700 attendees to the final: Our presence has been common since the beginning of the modern era of the Álava Championship in 2002. It is the number corresponding to the number of Basques in Álava (on the other hand, with the exception of some gudaris, not many people from other countries – this should not be taken as a knife, I think we sing quieter, jejj –). For those who do not know: the first Álava Championship was played in 1984. They had spent a year at the bertsos school in Aiaralde and Gasteiz with the bertsolaris and driven by Abel Enbeitia. It was so great that we did not dare to reorganize until 2002. In the meantime, we celebrated the official championship with the Basque brothers in Bizkaia, and for us we created the San Prudencio Prize that we held at the Florida House of Culture (I would give gold to see that final, what great chiquitos! ).

Iñaki Viñaspre: Yesterday he made two long legs in the first verse and I noticed that the verse was not coming to him while he was throwing. There are currently occasional puppets. Normally Iñaki starts (and ends) the strong sessions, is our Lizaso. If you go half-footed to the session, Mr. Viñaspre shines at you quickly and if you don't sprout, he'll follow the dinbi-danba. The week has been sick, but on Tuesday Zaballa went to jail to give classes of bertsolaris (and to eat snacks). Despite the bad start, it did not resign and improve since the middle of the session. He also left us two wonderful dismissed, the first adapting the characters of the dragon ball to the bertsolaris and to the gaitero, and the last dedicated to the bertsos school of Zaballa and all the prisoners.

Noises: The mobile phone called twice the white head in front of my left. Then he called another cell phone. People got up when they didn't have to get up and the performance of Ilaski Serrano and Manu Bendala at EITB was heard in the theater. There was only one erdaldun shouting.

Asier Otamendi: Veteran of the finals, the last warrior of the old guard. He told me that the goal was to have a good time, but that he slept badly and was exhausted in the session. Asiertxo, dear, how many finals have you sung? What do you want to sing like in the shower? Despite the anguish, Asier is one of those secure stock market values, which always fills the verse well. He has no bad days. The distress, especially when he became a member of the Youth Assembly with Aro and Ken with Paula in Barbie. The old man who endangered him put his status on his own: he sang an aggressor man of his crew, chaupeau!

Stories: The final themes were ideals, common to the championships. But the session increased when storytelling appeared in six shorts: Asterix and Obelix korrika, Edurne Zuri and Mari Errauskin by car stop and Barbie and Ken Waukee. It was a wager, it was in danger, it went very well. Congratulations to the writing team.

Peru Abarrategui: Previous champion. He did a very good session, if he had known Mari Errauskin better, he would have been in the lead. Peru sings the verse very well, it transmits to you what it is singing: you see an older person looking at the TAV, a handsome single brother who has run away with his brother oculus or his wedding: “Ta hoteleko ohe ondo have fun / in the last twelve years I have not enjoyed as much as tonight.” When the txapela was put on, Peru left us an unforgettable verse in Araba, and yesterday he repeated his eyes with the last greeting: in summer he died his father, his brothers and his mother (“You are not alone, Mom”).

Judges: If after a bertess session someone starts eating my ear by the judges, I leave. The number of judges of both kinds who used to be Biscayan and Gipuzkoan also complained in Álava of the referees. Does anyone really believe – the mistakes – that judges intentionally punish or reward someone? However, judges must be a sign of the world of bertso and yesterday they were not. They were five men and the youngest forty years. If the average age of two men and three men for the arbitral team is not reduced within two years, it would bring out a judge (but they should also have a minimum knowledge of Álava).

Paula Amilburu: Yesterday our lordship left him the thorn in the previous final that he wanted to draw, so he was compensated with Aro to turn his head. He did a great program “very wide and sharp arms.” He sang the most punctuated verses of yesterday and the most acclaimed by the public. In her singing, for example, solo. She was worldwide in the role of divorced woman, in response points and like Barbie. Ken Otamendi told him that in the first verse Barbi's odor became a sheep's odor, and Paula said to him: My pussy/sheep's odor principal / and yours what? By packing / ai txitxi burduntzi / Stop washing / This would not strengthen / You got too much back / and little waist”. And the last one: "How do you explain these things? / Take care / They made you the man and you have to work it / Now I have to sell you / Barbia needs Barbi / To try the bollerism is never late.”

