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Fort Wayne Summer Cash Spiel

former World Curling Tour event

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2024
Entity authorityQ5472305 ↗
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The Fort Wayne Summer Cash Spiel was a bonspiel, or curling tournament, that took place at the Lutheran Health Sportscenter in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The tournament was held in a round robin format. The tournament has been held as part of the men's and women's Ontario Curling Tour, and was part of the World Curling Tour in 2013. It has not been run since.

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“Fort Wayne Summer Cash Spiel” enters the record as former World Curling Tour event. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Fort, Wayne and Summer can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Fort, Wayne and Summer.
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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q5472305. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fort Wayne Summer Cash Spiel” 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.