The Big South Qualifier volleyball competition has found a home in Atlanta.

Actually, several of them.

The tournament, which was supposed to be played at the Georgia World Congress Center, will take place at multiple sites around the city, including Cobb Galleria Centre, the Georgia International Convention Center near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and the old convention center that GICC replaced, said Lauri Dagostino, executive director of the Big South.

"The event days will stay the same," she said Tuesday. "We will be on a time crunch."

Big South is bringing more than 38,000 attendees to Atlanta this week in a contest that hospitality leaders said is expected to have an economic impact of about $18 million. The competition uses 103 courts.

GWCC pulled the plug on hosting the competition Sunday after determining it could not accommodate the contest because of damage from Friday's tornado. The twister tore holes in the building's roof, lighting was left dangling from the ceiling and carpets were soaked from malfunctioning sprinklers and burst water pipes.

The matches -- there are 3,800 -- will begin around 8 a.m. Friday and end at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Dagostino said.

The competition has been spread out because metro Atlanta's other convention centers do not have the room that the GWCC has. That facility has 1.4 million square feet of exhibit space. By comparison, the Cobb Galleria has 144,000 square feet of exhibit space while the new GICC has about 150,000 square feet.

Each court stretches 80 feet end to end, Dagostino said.

ACVB and GWCC officials worked around the clock throughout the weekend and the first few days of the week trying to secure enough space for the competition.

Mark Vaughan, the ACVB's executive vice president and chief sales and marketing officer, said Tuesday afternoon that officials were still trying to line up a place for nine remaining courts.