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The tournament was opened by the home team BK Teplice , who challenged the Polish team SKF Jura Basket Zabierzów . It was a pleasant start to the tournament for the home team, as they were already leading by a double-digit margin after the first quarter and were only increasing their lead. The home team certainly did not expect that this would be their last victory in the tournament. In the second match, MBK Karlovka Bratislava , apparently still tired after the long journey, was not enough for Jížní Supi . The first round of the competition ended with a match between the Polish team UKS MOS Opole and the second Bratislava team BSC Bratislava . Opole entered the match very actively and already led by a double-digit margin at half-time. The day was closed by a match between the later medalists from Opole and the Jížní Supi team. The Supi stayed within striking distance throughout the match, but they did not manage to "roll over" their opponents once and thus take the loss by more than 10 points.

Saturday offered mainly clear-cut matches, where the favorites won. The only match where there was a possibility of a surprise was between the teams Opole and Karlovka. Karlovka had a slight lead throughout the first half, losing an acceptable four points before the fourth quarter, but in the end lost by a single three-point shot.

On Sunday, the Slovak derby between BSC and Karlovka is certainly worth mentioning. The first half was completely even, with every ball being fought for. In the third quarter, BSC turned on the higher speed, which they maintained until the final whistle, winning by thirteen points, which guaranteed them the bronze medals.

Final tournament standings:

The tournament started with a match between the teams Vlci Žďár nad Sázavou and Královští Sokoli Hradec Králové . The home team gained a slight lead from the beginning of the match, which it increased throughout the match and finally won by twenty-four points. The second match offered a Slovak derby, where paradoxically it was an early match for first place in the tournament, without either team suspecting it. The match between Nitra and Komárno offered a duel of defenses and a big fight for every meter of the board, Nitra coped better with this format, taking the victory by twelve points. The first round of the match is closed by a match between the teams Válečníci Děčín and Kangoo Basket Gorzów Wielkopolski , where the Válečníci won by a large margin.

The tournament offered many balanced and attractive matches. The highlight of the tournament was certainly the Friday match between Nitra and Válečníky, the Saturday match between Komárno and Válečníky, and the Vlci also thoroughly defeated Komárno, although they ultimately failed to win.

On Sunday, Komárno gambled with its medal position when it was surprised by the Polish Kangoo Basket Gorzów Wielkopolski . In the end, the results of the matches between the individual teams had to decide the second to fourth place.

Final tournament standings:

Svit is a picturesque town, which is surrounded by the peaks of the Tatra Mountains, and offered interesting stories and quality matches at a great pace. The very first round of the match indicated the ambitions and strength of the individual teams of this tournament. First, the home team clearly defeated the Polish AK Stal Ostrów Wielkopolski . In the second match, Korona 1919 Krakow defeated the Czech team BCM Olomouc by a large margin, which unfortunately, due to the competition, arrived at the tournament with a reduced lineup supplemented by younger players. In the last match of the first round of matches, the younger team of Svit made its debut at the CEYBL tournaments, which supplemented the tournament for the team from Frýdek-Místek, which is currently absorbing experiences on a tour in the USA. The younger boys experienced a hard clash with the Slovak team MBK Karlovka Bratislava . They lost by a double-digit margin in the first quarter. Despite their great efforts, they did not manage to get even close to Karlovka throughout the match.

On Saturday, Olomouc first played an even match with Stal. They managed to enter the match, building a single-digit lead. The Polish opponent gave up nothing and patiently reduced the score difference throughout the match, in order to finally decide their victory in the last quarter. The home team's match with Karlovka followed. The first quarter brought an even match. The second quarter brought a complete collapse of Karlovka, the home team thus gained an almost twenty-point lead. Karlovka tried to break the match and return to the game, but they were unsuccessful and were losing. The younger home team entered the game again, having already adapted to the pace of this category and, despite the losses to Krakow and Stal, showed a very nice performance, which is certainly a promise for the future. Olomouc also showed a fearless performance, which, despite the significant loss to the first team of Svit, fought until the last second of the match, as if it were for a point. Also a very nice approach. Saturday's program was closed by the match between Karlovka and Kraków. Karlovka, still marked by a poor performance against Svit, did not enter the match ideally and basically spent the entire match closing in on Krakow's slight lead. They finally succeeded and even took a slight lead. A series of several mistakes caused them to lose their lead again. Karlovka mounted a huge attack and the opportunity to fight for the win was taken away from them by a controversial decision by the referees, although it must be admitted that it was certainly not an easy decision.

