AVP Names Its Chicago Championship Field
Twelve pairs, two titles and single elimination at Oak Street Beach on 5 and 6 September. Saturday is half the tournament and it has no announced national broadcast.
AVP named the twelve pairs for its league championship on Wednesday. The event is at Oak Street Beach in Chicago on 5 and 6 September, eight days away, and it is single elimination the whole way.
Palm Beach Passion is the top seed in both draws and has a bye in both. Austin Aces holds the other women's bye, and Miami Mayhem, the men's top seed, holds the other men's.
The women's quarterfinals are Brooklyn Blaze against Dallas Dream at 10 a.m. Central and Miami Mayhem against San Diego Smash at noon, and the two winners meet the two byes in the semifinals.
The men's are New York Nitro against Austin Aces at 11 and San Diego Smash against LA Launch at 1. Clubs field a team in each draw, which is why the same names turn up twice.
Taryn Brasher and Kristen Cruz are in the field three weeks after winning Manhattan Beach. So are Kelly Cheng and Megan Kraft, Taylor Crabb and Andy Benesh, Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson, and Phil Dalhausser.
Half the tournament has no announced national broadcast.
CBS Sports Network has Sunday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Eastern and The CW has 2 to 4 p.m., off a schedule AVP published on 2 June. Saturday's four quarterfinals and both semifinals are not on it.
Neither the field announcement nor the event page carries a prize figure, and none has been published anywhere this season, which is the one number a beach fan would want before Labor Day weekend.
One warning for anybody searching. There is a 2025 page on avp.com for the same event, at the same beach, in the same week of the calendar, and it still outranks the real one.
It names 2025 pairings, which is how a reader ends up with Brasher alongside Kristen Nuss instead of Cruz.
Doors are at 9 a.m. and first serve at 10 on both days. The one number still missing is the money.
