AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Announces 2006 SCHEDULE

[VBLIStaff]

LOS ANGELES - January 26, 2006 - AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour, a wholly owned subsidiary of AVP, Inc. (OTC: AVPI.OB), a lifestyle sports entertainment company focused on professional beach volleyball, today officially announced its 2006 Tour season schedule, which includes two new events, five new cities, and a record $3.5 million in prize money. The prize money is split equally between the men and the women and represents a 17% increase from last year's purse of $3.0 million. This season, the AVP Tour will visit 16 cities, including five new additions - Birmingham, Ala. Sacramento, Calif., Atlanta, Ga., Brooklyn, N.Y, and Lake Tahoe, Nev.:

March 31-April 2 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL
May 5-7 - Tempe, AZ
May 18-21 - Santa Barbara, CA
May 26-28 - Huntington Beach, CA
June 9-11 - Hermosa Beach, CA
June 15-18 - Sacramento, CA
June 29-July 2 - Seaside Heights, NJ
July 6-9 - Atlanta, GA
July 13-16 - Birmingham, AL
July 20-23 - Chicago, IL
August 10-13 - Manhattan Beach, CA
August 17-20 - Brooklyn (Coney Island), NY
August 25-27 - Boulder, CO
August 31-Sept 3 - Cincinnati, OH
September 6-9 - Las Vegas, NV
September 14-17 - Lake Tahoe, NV

All events will be televised with coverage on NBC and FOX Sports Net (FSN). A detailed broadcast schedule will be released soon. Tickets will be available soon.

The expanded 2006 schedule comes on the heels of a very successful 2005 season. The AVP Tour experienced healthy growth last season, including a 48% increase in its fan base, according to Scarborough Sports Marketing, which compares favorably to the growth in other sports properties for the same time period.

In addition, AVP has developed several promoter relationships to help bring tournaments to cities that might not otherwise host such events. Local organizers are responsible for selling all local revenue for the tournament, including tickets, concessions, sponsorships and hospitality. Event cities with local promoters include: Sacramento (Sacramento Sports Commission), Atlanta (Atlanta Sports Council), Birmingham-Hoover (Bruno Event Team),
Brooklyn (Brooklyn Sports and Entertainment) and Cincinnati (Reach Event Marketing). AVP's strategic alliances with top local promotion companies allows the AVP Tour to have a strong presence in new markets without the standard upfront capital resources as well as gaining year-round, aggressive marketing and outreach for each event.

"We are thrilled at the success and expansion of the AVP Tour and we are looking forward to coming into these new markets and returning to several of our 2005 Tour stops" said Leonard Armato, CEO and Tour Commissioner. "We are pleased that, through successful promoter alliances, we are able to bring the excitement of beach volleyball inland, expanding beach volleyball and reaching a larger audience. With our fan base continually growing and a record amount for prize money, this looks to be the best AVP season yet."

http://www.avp.com/newsroom/newsroom...il.jsp?id=3984

[SleepySmurf]

East Coasters,


Anyone planing on going to the NY, NJ events?

June 29-July 2 - Seaside Heights, NJ
August 17-20 - Brooklyn (Coney Island), NY


If so let me know, I'm game.....

[mycena]

Hey Sleepy,
I'd guess that me and new England are up for NY. I'm not sure about NJ yet. But it sounds like fun to me!!!!

[Glenn]

Originally Posted by north_ave_beach_bum

All I have to say is THANK GOD the AVP is not in Chicago on Labor Day weekend. What a waste of perfectly good volleyball real estate during the last official weekend of summer for us players in Chicago. It always annoyed the crap out of me that they would take North Avenue Beach during a 3-day holiday weekend. Especially when it's usually the last weekend before the college students take off, too. That and the fact that the beach is a mess when they're through and it takes forever for the posts to be put back in for us that still want to play. I just hope they don't screw up our August now.

Agreed, that weekend should be reserved for Florida or Cali, there is plenty of real estate. However, last year AVP really did have some amazing matches in Chicago. Maybe your comments are the reason they moved the event and or dates.

I wounder is EVP has released their tour information yet, I heard they were thinking about coming to the East Coast.

Glenn

[PEEPS]

I was woundering if anyone here is planing on going any AVP events? If so which ones?

[VBLIStaff]

That's right all. You are the next stop for the AVP May 5 - 7th in tempe. Event info can be found here:

http://www.avp.com/schedule/gameday.jsp?id=3986

[VolleyChick]

Originally Posted by PEEPS

I was woundering if anyone here is planing on going any AVP events? If so which ones?

Well I'm just getting back from Fort Lauderdale and it was awesome The weather was gorgeous (a bit much for some of those playing though) not a cloud in the sky all weekend. I'm in for sure at Seaside and Coney and considering a trip to CA for Santa Barbara and Huntington...
I hope to get my pictures posted sometime today - I'll post a link.