Banners: The Bertso Eskola de Zaballa made the banner: Viñaspre txapeldun / ganbarak apurtatu!. Other: Ari, ari, ari Perutxo champion (Non dago errima?) and on the Donostin thrombus in Vitoria with you (What?????). In the era of inertia, the time of rupture (one of the banners won) and, finally, Ubi est petasus? In Paula caput (I used the Latin Basque translator, you can not give everything chewed to the reader).

Manex Agirre: Mon ami, mon ami... yesterday Manex made a withdrawal that will give me envy forever. Beautiful, painful, like Saharan tea. I sang the best finish I've ever heard. Manex is a bertsolari who enjoys bertso a lot when it matches the good ideas, but if the good idea does not come, it has sometimes cost him. But yesterday, in verse, he dedicated himself to security and transmission, and from time to time to shine: a very tender man, a monstrous okupa brother, the funny Obelix, or to hide the immigrants within the race to pass the Sasimuga. So things went first head and nice side. Overhead in the melody of Iparraguirre were very good Aroa and the two, then by the loft (apuruuu prawn!) He heard the very acclaimed Aro solitaire. It was his turn, he had the third hat, so he approached the edge of the stage, the edge of the chair, the ridge of the micro -- the edge of the hat. So good essay that with his boat he was just a point of Aro. Aber, Manuel, imagine if you won, what line did you have to write with the third jackpot of champion Manex Agirre? Where are the other bertsolaris, the Alavese bertsolaris left? You've been very elegant, honey.

The Palestinian of Xabi Rico: When I saw Xabi walking into the stage and singing a bertso with his vibrant and Palestinian voice, I got excited again! (He told me that he wanted all the Bertsolaris to go out with the Palestinian, but the protocol, this, that and what it is -- we're not at the time when Iñaki de Juana went on hunger strike.) Xabi, founder of bertsos eskola, professor Xabi, esperantozale, bookstore Xabi and Xabi and UEU, bertsolari euskaldun berri Xabi, was in charge of putting the txapela to Aro. Before, representatives of the bertsolaris schools of Álava went out to give the awards (it is our custom). Because there have been bertsos schools in Aiaraldea, in Gasteiz, in Aramaixo, in the Llanada, in Mendialdea, in La Rioja… We only need the far west alaves to conquer it, but as the bertsos school of Zaballa is on the way, we will soon arrive.

Aroa Arrizubieta: At the age of 23 he has achieved his first Álava txapela: "Imagine that a child is a school in the blind / shy, quiet, in the fourth row / that in the first question of the teachers / that also knows perfectly answer / and that nevertheless remains quiet there / does not feel in the others /that I dare as that child / how I can answer". He worked very hard on all the jobs and very well on the reasons. In addition, he got bigger in his head, he didn't give him vertigo, on the contrary: his last three verses, in my opinion, were the best. The theme was “Life has given you a second chance” and sang on the skin of a young man who attempted suicide:

“After studying I would return to work / and also I would hear my father frequently bronchi... / and since I didn’t know how to say everything, / ... I couldn’t see any sense to live.”

“Nobody listened to my hot cry / and said “if I don’t know how to live, I would be better the month” / I couldn’t manage my inner tumult well / and I went on google for a solution / as I said I swallowed 14 kaja pill / and I thought it enough”.

“But those google numbers aren’t always enough / now I’m in a hospital looking at white shoes / although the initial desire for this to end / looks like I’ll come back to life / because it has given me another chance and once I’ve been laid / if it has given me another chance is for something.”

So things, champion of bertsolaris of Álava in 2024... Aroa Arrizubieta Barredo!

(To see the photo gallery of the session click here)

And I leave you with the greeting of the champion:

With promise, filling the mouths

bombs explode

reduction of duties

evictions,

how they want to deal with this

To stay quiet?

although they are filling us

both in Bilbao and Vitoria,

in what we believe

We're working at GKS.

political and business;

forward:

current young generations

mission

fight tomorrow than today

Live better!

Congratulations, Aroa!