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2014 Dafabet Champion of Champions
Tournament information

Dates	3–9 November 2014 (2014-11-03 – 2014-11-09)
Venue	Ricoh Arena
City	Coventry
Country	England
Organisation	Matchroom Sport
Format	Non-ranking event
Total prize fund	£270,000
Winner's share	£100,000
Highest break	Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG) (139)
Final
Champion	Ronnie O'Sullivan (ENG)
Runner-up	Judd Trump (ENG)
Score	10–7
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The 2014 Champion of Champions (officially the 2014 Dafabet Champion of Champions) was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 3 and 9 November 2014 at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry, England.^[1]

Ronnie O'Sullivan successfully defended his title beating Judd Trump 10–7 in the final.^[2]^[3]

Prize fund

The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:^[4]

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 since the previous Champion of Champions. Entry was guaranteed for the defending champion, winners of rankings events and winners of the following non-rankings events: 2014 Masters, 2014 Championship League, 2015 World Grand Prix and 2014 Players Championship Grand Final. Remaining places were then allocated to winners of European Tour events (in the order they were played) and then to winners of Asian Tour events and then, winners of the 2014 Six-red World Championship, 2014 Snooker Shoot-Out and 2013 World Seniors Championship.^[5]

Only 13 different players won one the 24 qualifying tournaments. The remaining three places were allocated to the three highest ranked players who had not already qualified, based on the world rankings after the 2014 Bulgarian Open.^[6]

The following 16 players qualified for the tournament:^[7]

Seed	Player	Qualified as	Ref.
1	Ronnie O'Sullivan	Winner of 2013 Champion of Champions, 2014 Masters and 2014 Welsh Open	^[8]
2	Mark Selby	Winner of 2014 World Snooker Championship and 2014 Riga Open	^[9]
3	Neil Robertson	Winner of 2013 UK Championship and 2014 Wuxi Classic	^[10]
4	Ding Junhui	Winner of 2014 German Masters, 2014 China Open and 2014 Yixing Open	^[11]
	Judd Trump	Winner of 2014 Championship League and 2014 Australian Goldfields Open	^[12]
	Shaun Murphy	Winner of 2014 Gdynia Open, 2014 World Open and 2014 Bulgarian Open	^[13]
	Barry Hawkins	Winner of 2014 Players Championship Grand Final	^[14]
	Stuart Bingham	Winner of 2014 Dongguan Open, 2014 Shanghai Masters and 2014 Haining Open	^[15]
	Ricky Walden	Winner of 2014 International Championship	^[16]
	Mark Allen	Winner of 2014 Paul Hunter Classic	^[17]
	Stephen Maguire	Winner of 2014 Six-red World Championship	^[18]
	Dominic Dale	Winner of 2014 Snooker Shoot-Out	^[19]
	Steve Davis	Winner of 2013 World Seniors Championship	^[20]
	Marco Fu	World ranking of 9	^[21]
	John Higgins	World ranking of 12	^[22]
	Ali Carter	World ranking of 13^{[n 1]}	^[24]

Main draw

^[25]^[26]^[27]^[28]

Group semi-finals (last 16) Best of 7 frames			Group finals (quarter-finals) Best of 11 frames			Semi-finals Best of 11 frames			Final Best of 19 frames

1	Ronnie O'Sullivan	4

	Stuart Bingham	2
			1	Ronnie O'Sullivan	6
Group 1 (5 November)
				Marco Fu	0
	Shaun Murphy	1

	Marco Fu	4
						1	Ronnie O'Sullivan	6

						4	Ding Junhui	4
	Barry Hawkins	4

	John Higgins	1
				Barry Hawkins	5
Group 4 (3 November)
			4	Ding Junhui	6
4	Ding Junhui	4

	Dominic Dale	2
									1	Ronnie O'Sullivan	10

										Judd Trump	7
3	Neil Robertson	4

	Ali Carter	0
			3	Neil Robertson	6
Group 3 (7 November)
				Ricky Walden	3
	Ricky Walden	4

	Mark Allen	0
						3	Neil Robertson	4

							Judd Trump	6
	Judd Trump	4

	Stephen Maguire	1
				Judd Trump	6
Group 2 (4 November)
			2	Mark Selby	1
2	Mark Selby	4

	Steve Davis	1

Final

Final: Best of 19 frames. Referee: Brendan Moore. Ricoh Arena, Coventry, England, 9 November 2014.^[28]^[29]
Ronnie O'Sullivan (1) England	10–7	Judd Trump England
Afternoon: 137–0 (137), 82–0 (78), 25–100, 63–73, 137–0 (50, 87), 80–0 (80), 34–89 (58), 139–0 (139), 134–0 (134) Evening: 70–61 (70, 56), 114–23 (70), 9–113 (102), 0–100 (100), 0–70 (69), 0–90 (90), 82–46 (63), 109–0 (109)
139	Highest break	102
4	Century breaks	2
11	50+ breaks	6

Century breaks

^[30]

139, 137, 134, 125, 115, 109, 105, 103 – Ronnie O'Sullivan
134, 117, 111, 106 – Neil Robertson
119, 106, 102, 100 – Judd Trump
112 – Barry Hawkins
111, 105 – Ding Junhui
107 – Stuart Bingham

Notes

^ Due to his absence for medical reasons from all World Snooker Tour events until this tournament in the 2014/2015 season, Ali Carter's seeding position will be determined as if he would be ranked 13th.^[23]

References

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^ "Ricky Walden". Champion of Champions Snooker. Archived from the original on 15 November 2014. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
^ "Mark Allen". Champion of Champions Snooker. Archived from the original on 15 November 2014. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
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^ "Dominic Dale". Champion of Champions Snooker. Archived from the original on 15 November 2014. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
^ "Steve Davis OBE". Champion of Champions Snooker. Archived from the original on 15 November 2014. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
^ "Marco Fu". Champion of Champions Snooker. Archived from the original on 15 November 2014. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
^ "John Higgins". Champion of Champions Snooker. Archived from the original on 15 November 2014. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
^ "Carter To Retain Top 16 Seeding". worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. 22 October 2014. Archived from the original on 25 October 2014. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
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^ "Fixtures & Results". Champion of Champions Snooker. Archived from the original on 30 May 2019. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
^ "Format". Champion of Champions Snooker. Archived from the original on 1 November 2014. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
^ ^a ^b "Dafabet Champion of Champions (2014)". Snooker.org. Archived from the original on 1 November 2014. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
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