Pilipinas VisMin Super Cup
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| Sport | Basketball |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2020 |
| First season | 2021 |
| COO | Rocky Chan |
| President | Vicente Guingona[1] |
| No. of teams | 8 |
| Country | Philippines |
The Pilipinas VisMin Super Cup is an upcoming regional amateur basketball league in the Philippines, scheduled for opening in 2021. The league comprises teams from the Visayas and Mindanao regions of the Philippines. The league is the first basketball league to be based in the Visayas–Mindanao region since the Mindanao Visayas Basketball Association (MVBA), which merged with the National Basketball Conference in 2008 to form Liga Pilipinas, which folded in 2011.[2]
As with its predecessors, the league aims to find and scout talent from southern Philippines (which comprises the Visayas and Mindanao regions).
The first conference or tournament for the inaugural season of the Pilipinas VisMin Super Cup will provisionally open on April 9, 2021. Due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, a bio-secure bubble will be adopted for at least the first conference to follow safety protocols, with Cebu City and Zamboanga City to serve as hubs for Visayas- and Mindanao-based teams, respectively.[3]
Format
As accustomed for many basketball leagues in the Philippines, the league will comprise two conferences or tournaments: the first conference allows only Filipino players to play; the second conference allows each team to tap a foreign player. In addition, teams are also required to have at least six "home-grown" players: players who are from the general area the team is representing.[4]
To minimize travel costs, teams will only play teams within their geographic region (e.g. Visayas-based teams will only play against fellow Visayas-based teams; Mindanao-based teams will play only against fellow Mindanao-based teams). [5]
Teams
- Cebu City
- Kiboy's Computer Solutions-Mandaue City (Mandaue City)
- MJAS Zenith-Talisay City (Talisay City)
- ARQ Builders-Lapu Lapu City Heroes (Lapu-Lapu City)
- Zamboanga Valientes (Zamboanga City)
- Pagadian Explorers (Pagadian City)
- Sindangan (Zamboanga del Norte)
- Roxas Vanguards (Zamboanga del Norte)
External links
References
- ^ "Pilipinas Vismin Super Cup to launch soon". SunStar Cebu. October 2, 2020.
- ^ Leongson, Randolph B. (October 13, 2020). "VisMin Super Cup opening in 2021 to unearth more talent from South". Spin.ph. Retrieved October 19, 2020.
- ^ "VisMin Super Cup taps Dondon Hontiveros as ambassador". Tiebreaker Times. January 7, 2021. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
- ^ Lozada, Bong (October 17, 2020). "VisMin hoops tournament to launch soon". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved October 19, 2020.
- ^ "Vis-Min Super League pormahon kon wala na'y hulga sa Covid-19" [Vis-Min Super League to be formed once Covid-19 threat disappears]. SunStar Superbalita Cebu (in Cebuano). September 11, 2020. Retrieved October 19, 2020.