Season 5 Tournament

Main article: *PEx Volleyball Club*

The fifth season of the PExVC saw a change in the color composition of its five teams. From the original Black, White, Red, Yellow and Blue, teams wore the Blue, Green, Orange, Pink and Yellow colors, shuffling the original teams of season 4. The color games formally started on May 12, 2018 at the Tomas Morato Gym and culminated with the finals of the tournament on October 27, 2018.

This was the first season to introduce the singular jersey design for all teams.

## **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**

 **17** | ALMOETE, Rico

 **19** | UNAT, Danz

## **Color Games Summary**

The color games ran every Saturday from May 12, 2018 to Sept. 29, 2018 for a total of 14 games. Urduja 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, Green Amihan and Yellow Liadlaw, 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 to face 2nd seed*

**ELIMINATIONS (Week by week results)**

DAY 1 - OCTOBER 6, 2018 - White Plains Covered Court, Quezon City

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

DAY 2 - OCTOBER 13, 2018 - White Plains Covered Court, Quezon City

*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)** *Pink Magindara with twice to beat advantage*

**Semifinals (1 v 5)** *Blue Mayari with twice to beat advantage*

**Bronze Medal Match**

**Gold Medal Match**

## **Final Standing**

 2
 3
 4
 5

## **Awards**

**Skills Awards**

**Special Awards**

## **Statistics**

**Individual Records**

* This is the third championship for **Dodley Shaun Gallardo**, the most number of titles for any PExVC member.
* **Ron Gube**,**Nolgie Antonio**, **AJ Silvestre** and **JM Asis** won their second championship.
* **Jerome Abada** took home his second consecutive Best Setter award, the most during this time.
* **Ron Gube** set the all-time serving record during this season beating the previous record of Patrick Espallardo in season 3. This will eventually be broken by Dave Taguiam in season 6.
* **Aaron Santomin** set the all-time digging record during this season beating the previous record of Paolo Polendey in season 4.

**Team Records**

* This is the first time in PExVC history that the fifth seed failed to advance in the Final 4.
* This is the first time in PExVC history that the second seed advances to the Finals.
* This is the first season that the Color Games Champion failed to win the tournament crown, moreso, advance to the finals.
* This is the fourth consecutive season that the color Blue finished in the Top 2 after the Eliminations.
* This is the fourth consecutive season that the color Yellow played in the Knock out Round.
* This is the third time in four seasons that the number one seed claimed the tournament crown.