The FIVB/AVP Cincinnati Open concluded yesterday, with Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross winning the women’s gold medal over China’s Xue Chen and Xia Xinyi and Brazil’s Saymon Barbosa and Gustavo Carvalhaes finishing atop the men’s bracket. Here are our top takeaways from the last FIVB Open tournament before the end of the Olympics qualification period.

1. Kerri and April qualified for Rio. With the conclusion of their first pool play match versus Anna Behlen and Anika Krebs of Germany (a  21-13, 21-15 victory), Walsh Jennings and Ross completed the requirement of competing in 12 FIVB tournaments together during the Olympic qualification period. As No. 6 in the Provisional Olympic Rankings with only two events remaining before the June 12 deadline, their position inside the top 15 is guaranteed, and we will see them compete in Rio.

2. It’s not about the money. The points aren’t great in an Open tournament (500 for first place, as opposed to 800 for first place in a grand slam), and the money’s even worse. If you make the main draw but don’t break pool—like Team USA’s Brittany Hochevar and Jen Fopma in the Cincinnati Open—you and your partner walk away with 25th place, 120 points and $800 to split. At that point, it seems like a better idea financially to ditch the international tour and seek out a high level amateur or semi pro tournament on the EVP (Extreme Volleyball Professionals) Tour or East End Volleyball Tour where first place finishers routinely make $1,000 or more. But of course, it’s not about money. Points drive a team like Alexandra Jupiter and Laura Longuet of France or Behlen and Krebs of Germany to make the journey to the U.S. and run the risk of failing to even cover their travel costs.

3. Rockstar performance for the Sand Crabbs. Brothers Taylor and Trevor Crabb entered the Cincinnati Open as the top seed in the qualifier, advanced to the main draw and then proceeded to go undefeated in pool play and earn a bye into the second round of elimination play. There they lost to Canadians Grant O'Gorman and Sam Pedlow in a close three-set match. The ninth-place finish matches the duo’s career high, which they achieved in last year’s Xiamen Open.

4. Nick Lucena and Phil Dalhausser take Olympic ranking lead. With their bronze-medal performance, Dalhausser and Lucena surpassed Casey Patterson and Jake Gibb in the Provisional Olympic Ranking. With their participation in the Moscow Grand Slam, which starts Tuesday, Nick and Phil will reach the required 12 tournaments mark and be one step closer to securing their Rio berth.

5. Xue Chen and Xia Xinyi are back. The Chinese duo of Xue, 27, and Xia, 19, have been fairly quiet the past couple of years. Xue dislocated her shoulder in the first tournament of 2015, and the silver-medal performance in Cincinnati is her and Xia’s best showing since they won two tournaments in a row shortly after forming their partnership in 2013. In Cincy, Xue proved her shoulder is back to 100 percent, as she collected an impressive number of aces, kills and blocks in the gold-medal match versus one of the top teams in the world.

Watch the entire women's gold-medal match: