[Outta Town]

I fought implementing rally scoring into my leagues and tournaments as long as I could. I had to give in when I was the last holdout around. But I did find that it was much easier to get games done in a set amount of time.
We were solely restricted by daylight hours on the beach. Once a shotgun start was implemented on all courts at once, with timed games to 20 minutes, rally scoring to 25, winning by one point, our tournaments ran much smoother and finished on time.

BUT, no one was really earning wins. When you get a point or win a game solely because of an error on the other team's part, without earning the point with service, it does rather take the competetiveness away.

The biggest thing that irks me is the net serve being a point. This is an error, but you get the point if it dribbles over and the other team can't dig it up and return it.

The game has become sloppier now with referees being told to "let them play", rather than calling double hits, bad sets and lifts.

I suppose that next year Brunswick will be the ball of choice if they pay to be the sponsoring ball manufacturer, and we will get one bounce on each side so we can keep rallys going. Or maybe a fourth hit.

I liked the original game best as it kept you alive and in the game, earning points with service first. No slop. Real leather balls that took sidespin and topspin.

There is good and bad points on every new rule change/interpretation. That one about attacking the serve may come up again in the future. Changing the game for television viewers is not right. If that keeps up, it will morph into what "Extreme Dodgball" is now on late night dish TV.