On Sunday, Karlovka, shaken by Saturday's matches, could not get to its ideal pace and struggled with Polish Stal in the half. However, it finally turned on turbo mode and defeated Stal significantly. According to the press conference, although in a better mood, it was definitely not satisfied with its third place in the tournament.

The tournament ended with the home team and Krakow. The match was a final and a direct fight for gold, based on the previous results. A balanced match was expected at least. The home team entered the match with incredible energy and basically decided the match in the first quarter, the score 29:8 is clearly telling. Krakow's game basically collapsed under this pressure, no one was successful and there was not even a hint of a threat to the home team. The home team wins the tournament and successfully fulfills its mission and the goal it set itself.

Final tournament standings:

The first round of matches on Friday already showed the strength and position of the individual teams. In the first match, the home team easily dealt with Handlová and scored the first "hundred". In the second match, Opava surpassed the Prague team Jížné Supy, again by a large difference in score. The first round was closed by the duel of the German academy Thuringia, which awarded the team from Litoměřice 120 points, which was the most points scored in the tournament.

On Saturday, the favorites for medals calmly guard their positions and win by a significant difference in score. An interesting duel brought the match for the only win in the tournament between the teams Slavoj BK Litoměřice and Jížní Supi, where Slavoj entered the match better. Unfortunately for them, the second half was better for the team from the southern tip of Prague, and they take their first and last win in the tournament.

On Sunday, the favorites once again confirm their qualities and easily defeat their fellow competitors.

Final tournament standings:

The seventh tournament in this age category offered a number of very close matches, and teams that were at a relatively similar level of performance came to Poland.

As already mentioned, the home team dominated the tournament without much hesitation and decided almost all the matches in the first half. The only exception was the match with BA Young Diamonds , who did not win any matches in the tournament, but surprised the home team in the beginning. After the first quarter they led 21:13, but in the next phase of the match they could not face the strength of the home team and lost to them.

The direct battle for silver took place on Friday between the German team UBC Münster and the Czech team Sokol Dubeč . For three quarters, Dubeč managed to keep up with their German opponent, but in the end they no longer had the strength to turn the tables.

What the boys from the Czech Republic failed to do on Friday, they made up for in their last match on Sunday against the Polish WKK Wroclaw . The dramatic duel ended with a single-point difference of 50:48. Wroclaw ended up just short of the podium.

Another dramatic and balanced duel took place in the fight for at least one win in the tournament between two Czech teams. In the end, the players of BK VIVIDBOOKS Pardubice were happy with the 46:41 win, which finished in 5th place with honorable success. The Young Diamonds academy closes the table without a win, but they lost 4 out of 5 matches by a relatively small margin of 11 points.

The tournament traditionally started with the home team, which in this case was Basketpoint Frýdek-Místek. The opening pair was completed by the Ukrainian team SCC Ploskyriv . SCC Ploskyriv surprised with its game performance and performance already at the autumn tournament organized Academy NH Ostrava . Today, it had no mercy on the home team and won comfortably. In the second match of the day, the favorite to win the Academy NH Ostrava tournament played against NBA Jelenia Góra and also confirmed its role when it won by more than forty points. The third duel of the day offered the first balanced duel between Sršni Písek and SKM Zastal Zielona Góra . Sršni enter it with great energy, in the first quarter they gain a double-digit lead, which thins to just four points at halftime and at the end of the third quarter Sršni loses the lead in the duel for the first time. Zastal finally turns the game around and wins by a difference of eleven points.

