Papatchaya Phontham of Thailand’s EST Cola in the PVL Invitational Conference MVP. –MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.net

MANILA, Philippines — Papatchaya Phontham capped EST Cola’s PVL Invitational title run with the Most Valuable Player award.

Phontham dropped 15 points to deliver EST Cola’s crown with a 25-22, 25-21, 25-19 sweep of Nxled on Tuesday night at Smart Araneta Coliseum.

The Thai became the first international player to win the PVL MVP.

Phontham was also the Best Opposite Spiker. She was the No.2 Best Scorer with 97 points, third in spiking with a 35.74 percent attack rate and fourth in service with 0.37 aces per frame.

Gel Cayuna earned her sixth Conference Best Setter award, moving closer to Jia De Guzman’s eight.

Cayuna just signed with the Chameleons last May after Cignal filed a leave of absence and shone in her second tournament with her new team with 5.50 excellent sets per frame, third in the Invitational, and nailed 0.25 aces per set, ninth in service.

Nxled Chameleons’ Gel Cayuna during the PVL Invitational Final vs Thailand’s EST Cola. –MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.net

Jonah Sabete-Escamillan won her first-ever PVL Best Outside Spiker award after showing her well-rounded game.

Escamillan was sixth in scoring with a total of 84 points, sixth in blocking with 0.65 kill blocks per set, fifth in service with 0.35 aces per set, fifth in digging with 3.15 per set, and third in receptions with 47.62 percent efficiency.

Last year’s MVP Savi Davison won her third Best Outside Spiker despite PLDT’s failed title defense.

The Filipino-Canadian spiker tallied three 30-point games in the preliminaries and topped all scorers with 135 points. She was the No.2 Best Spiker with a 37.97 percent attack rate, sixth in receptions with a 41.92 percent efficiency, and seventh in digs with 3.00 per set.

Davison dropped 29 points to win bronze for PLDT, beating Creamline in four sets.

Jaja Santiago-Minowa won her second Best Middle Blocker award after joining Creamline. She was the top blocker with 0.86 blocks per set, and third in scoring with 92 points.

MJ Phillips earned her third Conference Best Middle Blocker award, the first time since 2023. She tallied 79 points as the seventh-best scorer, fourth in blocking with 0.70 blocks per set, and second in service with 0.45 aces per set.

Kath Arado won her seventh Conference Best Libero, still the winningest in the league. She was the top digger of the tournament with 5.70 digs per set.

Rumble streamer John “Tectone” recently challenged left-wing political commentator, streamer, and Twitch Partner Mike from PA, or “Central_Committee” on Twitch, to a boxing match. For context, Mike was suspended from Twitch for three days after he appeared to make a death threat against his fellow platform member and political commentator, Hutch.

In his alleged threat, Mike from PA suggested Hutch was an “enemy” of the state, and proceeded to explain what typically happened in “ancient Rome” to these enemies of the state:

“I don’t think a word exists in the dictionary for how much antipathy, malevolence, malice, hatred, just the way you should feel towards this person. In ancient Rome, they would declare someone an enemy of Rome as an act in the Senate, and they would say it was a moral obligation for every Roman to do them harm in any way they are…”

On September 4, 2026, following these comments, Mike was banned for three days. His suspension was revoked on September 7, and soon after, Tectone took to his X page and voiced his discontent with Twitch’s decision to unban him:

“This guy threatened to kill a man and got 1/10th the ban I got for calling a 400-pound hippo fat. Twitch is morally bankrupt.”

Mike then clapped back, bringing up John’s court case:

“I thought they banned you for being adjudicated a sexual assaulter with a 10-year protective order against you so severe that a Texas Judge took away your guns.”

Hours after Mike from PA’s message, Tectone challenged him to a boxing match, bringing up the drama with Hutch, and also a November 2024 incident where Mike allegedly put out a $100,000 hit on Destiny:

“Mike from PA has now made over 98 calls to violence on other streamers. Twitch has responded by banning him for 2 days. From putting a 100k hit on Destiny. To asking his chat to kill Hutch and his wife. This man sure is violent. @Mike_from_PA if you want violence so bad, why don’t we box in a ring?”

“If I lose, I’ll give $50,000 to Frogan’s court funds”: Tectone claims he will donate to Frogan’s legal battle against Ethan Klein if he beats Mike from PA

Twitch streamer Morgan “Frogan” was sued in June 2025 by Ethan Klein for copyright infringement over her livestream reaction/watch-along of Ethan’s “Content Nuke: Hasan Piker.”

As of this writing, the case is still active, and Frogan has created a GoFundMe page called “Frogan’s Lawsuit Defense Fund.” Tectone referenced the GoFundMe while he called out Mike from PA, saying that if he lost the boxing match, he would donate $50,000 to Frogan’s cause:

“If I lose, I’ll give 50k to Frogan’s court funds (or McDonald’s gift card).”

In other news, Tectone claimed doctors told him his unborn child would grow to 6’4, saying “genetics for their baby are insane.”