CEBU CITY REVIVES SINULOG CUP
Cebu City to allocate P300,000 for five-team Sinulog Cup
The Cebu City Sports Commission (CCSC) will bring back the commercial league in Cebu, starting with the Cebu City Sinulog Cup 2018 Basketball Invitational on Jan. 8 to 13 at the Cebu Coliseum.
Five teams will vie for the title in the basketball tournament supported by Cebu City Government and the Samahang Basketball ng Pilipinas.
Competing for the P75,000 grand prize will be PBA D-League Team Marinerong Pilipino, University of the Visayas (UV) Green Lancers/SG ARQ Builders, University of Cebu (UC) Webmasters/M Lhuillier, Cebu Landmasters Inc. and the University of San Jose-Recoletos (USJ-R) Jaguars.
“This is a launch to revive the local commercial tournaments of Cebu. We’re looking to having three commercial tournaments ever year in partnership with different stakeholders,” said Cebu City Councilor Jerry Guardo during the press conference at the Yayoy’s Grill yesterday.
Guardo, who’s also the deputy mayor for sports, said that they will be spending nearly P300,000 for the 2018 Sinulog Basketball Cup.
“As chairman for sports this gives me the opportunity to help the local basketball in Cebu. After college,
Organizers hope to revive local commercial leagues, to hold two more events
most of the players will not have a tournament to play so we have come up with this event,” he said.
One of the organizers Raul “Yayoy” Alcoseba said that they’re considering to add more teams for the second tournament this summer.
This will be a yearly activity. We will have a summer league and we’re looking to add high school, commercial and college divisions,” said Alcoseba, who coaches UC.
Also present in the press conference were Cebu City Councilor Euginio Gabuya and CCSC Chairman Edward Hayco.
The teams will play in the single round-robin classification phase. The top two teams will advance the championship round, while the third and fourth seeded squads will play for third place.
Every team is allowed to enlist two imports but only one may play at a time during the game.
The champion will earn P75,000, the second placer gets P50,000, the third placer gets P30,000 and the fourth placer earns P10,000.
“We’re making it affordable for basketball fans. The ticket for lower box is only P30, for upper box it’s P20 and for general admission, it’s P10,” said tournament commissioner Rico Navarro. /