The 2015
GSOC Tour Challenge was held from September 8 to 13 at the
Paradise Double Ice Complex in
Paradise
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,
Newfoundland and Labrador
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. It was the first
Grand Slam event of the
2015–16 curling season for both the men's and women's World Curling Tour.
In the tier 1 events,
Kevin Koe
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defeated
Brad Gushue
Bradley Raymond Gushue, ONL ( ; born June 16, 1980) is a Canadian curler from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Gushue, along with teammates Russ Howard, Mark Nichols, Jamie Korab and Mike Adam, represented Canada in curling at the 2006 ...
on the men's side, Koe's fourth slam title. On the women's side,
Silvana Tirinzoni
Silvana Petra Tirinzoni (born 25 June 1979) is a Swiss curler from Zurich. She is a four-time women's world champion skip (, , , ) and five-time Grand Slam champion. She is a former world junior champion and reigning European champion. Tirinzo ...
won her first slam by upsetting
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 ...
in the final.
the tier 2 winners
Jim Cotter and
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 , , ...
both qualified for the
2015 The Masters Grand Slam of Curling.
The event introduced the curling world to a new kind of sweeping strategy employed by the Gushue rink. Up until this season, most curling teams would use two sweepers for each rock thrown, but the Gushue rink only used one at the Tour Challenge. The thought process by the Gushue team was that having two sweepers would "cancel out" the directional sweeping of each other. The change in sweeping strategy by the team marked the beginning of a tumultuous curling season which led to the banning of new brush head fabrics as part of the "
broomgate
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" scandal.
Men
Tier I
Teams
The teams are listed as follows:
Round-robin standings
''Final round-robin standings''
Round-robin results
All draw times are listed in
Newfoundland Time Zone
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.
=Draw 1
=
''Tuesday, September 8, 7:00 pm''
=Draw 2
=
''Wednesday, September 9, 9:00 am''
=Draw 3
=
''Wednesday, September 9, 12:30 pm''
=Draw 4
=
''Wednesday, September 9, 4:00 pm''
=Draw 5
=
''Wednesday, September 9, 7:30 pm''
=Draw 6
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''Thursday, September 10, 9:00 am''
=Draw 7
=
''Thursday, September 10, 12:30 pm''
=Draw 8
=
''Thursday, September 10, 4:00 pm''
=Draw 9
=
''Thursday, September 10, 7:30 pm''
=Draw 10
=
''Friday, September 11, 9:00 am''
=Draw 11
=
''Friday, September 11, 12:30 pm''
=Draw 12
=
''Friday, September 11, 4:00 pm''
Playoffs
=Quarterfinals
=
''Saturday, September 12, 11:00 am''
=Semifinals
=
''Saturday, September 12, 7:00 pm''
=Final
=
''Sunday, September 13, 6:30 pm''
Tier II
Round-robin standings
''Final round-robin standings''
Tiebreaker
''Friday, September 11, 8:30 pm''
Playoffs
=Quarterfinals
=
''Saturday, September 12, 11:30 am''
=Semifinals
=
''Saturday, September 12, 7:00 pm''
=Final
=
''Sunday, September 13, 6:00 pm''
Women
Tier I
Teams
The teams are listed as follows:
Round-robin standings
''Final round-robin standings''
Round-robin results
The draw is listed as follows:
=Draw 1
=
''Tuesday, September 8, 7:00 pm''
=Draw 2
=
''Wednesday, September 9, 9:00 am''
=Draw 3
=
''Wednesday, September 9, 12:30 pm''
=Draw 4
=
''Wednesday, September 9, 4:00 pm''
=Draw 5
=
''Wednesday, September 9, 7:30 pm''
=Draw 6
=
''Thursday, September 10, 9:00 am''
=Draw 7
=
''Thursday, September 10, 12:30 pm''
=Draw 8
=
''Thursday, September 10, 4:00 pm''
=Draw 9
=
''Thursday, September 10, 7:30 pm''
=Draw 10
=
''Friday, September 11, 9:00 am''
=Draw 11
=
''Friday, September 11, 12:30 pm''
=Draw 12
=
''Friday, September 11, 4:00 pm''
=Draw 13
=
''Friday, September 11, 7:30 pm''
Tiebreakers
''Saturday, September 12, 8:00 am''
Playoffs
=Quarterfinals
=
''Saturday, September 12, 2:30 pm''
=Semifinals
=
''Saturday, September 12, 5:30 pm''
=Final
=
''Sunday, September 13, 11:30 am''
Tier II
Round-robin standings
''Final round-robin standings''
Tiebreakers
''Saturday, September 12, 8:30 am''
Playoffs
=Quarterfinals
=
''Saturday, September 12, 3:00 pm''
=Semifinals
=
''Saturday, September 12, 7:00 pm''
=Final
=
''Sunday, September 13, 11:30 am''
References
External links
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{{2015–16 curling season
2015 in Canadian curling
Curling competitions in Newfoundland and Labrador
Tour Challenge
September 2015 sports events in Canada
2015 in Newfoundland and Labrador