Superliga scraps 2020 tourney due to unfavorable weather conditions

By Leobert Julian A. de la Peña

 

There will be no volleyball to be staged this 2020.

The Philippine Superliga (PSL) confirmed that they will no longer push through with their Beach Volleyball Challenge Cup from November 28 to 30.

PSL chairman Philip Ella Juico announced the development and confirmed their final decision after seeing the successive weather disturbances occurring in the country.

Juico and his PSL team were already working on preparations for the Beach Volleyball Challenge Cup but successive typhoons hitting the country made it difficult to execute their plan.

The Beach Volleyball tournament was also the first-ever volleyball professional event that the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) approved amid the COVID-19 pandemic which brought a huge amount of excitement to the scene.

Instead of November, PSL confirmed that they will be staging the beach volleyball tournament in mid-February of 2021.

“After many hours of deliberation that took into account several weather disturbances occurring in rapid and disastrous succession, the safety of all athletes exposed to outdoor conditions and other participants and the effectivity of frontliners assigned to monitor both the Challenge Cup and to render essential public services during a calamity, it is with sadness that the Philippine Superliga (PSL) has decided to reschedule the PSL Invitational Beach Volleyball Challenge Cup from November 28 to 30, 2020 at the SBMA, Subic to mid-February 2021,” read PSL’s statement.