FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool regardless of the World Ranking .
Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the Serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 7 August 2017 .
FIVB reserved the right to seed the hosts as head of pool regardless of the FIVB World Ranking   .
Teams were seeded in the first two positions of each pool following the Serpentine system according to their FIVB World Ranking as of 7 August 2017 .