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Pre-Tournament Notes
Qualifier Brackets
Main Draw Brackets
Men's Teams Summaries
Women's Teams Summaries
Men's Championship Notes: #1 Benesh / Partain vs #2 Budinger / Evans
Women's Championship Notes: #1 Brasher / Nuss vs #3 Cannon / Kraft

Tournament Notables:

•  With last year’s season opener also taking place in Huntington Beach, this marks the first time since 2015-16 that a city has hosted consecutive season openers (New Orleans did in those two years).
• With Huntington Beach hosting the season opener for the sixth time, that surpasses Ft. Lauderdale for the most times any one city has held an AVP season opener. 
• The 2015 season opener in New Orleans, which was won by Kim DiCello / Kendra VanZwieten, was the only AVP women’s season opener won by a team in which neither player has competed in the Olympics.
• Andy Benesh and Miles Partain are just the second team in history to reach the title match in their first five AVP events, joining Mike Dodd and Karch Kiraly (who did so in their first seven events in 1985 and 1987).
• This week’s AVP event features 16 players (11 men, 5 women) who have played in the Olympics (either indoors or on the beach).  Players here have competed for three different countries (USA, Canada, Brazil).
• The only time in the 18 Huntington Beach events with seeds known in which the top seeds did not make the championship match was in 2013.
• Kate Reilly and Clara Stowell advanced from the qualifier as the 44th seeds, the 8th lowest-seeded team to do so on the women's side in AVP history, and lowest since 2019. The duo were partners last year at Stanford, going 19-2 together.
• Granted it's a unique tournament format, but having a #12 seed in the men's semifinals is not too common an occurrence... if Hagen Smith / Logan Webber advance to the title match it will be just the 12th time in AVP history for a seed that low... the last time a team reached the semifinals was Honolulu 2019 (#12 Theo Brunner / John Hyden finished 2nd) and the time before that was Hermosa Beach 2010 (#13 John Mayer / Matt Prosser placed 2nd)
  • Just 2 teams seeded as low as 12th have won an AVP title: #12 John Hyden / Mike Lambert in Mason 2005 and #16 Andre Gomes / Emanuel Rego won in San Antonio 1998 in Emanuel's 5th AVP event ever)