The 2019
KIOTI TRACTOR Tour Challenge
The Tour Challenge is a bonspiel, or curling tournament, and is a Grand Slam of Curling event. It was introduced into the Grand Slam lineup starting in the 2015–16 curling season
The 2015–16 curling season began in August 2015 and ended in ...
was held from November 5 to 10, at the
Pictou County Wellness Centre in
Westville Road, Nova Scotia
Westville Road is an unincorporated community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Pictou County
Pictou County is a county in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was established in 1835, and was formerly a part of Halifax C ...
. It was the second
Grand Slam event of the
2019–20 season.
In the men's tier 1 final,
Brad Jacobs of
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario defeated
Brad Gushue of
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
St. John's is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, located on the eastern tip of the Avalon Peninsula on the island of Newfoundland.
The city spans and is the easternmost city in North America ...
to win his 5th Grand Slam. In the tier 2 final,
Korey Dropkin defeated
Tanner Horgan to earn a spot at the 2020 Canadian Open in January.
In the women's tier 1 final,
Anna Hasselborg
Anna Ellinor Hasselborg (born 5 May 1989) is a Swedish curler who is the 2018 Olympic Champion in women's curling, and a former World Junior Champion skip. In November 2019, she became the first curler in history to reign as the simultaneous ho ...
of
Sundbyberg, Sweden defeated
Kerri Einarson of
Gimli, Manitoba to win her 3rd Grand Slam. In the tier 2 final,
Kim Min-ji defeated
Jestyn Murphy to earn a spot at the Canadian Open.
Qualification
The Tour Challenge consists of two tiers. For the Tier 1, the top 15 teams on the
World Curling Tour Order of Merit rankings as of October 1, 2019 are invited. In the event that a team declines their invitation, the next-ranked team on the order of merit is invited until the field is complete. For the Tier 2, 16 teams are invited including the next top ranked OOM teams and regional teams.
Men
Tier 1
Top Order of Merit men's teams as of October 1:
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Kevin Koe
#
John Epping
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Brendan Bottcher
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Niklas Edin
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Bruce Mouat
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Brad Jacobs
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Peter de Cruz
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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 ...
#
Brad Gushue
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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 ...
#
Yannick Schwaller
#
Glenn Howard
#
Scott McDonald
#
John Shuster
#
Mike McEwen
#
Jason Gunnlaugson
Tier 2
Order of Merit teams:
*
Cameron Bryce
Cameron Bryce (born 20 July 1995) is a Scottish curler from Kelso. He currently skips his own team out of Stirling.
Career
Bryce has twice skipped Scotland at the World Mixed Curling Championship. He and teammates Katie Murray, Bobby Lammie ...
*
Braden Calvert
*
Korey Dropkin
*
Mike Fournier
Michael "Mike" Fournier (born November 24, 1971) is a Canadian curler originally from Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec. He currently skips his own team out of Toronto, Ontario.
Career
Fournier played in his first Quebec Tankard in 2014 at the 2 ...
*
Tanner Horgan
*
Kirk Muyres
*
Rich Ruohonen
*
Karsten Sturmay
Karsten Sturmay (born November 7, 1996 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian curler originally from Leduc, Alberta. He is formerly the skip of the Alberta Golden Bears men's curling team in university curling and on the World Curling Tour.
C ...
*
Jaap van Dorp
Jaap van Dorp (born 25 February 1990 in Benthuizen) is a Dutch curling, curler from Waddinxveen. He currently plays Second (curling), second on the Dutch men's curling team skipped by Wouter Gösgens.
Career Juniors
Van Dorp represented the Net ...
Regional teams:
*
James Grattan
*
Scott Jones
*
Jamie Murphy
*
Greg Smith
*
Chad Stevens
Chad Stevens (born June 23, 1974 in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian curler from Chester, Nova Scotia. He skips on a rink on the World Curling Tour.
Stevens won the Curl Atlantic Championship
The Curl Atlantic Championship is an annual ...
*
Kendal Thompson
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*
Stuart Thompson
Women
Tier 1
Top Order of Merit women's teams as of October 1:
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Rachel Homan
#
Anna Hasselborg
Anna Ellinor Hasselborg (born 5 May 1989) is a Swedish curler who is the 2018 Olympic Champion in women's curling, and a former World Junior Champion skip. In November 2019, she became the first curler in history to reign as the simultaneous ho ...
#
Kerri Einarson
#
Silvana Tirinzoni
#
Jennifer Jones
#
Chelsea Carey
#
Tracy Fleury
#
Satsuki Fujisawa
#
Robyn Silvernagle
#
Casey Scheidegger
#
Eve Muirhead
#
Sayaka Yoshimura
#
Elena Stern
Elena Stern (born 8 November 1994) is a retired Swiss curler from Zürich.
Career
Stern first represented Switzerland on the international stage at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics where her team of Michael Brunner, Romano Meier and Lisa Gisle ...
#
Theresa Cannon
#
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 ...
