THE PVL cleared the air on a ‘slight scheduling imbalance’ which led to Akari and PLDT’s supposed match on Dec. 14 being moved to Jan. 18, 2025.
This comes after PLDT head coach Rald Ricafort first posited that Akari had its request to reschedule their year-ending match at a later date approved because of the team’s already-tight six-game stretch.
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As per the league, the initial preliminary round schedule it released had a ‘slight scheduling imbalance’ in terms of number of games certain teams had to play in the first two months of the conference.
In fairness
Such an area of concern had to be ironed out as soon as possible ‘to ensure fairness across teams.’
Akari, in particular, was first slated to play seven of its 11 prelims matches from November to December alone.
To put things into perspective, the Chargers would’ve been the only team to reach the seven-game mark to end 2024 ahead of Choco Mucho and Petro Gazz with six games played each.
Hence, the PVL and all 12 teams unanimously agreed back on Oct. 31, nine days before the 2024-25 PVL All-Filipino Conference went underway, to move Akari’s Dec. 14 match to Jan. 18 to spare the team an extra game played.
Shortly after the league-wide consensus, the PVL finalized its match schedule before the Nov. 9 season-opener to ‘underscore the league’s commitment to maintaining competitive equity and a balanced playing field for all teams.’
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