{"id":930,"date":"2014-06-13T23:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T21:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/?p=930"},"modified":"2014-06-19T12:49:51","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T10:49:51","slug":"with-a-week-remaining-liepaja-awaits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esba-basket.com\/liepaja-2014\/2014\/06\/13\/with-a-week-remaining-liepaja-awaits\/","title":{"rendered":"With a Week Remaining, Liepaja Awaits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Eighteen different teams are gearing up for the ESBA Promo Championship, which is set to tip off in a week\u2019s time in the Latvian seaside town of Liepaja. For seven days, participants from Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Russia will take root in Liepaja\u2019s Olympic Center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A total of fourteen teams will compete for silverware in six different age categories (<strong>M40<\/strong>, <strong>M45<\/strong>, <strong>M50<\/strong>, <strong>M55<\/strong>,<strong> M60<\/strong>, <strong>M65<\/strong>) for men, while the two women age categories (<strong>W35<\/strong>, <strong>W40<\/strong>) will feature four teams.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In order to increase the number of games, the adjacent age categories will be merged. Teams from<strong> M40\/M45<\/strong>, <strong>M50\/55<\/strong>, <strong>M60\/65<\/strong> and <strong>W30\/35<\/strong> age groups will play each other, but prizes for all individual age categories will remain separate.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Teams in the <strong>M40<\/strong> (three teams) and <strong>M45<\/strong> (three teams) age categories will play a round-robin stage in a six-team group, with top three teams in each category awarded separately.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-align: justify\">Teams in the <strong>M50<\/strong> (three teams) and <strong>M55<\/strong> (one team) age categories will also play together in a four-team round robin stage, before entering seeded (1st<strong>\u00a0M50<\/strong> team vs <strong>M55<\/strong> team; 2nd <strong>M50<\/strong> team vs 3rd <strong>M50<\/strong> team) playoff match-ups and then finals, involving the top <strong>M50<\/strong> team and the winner of the second semi-final between the 2nd and 3rd placed team . The lone team in the <strong>M55<\/strong> age category will automatically be given first place in their category.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-align: justify\">Teams in <strong>M60<\/strong> (three teams) and <strong>M65<\/strong> (one team) age categories will play in a four-team round robin stage. Two top <strong>M60<\/strong> teams will play in the final, while the third-placed team will play the lone team in the <strong>M65<\/strong> age category.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-align: justify\">Teams in <strong>W35<\/strong> (two teams) and <strong>W40<\/strong> (two teams) age categories will play in a four-team round robin stage, ending in two finals: both teams from <strong>W35<\/strong> age category will play each other, while both teams from <strong>W40<\/strong> will also play each other.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eighteen different teams are gearing up for the ESBA Promo Championship, which is set to tip off in a week\u2019s time in the Latvian seaside town of Liepaja. 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