Kings of the Court | STR8 Invitational Opens Today

After an exciting finish to its 10th Season, Kings of the Court | STR8's quarter two will get a different flavor as the Corporate teams will see action once again, plus the second edition of the Inter Pick-Up League. Games shall be held during weekends at The Upper Deck Sports Center, Dumlao Gym, and Reyes Gym. 

This season, the players shall experience a boost in its digital experience experience via www.pinoyliga.com , as it will cover real-time team and player stats, as well as monitoring all player rankings within the league and all the leagues within its digital community.

Tournament: Corporate Invitational
Description: Open to all companies and/or businesses based in Metro Manila and nearby provinces. Players must be a certified employee of the same company and/or business to be eligible to play, except for the Corporate Competitive who can have players representing a brand.

Teams will be classified into three (3) classifications (Corporate Recreational,Corporate Intermediate, Corporate Competitive) based on the team’s overall strength, height, age, and its players’ high school, collegiate, commercial, and semi-professional basketball experience, if applicable.

Defending Champion: IBM (Corporate Recreational), Southern Cross (Corporate Intermediate), and Exile (Corporate Competitive)

Runner-up: Learn to Trade (Corporate Recreational), Factset (Corporate Intermediate), and Armco Helthcare (Corporate Competitive)

Season Most Valuable Player: Meralco Energy's Marco Paulo Balinang (Corporate Recreational), Southern Cross' Jheyar Marcelo (Corporate Intermediate), and Exile's Jay Arcusa (Corporate Competitive)

Teams were classified according to their level of competition, and IBM came out victorious after a tough challenge from Learn to Trade, to bag the Corp Recreational title. Season MVP Jheyar Marcelo led Southern Cross past their perennial foe, Factset, bringing home the Corp Intermediate title. Season MVP Jay Arcusa's unstoppable ramp could not be contained even in the grandest stage. This spectacular individual led his stacked squad to the Corp Competitive title.

Meanwhile, the Inter Pick-Up league will begin its 2nd edition. 

From the street, to the hardwood, pick-up games built strong competitors as their regular routine of playing ball molded their skills from scratch to scintillating moves on the court. The tough mentality that came from that "no blood, no foul" scrimmage, enabled the warriors of each 'home' court to bring their wares in the grandest stage of all pick-up game groups.
Paving the way for where Kings of the Court|STR8 stands today, the much awaited return of the Inter Pick-Up League back in 2018, also saw the return of the notable names from the league's birth year back in 2014. School spirit outlasted baller brotherhood, as DBTI-Finman Sundays cruised past LSBC-Lumbayao Saturdays, to claim the Inter Pick-Up title.