The 2019
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Continental Cup was held from January 17 to 20 at the
Orleans Arena
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The arena is the hom ...
in
Paradise
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,
Nevada
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. This was the fourth time the event is being held in Paradise and the fourth time outside Canada. The event featured new team scramble competitions, with players from different traditional teams competing together, along with the mixed doubles, team, and skins competitions seen in previous years.
Team World was in the lead for the entirety of the event. However, a strong performance from Team North America in the final skins draw, holding Team World to 0.5 points in the first seven ends of all three matches, led to the winner being decided in the eighth and final end. The cup was decided in the women's game when
Eve Muirhead
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made a hit and stick to win a skin worth 2.5 points against Team
Rachel Homan
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to clinch the title.
The final result was a 34–26 victory for Team World, their first win since 2012. Team World collected CAD$85,000; Team North America collected CAD$45,000.
Competition format
This edition of the Continental Cup will use a new format. There will be sixty points available, distributed as follows:
The number of traditional team games is reduced under this format, with each team now playing in only one traditional team game instead of three as in past years. There is one additional mixed doubles draw, eliminating the practice of having the third mixed doubles game consisting of two pairs of players who switch after four ends of play; this in turn ensures that all players are involved in one full mixed doubles game.
The two new events are the team scramble and mixed team scramble. The team scramble will be a mix of the traditional teams into same-gender lineups. Front-end or back-end teammates cannot stay together, but a back-end player may play with a front-end teammate. The mixed teams scramble will use mixed teams, with at least one team per side skipped by a female.
There is one men's team scramble draw and one women's team scramble draw, with each game worth one point; each game in the single mixed scramble draw is worth two points.
Teams
Events
All draw times are listed in
Pacific Daylight Time
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(UTC−7:00).
Thursday, January 17
Draw 1
Mixed doubles
8:30 am
Draw 2
Mixed doubles
1:30 pm
Draw 3
Women's team play
6:30 pm
Friday, January 18
Draw 4
Mixed doubles
8:30 am
Draw 5
Mixed doubles
1:30 pm
Draw 6
Men's team play
6:30 pm
Saturday, January 19
Draw 7
Women's team scramble
8:30 am
Draw 8
Men's team scramble
1:30 pm
Draw 9
Mixed team scramble
6:30 pm
Sunday, January 20
Draw 10
Skins
11:00 am
Draw 11
Skins
4:00 pm
References
External links
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Media Guide(web archive)
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