Next Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Dallas is the USAV 18s Junior National Championships. With a busy weekend ahead with three qualifiers, there’s not going to be time to wait until next week to release preview and predictions that feature the actual pools.

We say actual pools because the pools used below for the sake of the preview and predictions are NOT real. Repeat. They are NOT real. They are entirely made up by us using our national rankings as a guide. We also try to keep teams away from one another in the same region.

With that said, we introduce our preview and predictions for 18 Open (and the MADE-UP pools!).