2023 Spikers' Turf Open Conference

The 2023 Spikers' Turf Open Conference was the sixteenth conference and the start of the sixth season of the Spikers' Turf.^[1] The tournament began on January 22, 2023, with a total of eleven teams, including four new teams at the Paco Arena, Paco, Manila.^[2] This is the first conference of the league to use a Video Challenge.

2023 Spikers' Turf Open Conference
Duration	January 22 – March 31, 2023
Matches	65
Teams	11
Attendance	14,134 (217 per match)
Results
Champions	Cignal HD Spikers
Runners-up	AMC Cotabato Spikers
Third place	Imus City–AJAA Spikers
Fourth place	D'Navigators Iloilo
Awards
Conference MVP	Joshua Umandal
Finals MVP	Marck Espejo
Best OH	Jade Disquitado Wendel Miguel
Best MB	John Paul Bugaoan Mfena Gwaza
Best OPP	Ysay Marasigan
Best Setter	John Michael Apolinario
Best Libero	Manuel Sumanguid III
Spikers' Turf Open Conference chronology
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Participating teams

2023 Spikers' Turf Open Conference
Abbr.	Team	Affiliation	Head coach	Team captain
AMC	AMC Cotabato Spikers	AMC Volleyball / Cotabato	Arthur Mamon	Jayvee Sumagaysay
CHD	Cignal HD Spikers	Cignal TV, Inc.	Dexter Clamor	Ysrael Wilson Marasigan
DNV	D' Navigators Iloilo	Iloilo City	Kenneth Panes	Jerome Cordez
IMU	Imus City–AJAA Spikers	Imus City / Ivy Tuason Photography	Sinfronio Acaylar	Esmilzo Polvorosa
NU	NU-Archipelago Bulldogs	National University / Archipelago Builders	Dante Alinsunurin	Joseph Bello
PJN	PGJC Navy Sea Lions	Philippine Navy	Cecille Cruzada	Gregorio Dolor
PAF	Philippine Air Force Air Spikers	Philippine Air Force	Jhimson Merza	Jessie Lopez
PAR	Philippine Army Troopers	Philippine Army	Melvin Carolino	Benjaylo Labide
SRC	Santa Rosa City Lions	Department of Education City Division of Sta. Rosa	Edward Jan Lirio	Harvey Quezada
VVH	Vanguard Volley Hitters	Vanguard Volleyball Team	Edjet Mabbayad	Ronchette Lee Villegas
VNS	VNS Griffins	VNS Management Group	Ralph Raymund Ocampo	Ron Medalla

Transactions

Team additions and transfers

The following are the players who transferred to another team for this conference.

