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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wise Old Owls Yorkshire Quiz LeagueFinal of the 31st Annual Champion of Champions Contest20 April 2000 The
final of this year’s Wise Old Owls Yorkshire Quiz
League annual Champion of Champions
knock-out contest will be between the Branch
Road Inn of Greetland (Halifax) and the New
Inn of Walton (S. Wakefield). They
reached the final having beaten, respectively, the Cellar Bar of Batley and the Washington
Hotel of Sheffield (S1). The final will be played at the Lee Brigg Working Men’s Club, Altofts this coming Wednesday, 26th April. The winners will add their names to an illustrious list of past champions stretching back to 1969 when the Beeley Wood of Sheffield won the inaugural competition. On
26th April the Wise Old Owls will also be presenting trophies and certificates to
the winners of its six Yorkshire leagues whose teams made up the entry for the Champion
of Champions competition. Teams
who exited that tournament in its early stages were entered in the Wise
Old Owls Yorkshire Plate – the final of which starts at 8.00pm on April 26th
and will serve as a curtain raiser to the Champion
of Champions match, scheduled for 9.15pm. For
More Information Contact: Chris
Jones Internet:
wiseoldowls@yahoo.com
Supplementary
information: The
competition has been held each year since 1969 (except 1976) when the winners
were the Beeley Wood of Sheffield.
In former years it was a knock-out contested solely by winners of local
leagues within the Tetley’s Quiz League.
When the League was
discontinued in 1996 the Wise Old Owls
kept up the tradition. Last year,
in April 1999, the tournament winners were the Traveller’s Rest from Elland (that team transferred en
bloc to the Branch Road Inn in the summer; accordingly, the members of the ‘Branch’s’
team are effectively looking to win a second successive title this year). The
venue for this year’s final is the Lee Brigg W.M.C., St. Mary’s Rd, Altofts,
Normanton. As well as the Champion
of Champions match there will also be the final of the inaugural Wise
Old Owls Yorkshire Plate final. This
competition, also a knock-out, is being contested by those teams who lost-out in
the early stages of the Champion of
Champions tournament. Format for the finals evening on 26th April is as follows ... 19.30 Guests arrive (table quizzes &tc. - prizes for
winners)
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