Saturday could be called a disaster for the favorites for the overall victory. Academy NH Ostrava team played a big role in this situation, first losing sensationally to the SKM Zastal Zielona Góra team by a difference of twenty-five points, and then completely destroying the Ukrainian SCC Ploskyriv, another co-favorite for the overall victory, in their second match of the day. The destruction was rather psychological, since the difference in the score was not abysmal, but the Ukrainian team scored only forty-three points. But as they say, "when two fight, the third laughs". Here it was true to the letter, because the tournament triumph was won SKM Zastal Zielona Góra , who hesitated against the Ukrainian SCC Ploskyriv , but thanks to a better mutual match with Academy NH Ostrava they were awarded first place in the tournament.

On Sunday, the red-hot Hornets achieved surprising results with their performance, defeating the Ukrainian SCC Ploskyriv . SKM Zastal Zielona Góra easily dealt with NBA Jelenia Góra and thus confirmed their victory in the tournament. In the last match of the tournament Academy NH Ostrava defeated the home team Basketpoint Frýdek-Místek by a higher point difference.

Final tournament standings:

Friday's program already indicated that the tournament would be very tight and dramatic. Only Inter Bratislava had a 100% record on Friday. First, they played a very high-quality match with BC Swiss Krono Žary , where nothing was decided until the last minute. In the end, Inter won by a difference of five points. In the match with Basket 4kids Zielona Góra Inter had to fight with a very weak personal defense, but in the end, the decisive factor was the individual quality of some players, who managed to overcome the 4kids defense and build a slight lead in the last quarter, which was ultimately decisive.

The least successful day was for the second team from Zielona Góra, SKM Zastal, who were first unable to beat their city rival 4kids and then lost by a higher point difference to BCM Olomouc . However, SKM Zastal showed a nice performance and the fate of the match was decided by a greater number of mistakes compared to their opponents.

The most interesting match on Saturday's program was the duel between BCM Olomouc and BC Swiss Krono Žary . Beautiful mini-student basketball, full of interesting duels and individual performances, ultimately turned out better for the Polish team. The highlight of Saturday's program was the performance of the home team Sršni Písek , who managed to cope with the rarely seen zone defense of the 4kids team in the end and won by a difference of five points. Although the Sršni will beat BCM Olomouc on Friday, their stingers against BC Swiss Krono Žary apparently froze, as they did not show an ideal performance and the Polish team thus won an easy victory by seventeen points. However, the win over 4kids revived them and, as we all know, it is not advisable to mess with a swarm of hornets.

On Sunday, a tense match was expected between BCM Olomouc and Basket 4kids Zielona Góra . The rivalry between these teams was already established at the last tournament in Olomouc and unfortunately the match did not go completely smoothly here either. Olomouc entered the match actively, unfortunately they did not manage to create a larger point gap, they also struggled with the 4kids zone defense again. The even course of this match could not be tolerated by the 4kids coach, who was expelled after two technical fouls and the match had to be "finished" by his assistant. Olomouc played with enthusiasm and self-confidence and finally won by a difference of seven points after the fight.

And finally, the end of the tournament, as befits and belongs. The duel between the home team Sršni Písek and the favorite Slovak team BK Inter Bratislava was the highlight of the tournament. The Hornets are stinging as hard as they can and for three quarters of the game they keep the fans of the Slovak team on the verge of a heart attack. A wonderful and honest duel, full of quality performances by individual players, was the highlight of this tournament. In the end, the Slovak team confirms its quality and wins by a difference of six points, but it had to fight for it until the last minute. The home team does not have to be ashamed of its performance in the least. The match was accompanied by great support from the fans of both teams.

