With support from ‘Skonto Būve’, the 5^th around-the-clock basketball tournament ‘Coastal Games’ was held during the Riga Festival.

This year, the most ambitious around-the-clock basketball marathon in Eastern Europe, the ‘Coastal Games’, took place in rainy and adverse weather conditions.

Like every year, the competition opened with a game between the teams ‘Skonto Būve’ and ‘Rīgas Brīvosta’, and a competition between Latvian politicians of the right and left banks of the River Daugava concluded the around-the-clock basketball marathon.

The around-the-clock tournament was attended by both professional basketball players and amateurs of various age groups. One game was held every hour between the teams of the right and left banks of the River Daugava. Overall, the ambitious 24-hour amateur basketball marathon was represented by 600 players of 48 teams.

The tournament ended with the victory of the Daugava left bank team, and the end result was 960:958. Due to this year’s victory, the residents of Pārdaugava took an overall lead of 3:2 when taking the five past events into account. The winning bank received the challenge cup, which will remain in their possession until the next around-the-clock basketball tournament.

On the other hand, the traditional ‘Skonto Būve Slam Dunk’ competition brings together the best dunkers from Latvia and around the world each year. The world’s elite dunkers such as Rafal Lipinski from Poland, Dmitry Krivenko from Ukraine and Kader arrived in Riga to fight for the title of the best master dunker. However, due to the adverse weather conditions and for safety reasons, the best dunker’s title was not won.