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Seattle Cash Spiel

former World Curling Tour event

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ7442063 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Seattle Cash Spiel was an annual bonspiel, or curling tournament, that took place in late November at the Granite Curling Club in Seattle, Washington. The tournament was held in a triple knockout format. The tournament was part of the World Curling Tour.

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Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current 50-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Seattle, Cash and Spiel.
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“Seattle Cash Spiel” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Seattle, Cash and Spiel provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Mar 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7442063. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Seattle 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.