Final tournament standings:

The first match of the tournament is determined by the capabilities of the individual teams. The home team beats Basketpoint Frýdek-Místek , which due to circumstances arrived at the tournament with a combined squad supplemented by younger players. The second match was a Polish derby between WKS Slask Wroclaw and SKM Zastal Zielona Góra. The WKS Slask Wroclaw team completely dominated here. The first round of matches is closed by the duel between the team from Hradec Králové and Chemnitz. Here Hradec showed a nice performance until halftime, but in the second half, German precision wins over Czech dribbling.

The highlight of the day was another Polish match, between the home team and WKS Slask Wroclaw . Stargard took a slight lead right from the start and although Wroclaw tried to turn the lead over to their side throughout the match, they lost by a difference of seven points.

Saturday was marked by early Christmas "gifts", when the hundred-point mark was broken four times and once it was only a few points short of it. The drama was offered only by the match that closed the Saturday program. The main roles were played by the home team of Stargard and the German academy from Chemnitz. The machine precision of the home team, which we already know from tournaments, was equal to that of the German team. In the end, after a nice fight, the home team wins, which is key to winning the gold medals.

On Sunday, Hradec Králové wins over Frýdek-Místek. Chemnitz confirms its silver medal with a clear win over WKS Slask Wroclaw . And at the end of the tournament, Stargard easily defeated SKM Zastal Zielona Góra.

Final tournament standings:

The tournament started with a duel between the home team and Akdemie Grand Est , which traveled to the CEYBL tournament from far away France. The long journey also affected the performance in the first match of the tournament and the French academy lost it by a significant margin. The second match immediately offered a real drama, when Beksa managed to win by a single basket over the Polish team Lublinianka KUL Basketball . Beksa did not enter the match ideally and throughout the match they were closing a small deficit, but in the last quarter they set the pace as in the "Great Pardubice", the famous race, and in the end they won. Another thing is that there was no need for a finish photo, I have the impression that we do not have this technology available at tournaments yet :-). The last match of the first round was taken by a new team from Warsaw - UKS Bialoleka , which came up against the traditional participant WKK Wroclaw . Wroclaw had no mercy on the newcomer and gave it a more than thirty-point Christmas start.

Saturday's program ran according to "paper" assumptions and copied the results from Friday, so most of the exercises ended with a larger point difference.

On Sunday, Akdemie Grand Est won a big victory over Beksa, but even that was not enough for the first medal. Meanwhile, UKS Bialoleka in its first appearance, also won bronze thanks to a victory over Lublinianka KUL Basketball, .

The tournament program will conclude with a duel between the home team and WKK Wroclaw for gold medals. And it was a fierce, attacking, combative and truly worthy final match in a great atmosphere. The U14 category scored an unprecedented 213 points. A true celebration of basketball!!!

Final tournament standings:

The home team BC Swiss Krono Žary , already a traditional participant in CEYBL tournaments, started the derby tournament with another Polish team AK Stal Ostrów Wielkopolski.

However, the home team did not enter the tournament very well and they lost by a large margin. The team was certainly in a better mood after the win over the Czech team Jížní Supi , but probably no one expected that this would be the last win in this tournament. Friday offered three national derbies, one Polish, one Czech and one German, which was probably the most interesting. The match between Mitteldeutsche Basketball Academy and Freak City Bamberg was very even in the first half, in the third quarter Bamberg created a double-digit lead, which it maintained until the end of the match.

Nymburk probably didn't like the game of the German teams at all. On Friday, they had big problems with Mitteldeutsche Basketball Academy , but they won by eight points. Saturday's performance with Freak City Bamberg brought drama. Nymburk didn't enter the game well and until the fourth quarter they were closing the gap on the German team. In the last quarter, there was a tug-of-war for every ball and in the end, "luck" was on the side of Nymburk, who won by a single basket.

In the opening match on Sunday, Bamberg easily defeated Jižní Supi and confirmed its position on the podium. AK Stal Ostrów Wielkopolski had no problems with Mitteldeutsche Basketball Academy and thus won silver in the tournament. And the tournament was closed by the home team's match with Nymburk, who, after a good start to the match, literally stumbled to the overall triumph in the tournament.

Final tournament standings: