It was created as a means to determine the possible composition of national pool athletes that will compete in international tournaments such as the Southeast Asian Games, Asian Games and the Olympics.

[1] The Philippine National Games was created by virtue of Executive Order No.

However, the games were scrapped in 1998 due to lack of funds to organize the event.

In the previous editions, athletes represented their school, club or a sponsoring group.

Athletes will be able to formally represent their municipality, city or province at the games but in the finals athletes will only represent one of the four regions; Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao and National Capital Region.