Two foreign teams, which packs power and class, bring their act to the Premier Volleyball League, eager and ready to slug it out with the best of local talents in the PVL Invitationals, which gets going July 2.

But the Kobe Shinwa Women's University squad from Japan, which ruled the Invitational Cup of the defunct Philippine Superliga in 2017, and the Taipei King Whales, a top team in the Taiwan Volleyball League, only get to strut their wares in the semifinal round on Aug. 29 as seven local teams, led by recent PVL Open Conference champions the Creamline Cool Smashers, fight it out for the four berths in the semis in a round-robin elims skirmish tipped to be fierce and tight.

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