With all teams having played their first matches as of May 25, the 2008 Burlington Celebrity and Corporate Cup season is now officially under way for all participating teams. The tournament has drawn 20 teams grouped into three divisions as follows:

Division A - Exposure A, Gerry’s Grill, Harbour Center, PBL-Press Corps, PJS Law, Solar Sports

Division B - Grp 1- AFFI, GNC, Hapee Toothpaste, PGA Cars
Grp 2- Accel, Celebrities, Exposure B, Harbour B

Division C - Asialink, Burlington, Creative Stuff, Gameface, Pharex, Suzuki

Games are held on weekends at the following venues: Acropolis, Club 650, D-Zone, and Reyes Gym. The semis will be held on July 5, 12, and 13 at the Fr. Cortina Sports Center, Xavier Green Hills (for confirmation). The finals are set to be held at the same venue on Saturday, July 19. For a complete schedule, please click on the link on the page.

Harbour Center is currently leading Division A with a 3-0 record followed closely by PJS Law who is holding a 2-0 record. Both teams stake their perfect records in a June 7 match-up at the Reyes Gym. GNC and PGA cars are leading in Group 1 of Division B with 3-0 and 2-0 records respectively. Harbour B, which debuted only this Sunday, May 25 is the lone undefeated team in Group 2 of Division B with a 1-0 record. Asialink is currently showing the way in Division C with a 3-0 record.

EVERYTHING is set for the staging of the 2008 Burlington Celebrity and Corporate Cup on May 3 at The Arena in San Juan.

Expected to see action from the entertainment industry are Bo Cerrudo, Bayani Bayani, Ariel Rivera, Dyords Javier, Hadji Alejandro, Calvin Millado, Bobby Yan, Jhong Hilario, Marco Alcaraz, Jay Manalo, Paolo Paraiso, Allen Dizon, and Gerhard Acao.

The Celebrity squad will immediately plunge into action against GNC right after the opening ceremony of the event which is part of the summer activity of the Philippine Basketball League (PBL).

Aside from the Celebrities and GNC, also taking part in the tournament sponsored by Burlington, Coca Cola, Rider, Aquabest, Raymundo Trophies, ACCEL and V-Go Energy Drink, are PGA Cars, Gerry’s Grill, Asialink, AFFI, Popoy’s Grill, Burlington, Exposure, Pharex, Accel, Hapee Toothpaste, Toyota Otis, Creative Stuff, Solar and members of the PBL Press Corps.

Meantime, the league will hold a clinic and interactive games in four SM branches starting on May 4 in SM City-Sucat.

After Sucat, the league goes to SM City-Bicutan on May 11, SM South Mall on May 18 and SM Muntinlupa on May 25.