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This annual cormpetition continues to break new ground for women's world sport providing opportunities for the world's best National Women's Teams to exhibit their grace to adoring fans. Focused in Asia with enthusiastic organisers, the World Grand Prix has now expanded to add continental qualification tournaments.

The Women's pro team sport show under new exciting game scoring

World Grand Prix was created by FIVB in 1993 as a professional women's sporting entertainment concept for spectators to watch live and on TV, and to follow in the press the performance of the best national Volleyball women's teams competing for the highest levels of prize money ever allocated in a women's team sport event.

VolleybalI is now more exciting than ever to watch and play since the recent introduction of the "Rally-point scoring system". Each rally scores a point for the winning team and matches are played as the best of 5 sets with the first 4 sets to 25 pt. and 15 pt. for the 5th set always with a 2-pt. lead. The spectacular "libero" player, the new colours of the Mikasa ball, new uniform design. coach involvement and liberal refereeing, all make new Volleyball more exciting, demanding and spectacular than ever, full of dramatic moments and entertaining actions for the enjoyment of spectators and TV audiences alike.

8 top Women's National Team and $US 1 million at stake

The World Grand Prix is played in July or August by up to 8 top Women's National Volleyball teams touring South East Asia in a preliminary phase consisting of two pools over 3 weekends and climaxing in a Final Round on the 4th weekend. A 1 million US Dollar purse is at stake and the participating teams include Japan, USA, Brazil. Germany or Italy, Russia, Cuba, Korea and China.

Host TV Broadcasters from Southeast Asia and Japan guarantee quality coverage

TBS Japan, 6 South East Asian Host Broadcasters including: UBC Thailand, Television Broadcasts Ltd. Hong Kong, CCTV Sports CHN. TDM Macau and International Broadcasters such as TV Globo take an active role in broadcasing. It is estimated that the number of TV viewers are in the millions that watch the Grand Prix matches evcry year.

Expose your brand in 7 key cities in Asia, and to over 200,000 spectators and millions of TV viemers

7 Cities host excitmg women's Volleyball matches featuring the best players in the world. Over 200,000 spectators witness matches in the host countries that include Japan, China, Hong Kong, Macau. Chinese Taipei, Thailand and eventually Malaysia and Philippines. Millions of TV viewers worldwide including throughout Asia and Brazil access llve and delayed coverage.