CROSSNET is a backyard/beach game that combines four square and volleyball.

^[8]It was founded by Greg Meade, Chris Meade, and Michael Delpapa.

^[0]CROSSNET has been featured in Future Sharks.

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After Michael came home for the summer from graduating college, he met up with Greg and Chris to brainstorm business ideas.

^[0]Greg suggested that there was a need for higher quality beach and backyard games.

^[0]Growing up, they all enjoyed playing four square together, and Michael inquired Greg of what he thought about four square volleyball.

^[0]From that idea, CROSSNET was born.

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Upon meeting with a patent attorney, they were informed that there was already a patent on the product idea.

^[0]They cold-called the patent holding and made a deal to obtain the rights to it.

^[0]After taking over a year to obtain a patent, they began the process of creating rules, designing and manufacturing the game, and make adjustments from feedback.

^[0]Their efforts took well over a year.

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The playing field is set up into four squares.

^[8]The player in square 4 serves from out of bounds to the player in square 2 who then can return it to any player.

^[8]Whoever is eliminated must return to square 1 and everyone rotates clockwise.

^[8]You can only earn a point if you are in square 4 and whoever gets to 11 first (or wins by 2) wins the game.

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CROSSNET grew by establishing a physical presence on the beaches of Florida as well as having active Facebook and Instagram accounts.

^{[2] [5] [0]}In order to successful promote itself, CROSSNET attempted to create engaging ads on those platforms as well.

^[0]As of April 2018, CROSSNET had over 10.7k followers on Instagram.

^[5]The game is currently popular on the beaches of Florida and San Diego.

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In the future, CROSSNET plans to expand to a global scale.

^[0]Later in 2018, an indoor model for CROSSNET is set to be released that is targeted towards black tops, gyms and schools to use.

^[0]The founders envision CROSSNET to become commonplace on every major beach, have tournaments hosted across the world, be sold in retail stores, and become incorporated in physical education curriculums.

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