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El Remanso’s champion reign comes to an end as Alegría
take the win at Palermo, writes Darlene Ricker
Alegría HPA took an upset victory in the 2016
Copa Cámara de Diputados final (Chamber
of Deputies Cup), defeating defending
champions El Remanso 13–11 in Palermo on
10 December, in the second-highest-rated
polo tournament in the world after the
Argentine Triple Crown. The match took place
on field no 2, four hours before the 2016
Argentine Open final, which was played
afterward on field no 1. Some of the earlier
Cámara games took place at the AAP’s fields
in Pilar, with the semis and finals at Palermo.
The ultimate final was scheduled on the
same day as the one for the Open, in order
to boost attendance, and it worked.
The Cámara final was tied at the end of
every chukka until the fourth, which closed
8–8. El Remanso had a strong fifth chukka,
but then everything changed: Alegría
incrementally pulled ahead, holding El
Remanso scoreless for each of the last three
chukkas to take the victory 13–11. Alegría’s
Francisco Elizalde, the player of the day, was
high scorer with six goals.
The tournament had an international
flair this year, with two foreign patrons:
Englishman Charlie Hanbury (El Remanso)
and Canadian Julian Mannix (Alegría HPA).
Mannix found the Cámara to be ‘a great
tournament – I saw it as a stepping stone
