Bote Luzea--Primer Titulo de Euskal Herria--How they got there: the entire the tournament (scores, match articles, match videos and photos) from beginning to end

In this tournament matches were played to 11 games or 70 minutes, whichever came first. Each game is won by the team scoring 4 points. In this tournament the 6 teams were split into "A" and "B" groups, with a round robin in each group. At the end of the round robin, the first place team played each second place team in the other group in semfinals. Those winners met in a final. Read this article from bottom to top to replay the tournament in chronological order.

Source for all match articles: EEPF. Source for all video: Bote Luzea Facebook page.

September 25, 2016

Final

Plaza de Leitza (1) (2): Lapurdi 1 (Bessonart, Valencia, Urkia, Fagoaga, Etcheberry, Otegi, and Tikoipe) defeated Gipuzkoa 2 (Jon Urbieta, Jauregi, Esnal, Ibai Urbieta, and  Andoni Urbieta) 6-3 (70 minutes). Note: Gipuzkoa 2's Inaki Esnal and Jon Urbieta played and won the Oriatsun V Txapelketa Pasaka final (covered in this blog) in August.

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September 19, 2016

Semi-Final 2

Lapurdi 1 (Bessonart, Valencia, Urkia, Fagoaga, Etcheberry, Otegi y Tikoipe) defeated Lapurdi 2 5-3 (70 minutes).

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September 18, 2016:

Semi-final 1

Zubieta Plaza (1) (2): Gipuzkoa 2 (Jon Urbieta, Jauregi, Esnal, Ibai Urbieta and Andoni Urbieta) ,defeated Gipuzkoa 1 (Andoni Zabala, Ekaitz Lasa, Julen Chiapuso, Beñat Arzelus, Josu Leonet, Aritz Leonet and Joseba Azpiroz  7-4 (70 minutes)

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The winners of each of the below listed matches faced the loser of the other match in the semi-finals.

League phase Group B

September 11, 2016

Amasa Villabona (1) (2):  Lapurdi 1 (Bessonart, Valencia, Urkia, Fagoaga, Etcheberry, Otegi and Tikoipe) defeated Gipuzkoa 2 (Jon Urbieta, Jauregi, Esnal, Ibai Urbieta and Andoni Urbieta) 7-3 (70 minutes)

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League phase Group A

September 10, 2016

Sara: Gipuzkoa 1 (Andoni Zabala, Ekaitz Lasa, Julen Chiapuso, Beñat Arzelus, Josu Leonet, Aritz Leonet and Joseba Azpiroz) defeated Lapurdi 2 8-3 (70 minutes)

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For the league matches of Sep. 2-3 see EEPF Results pages. I think the matches listed here on September 1 actually happened on August 26 (source: tracking back the Bote Luzea  Facebook page and matching up the EEPF match articles).

Group A

Sep. 2, 2016:

Lapurdi 2 defeated Behe Nafarroa 10-6 (70 minutes)

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Group B

September 3, 2016:

 Gipuzkoa 2 (Jon Urbieta, Jauregi, Esnal, Ibai Urbieta y Andoni Urbieta) defeated Lapurdi 3 10-3 (70 minutes)

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August 26, 2016

Beheko Plaza, Oriatsun: (1) (2) Gipuzkoa 1  (Andoni Zabala, Ekaitz Lasa, Julen Chiapuso, Beñat Arzelus, Josu Leonet, Aritz Leonet and Joseba Azpiroz defeated Behe Nafarroa 9-1 (70 minutes)

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Senpere : Lapurdi 1 defeated Lapurdi 3  9-4 (70 minutes)

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