Is it the ending of '1 Hwang' Oh Sung-wook? The PBA Dream Tour Final will be held from the 21st

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Will the final eventually be the stage of Oh Sung-wook (48). It will determine the strongest player in the professional danggu Dream Tour (Part 2).

The Professional Basketball Association (PBA) announced on the 20th that it will hold the "2025-2026 PBA Dream Tour Final" at the Goyang KINTEX PBA Stadium in Goyang, Gyeonggi-do from the 21st to the 23rd.

The 'Dream Tour Final', which debuted in the 2024-2025 season, has the same structure as the 'World Championship', which is the battle between kings and kings of the first part of the tour. Only players up to 64th in the points ranking are allowed to participate depending on the performance of the seven Dream Tour tours. The prize money is also 20 million won (total prize money of 60 million won), twice that of the regular tour.

In particular, the group stage "Group Switzerland Stage" method and the finals tournament "Pre-allocation method" introduced at the World Championship this season will also be introduced in the Dream Tour Final.

In the Dream Tour Final, 64 people will be divided into 16 groups to play the group stage (35-point score system), and the first and second places in the group will advance to the round of 32 to determine the winner with a tournament. The round of 32 will be held in the best-of-four (11 points in the last set), and from the round of 16 to the final, it will be held in the best-of-five series. From the round of 16, all sets will be played with 15 points.

Prior to the opening of the tournament, the group stage match table was released. Ranked No. 1 Oh Sung-wook, who won the Dream Tour Most Valuable Player (MVP) by winning three consecutive games from Games 5 to 7 this season, was in Group 1 along with Yoon Gye-han (32nd), Kim Byung-sup (33rd), and Lee Chan-hyung (64th). Jongju Lee, ranked second in the season, was placed in Group 2 along with Kim Jung-hoon 2 (31st), Cho Shin-eon (34th), and Cho Hae-woo (63rd).

In particular, it is a 'last chance' for players participating in this tournament to go straight to the first part of the tour. After this competition, the points ranking 1st to 24th in the Dream Tour season will go directly to the first part of the next season. 25th to 120th place must go through Q-School, a competition for promotion.

The Dream Tour Final will be held on the 21st, the first day of the group qualifying round, and on the 22nd, the second day, the round of 32 to the quarterfinals will be held. The semifinals and finals will then be held on the 23rd, the final day of the tournament. One semi-final match will follow at 1:30 p.m. and two semi-finals at 4 p.m. The long-awaited final will be held at 9:30 p.m. on the 23rd.

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