The 2018 Tour Challenge was held from November 6 to 11 at the Tournament Centre in

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. This was the third Grand Slam of the

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. In the men's Tier 1 competition, Brad Jacobs defeated

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in the final 6–5. Team Bottcher was playing in their first Grand Slam final. In Tier 2, Kirk Muyres defeated

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's team in the final to secure a spot in the 2019 Canadian Open. The women's Tier 1 competition saw

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defeat

Tracy Fleury Tracy Fleury (born June 13, 1986, as Tracy Horgan) is a Canadian curler from Sudbury, Ontario. She joined the Rachel Homan rink as skip for the 2022–23 season. In 2021, she led her team to a silver medal at the 2021 Canadian Olympic Curling ...

8–4. In the Tier 2 final, Elena Stern beat

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6–5, qualifying for the 2019 Canadian Open.

Qualification

The Tour Challenge consists of two tiers of 15 teams. For Tier 1, the top 15 teams on the

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's Order of Merit rankings as of October 1, 2018. If any teams declined, the next highest team was invited until the field of 15 teams was complete. For Tier 2, the next 10 teams on the OOM rankings are invited. The final 5 teams in Tier 2 are filled by regional invitations extended by the Grand Slam of Curling.

Men

Top Order of Merit men's teams as of October 1: #

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 ...

Niklas Edin Johan Niklas Edin (born 6 July 1985) is a Swedish curler. He currently resides in Karlstad, which has been his curling home base since 2008. He holds several sport distinctions. He is the first and the only skip in World Curling Federation (W ...

Kevin Koe Kevin Koe ( ; born January 11, 1975) is a Canadian curler. Koe is a two-time World champion and four-time Canadian champion. He was the skip of the Canadian men's team at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang. Originally from Yellowknife, No ...

# ~~Bruce Mouat~~ # Brad Jacobs #

Reid Carruthers Reid Carruthers (born December 30, 1984) is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Carruthers was the 2011 world champion—winning gold as a second on Jeff Stoughton's team—as well as a six-time provincial champion, the 2003 junior pro ...

John Epping John Allan Epping (born March 20, 1983) is a Canadian curler from Toronto, Ontario. He currently skips his own team out of the Leaside Curling Club in East York, Toronto. Career Born in Peterborough, Ontario, Epping was a top junior curler, h ...

Jason Gunnlaugson Jason Gunnlaugson is a Canadian curler currently living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Gunnlaugson is known for having been hired by the Russian Curling Federation (RCF) to represent the country at the 2014 Winter Olympics. The deal which was announce ...

# Peter de Cruz Peter Vincent de Cruz (born 4 January 1990) is a Swiss curler. He is an Olympic bronze medallist for Switzerland, having skipped his Swiss rink to a third place finish at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. While de Cruz is the skip of his ...
#

Glenn Howard Glenn William Howard (born July 17, 1962) is a Canadian curler who is one of the most decorated curlers of all time. He has won four world championships, four Briers and 17 Ontario provincial championships, including a record eight straight, ...

# ~~Steffen Walstad~~ #

John Shuster John Shuster ( ; born November 3, 1982) is an American curler who lives in Superior, Wisconsin. He led Team USA to gold at the 2018 Winter Olympics, the first American team to ever win gold in curling. He also won a bronze medal at the 2006 Wint ...

# Thomas Ulsrud Thomas Ulsrud (21 October 1971 – 24 May 2022) was a Norwegian curler from Oslo. He won a silver medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics, one World Curling Championship, two European Curling Championships, and fourteen Norwegian titles (Norwegian M ...
#

Rich Ruohonen Richard Ruohonen (born March 31, 1971) is an American curler from Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. He is a two-time national champion and as such represented the United States at the 2008 and 2018 World Men's Curling Championships. Career Ruohonen mad ...

Ross Paterson Ross Paterson (born March 13, 1984) is a retired Scottish curler from Glasgow. During his career, he represented Scotland at four World Men's Curling Championships and four European Curling Championships, winning a bronze medal at both the 20 ...

# Yannick Schwaller Yannick Schwaller (born 31 March 1995 in Solothurn) is a Swiss curler from Recherswil. He currently skips his own team out of Geneva. Career Juniors Schwaller skipped the Swiss junior men's team at three straight World Junior Curling Champ ...
#

Matt Dunstone Matthew Dunstone, nicknamed "the Sheriff" (born June 25, 1995) is a Canadian curler from Kamloops, British Columbia. Career Dunstone won the Canadian Junior Curling Championships in 2013. He represented Canada at the 2013 World Junior Curlin ...

# Braden Calvert

Women

Top Order of Merit women's teams as of October 1: # ~~Anna Hasselborg~~ #

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# Laura Walker # Eve Muirhead Eve Muirhead (born 22 April 1990) is a Scottish former curler from Perth and the skip of the British Olympic Curling team. Muirhead and the GB team became Olympic champions at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, having previously won the br ...
# Jamie Sinclair # Nina Roth #

Silvana Tirinzoni Silvana Petra Tirinzoni (born 25 June 1979) is a Swiss curler from Zurich. She is currently the reigning women's world champion skip having won the last three championships, in 2019, 2021 and . Tirinzoni also represented Switzerland at the 2022 ...

