On September 26th, 2023, the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games ushered in the men's volleyball final. In the group stage, China performed well and successfully qualified with two consecutive victories. After entering the 12 semi-finals, China beat the Indonesian team with a score of 3- 1 and directly advanced to the semi-finals. In the semi-final, China once again showed great strength, and advanced to the final with an absolute advantage of 3-0 when facing the Japanese team with good strength.
Iran also scored the first 12 cross and successfully reached the semi-finals. In the semi-final, Iran and Qatar fought fiercely, and finally defeated their opponents 3-0 and successfully advanced to the final. In the final, the strength of Iranian men's volleyball team was outstanding, but the ability of China team to grasp the key points was slightly inferior, and it was finally reversed. 1-3 suffered a fiasco, missed the highest podium in the Asian Games, and Iran won the championship.
Volleyball competition rules
Volleyball competition is a team competition, each team consists of 12 players, and each team sends 6 players to play on the court separated by the net. The game begins with serving, and the server hits the ball to fly from the net to the opponent's court. The game continues until the ball hits the ground, goes out of bounds or a team cannot legally send the ball back to the opponent's court.
The volleyball match adopts the best of five games, with three games winning one game. In the game, a team scored 1 goal, that is, 1 point (taking the scoring system for each goal). The receiving team wins 1, gets 1 point, and gets the right to serve at the same time. The players rotate one position clockwise. The team that scored 25 points in each game (except the fifth game of the deciding game) and led the opponent by 2 points won one game.
When the score is 24: 24, the game will continue until the first team leads by 2 points (26: 24 or 27: 25, etc. ), and then 1 game. The deciding game 15 points leads the opponent by 2 points to win. When the score is14:14, the game will continue until the first team leads by 2 points (16:14 or17:15, etc. ).