Season 6 Tournament

Main article: *PEx Volleyball Club*

The sixth season of the PExVC retained the original color teams from season 5: Blue, Green, Orange, Pink and Yellow colors shuffling the original teams of season 5. The color games formally started on July 13, 2019 at the Meralco Gym and culminated with the finals of the tournament on October 26, 2019.

After five seasons, the colors of each team will be dropped from the monickers..

## **Tournament Format**

**PRELIMINARIES:**

* The first 2 weeks of the tournament will be a series of double round robin matches.
* All elimination round matches will be a single set format (21 pts per set with deuce). Each team will have 8 matches per week, for a total of 16 single set matches.
* The accumulated standings at the of eliminations will determine the official ranking for the semifinals. In case of a tie, the ratio of points won and lost shall break the tie.

**SEMIFINALS:**

* The 3rd week of the league will be reserved for the Knockout round and semifinals.
* Seed 4 and 5 will figure in a Knockout match played in a Best-of-5-sets format. The winner of this match will face the 1st seeded team.
* Seed 1 and 2 will have a twice to beat advantage. Seed 1 will face the winner of the Knockout match, while Seed 2 will face the Seed 3. Game one of both crossover semifinals will be played in a Best-of-5-sets format. In case of a Game 2, it will be played in a Best-of-3-sets format.
* Scenarios for the Color Game Champion (CGC) will be as follows:
	+ (1) If the CGC finishes eliminations as either the 1st or 2nd seed, they will have a twice to beat advantage and rule above applies;
	+ (2) If the CGC finishes as the 3rd seed, they will have no twice to beat advantage, and will face 2nd seed;
	+ (3) if the CGC finishes at the 4th place, they will be promoted to 3rd seed and will face 2nd seed. 3rd place team and 5th place team will face in the knockout;
	+ (4) if the CGC finishes at the 5th place, they will be promoted to 3rd seed and will face 2nd seed. 3rd place team and 4th place team will face in the knockout.
* The winners of the semifinal pairings will advance to the finals, while the losers will face in the bronze medal match. The loser of the knockout match will be eliminated.

**FINALS:**

* Finals and bronze matches will also follow a best of 5 format same as the semifinals.

## **Team Line Up**

 **26** | SUEN, Jan Kiethan

 **33** | GREGORIO, Raphael

 **47** | ANONGOS, Rudolph

 **16** | SANTOS, Martin

 **15** | ALBA, Mark

## **Color Games Summary**

The color games ran every Saturday from July 13, 2019 to Sept. 28, 2019 for a total of 9 games. Scorpius won 4 weekly crowns for a total of 147 points that earned them the Color Games Championship and the automatic semifinals incentive in the tournament.

The bottom two teams, Aleksey Cosmic Spikers and Rigel Spikers, will figure in the first game in the tournament.

## **Preliminaries**

**TEAM STANDINGS**

█ *Qualified to the semifinals with twice to beat advantage*
█ *Qualified to the semifinals*

**ELIMINATIONS (Week by week results)**

DAY 1 - OCTOBER 5, 2019 - J&C Lucky Gym, Manila

*Scores above dark cells are first round results.*
*Scores below dark cells are second round results.*

DAY 2 - OCTOBER 12, 2019 - J&C Lucky Gym, Manila

*Scores above dark cells are third round results.*
*Scores below dark cells are fourth round results.*

**MATCH UP RESULTS**

## **Playoffs**

**Knockout Match**

**Semifinals (2 v 3)** *Rigel Spikers with twice to beat advantage*

**Semifinals (1 v 5)** *Scorpius Galactic Spikers with twice to beat advantage*

**Bronze Medal Match**

 14-25, 22-25, 25-20, 20-25Statistics

**Gold Medal Match**

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## **Final Standing**

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## **Awards**

**Skills Awards**

**Special Awards**

## **Post Season Notes**

* Nolgie Antonio was originally lined up for the Rigel Spikers, however injury forced him to withdrew in the middle of the season. Franc Mangahas took his place.
* Rico Almoete was originally lined up for the Cygnids Gaean, however he withdrew in the middle of the season due to personal reasons. Dave Taguiam took his place.
* SJ Cruz was originally lined up for the Scorpius Galactic Spikers, however he withdrew in the middle of the season due to personal reasons. Joshuel Cillo took his place.

## **Statistics**

**Individual Records**

* **Mark Anjello Bacani** and **Joseph Gaerlan** won their second championship.
* **Joshuel Cillo** became the first Rookie-MVP of PExVC.
* **Robin Toledo** took home his second Best Setter award to tie Jerome Abada in most number of this award.
* **Joshuel Cillo** set the all-time attacking record during this season beating the previous record of brother Jez Cillo in season 4.
* **Dave Taguiam** set the all-time serving record during this season beating the previous record of Ron Gube in season 5.

**Team Records**

* This is the third time in four seasons that the number five seed advances to the Final 4, and second time that it won the Bronze Medal.
* This is the third time in four seasons that the Color Games Champion won the tournament crown.
* This is the fourth time in five seasons that the number one seed claimed the tournament crown.
* This is the second consecutive season that Blue and Pink teams figure in the Finals.
* This is the fifth consecutive season that the color Blue finished in the Top 2 after the Eliminations.
* This is the fifth consecutive season that the color Yellow played in the Knock out Round.
* This is the fourth time in five seasons that the number one seed claimed the tournament crown.