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AVP Tour
$225,000 Chicago Championships
August 31 - September 3, 2017

(18, Q2) Raffe Paulis/Jeff Samuels

Raffe Paulis

Photo: Ken Delgado

Personal Info

Birth Date:

May 13, 1986 (39 yrs old)

Home Town:

Chicago, IL

Height:

6'2"

College(s):

Northeastern Illinois

Seasons:

Tournaments:

Career Best:

4th (NORCECA Managua 2022)

Career AVP Best:

5th (Waupaca 2023)

Career Winnings:

$24,075.00

Jeff Samuels, II

Photo: Ken Delgado

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Jun 1, 1986 (39 yrs old)

Home Town:

Grand Blanc, MI

Height:

6'3"

College(s):

Michigan State
Davenport

Seasons:

Tournaments:

Career Best:

2nd (2 times)

Career AVP Best:

2nd (Waupaca 2023)

Career Winnings:

$35,225.00

Team Career Summary

Tour	Played	1	2	3	4	5	7	9	13	17	25	Money
AVP	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	0	2	$8,350.00

Previous Chicago Results

Year	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2009	Mark Lodewyck - 89th	Did not play
Wide Open 2011	Did not play	David Vander Meer - 33rd
Pro Beach 2012	Vincent Robbins - 13th	Did not play
2015	Spencer McLachlin - 17th	Did not play
2016	Andrew Dentler - 17th	Dylan Maarek - 17th

Recent Results Have not played together in the last year

Chicago Championships Matches

Date

Bracket

Opponent

Score

Time

Thu, 8/31/2017

Qualifier 2

Kyle Condon / Mike Sauro (Q63)

Won 21-7, 21-9

0:31

Thu, 8/31/2017

Qualifier 3

Bradley Connors / Carl Naslund (Q34)

Won 14-21, 21-15, 15-13

1:04

Thu, 8/31/2017

Qualifier 4

Kyle Stevenson / Travis Woloson (Q18)

Won 21-13, 20-22, 15-9

1:03

Fri, 9/1/2017

Winner 1

Piotr Marciniak / Roberto Rodriguez (15)

Lost 17-21, 13-21

0:41

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Raffe Paulis	Total	25	11	5	0.240	1	5	1	2
	1	10	5	5	0.000	1	3	0	1
	2	15	6	0	0.400	0	2	1	1
Jeff Samuels	Total	13	6	2	0.308	2	0	1	1
	1	7	3	1	0.286	2	0	0	0
	2	6	3	1	0.333	0	0	1	1

Fri, 9/1/2017

Contender 1

Mark Burik / Adam Roberts (16)

Won 21-14, 21-19

0:44

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Raffe Paulis	Total	26	12	5	0.269	0	19	1	0
	1	11	6	2	0.364	0	10	0	0
	2	15	6	3	0.200	0	9	1	0
Jeff Samuels	Total	22	9	3	0.273	5	4	2	2
	1	10	6	1	0.500	1	0	2	0
	2	12	3	2	0.083	4	4	0	2

Sat, 9/2/2017

Contender 2

Ed Ratledge / Eric Zaun (9)

Lost 16-21, 19-21

0:47

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Raffe Paulis	Total	26	16	6	0.385	0	15	1	2
	1	10	8	4	0.400	0	3	1	0
	2	16	8	2	0.375	0	12	0	2
Jeff Samuels	Total	15	8	4	0.267	3	0	0	2
	1	6	4	1	0.500	0	0	0	0
	2	9	4	3	0.111	3	0	0	2

Overall Tournament Stats
Player	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Raffe Paulis	77	39	16	0.299	1	39	3	4
Jeff Samuels	50	23	9	0.280	10	4	3	5

Team Finishes By Tournament Type

Tournament Type	Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-6th	7-8th	9-12th	13-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)
Challenge/Four Star/Open	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$2,500.00
Manhattan Beach	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	$550.00
Tour Championships	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	$2,500.00
Heritage Series/Pro Series	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	$2,800.00
Contender Series/Tour Series	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	$0.00
Total	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	0	2	0	$8,350.00

Individual Finishes by Tournament Type

Raffe Paulis												Jeff Samuels
Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)	Tournament Type	Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)
34	0	0	0	0	0	10	16	0	1	$11,400.00	Challenge/Four Star/Open	18	0	0	0	0	0	5	7	1	1	$6,000.00
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	$0.00	Futures/Three Star/Two Star/One Star
8	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	$1,000.00	Manhattan Beach	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	$1,450.00
7	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	2	0	$1,650.00	Tour Championships	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	$1,650.00
3	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	$5,350.00	Gold Series	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	$925.00
9	0	0	0	0	0	3	4	0	2	$2,700.00	Heritage Series/Pro Series	7	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	0	1	$2,000.00
13	0	0	0	0	2	5	6	0	0	$1,400.00	Contender Series/Tour Series	15	0	1	1	0	2	10	1	0	0	$4,525.00
75	0	0	0	0	3	20	32	4	4	$23,500.00	Total	49	0	1	1	0	2	19	15	4	3	$16,550.00

