Season 4 Tournament

Main article: *PEx Volleyball Club*

The fourth season of the PExVC composed of five teams: Black, White, Red, Yellow and Blue, shuffling the original teams of season 3. The color games formally started on July 8, 2017 at the St. Mary of the Woods School Gym and culminated with the finals of the tournament on December 2, 2017.

This was the first season to introduce the Officers-In-Charge (OICs) which serves as the official governing body of PExVC, and will be distributed among the five teams to serve as the deputy. This was also the first season to be opened to non-PEx members and drop the PEx username requirement to be a member.

## **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 (25 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**

 **27** | DUNGCA, Hans

 **26** | SUEN, Jan Kiethan

 **15** | ANTONIO, Nolgie (c)

 **22** | DAVID, Jan

## **Color Games Summary**

The color games ran every Saturday from July 8, 2017 to November 4, 2017 for a total of 12 games. The White Griffins won 5 weekly crowns that earned them the Color Games Championship and the automatic semifinals incentive in the tournament.

The bottom two teams, Yellow Sphinx and Black Manticores, 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 - NOVEMBER 11, 2017 - Dapitan Sports Complex, Manila

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

DAY 2 - NOVEMBER 18, 2017 - Dapitan Sports Complex, 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)** *Blue Hydras with twice to beat advantage*

**Semifinals (1 v 5)** *White Griffins with twice to beat advantage*

**Bronze Medal Match**

**Gold Medal Match**

## **Final Standing**

 2
 3
 4
 5

## **Awards**

**Skills Awards**

**Special Awards**

## **Post Season Notes**

- Dodley Gallardo withdrew in the middle of the season due to personal reasons. Jomi Velasco took his place as OIC for the White Griffins, while Rico Almoete took Jomi's place in the Blue Manticores lineup. Dodley returned after a month of absence and returned to the Griffin's lineup as its OIC, while Jomi returned to the Manticores together with Rico.

## **Statistics**

**Individual Records**

* This is the second championship for **Dodley Gallardo** and **Lanz Desiderio**, the most during this time.
* This is the third consecutive finals appearance for **Christian Tolentino**.
* **Rico Almoete** took home his second consecutive Season MVP award, a feat still unmatched as of today.
* **Christian Tolentino** set the all-time scoring and blocking records during this season, beating the records of Lanz Desiderio in season 3 and Erick Jaucian in season 2, respectively.
* **Jez Cillo** set the all-time attacking record during this season beating the record of Bernard Barlaan set in season two. This will be beaten eventually by his brother, **Joshuel Cillo** in season 6.
* **Paolo Polendey** set the all-time digging record during this season beating the record of Son Beltran in season three. This will be beaten eventually again by Son Beltran in season 5.
* **Jerome Abada** set the all-time setting record during this season beating the record of Robin Toledo in season three.

**Team Records**

* This is the third consecutive season that the 5th seeded team knocked out the 4th seeded team.
* This is the third consecutive season that the 3rd seeded team knocked out the 2nd seeded team.
* This is the third consecutive season that the color White finished in the Top 2.
* This is the third consecutive season that the color Blue finished in the Top 2 after the Eliminations.
* This is the third consecutive season that the color Yellow played in the Knock out Round.
* This is the second consecutive season that the Color Games Champion won the tournament crown.
* This is the third consecutive season where the winning team captain came from the original Blue Royal Bandits of season 2 after Dodley Gallardo (S2), Marco Enrico Bayan (S3) and Lanz Desiderio (S4) won their respective seasons as team captains.