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Clive Harold Everton MBE (7 September 1937 – 27 September 2024) was an English-born Welsh sports commentator, journalist, author and professional snooker and English billiards player. He founded Snooker Scene magazine, which was first published (as World Snooker ) in 1971, and continued as editor until September 2022. [ 1 ]
Series champions from this series onwards are awarded the Richard Whiteley Memorial Trophy. Up until Series 83, champions were also awarded the complete leather-bound set of the Oxford English Dictionary (although the Series 31 champion, David Acton, turned the prize down due to his strict veganism and instead opted to take it in CD-ROM form ...
It took place around November each year. Prior to the 1999/2000 season, it was held later in the season. As a result, two tournaments were held in 1999, one for the 1998/1999 season and one for the 1999/2000 season. Since 2022, the tournament's trophy is named the Clive Everton Trophy, after the popular commentator. [1]
Since the 1980s, the world championship has sometimes been contested as a series of shorter games, for example in 150-up, the first player to win a designated number of games of first-to-150 is the victor. From 1989 to 2011, Mike Russell was the dominant player, closely followed by Geet Sethi who won five titles.
Clive Everton 2,804 - 1,976 1972 Norman Dagley Alf Nolan 3,115 - 2,469 1971 Norman Dagley W. J. Dennison 3,672 - 2,019 1970 Norman Dagley Alf Nolan 4,467 - 2,372 1969 Jack Karnehm Mark Wildman 3,722 - 2,881 1968 Mark Wildman Clive Everton 2,652 - 2,540 1967 Leslie Driffield Clive Everton 3,395 - 2,328 1966 Norman Dagley Alf Nolan 3,018 - 2,555
The winner received £100,000 from a total prize fund of £502,000 [1] and the Clive Everton Trophy. [3] Everton died on 27 September, two days before the tournament concluded. [4] The defending champion was Mark Williams, who defeated Mark Selby 10–7 in the 2023 final, [5] but he lost 1–4 to Rory Thor in qualifying (round 1).
In 1968, he won the English Amateur Billiards Championship with a 2,652–2,540 victory against Clive Everton. In 1977, Wildman was runner-up to Michael Ferreira in a World Open Billiards Championship held in Christchurch. He was accepted as a professional player by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) in 1979.
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