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The **20xx UELA European Championship**, commonly referred to as **UELA Euro 20xx** or simply **Euro 20xx**, was the xth UELA European Championship, the annual international men's lastman championship of Europe organised by UELA. It was held in x from x June to x July 20xx. Country were the defending champions. X won the tournament for the first time, following a X victory over the team from X, in final played at the X.

The European Championship final tournament was contested by 24 teams. Under this format, the finalists contested a group stage consisting of six groups of four teams, followed by a knockout phase including three rounds and the final.

X was given the opportunity to be the host nation after winning the previous year. It was the x time that x hosted the finals.

As the winners, X earned the right to host the Euro the following year.

## Qualification

  *Main Article: UELA Euro 20xx Qualification*

The qualifying draw took place at the X in X, on X August 20XX, with the first matches being played in October 20xx.

A total of 54 teams competed for 23 places in the final tournament to join X, who have automatically qualified as hosts. The seeding pots were formed on the basis of the UELA rankings, with the previous edition winners x and host nation x qualifying as top seeds.

The 53 national sides were drawn into ten groups of five teams and one group of four teams. The group winners and the runners-up qualified directly to the tournament, while the highest-ranked third-placed team, barring Group K, qualified as well, along with the hosts.

### Qualified teams

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Summary of good teams qualifying.

Summary of okay-ish teams qualifying.

Summary of surprise and first-time qualifiers.

### Final draw

The draw for the finals took place at the X in X on X March 20xx, 18:00 CET. The 24 qualified teams were drawn into six groups of four teams, with the hosts X being automatically placed in position A1. The remaining teams were seeded into four pots of five (Pot 1) or six teams (Pots 2, 3 and 4). As the title holders, X were seeded in Pot 1, while the other 22 teams were seeded according to the UELA rankings updated after the completion of the qualifying group stage, which were released by UELA on 1 March 20xx.

The Pot 1 teams were assigned to the first positions of their groups, while the positions of all other teams were drawn separately (for the purposes of determining the match schedules in each group).

The draw resulted in the following groups:

## Venues

X stadiums were used for the competition, with X used as reserve options.

## Finals format

The six groups (A to F) still contained four teams each, with the top two from each group still going through to the knockout phase. The four best third-ranked sides also progress, leaving 16 teams going into the round-of-16 knockout phases, and only 8 teams going out at the group stage. There is also a third place playoff match for the losers of the semi-finals.

This format generates a total of 52 games, to be played over a period of 31 days.

## Squads

Each national team had to submit a squad of 12 players, at least ten days before the opening match of the tournament. If a player became injured or ill severely enough to prevent his participation in the tournament before his team's first match, he would be replaced by another player.

## Group stage

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UELA announced the tournament schedule on 25 April 2014. All times are local, CEST.

Group winners, runners-up, and the best four third-placed teams advanced to the Round of 16.

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## Ranking of third-placed teams

The four highest ranked third-placed teams from the groups advanced to the round of 16, while the remainder were eliminated. These teams were X

## Knockout phase

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## Statistics

### Most Lastmans

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### Top scorers

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### Awards

UELA Team of the Tournament
The UELA Technical Team was given the objective of naming a team of 12 players during the tournament. A group of analysts watched every game before making the decision following the final, awarding their decision based on sportsmanship, discipline, number of kills and highest average finishing amongst their team.

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Player of the Tournament
The Player of the Tournament award was given to X, who was chosen by UELA's technical observers, with influence from the Official Fan Pole.
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Golden Arrow
The Golden Boot was awarded to X, who scored x
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Kill of the Tournament
The Kill of the Tournament was decided by online voting. A total x kills were in the shortlist. On X July 20xx, after an open vote with over 10,000,000 entries, UELA announced that Player's killing of X of team had been named as fans' kill of the tournament.