Hi. As some sort of my input in the speedrunning community I think I'd like to suggest an optimal strategy in beach volleyball. It's already been discovered that the optimal strategy in terms of service would be to serve a float, very close to the net, allowing the opponents to spike at the 3rd touch. But I've noticed that the top runs mainly focus on receiving that spike and then attacking for a pretty easy point. But I think my strategy is better and allows more time to be shaved off. I believe that blocking that spike instead of receiving it saves more time. Of course, to block a spike, you'd need to be in the correct position and have correct timing so that the spike doesn't avoid a block. It might be riskier, but I feel that if you block all 20 times, you're gonna save 3,5 seconds per point. Do it 20 times and you have 1:10 of a timesave. It may be more difficult due to the technical aspects, but perhaps if that's what it takes, a sub-35 could be pulled off in Easy%? Not that I'd do that since I'm not that skillful yet, but if the top runners went for it, the 35-minute barrier could be broken.

Yeah I saw your block strategy and it seems pretty solid. NGL the volleyball in my current best time is pretty awful. The goal for me is to have them hit it into the net, but it went awful that run. I think blocking it back like you did might be a better option overall and be more reliable. Zeus and I both agreed sub 35 would be possible back when we were both running it. If someone beats my time I would grind it again of course.

Of course the absolute best thing would be to practice getting the ACE on the serve. If you put that slow float close to the net, but almost out of bounds, the AI wont go for it and you will either get an ACE or it will be out. The problem is its very hard to lineup correctly in the short amount of time you got. You have to have the shadow like 50-75% OOB for it to work. Really should mess around more, because it would be worth it to go for more power if you could find a way to get an ACE everytime.

After a lot of runs i think the blocking strat is the best one for a safe game under 2 min. Of course the best will be using the aces but i try a lot of strategy to do it and it looks so random to repeat it... One or two aces in a game is possible to save 15-20 sec but you have to complete it with good rng on all blocks in other points