Player	Moving from	Moving to	Ref.
Edward Camposano	Cignal HD Spikers	AMC Cotabato Spikers	[3]
Fauzi Kasim Ismail	Go for Gold-Air Force Aguilas	AMC Cotabato Spikers
Jayvee Sumagaysay	Team Dasma Monarchs	AMC Cotabato Spikers	[3]
John Vic De Guzman	Go for Gold-Air Force Aguilas	AMC Cotabato Spikers	[3]
Joshua Umandal	PGJC Navy Sea Lions	AMC Cotabato Spikers	[3]
Kim Harold Dayandante	Go for Gold-Air Force Aguilas	AMC Cotabato Spikers
Kris Cian Silang	Team Dasma Monarchs	AMC Cotabato Spikers
Lloyd Josafat	Go for Gold-Air Force Aguilas	AMC Cotabato Spikers	[3]
Madzlan Gampong	Army-Katinko Troopers	AMC Cotabato Spikers	[3]
Manuel Andrei Medina	Team Dasma Monarchs	AMC Cotabato Spikers	[3]
Rex Emmanuel Intal	Cignal HD Spikers	AMC Cotabato Spikers	[3]
Steven Rotter	Long Beach State Beach (United States)	AMC Cotabato Spikers	[4]
Vince Patrick Lorenzo	PGJC Navy Sea Lions	AMC Cotabato Spikers
EJ Casaña	PGJC Navy Sea Lions	Cignal HD Spikers	[5]
Gadpray Aresgado	Bacolod City Tarags	Cignal HD Spikers	[5]
Deanne Neil De Pedro	Bacolod City Tarags	D' Navigators Iloilo
Jade Alex Disquitado	Sta. Rosa City Lions	D' Navigators Iloilo	[6]
Rash Nursiddik	Bacolod City Tarags	D' Navigators Iloilo
Angelino Pertierra	Cignal HD Spikers	Imus City–AJAA Spikers	[7]
Bonjomar Castel	Philippine Navy Sea Lions	Imus City–AJAA Spikers
Bryan Bagunas	Win Streak (Taiwan)	Imus City–AJAA Spikers	[8]
Esmilzo Joner Polvorosa	VNS-One Alicia Griffins	Imus City–AJAA Spikers	[7]
Francis Saura	Go for Gold-Air Force Aguilas	Imus City–AJAA Spikers	[7]
Hero Austria	Perpetual Altas (NCAA)	Imus City–AJAA Spikers	[7]
Ishmael John Rivera	Ateneo Blue Eagles (UAAP)	Imus City–AJAA Spikers
James Martin Natividad	Sta. Elena-NU Ball Hammers	Imus City–AJAA Spikers
Kim Malabunga	VNS-One Alicia Griffins	Imus City–AJAA Spikers	[7]
Louie Ramirez	Cignal HD Spikers	Imus City–AJAA Spikers	[7]
Rey Taneo	Army-Katinko Troopers	Imus City–AJAA Spikers
Ricky Marcos	Sta. Elena-NU Ball Hammers	Imus City–AJAA Spikers	[7]
Ridzuan Muhali	Perpetual Altas (NCAA)	Imus City–AJAA Spikers
Rikko Marius Marmeto	Go for Gold-Air Force Aguilas	Imus City–AJAA Spikers
Ronniel Rosales	PGJC Navy Sea Lions	Imus City–AJAA Spikers
Alfredo Pagulong	VNS-One Alicia Griffins	PGJC Navy Sea Lions
Berhashidin Daymil	Sta. Elena-NU Ball Hammers	PGJC Navy Sea Lions
Christian Celis	Adamson Soaring Falcons (UAAP)	PGJC Navy Sea Lions
Jeffrey Alicando	Adamson Soaring Falcons (UAAP)	PGJC Navy Sea Lions
Owen Jaime Suarez	Cignal HD Spikers	PGJC Navy Sea Lions	[7]
Sean Victor Padon	FEU Tamaraws (UAAP)	PGJC Navy Sea Lions
Rence Melgar	Team Dasma Monarchs	Philippine Air Force Air Spikers
Aljune Centeno	Letran Knights (NCAA)	Santa Rosa City Lions
Mark Kevin Motemayor	VNS Griffins	Santa Rosa City Lions
Uriel Mendoza	VNS Griffins	Santa Rosa City Lions
Clark Fernandez	Bacolod City Tarags	Vanguard Volley Hitters
John Carlo Desuyo	IEM Phoenix Volley Masters	Vanguard Volley Hitters
John Daniel Diwa	Army-Katinko Troopers	Vanguard Volley Hitters	[6]
Joven Camaganakan	Bacolod City Tarags	Vanguard Volley Hitters	[6]
Razzel Palisoc	Basilan Steel Spikers	Vanguard Volley Hitters	[6]
Ronchette Lee Villegas	Bacolod City Tarags	Vanguard Volley Hitters
Ruvince Abrot	Bacolod City Tarags	Vanguard Volley Hitters	[6]
Mark Deximo	Benilde Blazers (NCAA)	VNS Griffins	[3]
Philip Michael Bagalay	Mapúa Cardinals (NCAA)	VNS Griffins	[9]
Ron Medalla	Global Remit	VNS Griffins	[9]

Venue

Preliminary round	Final round
Manila
Paco Arena	Rizal Memorial Coliseum
Capacity: 1,000	Capacity: 6,100

Format

Preliminary round

• The preliminary round was a single round-robin tournament, with each team playing one match against all other teams for a total of ten matches.
• The top four teams advanced to the semifinals while the bottom seven were eliminated.

Semifinals

• The semifinals was also a single round-robin, with each team playing a total of three matches during this round.
• The top two teams advanced to the championship while the bottom two would play in the third-place series.

Finals

• The championship and third-place series were best-of-three series.
• The match-ups were as follows:
  • Championship: SF#1 vs. SF#2
  • Third-place series: SF#3 vs. SF#4

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.

Preliminary round

• All times are Philippine Standard Time (UTC+08:00).

