MANILA – The University Athletics Association of the Philippines (UAAP) is implementing innovation for the Season 82 men’s and women’s volleyball tournaments.
League president Em Fernandez announced that the video challenge system will now be used in order to uphold the quality of officiating and assist the referees in the decision-making process.
“During the SEA Games, we also saw the challenges that were implemented. We will also implement the challenge system during this year,” said Fernandez during the league press conference.
For her part, UAAP Volleyball Control Committee President Noreen Go disclosed that the challenge system will be patterned with the one used in the recently-concluded 30th Southeast Asian Games.
“We will pattern the challenge system after the SEA Games. We’re still finalizing all the details and we will release a memorandum to all schools, all the people involved and the media as well. We want to orient them with the correct rules and the guidelines,” Go said.
“We just actually discussed it in length just this week. It will be in time for the opening,” Go assured.”
This will be the first time that the league will put into effect the said system. It was first introduced in the country back in 2015.
It will also be a historic volleyball season. Each playing date will follow an alternating division schedule instead of the previous set where men’s games were played in the morning followed by double-header afternoon matches of the women’s side./PN