# Satsuki Fujisawa is a Japanese curler from Kitami, Hokkaido. As a skip, she has won the Japanese national championship six times. Fujisawa skipped the bronze medal-winning Japanese team at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games and the silver medal-winning team at the ...
# ~~Kim Eun-jung~~ #

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

Darcy Robertson Darcy Robertson (born Darcy Kirkness, March 13, 1965) is a Canadian curler. She is a three-time provincial champion and former Canadian junior champion. Career Robertson had a successful junior career which involved winning the 1984 Canadian Ju ...

Casey Scheidegger Casey Scheidegger (born January 31, 1988) is a Canadian curler from Lethbridge, Alberta. She is a former provincial junior champion and is currently a skip on the World Curling Tour. Career Juniors Scheidegger won the 2009 Alberta Junior Curli ...

# Chelsea Carey # Isabella Wranå #

Allison Flaxey Allison "Alli" Flaxey ( Nimik; born February 13, 1985) is a Canadian curler from Caledon, Ontario. She currently plays third on Team Carly Howard. She is a former Canadian Mixed champion, and World Mixed Doubles bronze medallist. Career Flaxey ...

# Anna Sidorova Anna Vladimirovna Sidorova (russian: А́нна Влади́мировна Си́дорова; born 6 February 1991) is a Russian curler. She currently skips her own team on the World Curling Tour. Sidorova was the skip of the Russian team tha ...
# Cory Christensen #

Krista McCarville Krista Lee McCarville (born Krista Lee Scharf on November 10, 1982) is a Canadian curler from Thunder Bay, Ontario. McCarville is a four-time Northern Ontario junior champion, the 2003 Winter Universiade silver medallist, a four-time Ontario ...

Men

Tier 1

Teams

Round robin standings

Round robin results

All draw times are listed in

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( UTC-4).

=Draw 1

= ''Tuesday, November 6, 7:00 pm''

=Draw 2

= ''Wednesday, November 7, 8:00 am''

=Draw 3

= ''Wednesday, November 7, 11:30 am''

=Draw 4

= ''Wednesday, November 7, 3:00 pm''

=Draw 5

= ''Wednesday, November 7, 7:00 pm''

=Draw 6

= ''Thursday, November 8, 8:00 am''

=Draw 7

= ''Thursday, November 8, 11:30 am''

=Draw 8

= ''Thursday, November 8, 3:00 pm''

=Draw 9

= ''Thursday, November 8, 7:00 pm''

=Draw 10

= ''Friday, November 9, 8:00 am''

=Draw 11

= ''Friday, November 9, 11:30 am''

=Draw 12

= ''Friday, November 9, 3:00 pm''

=Draw 13

= ''Friday, November 9, 7:00 pm''

Tiebreaker

''Saturday, November 10, 8:30 am''

Playoffs

=Quarterfinals

= ''Saturday, November 10, 4:00 pm''

=Semifinals

= ''Saturday, November 10, 8:00 pm''

=Final

= ''Sunday, November 11, 4:00 pm''

Tier 2

Round robin standings

Tiebreakers

* Muirhead 5-2 Stopera * van Dorp 7-4 Lyburn

Playoffs

Women

Tier 1

Teams

Round robin standings

Round robin results

All draw times are listed in

( UTC-4).

=Draw 1

= ''Tuesday, November 6, 7:00 pm''

=Draw 2

= ''Wednesday, November 7, 8:00 am''

=Draw 3

= ''Wednesday, November 7, 11:30 am''

=Draw 4

= ''Wednesday, November 7, 3:00 pm''

=Draw 5

= ''Wednesday, November 7, 7:00 pm''

=Draw 6

= ''Thursday, November 8, 8:00 am''

=Draw 7

= ''Thursday, November 8, 11:30 am''

=Draw 8

= ''Thursday, November 8, 3:00 pm''

=Draw 9

= ''Thursday, November 8, 7:00 pm''

=Draw 10

= ''Friday, November 9, 8:00 am''

=Draw 11

= ''Friday, November 9, 11:30 am''

=Draw 12

= ''Friday, November 9, 3:00 pm''

Playoffs

=Quarterfinals

= ''Saturday, November 10, 12:00 pm''

=Semifinals

= ''Saturday, November 10, 8:00 pm''

=Final

= ''Sunday, November 11, 12:00 pm''

Tier 2

Round robin standings

Tiebreakers

* Froud 2-8 Rocque * Streifel 10-3 Brunton * Harrison 4-7 Tippin

Playoffs

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tour Challenge, 2018 November 2018 sports events in Canada 2018 in Canadian curling Sports competitions in Thunder Bay Curling in Northern Ontario 2018 in Ontario

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