The snow volleyball adventure began in 2008 amid the mountains of Wagrain in Austria. For the first time in the history of this winter sports resort, net posts and pitch lines were dug into the snow at an altitude of around 1,850 m. The initial event at the Flying Mozart mountain station between the two ski chalets Kogelalm and Gipfelstadl attracted hundreds of astounded yet thrilled spectators and offered the perfect location for the coming year. The mix of top-level sports and extreme weather fascinated fans and athletes alike. This slightly different sport has been hosted in the Alps for more than eight years now. When the first ideas and thoughts on the snow volleyball project started emerging in 2008, nobody could have envisioned the energy and passion linked to this kind of sport. After many successful events in Wagrain, 2011 was a milestone in the history of the sport. Snow volleyball was acknowledged as an official sport by the Austrian Volleyball Association (ÖVV) and provided with its own bid invitation. The basic structure for professionalism and competition at the highest level was therefore guaranteed, leading to the creation of the Snow Volleyball Tour powered by Amway in 2012. The slogan “Served Ice Cold” provided the backdrop for the competition among palm trees, hot tubs and cheerleaders in St. Anton am Arlberg in Austria and at Spitzingsee lake in Bavaria, Germany. This rapid development took its next logical steps in 2013, 2014 and 2015, when the event series was expanded to include Switzerland (Engelberg), Italy (Kronplatz) and Czechia (Spindleruv Mlyn). International encouragement from participants, the media and sponsors continues to be huge, so the 2015 Snow Volleyball Tour powered by Amway was a great success and started making headlines internationally. On October 16, 2015, at its Congress in Sofia, Bulgaria, the European Volleyball Confederation (CEV) confirmed the addition of the new sport to its official calendar. So the first CEV Snow Volleyball European Tour, taking place under the umbrella of the continental confederation, was held in March and April, 2016. During the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) and Chaka2 signed a Memorandum of Understanding. The two parties agreed to work together to develop snow volleyball for the benefit of youth around the world. The first international snow volleyball competition outside Europe, supported by the FIVB, took place on February 12 and 13, 2017, at the Dizin mountain resort in Iran. 2017 marked another milestone in the development of snow volleyball with the first FIVB Volleyball Your Way Snow Festival held in Wagrain-Kleinarl. On February 14, 2018, the FIVB and the CEV showcased snow volleyball at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea by hosting Snow Volleyball Night at the Austria House with an exhibition match featuring some of the world’s greatest stars from both volleyball and beach volleyball, such as Emanuel, Giba, Kim Yeon-Koung, Nikolas Berger, Stefanie Schwaiger, Vladimir Grbic and Xue Chen. The event sparked tremendous interest and attracted the attendance of over 40 TV stations and IOC member Prince Albert of Monaco himself. The inaugural 2018 CEV Snow Volleyball European Championships took place from March 23 through 25 in Wagrain-Kleinarl and Flachau in Austria. The continent’s best 24 women’s and 24 men’s teams competed at the birthplace of the sport for the first European champion titles, after six European Tour stops and as many as 17 national championships served as qualifying events. Lithuania’s Ieva Dumbauskaite & Monika Povilaityte and Russia’s Ruslan Daianov & Taras Myskiv became the first-ever European Championship gold medalists for women and for men, respectively. Chaka2 GmbH works feverishly with the national volleyball federations towards strengthened cooperation on an international level. The current goal is to establish snow volleyball as a globally recognized sport and to get as many people as possible in touch with the sport. The FIVB established the Snow Volleyball World Tour in 2019 and a is planning a fully-fledged World Championship in 2021. A spot at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne is also on the international federation's radar with the ultimate goal to see snow volleyball as an official sport at the Winter Olympic Games. FIVB President Ary Graca, who attended a professional snow volleyball tournament for the first time in Wagrain-Kleinarl in 2017, exclaimed: “This is a new world for me. It’s amazing - I love it! I believe in snow volleyball and I am going to work very hard for snow volleyball. I can foresee a huge success. We must bring snow volleyball to the Winter Olympic Games. That is our target.”