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2017 KW Fall Classic

curling competition at Waterloo, Ontario

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ42529908 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2017 KW Fall Classic was held from September 21 to 24 at the Kitchener-Waterloo Granite Club in Waterloo, Ontario as part of the 2017-18 World Curling Tour. The men's event was a triple knockout format, while the women's event was held in a round robin format.

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The public source identifies “2017 KW Fall Classic” as curling competition at Waterloo, Ontario. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Fall, Classic and curling.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Fall, Classic and curling providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q42529908. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “2017 KW Fall Classic” 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.