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2013 Champion of Champions

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Dates
  
19–24 November 2013

City
  
Coventry

Organisation(s)
  
WPBSA

Venue
  
Ricoh Arena

Country
  
England

Format
  
Non-ranking event

The 2013 888casino Champion of Champions was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament held between 19–24 November 2013 at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry, England. This was the first time that 888casino sponsored the event, which was broadcast live on ITV4.

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The event was last held in 1980, when Doug Mountjoy won in the final 10–8 against John Virgo.

Ronnie O'Sullivan won his 52nd professional title by defeating Stuart Bingham 10–8 in the final.

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:

  • Winner: £100,000
  • Runner-up: £50,000
  • Semi-finals: £20,000
  • Group runner-up: £10,000
  • Group semi-finals: £5,000
  • Total: £270,000
  • Players

    Players qualified for the event by winning important tournaments from the start of the 2012-13 season to the 2013 Indian Open. The important events included all rankings events and winners the following non-rankings events: 2012 Premier League Snooker, 2013 Masters, 2013 Players Championship Grand Final and 2013 Championship League. With only 14 different players winning one of the qualifying events, the remaining two places were allocated to the highest ranked players who had not already qualified.

    The following 16 players qualified for the tournament:

  • 130, 130, 119, 103, 101 Ronnie O'Sullivan
  • 129, 125, 119, 113, 112, 105 Neil Robertson
  • 127, 112 Ali Carter
  • 125 Stephen Maguire
  • 117, 113, 103 Mark Selby
  • 111, 109, 109 Stuart Bingham
  • 104 Ding Junhui
  • 102 Martin Gould
  • References

    2013 Champion of Champions Wikipedia