The 2018

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, Canada's national women's

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championship, was held from January 27–February 4, 2018 at the

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. The winning team represented Canada at the

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held from March 17–25 at the Memorial Gardens in North Bay,

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. The 2018 tournament was the first to use a new 16-team format, featuring representation by all fourteen member associations of

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, the second-place team from the 2017 tournament (as champion

Rachel Homan Rachel Catherine Homan (born April 5, 1989) is a Canadian international curling, curler and the reigning women's world champion. Homan is a former 2010 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Canadian junior champion, a five-time Scotties Tourna ...

declined to participate due to her qualification for the

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), and a new wildcard team. As part of this new format, the Bronze medal game was removed from the schedule.

Teams

Curling Canada introduced a new 16-team format for both the Tournament of Hearts and Brier for 2018, under which all 14 member associations of Curling Canada were represented in the main field, rather than being limited by a pre-qualifying tournament. The teams were divided into two pools for round robin play, after which the top four teams from each advanced to the Championship Pool. Defending champion

declined to participate as Team Canada in order to prepare for the

;

Michelle Englot Michelle Jennet Englot (born January 22, 1964 in Montmartre, Saskatchewan; formerly known as Michelle Ridgway and Michelle Schneider); is a Canadian curler from Regina, Saskatchewan. She is a nine-time provincial champion skip. Career Englot s ...

's team, who finished as runner-up in the 2017 tournament, participated in her place. The final spot in the tournament was filled by a wildcard

play-in game A play-in game ...

held on the Friday before the tournament. The rinks of

Hollie Duncan Hollie Duncan (born January 6, 1987, in Toronto, Ontario, as Hollie Nicol) is a Canadian curler. She currently skips her own team on the World Curling Tour. Career Juniors As a bantam-aged curler, Duncan skipped her Unionville Curling Club ri ...

(

), Émilia Gagné (

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), and

Casey Scheidegger Casey Scheidegger (born January 31, 1988) is a Canadian curler from Lethbridge, Alberta. She is a former provincial junior champion. She currently coaches the University of Lethbridge curling team. Career Juniors Scheidegger won the 2009 Albert ...

(

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) made their Scotties debut; although members of Team Ontario had previous experience at the national women's championship, mostly as alternates. Scotties veteran skip

Sherry Anderson Sherry Anderson (born January 6, 1964) is a Canadian curler from Delisle, Saskatchewan. She is a record three-time winner of the World Senior Curling Championships for Canada. She currently coaches the Nancy Martin rink. Career Anderson has be ...

(

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) led a team of Tournament of Hearts rookies. The teams are listed as follows:

CTRS ranking

Wildcard game

A wildcard play-in game was played on January 26; it was contested between the top two teams on the

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who did not win their respective provincial championships, and was played between

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Chelsea Carey Chelsea Danielle Carey (born September 12, 1984 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta. She currently skips her own team out of Manitoba. She is the and Canadian and Alberta women's champion skip and 2014 Manitoba p ...

rink from

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and the East St. Paul Curling Club's

Kerri Einarson Kerri Einarson (; born Kerri Flett; October 3, 1987) is a Canadian Métis curler from Camp Morton, Manitoba, in the Rural Municipality of Gimli. Einarson is a four-time women's national champion in curling, skipping her team to victory in the , , ...

rink from the

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of East St. Paul. With Einarson's victory, Manitoba was represented by three different teams in the tournament. ;CTRS standings for wildcard game: ;Wildcard Game ''Friday, January 26, 18:30''

Map of teams

Round Robin standings

''Final Round Robin Standings''

Round Robin results

All draw times are listed in

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( UTC−8:00).

