(UPDATE) TIM Cone admits the new format in the PBA Season 49 Governors' Cup offers a new kind of challenge for coaches like him, and excitement for the fans.

Unlike the past decade or so when each team simply plays a round-robin format in the elimination round, before figuring in the step-ladder format beginning in the quarterfinals, this season, teams are divided into two groups.

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