Why would you be using Cloudflare when there are better options, especially if you've known for years that this has been going on? Seems like a poor business decision really.

Don't get me wrong, I hate getting blocked just because there is a La Liga game, but lets also take some responsibility for our own decisions here...

Right I mean I had to move off Cloudflare. I looked into some creative options like DNS steering to keep it for all other countries, but in the end it was cleaner to just move away entirely which was a shame.

Is there a good alternative option for their reverse tunnels/ways to hide my real egress that'll also block the bots?

I've used AWS CloudFront & Bunny on some projects

A VPS?

Are you saying your event-ticketing business having downtime is not acceptable or that having downtime for the Spanish demographic is not acceptable?

For the business. eg you don't want to be able to not sell tickets, or scan tickets on the door...