🏐 Team Playbook · Match Day
Pick a view, hit Rotate, watch the team slide clockwise. Put your names in. Three views — rotation, defense, attack — plus an FAQ for the rules.
👆 Tap any player for their rules right now
Clockwise. Always. When your team wins the right to serve, everyone moves one spot clockwise.
The player at the front-right (Pos 2) drops to the serving spot (Pos 1). Everyone else follows.
Path of one player: 2 → 1 → 6 → 5 → 4 → 3 → 2 ... and around again. Tap Rotate above and follow one name to see it.
You only rotate when you win a rally that the OTHER team served. That's called a "side-out". You earn the serve, so you rotate.
You just got the ball back. Move clockwise, new server steps to Pos 1.
Same server keeps serving. Score goes up, nobody moves.
Simple rule: same server keeps serving until your team loses a rally. You only shuffle positions when the serve comes back to you.
The player at Pos 1 (back-right) serves. 🏐
Serving order is the rotation order. Once you've all served and rotated fully, it loops back to the same person. The chips under the court above show whose turn is coming.
Yes — after the ball is served. But at the moment of the serve you must be standing in your rotation order (not overlapping the neighbour in front/behind or left/right of you).
Setter sprints to the net, hitters spread out, defenders drop back. The position number only matters for the instant the server hits the ball.
For amateurs: just don't be obviously in front of / behind the wrong teammate when the server contacts the ball. After that, run wherever you need to.
Front row = Pos 4, 3, 2 (near the net). Back row = Pos 5, 6, 1.
Front row players can jump and spike near the net, and can block.
Back row players cannot block, and can only spike if they jump from behind the attack line (the dashed line, ~3m from net).
As you rotate, you cycle between front and back. So everyone plays both — that's why rotation matters.
Serving out of order, or standing in the wrong rotational spot at the moment of serve. The other team gets a point + the serve.
Fix: trust the serving-order chips above. Whoever the highlighted chip says — that's who serves.
Rally scoring: every rally is a point, no matter who served. Win the rally → you get a point.
A set is to 25 points, must win by 2 (so 26–24, 27–25, etc.). Matches are usually best of 3 or best of 5 sets. The deciding set is often to 15.
Reminder: scoring a point and rotating are different things. You score on every rally you win, but you only rotate on a side-out (see the "When do we rotate" question).