Ostfalia BeachDays adds roundnet to summer sports lineup

Roundnet is moving into a bigger beach-stage at Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, where BeachDays Wolfenbüttel will fold Spikeball into a nine-day summer festival instead of treating it as a stand-alone niche stop. The tournament is set for June 23, 2026 at Landeshuter Platz in Wolfenbüttel, with organizers pitching the event as a place where students and spectators can join a broader beach club atmosphere.

That positioning matters. BeachDays 2026 is built around 9 days, 6 sports and 15 different events, with beach soccer, roundnet, beach tennis and beach darts all on the same program. Ostfalia’s materials say spectators are very welcome, a detail that gives the roundnet competition a wider reach than a closed bracket would have on its own. For a sport that often grows fastest when curious onlookers can watch a few rallies and understand the action immediately, the festival format lowers the barrier to entry.

The roundnet event itself is a two-versus-two competition with an entry fee of 20 euros per team. Registration closes on June 16, 2026, and winners will receive prizes. The event’s rules summary keeps the basics simple: roundnet is played like volleyball, but on a 360-degree court with no fixed sides. That setup fits the beach setting well, because it is easy to grasp, fast to stage and visible from the edge of the sand.

BeachDays also shows how roundnet is becoming part of a more established competitive calendar in Germany. Roundnet Germany describes itself as the national federation and points to an organized pathway that includes the German Roundnet Tour, a league system, German championships and university championships. In that context, a campus beach festival is not just a casual add-on. It is another place where the sport can be presented as legitimate competition while still feeling open to first-timers.

There is precedent, too. Local BeachDays programming in 2024 already included roundnet, which makes this year’s return look less like an experiment and more like a format that has stuck. City organizers say team registration for BeachDays opens on June 1, 2026, extending the invitation across the broader event, while MTV Wolfenbüttel describes the overall setup as a colorful mix of beach sports and summer atmosphere. For roundnet, that kind of crossover setting may be the point: the sport gets visibility beside better-known beach games, and the beach games get another fast-moving draw for the campus crowd.