Ranking

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Cignal HD Spikers	10	10	0	30	30	1	30.000	777	590	1.317	Final round
2	AMC Cotabato Spikers	10	9	1	27	27	7	3.857	819	704	1.163
3	D' Navigators Iloilo	10	7	3	20	24	16	1.500	888	884	1.005
4	Imus City–AJAA Spikers	10	7	3	20	23	17	1.353	919	808	1.137
5	VNS Griffins	10	6	4	16	21	19	1.105	865	891	0.971
6	PGJC Navy Sea Lions	10	5	5	16	22	21	1.048	957	934	1.025
7	Santa Rosa City Lions	10	4	6	11	16	22	0.727	836	887	0.943
8	Philippine Army Troopers	10	3	7	9	17	26	0.654	889	983	0.904
9	Philippine Air Force Air Spikers	10	2	8	6	10	26	0.385	770	850	0.906
10	NU-Archipelago Builders	10	1	9	7	13	28	0.464	872	922	0.946
11	Vanguard Volley Hitters	10	1	9	3	9	29	0.310	771	910	0.847

Source: TeamPilipinas.info

Match results

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
22 Jan	16:00	Imus City–AJAA Spikers	3–1	Santa Rosa City Lions	25–22	28–26	29–31	25–16		107–95	P2
22 Jan	18:00	PGJC Navy Sea Lions	2–3	Philippine Army Troopers	23–25	25–19	25–20	22–25	12–15	107–104	P2
25 Jan	16:00	Philippine Air Force Air Spikers	0–3	D' Navigators Iloilo	21–25	23–25	19–25			63–75	P2
25 Jan	18:00	Vanguard Volley Hitters	3–2	NU-Archipelago Builders	25–18	18–25	26–24	13–25	15–10	97–102	P2
27 Jan	16:00	Santa Rosa City Lions	0–3	Cignal HD Spikers	19–25	18–25	17–25			54–75	P2
27 Jan	18:00	AMC Cotabato Spikers	3–0	VNS Griffins	25–21	25–16	25–23			75–60	P2
29 Jan	15:00	Imus City–AJAA Spikers	3–0	Philippine Air Force Air Spikers	25–16	25–16	25–13			75–45	P2
29 Jan	17:30	NU-Archipelago Builders	0–3	D' Navigators Iloilo	23–25	20–25	21–25			64–75	P2
01 Feb	15:00	Philippine Army Troopers	1–3	AMC Cotabato Spikers	15–25	25–23	22–25	24–26		86–99	P2
01 Feb	17:30	VNS Griffins	3–0	Vanguard Volley Hitters	25–18	30–28	26–24			81–70	P2
03 Feb	15:00	PGJC Navy Sea Lions	3–0	Santa Rosa City Lions	25–19	25–14	25–23			75–56	P2
03 Feb	17:30	Cignal HD Spikers	3–0	Imus City–AJAA Spikers	25–16	25–22	25–22			75–60	P2
05 Feb	15:00	D' Navigators Iloilo	3–1	VNS Griffins	23–25	25–16	25–22	25–23		98–86	P2
05 Feb	17:30	NU-Archipelago Builders	2–3	Philippine Air Force Air Spikers	21–25	28–30	25–20	25–17	4–15	103–107	P2
08 Feb	15:00	Vanguard Volley Hitters	1–3	Philippine Army Troopers	19–25	22–25	25–22	18–25		84–97	P2
08 Feb	17:30	Santa Rosa City Lions	1–3	AMC Cotabato Spikers	22–25	25–22	20–25	17–25		84–97	P2
10 Feb	15:00	Imus City–AJAA Spikers	3–2	PGJC Navy Sea Lions	25–20	25–16	21–25	21–25	15–12	107–98	P2
10 Feb	17:30	Philippine Air Force Air Spikers	0–3	Cignal HD Spikers	22–25	16–25	25–27			63–77	P2
12 Feb	12:30	Philippine Army Troopers	1–3	D' Navigators Iloilo	25–17	20–25	24–26	18–25		87–93	P2
12 Feb	15:00	VNS Griffins	3–2	NU-Archipelago Builders	25–21	25–21	19–25	20–25	17–15	106–107	P2
12 Feb	17:30	Vanguard Volley Hitters	2–3	Santa Rosa City Lions	25–21	17–25	22–25	25–23	11–15	100–109	P2
15 Feb	15:00	Philippine Air Force Air Spikers	1–3	VNS Griffins	23–25	25–23	22–25	23–25		93–98	P2
15 Feb	17:30	PGJC Navy Sea Lions	0–3	Cignal HD Spikers	24–26	21–25	17–25			62–76	P2
