Bet The Beach

On tonight's show:

The AVP has a new TV deal with CBS and the CW network

The 2025 Bet The Beach Picks Contest (https://betthebeach.com/2025-picks-contest/)

A little backstory about what Bet The Beach is and what we're doing

Goodbye to a fun Off-SZN and hello to the 2025 Beach Season

(00:02:27) Avery Drost announces his new partner

(00:04:09) The Beach Pro Tour announces 2025 schedule updates with some major new AVP conflicts.

(00:016:10) The History of the Manhattan Beach Open on the women's side. Who has the most wins? Who was the queen of the pier? Who's next?

Both the USA Men and & Women took home hardware from the first King and Queen of The Court of the year in Tenerife. Trevor Crabb appeared on this week's episode of Sandcast, talking new partnerships with Tri. We look back at 61 years of champions on the men's side of the Manhattan Beach Open.

Grab bag episode of the pod today. We start with a Betsi Flint announcement. We take a look at the Beach Pro Tour entry lists for the Yucatan Challenge and Quintana Room Elite. We preview the Tenerife Queen and King of the Court, and discuss some changes to the BPT format and prize purses. We end with a look back at an all-time confrontation between ref and player from the 1995 AVP Miller Lite Open. Worth a listen!

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Our new AVP League merch came in, what team am I becoming a full-time fan of?

We'll break down the battle for the AVP League on the Women's side. We have a few interesting new partnerships to discuss, and a hotly contested battle for 6 available spots.

Seain Cook's latest Pre-Season Vlog (#4) featured a candid, honest, and real Seain, talking the split with Cody and the challenges of the partner search. A great watch/listen, here's the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyNGwCznLW4&t=43s

Theo Brunner was on The "Option" Episode 229 on the NYvarsity Sports YouTube page, and talked about texting Trevor once he found out about the available Auto-bid. Theo was great on the pod, as you would expect, here's the link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCSX9zr9XN8&list=PLCBnTcMyZljRkcji8GnDnpicEnF35tPtN&index=1&t=1904s

Troy Field was on The SandCast pod this week with Tri Bourne, talking about how his partnership with Theo Brunner went down, and all things AVP League. Here's the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTdGRDwc3hQ&t=2015s

With some MAJOR partnership news coming out this past week, it's time to start looking at who's going to qualify for the 2025 AVP League.

On Monday, the AVP released its 2025 schedule. I'm here to break it all down.

For episode 4, we'll return to regularly scheduled programming following the thrilling conclusion to the OSSI. We'll be live, taking phone calls, chats, DM's and e-mails. We'll recklessly speculate about what the 2025 AVP season might look like. What would your ideal season look like? Let me know.

We select, seed, and bracket the 16 teams for the OSSI beach volleyball tournament, to be held over the next 5 weeks, culminating with the FINALS live from NYC on Wednesday, January 22nd.

On tonight's show: We see what good ideas the AVP can steal from European Football (Soccer) Recapping the Beach Pro Tour Finals in Doha A couple more legends of the game say goodbye A golf cart park job gone horribly wrong A home invasion gone even wrong-er? We'll play two true stories and an Onion We'll take calls, DM's, live chat, and much more