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2015 Philippine Super Liga Grand Prix

The 2015 Philippine Super Liga Grand Prix was the sixth indoor volleyball conference of the Philippine Super Liga, the third and final conference of the 2015 season, and the seventh conference overall. The conference began on October 10, 2015, at the Alonte Sports Arena, in Biñan, Laguna.

Stav Jacobi, FIVB Executive Council member and chief organizer of the FIVB World Women's Club Volleyball Championship, was the guest of honor for the opening ceremony, while Prajaya Chaiyakam, the deputy managing director of SMMTV, Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC)'s official TV partner, and his cameraman went to Cuneta Astrodome to witness Game 1 of the PSL Finals.

The tournament champion, the Foton Tornadoes, will represent the country in the 2016 AVC Women's Club Championship.

Video challenge system

The PSL became the third Southeast Asia-based volleyball club league (after Thailand and Vietnam) to utilize the video challenge system allowing teams to challenge and decide crucial calls during the games for a fair and balanced officiating, as part of the full compliance to the FIVB rules. The system, reportedly worth ₱3 million, courtesy of Italy-based Data Volley (composed of machine and 26 high-definition cameras to be beamed through a giant LED screen provided by Sports5 inside the venue) arrived on October 26, 2015 and used on October 27, 2015, during the second round of the tournament. Emmanuel Celle of the Data Volley spearheaded the project.

The video challenge was officially launched two days later with Cignal's coach Sammy Acaylar being the first to use the video challenge system, block touch during first set of their match against Foton. The system was available for the games held within the venues in Metro Manila and in the Spike on Tour event in Imus, Cavite.

Import controversy

On October, PVF President Edgardo "Boy" Cantada, condemned the act of the LVPI and Score (headed by Ramon Suzara, the president of PSL, and one of the masterminds in the withdrawal of recognition of PVF in the POC, AVC, and FIVB) over the incident involving 12 imports of the Philippine Super Liga Grand Prix who have gone through the immigration process and play in the league without any necessary working permits and other documents of foreigners who will work in the country. He also criticized LVPI and Suzara for blatant disregard and abuse of the Philippine immigration and labor laws over the incident.

Teams

Format

Classification round
  • The classification round was a double round-robin tournament, with each team playing two matches against all other teams in their pool for a total of ten matches.
  • The top four teams advanced to the semifinals while the remaining teams were eliminated.
Semifinals
  • The semifinals featured single-elimination matches.
  • The match-ups were be as follows:
  • SF1: #1 vs. #4
  • SF2: #2 vs. #3
  • The winners advanced to the championship while the losers would play in the third-place match.
Finals
  • The championship was a best-of-three series while the third-place was single-elimination.
  • The match-ups were as follows:
  • Championship: Semifinal round winners
  • Third-place match: Semifinal round losers

Classification round

Final round

Semifinals

Finals

Fifth place match

Third place match

Championship

Final standing

Individual awards

Skill set leaders

Venues

Metro Manila venues

PSL Spike on Tour venues

Broadcast partners

Broadcast Notes:

Additional Game 3 crew:

Awards Presenter: Anthony Suntay

References