17 Feb	15:00	Imus City–AJAA Spikers	3–1	Vanguard Volley Hitters	23–25	25–17	25–15	25–20		98–77	P2
17 Feb	17:30	Philippine Army Troopers	2–3	Santa Rosa City Lions	25–27	25–23	25–21	24–26	8–15	107–112	P2
19 Feb	15:00	PGJC Navy Sea Lions	3–1	Philippine Air Force Air Spikers	25–18	24–26	25–22	25–21		99–87	P2
19 Feb	17:30	Cignal HD Spikers	3–0	VNS Griffins	25–18	25–17	25–15			75–50	P2
22 Feb	15:00	Imus City–AJAA Spikers	3–1	Philippine Army Troopers	25–18	25–14	23–25	25–18		98–75	P2
22 Feb	17:30	PGJC Navy Sea Lions	3–1	Vanguard Volley Hitters	25–17	25–22	23–25	25–23		98–87	P2
24 Feb	15:00	Philippine Air Force Air Spikers	0–3	Santa Rosa City Lions	22–25	23–25	23–25			68–75	P2
24 Feb	17:30	Philippine Army Troopers	0–3	Cignal HD Spikers	18–25	20–25	14–25			52–75	P2
26 Feb	15:00	Vanguard Volley Hitters	0–3	Cignal HD Spikers	16–25	18–25	24–26			58–76	P2
26 Feb	17:30	VNS Griffins	3–2	Imus City–AJAA Spikers	12–25	25–20	25–21	11–25	15–13	88–104	P2
01 Mar	12:30	Philippine Army Troopers	3–2	Philippine Air Force Air Spikers	23–25	26–24	18–25	25–22	20–18	112–114	P2
01 Mar	15:00	NU-Archipelago Builders	0–3	AMC Cotabato Spikers	23–25	15–25	20–25			58–75	P2
01 Mar	17:30	D' Navigators Iloilo	3–2	PGJC Navy Sea Lions	28–26	25–21	20–25	15–25	15–11	103–108	P2
03 Mar	15:00	AMC Cotabato Spikers	3–0	Imus City–AJAA Spikers	25–23	25–20	25–18			75–61	P2
03 Mar	17:30	Santa Rosa City Lions	2–3	D' Navigators Iloilo	25–19	25–21	26–28	24–26	13–15	113–109	P2
05 Mar	12:30	NU-Archipelago Builders	3–1	Philippine Army Troopers	25–21	25–17	23–25	25–18		98–81	P2
05 Mar	15:00	Cignal HD Spikers	3–0	AMC Cotabato Spikers	25–15	25–21	25–17			75–53	P2
05 Mar	17:30	Vanguard Volley Hitters	0–3	Philippine Air Force Air Spikers	14–25	24–26	23–25			61–76	P2
08 Mar	15:00	NU-Archipelago Builders	0–3	Santa Rosa City Lions	24–26	24–26	22–25			70–77	P2
08 Mar	17:30	D' Navigators Iloilo	2–3	Imus City–AJAA Spikers	16–25	25–23	14–25	25–22	14–16	94–111	P2
10 Mar	15:00	AMC Cotabato Spikers	3–1	PGJC Navy Sea Lions	25–22	23–25	25–15	25–20		98–82	P2
10 Mar	17:30	Cignal HD Spikers	3–0	D' Navigators Iloilo	25–19	25–22	25–15			75–56	P2
12 Mar	12:30	Santa Rosa City Lions	0–3	VNS Griffins	17–25	17–25	27–29			61–79	P2
12 Mar	15:00	Imus City–AJAA Spikers	3–1	NU-Archipelago Builders	25–20	23–25	25–22	25–19		98–86	P2
12 Mar	17:30	Vanguard Volley Hitters	0–3	AMC Cotabato Spikers	20–25	14–25	23–25			57–75	P2
15 Mar	15:00	Philippine Army Troopers	2–3	VNS Griffins	14–25	25–20	25–18	11–25	13–15	88–103	P2
15 Mar	17:30	PGJC Navy Sea Lions	3–2	NU-Archipelago Builders	25–19	23–25	25–22	20–25	15–11	108–102	P2
17 Mar	15:00	D' Navigators Iloilo	3–1	Vanguard Volley Hitters	23–25	25–12	25–22	25–21		98–80	P2
17 Mar	17:30	Philippine Air Force Air Spikers	0–3	AMC Cotabato Spikers	16–25	21–25	17–25			54–75	P2
19 Mar	12:30	VNS Griffins	2–3	PGJC Navy Sea Lions	25–23	34–32	20–25	22–25	13–15	114–120	P2
19 Mar	15:00	NU-Archipelago Builders	1–3	Cignal HD Spikers	18–25	17–25	25–23	22–25		82–98	P2
19 Mar	17:30	AMC Cotabato Spikers	3–1	D' Navigators Iloilo	25–18	25–22	22–25	25–22		97–87	P2

Final round

• All times are Philippine Standard Time (UTC+8:00).

