The 2024 Premier Volleyball League Reinforced Invitational Conference was the eighteenth conference of the Premier Volleyball League and its ninth conference as a professional league.
This will be the second and last conference for the 2024 season. This season would be holding two conferences only instead of three, with the Invitational Conference merging with the Reinforced Conference.[1]
A total of fourteen teams competed in this tournament; two foreign guest teams will be introduced before the start of the semis. Each team will be allowed to be reinforced by one foreign player.[2] Strong Group Athletics changed its name to Zus Coffee Thunderbelles.[3]
The PVL Rookie Draft will be conducted before the start of the conference. The draft doesn't require neither playing experience nor academic qualification to join. It is open to all aspiring Filipino and Fil-foreign citizen ages 21 years old and above who wants to play in the professional league.[4][5]
The application for the upcoming Rookie Draft was originally scheduled to end on May 31, 2024, but it was later announced by PVL Commissioner Sherwin Malonzo that it will be moved to June 12, 2024, so that rookies can still have time to prepare the documents needed for the draft.[6]
The draft combine will be scheduled on June 25–26, 2024, and the draft proper will be scheduled on July 8, 2024.[7]
Exclusion of the national team players from the upcoming conference
PVL players that are part of the Philippine women's national volleyball team will be excluded from the upcoming conference to focus on their upcoming international league stint.[8]
Participating teams
2024 Premier Volleyball League Reinforced Invitational Conference
The twelve teams will compete in a single round-robin elimination.
Teams are ranked using the FIVB Ranking System.
Top four teams will advance to the semifinals.
Semifinals
Single-round robin preliminaries; 4 local teams and 2 foreign guest teams; Teams are ranked using the FIVB Ranking System.
Teams from the same pool will carry over their head-to-head record.
The 3rd and 4th ranked teams will advance to the bronze medal match.
The 1st and 2nd ranked teams will advance to the gold medal match.
In case of a tie at no. 2, a FIVB based points quotient system will commence. The teams will be ranked by the quotient resulting from the division of all points scored by the total of points lost during all sets.
Finals
Bronze medal: SF Rank 3 vs SF Rank 4
Gold medal: SF Rank 1 vs SF Rank 2
Pool standing procedure
First, teams are ranked by the number of matches won.
If the number of matches won is tied, the tied teams are then ranked by match points, wherein:
Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser.
Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser.
In case of any further ties, the following criteria shall be used:
Set ratio: the number of sets won divided by number of sets lost.
Point ratio: number of points scored divided by number of points allowed.
Head-to-head standings: any remaining tied teams are ranked based on the results of head-to-head matches involving the teams in question.