High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2011-12 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Philippine Cup is the first conference of the 2011-12 PBA season. The tournament started on October 2, 2011 with Rain or Shine Elasto Painters against Barangay Ginebra Kings as the opening game. The tournament is an All-Filipino format, which doesn`t require an import or a pure-foreign player for each team.