Every serve became a point
Scoring, and what it did to the game.
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- Every serve became a pointRally point scoring arrived in 1999 and turned an open-ended match into one that fits a broadcast slot, which changed how squads are built.
- The let serve, and other small rewritesA serve touching the net stayed in play from 2000, and a handful of similar changes quietly removed dead time from the game.
- What the jump serve did to everything elseOnce the serve became an attack, first contact became the hardest skill on the court and the rest of the rulebook adjusted around it.
- The touch that is not a touchJudging a block touch decides possession, and it is the call officials most often have to make on sound.
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