THE PVL has added two more in-game challenges for teams to use, two years since it first rolled out the video challenge system.
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In line with existing FIVB regulations, there are six standard situations in which video challenges may be requested to contest the first referee’s real-time decisions.
These include ball in/ball out, block touch, net fault, foot fault, floor touch and antenna touch.
The FIVB added a seventh option in the 2024 update of its video challenge system guidelines, one which the PVL has also introduced for the first time in the 2024-25 All-Filipino Conference as confirmed by league commissioner Sherwin Malonzo.
The last touch challenge may now be used by teams during instances of 'simultaneous contacts' as described by the FIVB to identify which player drew contact before the ball sails out.
Wider 'reach' for video challenges
Call it the PVL’s version of the four-point shot, but there’s also another new option that isn’t on the FIVB’s modified seven-item list when it comes to video challenges.
An eighth challenge available for PVL teams is reaching beyond the net.
Overreaching, as it is often called, is a common volleyball violation in which a player stretches his or her arm past the net and draws contact with the ball while it is still being played by the opposing side.
This call, in particular, has long been irrevocable as it cannot be contested or reviewed by the referees.
But from this conference onwards, the same camera used for the net touch or block touch challenge can now take a closer look on whether a player has committed an overreaching violation.
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