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Looking at the final version of the tournament table (and with eyes closed), You can safely say, that super -league (at least, This season) broke up into three separate tournaments.

Five tops fight over a place in the sun, Kazan, Belgorod, Moscow, Novosibirsk and St. Petersburg. Zenit-Kazan went into space, and behind him a dense group of contenders, if not for the throne, it of medals. Fifth place Zenit from St. Petersburg is separated from second place by only three points, one win.

Below, at a respectable distance in 13 points, follows the next five so-called middle peasants. There is a life of its own here – “Dynamo-LO” is aiming for the top, but so far this has not been confirmed by the result (although there are local achievements like the same victory over Belogorye), Dynamo-Ural is settling into an unusual role after a protracted recession, "Yenisei" also "learns to fly". But “Kuzbass” and “Fakel”, nominally, according to past merits, were listed in the underbelly of the pedestal, lost a little - everyone has their own reasons.

Finally, below, five underdogs are fighting for conditional survival - this micro-tournament was won by Gazprom-Yugra, although "Nova", and “Orenburg region” initially had large resources. But everything is decided on the court - this was proven by ASK, trauma survivor, departure of the main middle blocker, and managed to escape from last place in the playoffs. MSTU generally demonstrated good volleyball, but something - probably, beginners lacked confidence in their abilities. But, considering the level of play, Muscovites should have no problems with the second team of the major league “A”.

Before you take out the magic ball and make a prediction for the 22nd round, that such stratification objectively reflects the distribution of resources in Russian volleyball. Tops are federal level projects, middle peasants - teams, receiving strong support in the regions (“Kuzbass” is losing it and we’ll see, what will this lead to), outsiders live in a more modest paradigm. Today we are simply recording the state of things, Then, perhaps, let's talk about it some more, where is Russian volleyball and where is it going?.