Basic Game Structure

Players in the Team:

• Team has 6 players on the court.
• 3 players are front row players and 3 of them are back row players.

 Contacts:

• Each team is allowed to have maximum of three touches before hitting the ball over the net. (EXCEPTION: block does not count as a touch)
• Same player can not hit the ball twice in a row (EXCEPTION I: block doesn’t count a touch.)

Antennas:

• It is ALLOWED to play the ball off the net. It is a fault, if the ball contacts net outside antennas.
• The ball has to travel between the antennas (or the imagined extensions of them) when flying to the other side of the net. In or Out?
• Referee calls the ball “IN”, if any part of it hits the lines. (Imagine the ball is painted. If the ball left a mark that touches the lines, the ball is judged IN)
• Ball is ruled OUT, if
  
• the ball lands outside the boundary lines (without touching the opponent)
  
• The ball hits the antenna
  
• any of the net or cables outside the antennas
  
• a referee stand or poles or the ceiling

Contacting the Ball:

• Players are NOT allowed to catch, hold or throw the ball.
• Players are NOT allowed to hit or block the opponents serve.
• Attacking ball which is coming over the net is ILLEGAL, if it has NOT broken the plane of the net.
  
  In other words the player is ALLOWED to swing the ball when it breaks the plane of the net.