Team Finishes by Season

			Results												Matches
Season	Assoc	Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-6th	7-8th	9-12th	13-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)	Won	Lost	Pct
2017	AVP	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$2,500.00	4	2	66.7 %
Total	AVP	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$2,500.00	4	2	66.7 %

Individual Finishes by Season

Raffe Paulis													Jeff Samuels
Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)	Season	Association	Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	$0.00	2009	AVP
											2010	AVP	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	$0.00
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	$0.00	2011	NVL
											2011	Wide Open	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	$0.00
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	$0.00	2012	AVP
											2012	NVL	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	$0.00
4	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	1	$475.00	2012	Pro Beach
5	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	2	$0.00	2013	AVP
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	$50.00	2013	NVL	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	$675.00
3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	$0.00	2014	AVP
1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$50.00	2014	NVL	6	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	$3,600.00
7	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	0	0	$1,650.00	2015	AVP
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	$0.00	2015	NVL	8	0	1	4	0	2	1	0	0	0	$11,675.00
											2015	NORCECA	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$250.00
7	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	0	1	$1,400.00	2016	AVP	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	$400.00
											2016	NVL	4	0	0	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	$2,475.00
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	$0.00	2016	FIVB
7	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	0	1	$3,500.00	2017	AVP	8	0	0	0	0	0	5	3	0	0	$6,175.00
40	0	0	0	0	0	8	18	4	10	$7,125.00	Total	Total	35	0	1	5	0	11	9	6	1	2	$25,250.00

Team Match Records

	Won 1st Set								Lost 1st Set								2 Set Matches		3 Set Matches		By Forfeit		All Matches
Season	Won 2-0		Won 2-1		Lost 2-1		Overall		Won 2-1		Lost 2-1		Lost 2-0		Overall		Overall		Overall		Won	Lost	Overall
Overall	10	62.5%	5	31.3%	1	6.3%	15-1	93.8%	2	13.3%	3	20.0%	10	66.7%	2-13	13.3%	10-10	50.0%	7-4	63.6%	0	0	17-14	54.8%
2016-2017	2	66.7%	1	33.3%	0	0.0%	3-0	100.0%	1	33.3%	0	0.0%	2	66.7%	1-2	33.3%	2-2	50.0%	2-0	100.0%	0	0	4-2	66.7%
Against the Field	4	80.0%	1	20.0%	0	0.0%	5-0	100.0%	1	20.0%	0	0.0%	4	80.0%	1-4	20.0%	8-8	50.0%	4-0	100.0%	0	0	6-4	60.0%

Team Match Records by Round

	Country Quota		Qualifier		Pool Play		Lucky Loser		Elimination Rounds		Semi-Finals		Bronze Medal		Gold Medal		Overall
Tournament Type	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost
Challenge/Four Star/Open	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
Manhattan Beach	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2
Tour Championships	0	0	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	3
Heritage Series/Pro Series	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	4
Contender Series/Tour Series	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3
Total	0	0	11	1	2	0	0	0	0	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	17	14

Head to Head Results
Paulis/Samuels lead the series against the field 4-2 (Lead 4 Series, Trail 2 Series, 0 Series Tied)

Date	Tour	Tournament	Round	Winning Team	Seed	Losing Team	Seed	Score	Time
Trail the series against # 9 Ratledge/Zaun 0-1
9/2/17	AVP	Chicago Championships	Contender 2	Ratledge/Zaun	9	Paulis/Samuels	18, Q2	21-16, 21-19	0:47
Trail the series against # 15 Marciniak/Rodriguez 0-1
9/1/17	AVP	Chicago Championships	Winner 1	Marciniak/Rodriguez	15	Paulis/Samuels	18, Q2	21-17, 21-13	0:41
Lead the series against # 16 Burik/Roberts 1-0
9/1/17	AVP	Chicago Championships	Contender 1	Paulis/Samuels	18, Q2	Burik/Roberts	16	21-14, 21-19	0:44
Lead the series against # Q18 Stevenson/Woloson 1-0
8/31/17	AVP	Chicago Championships	Qualifier 4	Paulis/Samuels	18, Q2	Stevenson/Woloson	Q18	21-13, 20-22, 15-9	1:03
Lead the series against # Q34 Connors/Naslund 1-0
8/31/17	AVP	Chicago Championships	Qualifier 3	Paulis/Samuels	18, Q2	Connors/Naslund	Q34	14-21, 21-15, 15-13	1:04
Lead the series against # Q63 Condon/Sauro 1-0
8/31/17	AVP	Chicago Championships	Qualifier 2	Paulis/Samuels	18, Q2	Condon/Sauro	Q63	21-7, 21-9	0:31