UAAP: Choosing nine sports for Season 84 'not an easy decision' (Sabong News)
Author
Carlo Anolin
Date
MARCH 24 2022
UAAP executive director Atty. Rebo Saguisag admitted that choosing the final nine sports for Season 84 was a painstaking task after cutting short the 82nd and scrapping the 83rd seasons.
“We’re left [with] choices between bad to worst. It’s not an easy decision,” said Saguisag during a press conference Wednesday, March 23 at the TV5 Media Center in Mandaluyong City.
“But first we have our contractual obligations also to our partners and number two, some of them (sports) is ‘yong nabitin [last season] (some of those sports were cut short last season),” citing women’s volleyball as one of the sports canceled during Season 82 last April 2020 amid the Covid-19 pandemic and the continuous extension of the enhanced community quarantine in Metro Manila.
Saguisag said a “bigger wishlist” of holding the games simultaneously under a bubble setup was once considered. But the decision boiled down to choosing at least three main events and some sports that are “relatively safe.”
As of this writing, the UAAP only has a
which will
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Other sports include women’s volleyball, cheerdance, men’s and women’s 3×3 basketball, men’s beach volleyball, poomsae, and men’s and women’s chess.
Women’s volleyball is projected to begin after the men’s basketball tournament, approximately some time from May to July.
“Those sports actually have very short tournament formats — one-day, two-day, three-days — and very few participants. Those were the actual criteria we set to decide on which sport to run,” added Season 84 president Nonong Calanog of host De La Salle.
Spectators are not allowed in the venue, particularly the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City, at least for the first round of the men’s basketball tournament.
Calanog earlier said the
should the Covid-19 situation in Metro Manila eases by that time.
