Incoming Player Draft' will be used to to permanently draft players onto franchises. Next an 'Available player Draft' will be used to to add temporary players onto franchises on an 'as needed' basis for the next tournament. Franchises that select players in the incoming player draft will move to the bottom of the queue in the available player draft.

Franchises must come out of the draft with a legal roster of minimum 4 players

PLAYER STATUS DEFINITIONS

• Available Players: These are players who are currently in the Semi Pro draft pool. Available players are eligible to be drafted onto a franchise and only available players can be used when a Franchise needs a temporary replacement player.
• Withdrawn Players: Sometimes a player finds themselves on a franchise they don’t vibe with. After attending two consecutive tournaments, a player may withdraw themselves from their franchise and convert their status to 'Available', in hopes of getting picked by a new franchise in the next supplemental draft.
• Dropped Players: A captain may not want an unreliable player taking up a roster spot. If a player no-shows two consecutive tournaments, the captain may issue a drop. The player's status will be converted to 'Available' and they will enter the supplemental draft.
• Cut: After the second tournament, each franchise can cut one player without cause after every tournament, provided that their roster size does not stay below 7 total players (min 3m & 3f). Cut players will be converted to 'Available Status' and go into the draft pool.
• Guest Player: In the case a franchise does not have enough players to enter a tournament, the players on that franchise that can play may enter the supplemental draft and be picked up as guest players for the tournament.

-Franchises are allowed to trade with an approval of 66% of franchises.

Rotation

Teams may opt to have a player not player an entire game. However, if they do chose to utilize a sub it has to be in one of the following formats:

1. Traditional Even Subbing format - Players sub out on serve evenly and adhere to gender requirements on the court
2. One-for-One- Before the game the captain announces to the ref and opposing captain that a player is a direct sub for another player on their team. This allows them to sub in and out whenever the captain decided but only for the players declared

Deficit Rule

If a team has to go down to 3 players, a team has to take a 3 point deficit for the next games to 21 with 3 on the court, if team goes down to 2 it will be a forfeit. In the event of an injury or an extenuating circumstance, the team can pick up an available player from the pool the day of, or the opposing captain can waive the 3 point deficit

PRICING

There is a $80 joining fee.

• Players will receive a refund if they are cut/dropped and don't want to continue as an available player.

The cost to enter a tournament is $300 per franchise.

A player that plays in all 7 tournaments on a franchise of 8 will pay $342.50 for the complete year of semi-pro.

IMPORTANT DATES

• Mar-16: Registration for 4's Semi Pro Opens
• Apr-05: Deadline to join
• Apr-05: Franchise group declaration deadline. Voting beings (if necessary)
• Apr-08: Voting Ends, Results announced
• Apr-10: Initial Draft held
• Apr-10: Franchise identities revealed and jersey order
• Apr-24: First Tournament

Why are we doing this? Semi Pro addresses many issues. As much fun as it is to always play with your friends, this typically results in all the top talent being consolidated onto lopsided 'super teams' with really just a few teams having a legit chance of winning leagues with many more teams. This paradoxically creates a situation where the top teams express frustration there aren't more quality opponents, while the bottom teams are equally frustrated about losing to the established teams. The structure of Semi Pro ensures that talent will be evenly distributed. Semi Pro also creates a contiguous 7-month structure which address the 'come and go' nature of weekly leagues that last just 7 weeks and run multiple times a week.