DESPITE its compressed timetable, the Premier Volleyball League is guaranteeing an exciting, action-packed staging of the Open Conference set to start on March 16 at the Paco Arena Events and Sports Center in Manila.
From the original three-month schedule to mark the league’s second pro season, the coming tournament will now be a four-week skirmish, with all nine teams going into the event all geared up for a grueling battle of power, cohesion and style.
With the compact schedule, the format of the tournament will have a pool play setup — a first for the league —to make way for the training of the national team gearing up for various international competitions, including the SEA Games in Vietnam in May.
“We have to shorten the tournament and we made it to two pools to accommodate the national team which will train in Brazil as part of its buildup for the SEAG,” said PVL president Ricky Palou, also the man at the helm of the organizing Sports Vision.
