The 2019

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, Canada's national women's

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championship, was held from February 16 to 24 at the

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. The winning team represented Canada at the

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held from March 16 to 24 at the Silkeborg Sportscenter in

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. The final game featured the largest comeback in Scotties Finals history (according to TSN statistics). Alberta's Chelsea Carey came back from a 5–1 deficit, winning the championship 8–6 thanks to 5 total steal points in the second half, and two dramatic misses by Ontario's

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. This year's tournament was notable for Nunavut winning their first Scotties round robin game ever, defeating Quebec's Gabrielle Lavoie 4–3 in Draw 1; and the highest scoring game ever at a Canadian women's curling championship in Draw 10 with Prince Edward Island's Suzanne Birt winning 13–12 in an extra end over New Brunswick's Andrea Crawford, a total match score of 25 points. Team Canada's

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set a new record for the most Canadian national women's championship game wins as a skip when she skipped the 141st victory of her Scotties career over British Columbia's Sarah Wark in Draw 18 on February 22.

Teams

After winning the 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Team

returned to represent Team Canada, but with a lineup change. Following

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's retirement after the 2017–18 season, the Jones rink added 2016 Scotties champion Jocelyn Peterman to the team as second. Officer would however join the team as their alternate. Many Scotties veterans such as

(

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), Chelsea Carey (

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), Krista McCarville (

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), Kerry Galusha (

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), Jill Brothers (

), and Suzanne Birt (

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) won their respective playdowns. Andrea Crawford returned to skip Team

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after taking some time off and moving to

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. Tracy Fleury, who had previously represented Ontario and Northern Ontario, won the 2019 Manitoba Scotties Tournament of Hearts after defeating the heavily favoured Kerri Einarson rink. Sarah Wark (

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), Gabrielle Lavoie (

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) and Robyn Silvernagle (

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) made their Scotties debuts. Source:

CTRS ranking

Wildcard game

A wildcard play-in game was played on February 15. It was contested between the top two teams in the Canadian Team Ranking System standings who did not win their respective provincial championships: the Gimli Curling Club's Kerri Einarson rink from Gimli, Manitoba and the Lethbridge Curling Club's Casey Scheidegger rink from

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, Alberta. Team Wildcard entered the Scotties as the number 4 seed. In advance of the 2018–19 season,

was guaranteed a spot in the wildcard game if her team did not win their provincial championship. The team was forced to decline their Team Canada berth in the 2018 Scotties due to qualifying for the

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. However, had Homan been eliminated from the provincials, her team would have qualified for the game without the guaranteed spot as they led the CTRS standings. ;CTRS standings for wildcard game: Source: ;Wildcard Game ''Friday, February 15, 19:30''

Map of teams

Round robin standings

''Final Round Robin Standings''

Round robin results

All draw times are listed in

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( UTC−04:00).

Draw 1

''Saturday, February 16, 14:30''

Draw 2

''Saturday, February 16, 19:30''

Draw 3

''Sunday, February 17, 09:30''

Draw 4

''Sunday, February 17, 14:30''

Draw 5

''Sunday, February 17, 20:00''

Draw 6

''Monday, February 18, 09:30''

Draw 7

''Monday, February 18, 14:30''

Draw 8

''Monday, February 18, 19:30''

Draw 9

''Tuesday, February 19, 09:30''

Draw 10

''Tuesday, February 19, 14:30'' ^ This match set a record for the highest scoring game in Canadian national women's championship history.

Draw 11

''Tuesday, February 19, 19:30''

Draw 12

''Wednesday, February 20, 09:30''

Draw 13

''Wednesday, February 20, 14:30''

Draw 14

''Wednesday, February 20, 19:30''

Tiebreaker

''Thursday, February 21, 09:30''

Championship pool standings

The top four teams from each pool advanced to the Championship pool. 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−4:00).

Draw 15

''Thursday, February 21, 14:30''

Draw 16

''Thursday, February 21, 19:30''

Draw 17

''Friday, February 22, 14:30''

Draw 18

''Friday, February 22, 19:30''

Playoffs

1 vs. 2

''Saturday, February 23, 19:30''

3 vs. 4

''Saturday, February 23, 14:30''

Semifinal

''Sunday, February 24, 12:00''

Final

''Sunday, February 24, 18:00''

Statistics

Top 5 player percentages

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

Awards

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

, Ontario *Third:

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, Ontario *Second: Jen Gates, Northern Ontario *Lead: Dawn McEwen, Team Canada ''Second Team'' *Skip: Krista McCarville, Northern Ontario *Third: Kendra Lilly, Northern Ontario *Second: Joanne Courtney, Ontario *Lead: Sarah Potts, Northern Ontario ; Marj Mitchell Sportsmanship Award * Sarah Potts, Northern Ontario ;Joan Mead Builder Award * Leslie Ann Walsh, for her contributions to grow the sport of curling in her home province of

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, and grow the sport of

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. ;Paul McLean Award *Andrew Klaver,

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Notes

References

External links

* {{2018–19 curling season

Curling competitions in Nova Scotia

Sport in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality

Scotties Tournament of Hearts