The AVP crowned the champions of its third event of the season this past weekend. With many top teams resting up between the FIVB Moscow Grand Slam and Hamburg Major, some new names rose to the top at the 2016 AVP Seattle Open. Here are our top takeaways from the weekend's action.

1. Billy Allen and Lane Carico won their first AVP titles. Allen and Theo Brunner were playing in only their second tournament together as partners. With a defeat of brothers Taylor and Trevor Crabb in the final, Brunner celebrated his second title, adding the Seattle Open victory to the Huntington Beach Open title he won in 2013 with Nick Lucena. Allen's previous best finish was third, a result he earned four times since playing his first AVP tournament in 2004.

Carico and her partner Summer Ross defeated Brittany Hochevar and Jen Fopma in the Seattle Open final. The title is Ross' second on the AVP--her first was the 2014 Cincinnati Open with Emily Day. The duo's previous best finish was a second, which they earned at the 2015 AVP Seattle Open, losing to Fopma and April Ross in the final.

2. Jake Gibb forfeited the semifinal match due to food poisoning. Although being unable to eat for three days and having to rely on IV fluids to get through the tournament is undoubtedly miserable, fans of the Casey Patterson-Jake Gibb duo, which is headed to the Rio Olympics in a couple months, will be relieved to hear that the "forfeit" line on the bracket was not due to injury.

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3. Brittany Hochevar and Jen Fopma finished second in their first AVP event of the year. The duo has played eight international tournaments this year, collecting three ninth-place finishes on the FIVB. In Seattle, they bounced back from a second-round loss to Betsi Flint and Kelley Larsen, roaring through the contenders' bracket and advancing all the way to the final.

4. Qualifier No. 3 seeds Avery Drost and Gregg Weaver took third. Drost and Weaver, playing in their second AVP tournament together this year, won two matches in the qualifier to advance to the main draw. There, they suffered a first-round loss to the Crabb brothers but won four contenders' bracket matches to advance to the semifinals.

5. Former University of Hawaii partners Brittany Tiegs and Karissa Cook made a main draw appearance. This duo of AVCA All-Americans played together in 2014 at Hawaii, where they went 38-6 at the No. 1 spot. Cook qualified for her first AVP main draw last year with Michelle Iafigliola at the Manhattan Beach Open, while Tiegs has qualified twice before. At the 2016 AVP New Orleans Open in April, Tiegs partnered with Bree Scarbrough and the duo took seventh.