FILE – A shot of the crowd during the PVL All-Filipino conference finals between Creamline Cool Smashers and Choco Mucho Flying Titans. –MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.internet
MANILA, Philippines – The Premier Volleyball League (PVL) will have a completely new format for its 2024-25 All-Filipino Conference, which will begin on November 9 at the Philsports Enviornment.
In the biggest and longest PVL tournament yet, 12 teams will no longer play just one spherical robin, as the league will introduce a play-in tournament before the best-of-three quarterfinals.
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After the preliminary round from November 9 to February 22, teams will be paired in the qualification round based on their final ranking from the first round.
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The confrontations continue: rank 1 faces rank 12; Rank 2 Battles Rank 11; Rank 3 squares with rank 10; Rank 4 faces Rank 9; Rank clashes with rank 8; and rank 6 competes against rank 7.
The winning teams advance to the PVL playoffs, while the losing teams will not be eliminated yet as they will be relegated to the play-in tournament for another chance to advance to the next round.
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The six play-in teams will be ranked according to their preliminary ranking and will be divided into two groups and play another round-robin: Group 1 will include Rank 7, Rank 10 and Rank 11, while Group 2 will be formed by Rank 8, Rank 9 and Rank 12.
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The best team from each group will enter the playoffs after the round-robin, where the winner of Group 1 will become the seventh seed and the best team from Group 2 will be the eighth seed in the quarterfinals.
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The quarterfinals will be a best-of-three series with the winners, while the semifinals will have a round-robin format.
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In case of a tie for the number 2 team in the Last 4, a tiebreaker match will be played for the last ticket to the Last.
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The championship remains a best-of-three series.
The six-month-old All-Filipino will have a long break after the December 14 match before resuming on January 18. The league will also visit Cebu, Antipolo, Candon, Ilocos Sur and Passi, Iloilo.
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