The 2022 Premier Volleyball League Invitational Conference was the twelfth conference of the
Premier Volleyball League
The Premier Volleyball League (PVL) is a women's professional volleyball league in the Philippines organized by Sports Vision Management Group, Inc. The league began in 2004 as the Shakey's V-League, a women's collegiate league. Since 2011, the ...
(''39th conference of the former
Shakey's V-League
The Premier Volleyball League (PVL) is a women's professional volleyball league in the Philippines organized by Sports Vision Management Group, Inc. The league began in 2004 as the Shakey's V-League, a women's collegiate league. Since 2011, the ...
'') and its third conference as a professional league.
The tournament began on July 9, 2022. Originally slated for the July 2, the tournament was pushed back due to the requests of the club teams.
This is the first (''second for the former
SVL'') conference of the league to commence an invitational conference. A total of eight teams will compete in this event, including one international team — KingWhale Taipei from
Taiwan
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. The
BaliPure Purest Water Defenders
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and
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begged off from joining the conference.
A second guest team, Kobe Shinwa University, was supposed to join the semi-final round but backed out at the last minute.
Replacement guest Philippine National Team, composed mostly of NU Lady Bulldogs team members, also backed out.
Participating teams
*On August 6, the league announced that the
Philippines women's national team will replace Kobe Shinwa Women's University due to
COVID-19
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concerns in Japan, the national team is eligible to vie for the championship.
*A day after the announcement of the supposed entrance of the Philippine national team into the tournament, the team begged off due to concerns of possible injuries that the players may sustain. The final round will only consist of five teams (top 4 local clubs, 1 guest club).
The team's core was composed of player and staff from the
National University (NU) Lady Bulldogs. NU players and staff were released from the national team program by the
Philippine National Volleyball Federation
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shortly after their withdrawal. The team was due to participate in the
2022 Asian Women's Volleyball Cup
The 2022 Asian Women's Volleyball Cup, so-called 2022 AVC Cup for Women was the seventh edition of the Asian Cup, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Philippine National Voll ...
and the new core of the squad is planned to compose the best finishing non-guest team in the conference.
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Venues
The preliminary games will start at Filoil Flying V Center
The Filoil EcoOil Centre, formerly Filoil Flying V Centre, Filoil Flying V Arena and The Arena in San Juan, also known as the Entertainment and Recreational Arena of the People (initials taken after former mayor and president Joseph Estrada's nic ...
, beginning the conference with live spectators. All of the elimination playdates will be held there, with the exemption of the match between Army Black Mamba and PLDT, and Creamline and Choco Mucho that will held at the SM Mall of Asia Arena
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, and matches between Petro Gazz and Chery Tiggo, and Cignal and Creamline that will take place in Santa Rosa Sports Complex
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The construction of the sports aren ...
. After the preliminaries, the semifinals will be held at Ynares Center
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, MOA Arena and Filoil Flying V Center, with most of the games will take place at the latter. The finals will be held at the MOA Arena.
Format
The following format will be conducted for the entirety of the conference:
;Preliminary Round
# Single-round robin preliminaries; 7 local teams; Teams are ranked using the FIVB Ranking System.
# Top four local teams will advance to the Final Round.
;Final Round
# Single-round robin format; Top 4 local teams & 1 guest team; Teams are ranked using the FIVB Ranking System.
# The 3rd and 4th ranked teams will advance to the bronze medal match.
# The 1st and 2nd ranked teams will advance to the winner-take-all gold medal match.
Transactions
National team players
*The following players are part of the national team that played in the Philippine National Volleyball Federation
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(PNVF) International Challenge on June 11–12.
Team additions and transfers
The following are the players who transferred to another team for the upcoming conference.
Pool standing procedure
# Number of matches won
# Match points
# Sets ratio
# Points ratio
# If the tie continues as per the point ratio between two teams, the priority will be given to the team which won the last match between them. When the tie in points ratio is between three or more teams, a new classification of these teams in the terms of points 1, 2 and 3 will be made taking into consideration only the matches in which they were opposed to each other.
Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser
Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser.
Preliminary round
Ranking
Match results
*All times are Philippine Standard Time
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( UTC+8:00).
Final round
* All times are Philippine Standard Time
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( UTC+8:00).
Semifinals
Ranking
Match results
Finals
3rd place match
Championship
Awards and medalists
Individual awards
Medalists
Final standings
2022 Asian Women's Volleyball Cup
As announced on August 7, the Philippine National Volleyball Federation
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stated that the best performing local team of the invitational conference will represent the Philippines in the 2022 Asian Women's Volleyball Cup
The 2022 Asian Women's Volleyball Cup, so-called 2022 AVC Cup for Women was the seventh edition of the Asian Cup, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Philippine National Voll ...
. As the semifinal round progressed, the PLDT High Speed Hitters is the first to initially accept its invitation to possibly participate on the mentioned tourney as the other top teams, Creamline and Cignal
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Cignal's prepaid electronic ...
, have yet to express its interest to join.
In spite of that, Creamline will represent the country since they accepted the federation's invitation to suit up in the national team as they emerged as the champions of the invitational conference.
Statistics leaders
Preliminary round
''Statistics leaders correct at the end of the preliminary round
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Final Round
''Statistics leaders correct as of Day 5 (August 9, 2022) of the final round
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References
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August 2022 sports events in the Philippines