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(PBA) Governors' Cup, was the third and last conference of the 2011–12 PBA season. The tournament started on May 20 and culminated on August 5 with the

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team defeating the B-Meg Llamados team by 4 games to 3. The tournament was an import-laden format, which allowed an import or a pure-foreign player for each team and with a height limit of 6-foot-5.

Format

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, InterAKTV, May 19, 2012 * Single-round robin eliminations; 9 games per team; Teams are then seeded by basis on win–loss records. * The top six teams after the eliminations will advance to the semifinals. In case of a tie, a playoff will be held only for the #6 seed. * Semifinals will be a single round-robin affair with the remaining six teams. Results from the eliminations will be carried over. A playoff incentive for a finals berth will be given to the team that will win at least four of their five semifinal games that does not finish within the top two. In case of a tie, a playoff will be held only for the #2 seed. * The top two teams (or the #1 team and the winner of the playoff between team with at least 4 semifinal wins and the #2 team) will face each other in a best-of-seven championship series.

Elimination round

Team standings

Schedule

Results

Sixth seed playoffs

Three teams were tied for sixth, with only one team advancing. The three teams were first ranked by head-to-head quotient, with the best team drawing a bye to the second round, and the two worst teams playing in the first round.

First round

Second round

Semifinal round

Team standings

Schedule

Results

Finals berth playoff

Finals

Imports

The following is the list of imports, which had played for their respective teams at least once, with the returning imports in ''italics''. Highlighted are the imports who stayed with their respective teams for the entire conference.

Awards

Conference

*Best Player of the Conference: Mark Caguioa (

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) *Best Import of the Conference:

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) *Finals MVP:

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Players of the Week

References

External links

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