Draw 1

''Saturday, January 27, 14:00''

Draw 2

''Saturday, January 27, 19:00''

Draw 3

''Sunday, January 28, 09:00''

Draw 4

''Sunday, January 28, 14:00''

Draw 5

''Sunday, January 28, 19:00''

Draw 6

''Monday, January 29, 09:00''

Draw 7

''Monday, January 29, 14:00''

Draw 8

''Monday, January 29, 19:00''

Draw 9

''Tuesday, January 30, 09:00''

Draw 10

''Tuesday, January 30, 14:00''

Draw 11

''Tuesday, January 30, 19:00''

Draw 12

''Wednesday, January 31, 09:00''

Draw 13

''Wednesday, January 31, 14:00''

Draw 14

''Wednesday, January 31, 19:00''

Tiebreakers

''Thursday, February 1, 09:00''

Placement Round

Each team that finished fifth through eight in their pool played the team that finished in the same position in the opposite pool for the purpose of determining final tournament ranking. For example, the winner of the game between fifth place teams was ranked ninth place overall, the loser of that game was ranked tenth place, and so on.

Seeding Games

All game times are listed in

( UTC−8:00).

A5 vs. B5

''Friday, February 02, 09:00''

A6 vs. B6

''Friday, February 02, 09:00''

A7 vs. B7

''Friday, February 02, 09:00''

A8 vs. B8

''Friday, February 02, 09:00''

Championship Pool Standings

All wins and losses earned in the round robin (including results against teams that failed to advance) were carried forward into the Championship Pool. Wins in tiebreaker games were not carried forward. ''Final Championship Pool Standings''

Championship Pool Results

All draw times are listed in

( UTC−8:00).

Draw 15

''Thursday, February 01, 14:00''

Draw 16

''Thursday, February 01, 19:00''

Draw 17

''Friday, February 02, 14:00''

Draw 18

''Friday, February 02, 19:00''

Playoffs

1 vs. 2

''Saturday, February 03, 19:00''

3 vs. 4

''Saturday, February 03, 14:00''

Semifinal

''Sunday, February 04, 09:00''

Final

''Sunday, February 04, 16:00''

Statistics

Top 5 player percentages

''Final Round Robin Percentages; minimum 6 games''

Perfect games

Awards

The awards and all-star teams were as follows: ;All-Star Teams ''First Team'' *Skip:

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, Manitoba *Third: Cary-Anne McTaggart, Alberta *Second:

Jill Officer Jill Officer (born June 2, 1975) is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Officer played second for the teams skipped by Jennifer Jones from 2003 to 2018 and while they were juniors. The team won a gold medal while representing Canada at t ...

, Manitoba *Lead:

Dawn McEwen Dawn Kathleen McEwen ( Askin; born July 3, 1980) is a Canadian semi-retired curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She was the long-time lead for the Jennifer Jones rink, who became Olympic champions, winning gold for Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympic ...

, Manitoba ''Second Team'' *Skip:

Tracy Fleury Tracy Fleury (born Tracy Horgan; June 13, 1986) is a Canadian curler from Sudbury, Ontario. She joined the Rachel Homan rink as skip for the 2022–23 season, and now plays third on the team. With Homan, she won the 2024 Scotties Tournament of ...

, Northern Ontario *Third:

Shannon Birchard Shannon Birchard (born May 11, 1994) is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She currently plays second on Team Kerri Einarson from Gimli, Manitoba. The Einarson team are four-time Scotties Tournament of Hearts champions, winning the titl ...

, Manitoba *Second: Jessie Scheidegger, Alberta *Lead:

Raunora Westcott Raunora Westcott (born May 1, 1976) is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Career Juniors Westcott played lead for Team Manitoba (skipped by Kristy Jenion) at the 1996 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. The team finished with a 5-7 ...

, Team Canada ; Marj Mitchell Sportsmanship Award *

, Saskatchewan ;Joan Mead Builder Award * Melissa Soligo, Director of the High-Performance Program at Curl BC, national and international coach. Played second on the 1991 Scott champion Team British Columbia, earned a silver medal at the 1991 Worlds, and was a demonstration sport bronze medalist with Team Canada at the

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Notes

References

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