The 2024 Premier Volleyball League Invitational Conference was the nineteenth conference of the

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and its tenth conference as a professional league. This was the third and last conference for the 2024 season. Unlike the previous iterations of the league, this conference was a short pocket tournament, lasting about nine days, making it the shortest conference in the league. The conference started on September 4, 2024, coinciding with the finals of the 2024 Premier Volleyball League Reinforced Conference. Originally, the semifinalists of the 2024 Premier Volleyball League Reinforced Conference are qualified and will be able to play alongside two foreign guest teams — the reigning Invitational champions, Kurashiki Ablaze of Japan, and the newcomers,

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of Thailand. But due to players' injuries, the

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and the

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begged off from participation. The

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will be the sole replacement as the other PVL teams declined to join.

Qualification

The Invitational Conference is a pocket tournament and only the top four among the twelve Premier Volleyball League teams in the previous tournament (the 2024 Reinforced Conference) are qualified to participate along with two foreign-based guest teams. The

qualified as semifinalists but withdrew due to injuries from the past conference. It will be the eight placers

replaced PLDT after the next three ranked teams

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, Petro Gazz and Capital1 declined the PVL's invite.

also pulled out from the conference citing the same reason with PLDT. Akari were not replaced, making the participants down to five teams. This will be the conference with the least number of teams joining. Two guest teams are Kurashiki Ablaze, the defending Invitational champions, and newcomer

will join the three local club teams to compete in this conference.

Participating teams

Venues

; Regular venues ; PVL on Tour venues

Transactions

National team players

The following players are part of the Philippine national team that played at the 2024 AVC Women's Challenge Cup,

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and the 2024 SEA Women's V.League. They are therefore excluded from the previous Reinforced Conference, and were expected to remain unavailable for the whole duration of the Invitational Conference. However on September 9 they were allowed to rejoin their clubs, after the national team played friendly matches with

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on September 7 and 8.

Foreign guest players

These foreign guest players participated in the reinforced conference. Each team is only allowed to have one foreign player and can only replace them mid-conference if they suffer from injuries or if the player (not the team) abandons their commitment. The teams also have the option to keep or replace their reinforcements to play in this conference.

Format

The following format will be conducted for the entirety of the conference: ;Preliminary Round #

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format # Teams are ranked using the FIVB Ranking System. # The 3rd and 4th ranked teams will advance to the bronze medal match. # The 1st and 2nd ranked teams will advance to the gold medal match. ;Finals # All games are knockout matches. # Bronze medal: 3rd ranked team vs. 4th ranked team # Gold medal: 1st ranked team vs. 2nd ranked team

Pool standing procedure

* First, teams are ranked by the number of matches won. * If the number of matches won is tied, the tied teams are then ranked by match points, wherein: ** Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loser. ** Match won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser. * In case of any further ties, the following criteria shall be used: ** Set ratio: the number of sets won divided by number of sets lost. ** Point ratio: the number of points scored divided by the number of points allowed. ** Head-to-head standings: any remaining tied teams are ranked based on the results of head-to-head matches involving the teams in question.

Preliminary round

* All times are

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( UTC+08:00).

Ranking

Match results

Final round