THE league-leading trio Creamline, Petro Gazz and Cignal have sealed their respective matchups for the 2024-25 PVL All-Filipino Conference qualifying round.
After clinching the top seed, the defending champions Cool Smashers will take on the 12th-seeded Nxled Chameleons whom they swept in the preliminaries, 25-12, 25-21, 25-19 last month.
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The Angels, who were edged by Creamline by virtue of set ratio (CCS 4.00 - 3.75 PGA) despite holding identical 10-1 prelims records, will take on 11th seed Capital1 which has yet to win in six matches.
Meanwhile, the third-seeded HD Spikers will face No. 10 Galeries Tower that lost its last six en route to the next phase of the conference.
A six-team midtable logjam will be settled on Saturday in the prelims finale in Passi City, Iloilo as ZUS Coffee takes on in-form PLDT while Chery Tiggo closes the opening round against fan-favorite Choco Mucho.
The results of the prelims-ending double-header will determine where the four teams will rank entering the qualifying round along with Farm Fresh and Akari.
Six qualifying-round matches will be split into three game days starting Feb. 27.
The six winning teams will advance to the best-of-three quarterfinals while the six losers will be relegated to the play-in tournament where they’ll be split into two groups of three.
After a single round-robin play-in, the two winning teams per pool will complete the quarterfinals cast as the eventual seventh and eighth seeds.
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