Final eight · same year, two competitions
Women are compared with women, and men with men. Each side is eight matches, from the quarterfinals through the final. There is no European Championship 2025 in this set.
For the women, mean duration is 6.12 s in the VNL and 6.35 s at the European Championship. Mean actions are 6.80 and 6.68. For the men, duration is 5.08 s and 5.16 s, and actions are 5.45 and 5.39.
The gap between the two competitions is smaller than the spread from match to match. Block contacts are the skill that moves most for the women: 0.76 per rally in the VNL and 0.67 at the European Championship. Among the men, every skill stays within 0.03 per rally. The men’s European Championship correlation of 0.78 comes from the bronze match Slovenia–Finland, where the recorded times line up weakly with the action count. That match is highlighted below.