Elite16: Hamburg, Germany 5-9 Aug 2026

Fantastic event, with the best beachvolleyball players in the world.

But two things could be better:

- an MC at court 2 to introduce the players (at a minimum)

- remember that it is a international event, and not everybody speaks german. Use english for the speaker!

It was my first beach elite pro tour to attend and i loved every second of it, i was there only wed-sat morning but the energy and the buzz was enough!

The event schedule was good overall, the matches were amazing. I do have some improvements to share for next time regarding organization:

1. The entrance control rules for drinks and food changed everyday, sometimes even in the morning you could enter some stuff and in the afternoon suddenly you couldn't anymore. I would have liked more transparency from the start, specifying what we could enter and whatnot. The first days we could enter a 1.5L bottle of water and Saturday we could not. Everyone had to left it outside and it was quite a mess. Every time you passed the entrance control you felt you were doing something wrong.

2. Court 2 could have used a shade. We had to use umbrellas to protect us from the sun

3. Official merchandise store was also a mess. We wanted to buy a woman top and a man singlet and the first days they had nothing. On Friday they had men's singlet, only XL size and they told us they won't have any woman's top. On Saturday we asked again and they told us they won't have it. On Sunday we happened to pass by again and there were woman's tops, all sizes. Man's singlet only 2XL.