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2024 PointsBet Invitational
The 2024 PointsBet Invitational curling tournament was held from September 25 to 29 at the Markin MacPhail Centre at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Alberta. The event featured thirty-two Canadian teams and was the first major event of the 2024–25 curling season, 2024–25 season. It was played in a single-elimination tournament with the winning team on both the men's and women's sides receiving $50,000 each. Qualification The top 10 ranked men's and women's 2023–24 curling season, 2023–24 CTRS standings qualified for the event first. The 2024 Alberta men's and women's champions also qualified. Additionally, the reigning men's and women's champions of the 2024 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, the 2024 CCAA/Curling Canada College Curling Championships, the 2024 U Sports/Curling Canada University Curling Championships, the U25 NextGen Classic, 2024 U25 NextGen Classic and the 2023 Canadian Curling Club Championships received a berth to round out the field. Men Top CTRS m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calgary
Calgary () is a major city in the Canadian province of Alberta. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806 making it the third-largest city and fifth-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Calgary is at the confluence of the Bow River and the Elbow River in the southwest of the province, in the transitional area between the Rocky Mountain Foothills and the Canadian Prairies, about east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies, roughly south of the provincial capital of Edmonton and approximately north of the Canada–United States border. The city anchors the south end of the Statistics Canada-defined urban area, the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor. Calgary's economy includes activity in many sectors: energy; financial services; film and television; transportation and logistics; technology; manufacturing; aerospace; health and wellness; retail; and tourism. The Calgary Metropolitan Region is home to Canada' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Wilkes
Sarah Wilkes (born August 4, 1990, in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian curler from London, Ontario. She is currently the lead for Team Rachel Homan, the 2024 Scotties, 2025 Scotties, 2024 World and 2025 World Champions. She previously won the 2019 Scotties Tournament of Hearts with Team Chelsea Carey. Career Juniors As a junior curler, Wilkes played third for the 2011 Ontario Junior Women's Championship team skipped by Clancy Grandy. The team represented Ontario at the 2011 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, where they finished with a 5–7 record. In University curling, Wilkes played third for the Wilfrid Laurier University women's curling team. She played in the 2010 CIS/CCA Curling Championships on a team skipped by Danielle Inglis, losing in the semi-final. Laurier would then win the 2011 and 2012 CIS/CCA Curling Championships under skip Laura Crocker. The team represented Canada at the 2013 Winter Universiade, but they finished off the podium with a 4–5 roun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 CCAA/Curling Canada College Curling Championships
The 2024 CCAA/Curling Canada College Championships was held from March 12 to 16 at the Aitken University Centre and the Capital Winter Club in Fredericton, New Brunswick. The event was hosted by the University of New Brunswick. The event was also held in conjunction with the 2024 U Sports/Curling Canada University Curling Championships, the Canadian university curling championship. Men Teams The teams are listed as follows: Round robin standings ''Final Round Robin Standings'' Round robin results All draws are listed in Atlantic Time ( UTC−04:00). Draw 2 ''Tuesday, March 12, 9:00 pm'' Draw 4 ''Wednesday, March 13, 12:30 pm'' Draw 6 ''Wednesday, March 13, 8:30 pm'' Draw 8 ''Thursday, March 14, 12:30 pm'' Draw 10 ''Thursday, March 14, 8:30 pm'' Draw 11 ''Friday, March 15, 8:30 am'' Draw 13 ''Friday, March 15, 4:30 pm'' Playoffs Semifinals ''Saturday, March 16, 9:30 am'' Bronze medal game ''Saturday, March 16, 2:30 pm'' Final '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Canadian Junior Curling Championships
The 2024 New Holland Canadian Under-21 Curling Championships were held from March 24 to 31 at the Suncor Community Leisure Centre and the Oilsands Curling Club in Fort McMurray, Alberta. The winners earned the right to represent Canada at the 2025 World Junior Curling Championships. This was the second time Fort McMurray played host to the Canadian Under-21 Curling Championships. The city previously held the 2013 championship which was won by Manitoba's Matt Dunstone and British Columbia's Corryn Brown. Fort McMurray was also supposed to host the 2021 championship before it was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, being replaced by the 2021 World Junior Qualification Event. The event featured eighteen teams on both the men's and women's sides, each split into two pools of nine. The top three teams from each pool at the end of the round robin advanced to the playoff round. Based on results from the 2022 and 2023 events, certain provinces earned two berths to the championsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CTRS Standings
The Canadian Team Ranking System (CTRS) is a point system used by Curling Canada to rank men's and women's curling teams across Canada. They are determined through points earned in various curling bonspiels held worldwide throughout the season. CTRS points are the basis of the World Curling Tour's Order of Merit and are also used as criteria in identifying teams that qualify for the Canadian Olympic Curling Trials. Beginning in 2018, the top two CTRS teams that do not otherwise qualify for the Scotties Tournament of Hearts or Montana's Brier will earn the right to compete in a play-in game for a wildcard berth in those tournaments. The following lists the top 25 teams in the CTRS standings for each curling season beginning in 2003–04. Records 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2021–22 No r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023–24 Curling Season