Semifinals

Ranking

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Cignal HD Spikers	3	3	0	9	9	1	9.000	248	195	1.272	Championship series
2	AMC Cotabato Spikers	3	1	2	3	4	6	0.667	228	229	0.996
3	D' Navigators Iloilo	3	1	2	3	4	6	0.667	210	225	0.933	3rd place series
4	Imus City–AJAA Spikers	3	1	2	3	3	7	0.429	211	236	0.894

Source: TeamPilipinas.info

Match results

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
22 Mar	15:00	Cignal HD Spikers	3–0	Imus City–AJAA Spikers	25–23	25–19	25–15			75–57	P2
22 Mar	17:30	AMC Cotabato Spikers	0–3	D' Navigators Iloilo	19–25	22–25	23–25			64–75	P2
24 Mar	15:00	D' Navigators Iloilo	0–3	Cignal HD Spikers	17–25	16–25	19–25			52–75	P2
24 Mar	17:30	Imus City–AJAA Spikers	0–3	AMC Cotabato Spikers	19–25	26–28	23–25			68–78	P2
27 Mar	15:00	D' Navigators Iloilo	1–3	Imus City–AJAA Spikers	23–25	25–11	20–25	15–25		83–86	P2
27 Mar	17:30	Cignal HD Spikers	3–1	AMC Cotabato Spikers	26–17	25–21	22–25	25–23		98–86	P2

Finals

• All are best-of-three series.

3rd place

• Imus wins the series, 1–1, via sets ratio of 1.33 vs. 0.750

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
29 Mar	15:00	Imus City–AJAA Spikers	1–3	D' Navigators Iloilo	25–21	23–25	21–25	22–25		91–96	P2
31 Mar	15:00	D' Navigators Iloilo	0–3	Imus City–AJAA Spikers	19–25	18–25	21–25			58–75	P2

Championship

• Cignal wins series, 2–0

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
29 Mar	17:30	AMC Cotabato Spikers	0–3	Cignal HD Spikers	22–25	22–25	26–28			70–78	P2
31 Mar	17:30	Cignal HD Spikers	3–2	AMC Cotabato Spikers	25–21	22–25	25–17	28–30	15–7	115–100	P2

Awards

Award	Player	Team	Ref
Conference Most Valuable Player	Joshua Umandal	AMC Cotabato Spikers	[10][11]
Finals Most Valuable Player	Marck Jesus Espejo	Cignal HD Spikers
1st Best Outside Spiker	Jade Alex Disquitado	D' Navigators Iloilo
2nd Best Outside Spiker	Wendel Concepcion Miguel	Cignal HD Spikers
1st Best Middle Blocker	John Paul Bugaoan	Cignal HD Spikers
2nd Best Middle Blocker	Mfena Gwaza	D' Navigators Iloilo
Best Opposite Spiker	Ysrael Wilson Marasigan	Cignal HD Spikers
Best Setter	John Michael Apolinario	D' Navigators Iloilo
Best Libero	Manuel Sumanguid III	Cignal HD Spikers

Final standings

Rank Team Cignal HD Spikers AMC Cotabato Spikers Imus City–AJAA Spikers 4 D' Navigators Iloilo 5 VNS Griffins 6 PGJC Navy Sea Lions 7 Santa Rosa City Lions 8 Philippine Army Troopers 9 Philippine Air Force Air Spikers 10 NU-Archipelago Builders 11 Vanguard Volley Hitters

2023 Spikers' Turf Open champions Cignal HD Spikers Fourth title Team roster: Sandy Domenick Montero, Peter Denmar Torres, Edmar Lutcha Bonono, Alexis Faytaren, John Paul Bugaoan, Ysrael Wilson Marasigan (c), Gadpray Aresgado, Wendel Miguel, Alfred Valbuena, Chumason Celestine Njigha, Manuel Sumanguid III, Marck Espejo, Geuel Asia, Gariel EJ Casaña Head coach: Dexter Clamor

See also

• 2023 Premier Volleyball League First All-Filipino Conference