The 2023 Spikers' Turf Invitational Conference was the seventeenth conference and the end of the sixth season of the

Spikers' Turf The Spikers' Turf is the top-level men's semi-professional volleyball league in the Philippines organized by the Sports Vision Management Group, Inc. (Sports Vision), established in 2015. History The league had its beginnings in 2014, when t ...

. The tournament began from October 20 to December 15, 2023, at the Paco Arena,

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. This was the inaugural Invitational conference of the league, with a format similar to the

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. This is the first conference where a foreign club, Maruichi Hyogo of Japan, participated in the league. The Sta. Elena-NU Nationals beat the Cignal HD Spikers in a thrilling 5-setter knockout match in the finals, the first of its kind in the history of the league. The visiting Maruichi Hyogo then bagged the bronze medal after defeating Saints and Lattes-Letran in another five-set match. Vince Himzon of Letran clinched the MVP of the Conference, and Jade Disquitado was awarded the MVP of the Finals.

Participating teams

A total of twenty-five teams participated in this conference. Twenty-four of these teams are local, some of which had its core players from the UAAP and NCAA, and then sponsored by corporate/companies. For the first time in the league's history, they catered to a foreign guest team in Maruichi Hyogo of

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, which had a bye to the semifinals and faced the top four local teams of the conference.

Pools composition

Venues

Transactions

Team additions and transfers

The following are the players who transferred to another team for the upcoming conference.

Rosters

Format

;Preliminary round # Single round-robin elimination; Twenty-four (24) teams; 4 pools. # The top 2 teams in each pool will advance to the quarterfinals. ;Quarterfinals #

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; Top 2 teams in each pool (8 teams). # Winners will advance to the semifinals. ;Semifinals # Five teams (4 quarterfinal winners + foreign guest team); Single round-robin elimination. # The third and fourth-ranked teams will advance to the 3rd place series. # The first and second-ranked teams will advance to the championship series. ;Finals # All games are knockout matches. # Bronze medal: SF Ranked 3 vs. SF Ranked 4 # Gold medal: SF Ranked 1 vs. SF Ranked 2

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

* All times are

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( UTC+08:00).

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Final round

* All times are

( UTC+8:00).

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

3rd place match

Championship match

Awards

Final standings

References

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