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1999 Champions Cup

snooker tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 17, 2021
Entity authorityQ4036032 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1999 Liverpool Victoria Champions Cup was a professional invitational snooker tournament which took place from August to September 1999 in Croydon, England. It featured players who had won tournaments the previous season.

Stephen Hendry won the event, beating Mark Williams 7–5 in the final, netting the £175,000 prize fund. Only the champion won any prize money, as part of a "winner takes all" format.

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“1999 Champions Cup” enters the record as snooker tournament. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Champions, snooker and tournament can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Champions, snooker and tournament.
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“1999 Champions Cup” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Champions, snooker and tournament provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 17, 2021. The linked authority identifier is Q4036032. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “1999 Champions Cup” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.