The Shakey's V-League 13th Season Open Conference was the 26th conference of the

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and the first conference for its 13th season. The conference commenced on May 22, 2016 with an opening ceremony at the

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. The first games were on May 28, 2016, also at the same venue. The previous season's conference champion, PLDT Home Ultera Ultra Fast Hitters, and runner-up Philippine Army Lady Troopers, decided to forgo their participation in this year's Open Conference. There were eight (8) competing teams for this conference: NU Lady Bulldogs, UP Lady Maroons, Pocari Sweat, Team Laoag, Team Baguio, Team Iriga, Bali Pure and Philippine Air Force Air Spikers. ABS-CBN Sports+Action is covering the games live on television.

Participating teams

Team's Line-ups

Format

*Preliminaries :*Single round robin preliminary *Semifinals :*Top four teams after preliminary round will enter semifinal round :*Best-of-three series *Finals :*Best-of-three series for the Final and Bronze matches

Preliminary round

All preliminary round games of the conference will be held at the

, except for the matches on June 18 which will be held at the Blue Eagle Gym,

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and those on June 25 and 27 which will be at the Philsports Arena,

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. All times are

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( UTC+08:00)

Playoff round

* Ranking is based from the preliminary round.

Semifinals

Rank 1 vs Rank 4

Rank 2 vs Rank 3

Bronze match

Finals

Awards

*Most valuable player (Finals) ** Myla Pablo (Pocari Sweat) *Most valuable player (Conference) ** Grethcel Soltones (Bali Pure) *Best setter ** Wendy Semana (Air Force) *Best outside spikers ** Alyssa Valdez (BaliPure) ** Myla Pablo (Pocari Sweat) *Best middle blockers ** Alyja Daphne Santiago (NU) ** Kathy Bersola (UP) *Best opposite spiker ** Michele Gumabao (Pocari Sweat) *Best libero **

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(Pocari Sweat)

References

2016 in Philippine volleyball leagues 2016 in women's volleyball

External links

www.v-league.ph
- Official website {{Shakeys V-League seasons Shakey's V-League conferences 2016 in Philippine sport