Change is within the air for the NCAA, and nobody feels it greater than the gamers themselves.
From pleasure over contemporary challenges to issues about harder schedules, the athletes spoke up on the league’s revamped format.
Beginning with Season 101, the boys’s basketball match will see the ten groups divided into two teams the place they play their group twice and the opposite group as soon as.
The highest three groups from every group will transfer on to the quarterfinals, with the primary and second seeds having fun with a twice-to-beat benefit. The fourth- and fifth-ranked squads, in the meantime, will battle in a play-in match for the ultimate playoff spot.
Each the semifinals and finals will comply with a best-of-three format.
Beneath the new-look format, the league veered from the same old format with a double-round robin that despatched simply 4 groups to the subsequent stage.
For a lot of gamers, the modifications sign a contemporary begin, with reigning MVP Allen Liwag and Season 99 MVP Clint Escamis welcoming the brand new format.
“Wala naman na tayo magagawa do’n e. Kumbaga hindi na natin management ‘yun,” Liwag advised GMA Information On-line lsat Friday.
“Ako, as a participant, focus na lang ako sa paglalaro at kung sino ‘yung nasa harap namin. Sabi nila, thrilling daw so tignan natin kung thrilling.”
[We can’t do anything about it. It’s not in our control… As a player, I’ll focus on playing and who’s in front of us. They say it’s exciting so let’s see if it’s exciting.]
For Escamis, the change ranges the enjoying discipline, giving each workforce a good probability on the playoffs, in contrast to previous seasons when the highest 4 have been virtually locked in by the primary spherical.
“Para sa akin maganda nga ‘yun kasi sabi nga nila, sa first spherical maraming nanonood tapos sa second spherical wala na masyado kasi parang alam na kung sino ‘yung one, two, three, 4 [teams] e,” Escamis stated.
“Ngayon, unpredictable. Kahit ‘yung nasa babang faculties might alternative na umabot sa Closing 4.”
[For me, it’s good because as they say, lots of people watch the first round and then not as many in the second round because you already know who are the one, two, three, four teams… Now it’s unpredictable. Even the teams near the bottom have an opportunity to make the Final Four.]
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Different gamers likewise embraced the revised format, although some raised issues about scheduling because the elimination spherical will dropd from 18 video games to solely 13.
“Maganda siya for me kasi parang mas thrilling ngayon ‘yung NCAA. Ang concern ko nga lang din is ‘yung scheduling ng video games kasi baka in every week, perhaps three video games,” San Beda College workforce captain Yukien Andrada stated.
“Could be a bit an excessive amount of for the gamers additionally, we’d like restoration additionally. However the format itself is de facto good for me.”
[For me, it’s good, the NCAA will be more exciting. My concern is the scheduling because in a week you might play maybe three games… Might be a little too much for the players also, we need recovery also. But the format itself is really good for me.]
Letran newcomer Jun Roque agreed, stating the sooner tempo of the elimination spherical but in addition seeing it as an opportunity for all groups to remain within the hunt for the finals.
“Parang sobrang bilis matapos ng season, tsaka parang kumbaga ‘yung ngayon, kahit wala kang panalo, puwede ka pumasok sa finals,” Roque stated.
[It feels like the season will end really quickly, but now, even if you don’t have a lot of wins, you can still make the finals.]
Patrick Sleat, making his NCAA debut with the Perpetual ALTAs, additionally welcomed the group-stage format however admitted it comes with each execs and cons.
“I feel it’s gonna be thrilling. Sa tingin ko Lahat mabibigyan ng probability even when kumbaga magma-matter essentially the most talaga is the playoff video games,” the previous FEU star stated.
“‘Pag nag-playoffs kasi magpapalitan e so might execs and cons parehas.”
[I think it’s gonna be exciting. I think everyone will have the chance and what matter the most is really the playoff games… When the playoffs start, we switch so there are pros and cons for both.]
—JMB, GMA Built-in Information