Tournament Format
- Double Round Robin Preliminaries. If a team is seeded at 1 and 2, they will automatically have a slot in the Semifinals and will skip the Quarterfinals.
- All remaining Manila and Visayas teams will merge in a Single Round Robin affair.
- Top two teams with the best record after the single-round robin quarterfinals will advance to the semifinals
- However, If a team won 3 out of 5 games in the quarterfinals, they will have a chance for a playoff berth against the second seed team for the right to enter the semifinals
- The automatic semifinalists and the quarterfinalist advancers will now move on to the Single Round Robin Semifinals. Whoever seeds 1 and 2, will make it to the best of three championship series.
- There will be a playoff if seeds 2 and 3 will be tied once more.
- Best of Three Championship series
- If the battle for the gold ended in two games only, the battle for the bronze will be best of three also instead of one game.
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