The 2023–24 curling Curling is a sport in which players slide #Curling stone, stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area that is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take t ... season began in June 2023 and ended in May 2024. World Curling Federation events Source: Championships Qualification events Other events Curling Canada events Source: Championships Invitationals Provincial and Territorial Playdowns National championships Australia Brazil Chinese Taipei Czech Republic source: Denmark England Estonia (source:) Finland Source: Germany Italy Japan Latvia source: New Zealand source Norway (source:) Poland Russia source: Scotland source: South Korea Sweden source: Switzerland source: United States (source :) Tour events Teams :''See: List of teams in the 2023–24 curling season'' Men's events Source: * Women's team ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Single-elimination Tournament
A single-elimination knockout, or sudden-death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of a match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final match-up, whose winner becomes the tournament champion(s). Some match-ups may be a single match or several, for example two-legged ties in European sports or best-of series in North American pro sports. Defeated competitors may play no further part after losing, or may participate in "consolation" or "classification" matches against other losers to determine the lower final rankings; for example, a third place playoff between losing semi-finalists. In a shootout poker tournament, there are more than two players competing at each table, and sometimes more than one progresses to the next round. Some competitions are held with a pure single-elimination tournament system. Others have many phases, with the last being a single-elimination final stage, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024–25 Curling Season
The 2024–25 curling season began in May 2024 and ended in May 2025. World Curling Federation events Source: Championships Qualification events Other events Curling Canada events Source: Championships Invitationals Provincial and Territorial Playdowns National championships Australia Czech Republic source: Denmark source: Estonia Finland Source: Germany Hungary Source: Italy Source: Japan Latvia source: New Zealand Norway source: Russia Source: Video: (Official RuTube-channel of Russian Curling Federation) Scotland source: South Korea Sweden source: Switzerland United States source: Tour events Men's events Source: * Women's team. Women's events Source: Mixed doubles events Source: World Curling team rankings Notable team changes Retirement Announcements * Glenn Howard: The four-time Canadian and world champion announced his retirement in April 2024, citing a knee injury. The 61-year-old, who also won 14 Gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curling
Curling is a sport in which players slide #Curling stone, stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area that is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called ''rocks'', across the ice ''curling sheet'' toward the ''house'', a circular target marked on the ice. Each team has eight stones, with each player throwing two. The goal is to accumulate the highest score for a ''game''; points are scored for the stones resting closest to the centre of the house at the conclusion of each ''end'', which is completed when both teams have thrown all of their stones once. A game usually consists of eight or ten ends. Players induce a curved path, described as ''curl'', by causing the stone to slowly rotate as it slides. The path of the rock may be further influenced by two sweepers with brooms or brushes, who accompany it as it slides down the sheet and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PointsBet Invitational
The PointsBet Invitational is an annual curling tournament put on by Curling Canada as one of its four "Season of Champions" events (along with the Scotties, the Brier and either the men's or women's World Curling Championships). The tournament is held as a single-elimination tournament, and features the top ranked teams in the country, as well as the winners of certain national championships such as the Canadian Junior Curling Championships, the Canadian University Curling Championships, the Canadian College Curling Championships and the Canadian Curling Club Championships. The winning teams receive $50,000. The event began in 2022, and consists of 16 teams. It is broadcast on television on TSN and is sponsored by PointsBet, an online gambling website. As a single-elimination tournament, it is meant to emulate the "March Madness" NCAA basketball tournament, with round names being called the "Sweep 16", "Elite 8" and "Final Four". The event replaces the Canada Cup The Cana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 PointsBet Invitational
The 2025 PointsBet Invitational curling tournament will be held from October 1 to 5 at the Markin MacPhail Centre at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Alberta. The event will feature twenty Canadian teams and will be the first major event of the 2025–26 season. In a change of format, the event will be played in a round-robin tournament with the top team in each pool advancing to the final. The winning team on both the men's and women's side will receive $35,000 each. Qualification With the change in format from a single-knockout to a round robin, the field was reduced from sixteen to ten teams. The seven teams qualified for the 2025 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials all received invitations, while the final three spots were filled by the top ranked non-qualified team, the top ranked non-qualified Under-27 team and the winners of the 2025 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. Men Trials field: * Matt Dunstone * John Epping * Brad Gushue * Brad Jacobs * Rylan Kleiter * Kevin Koe * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 PointsBet Invitational
The 2023 PointsBet Invitational curling tournament was held from September 27 to October 1 at the Sixteen Mile Sports Complex in Oakville, Ontario. The event featured thirty-two Canadian teams and was the first major event of the 2023–24 season. It was played in a single-elimination tournament with the winning team on both the men's and women's sides receiving $50,000 each. Qualification The top 10 ranked men's and women's 2022–23 CTRS standings qualified for the event first. The 2023 Ontario men's and women's champions also qualified. Additionally, the reigning men's and women's champions of the 2023 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, the 2023 CCAA/Curling Canada College Curling Championships, the 2023 U Sports/Curling Canada University Curling Championships, the 2023 U25 NextGen Classic and the 2022 Canadian Curling Club Championships received a berth to round out the field. Men Top CTRS men's teams: # Brad Gushue # Brendan Bottcher # Matt Dunstone # Kevin Koe # ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