#
Kelsey Rocque
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Seina Nakajima
is a Japanese curler from Nagano. She is the third on the Chubu Electric Power curling team, which won the Japan Curling Championships in both 2017 and 2019. At the international level, she has represented Japan twice at the World Women's Cur ...
#
Isabella Wranå
#
Mei Jie
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* Mei River, Guangdon ...
#
Jiang Yilun
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Gim Un-chi
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Nina Roth
Tier 2
Order of Merit teams:
*
Megan Balsdon
Megan Balsdon (born May 10, 1982 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian curler. She currently plays third on Team Hollie Duncan.
Career
In 1998, Balsdon won the Ontario Bantam Mixed championships playing third for skip Bobby Reid. In 2001, she won ...
*
Corryn Brown
*
Hollie Duncan
*
Binia Feltscher
Binia Feltscher (born 13 October 1978 in Chur) is a Switzerland, Swiss retired Curling, curler from Flims. She was the Skip (curling), skip of the 2014 and 2016 World championship curling teams from Switzerland. From 2006 to 2013 she was known as ...
*
Daniela Jentsch
*
Kim Min-ji
*
Jestyn Murphy
*
Beth Peterson
*
Laurie St-Georges
*
Laura Walker
Regional teams:
*
Mary-Anne Arsenault
*
Suzanne Birt
Suzanne Birt (born Suzanne Gaudet on October 2, 1981 in Summerside, Prince Edward Island) is a Canadian curling, curler from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. She currently Skip (curling), skips her own team on the World Curling Tour.
Career
...
*
Jill Brothers
*
Andrea Crawford
*
Mackenzie Glynn
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*
Tanya Hilliard
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Men
Tier 1
Teams
The teams are listed as follows:
Round-robin standings
''Final round-robin standings''
Round-robin results
All draw times are listed in
Atlantic Time (
UTC−04:00).
=Draw 1
=
''Tuesday, November 5, 7:00 pm''
=Draw 2
=
''Wednesday, November 6, 8:00 am''
=Draw 3
=
''Wednesday, November 6, 12:00 pm''
=Draw 4
=
''Wednesday, November 6, 4:00 pm''
=Draw 5
=
''Wednesday, November 6, 8:00 pm''
=Draw 6
=
''Thursday, November 7, 8:00 am''
=Draw 7
=
''Thursday, November 7, 12:00 pm''
=Draw 8
=
''Thursday, November 7, 4:00 pm''
=Draw 9
=
''Thursday, November 7, 8:00 pm''
=Draw 10
=
''Friday, November 8, 8:00 am''
=Draw 11
=
''Friday, November 8, 12:00 pm''
=Draw 12
=
''Friday, November 8, 4:00 pm''
=Draw 13
=
''Friday, November 8, 8:00 pm''
=Tiebreakers
=
''Saturday, November 9, 8:30 am''
Playoffs
=Quarterfinals
=
''Saturday, November 9, 4:30 pm''
=Semifinals
=
''Saturday, November 9, 8:30 pm''
=Final
=
''Sunday, November 10, 4:30 pm''
Tier 2
Teams
The teams are listed as follows:
Round-robin standings
''Final round-robin standings''
Round-robin results
All draw times are listed in
Atlantic Time (
UTC−04:00).
=Draw 1
=
''Tuesday, November 5, 7:00 pm''
=Draw 2
=
''Wednesday, November 6, 8:00 am''
=Draw 3
=
''Wednesday, November 6, 12:00 pm''
=Draw 4
=
''Wednesday, November 6, 4:00 pm''
=Draw 5
=
''Wednesday, November 6, 8:00 pm''
=Draw 6
=
''Thursday, November 7, 8:00 am''
=Draw 7
=
''Thursday, November 7, 12:00 pm''
=Draw 8
=
''Thursday, November 7, 4:00 pm''
=Draw 9
=
''Thursday, November 7, 8:00 pm''
=Draw 10
=
''Friday, November 8, 8:00 am''
=Draw 11
=
''Friday, November 8, 12:00 pm''
=Draw 12
=
''Friday, November 8, 4:00 pm''
=Draw 13
=
''Friday, November 8, 8:00 pm''
=Tiebreakers
=
''Saturday, November 9, 8:30 am''
''Saturday, November 9, 12:30 pm''
Playoffs
=Quarterfinals
=
''Saturday, November 9, 4:30 pm''
=Semifinals
=
''Saturday, November 9, 8:30 pm''
=Final
=
''Sunday, November 10, 4:30 pm''
Women
Tier 1
Teams
The teams are listed as follows:
Round-robin standings
''Final round-robin standings''
Round-robin results
All draw times are listed in
Atlantic Time (
UTC−04:00).
=Draw 1
=
''Tuesday, November 5, 7:00 pm''
=Draw 2
=
''Wednesday, November 6, 8:00 am''
=Draw 3
=
''Wednesday, November 6, 12:00 pm''
=Draw 4
=
''Wednesday, November 6, 4:00 pm''
=Draw 5
=
''Wednesday, November 6, 8:00 pm''
=Draw 6
=
''Thursday, November 7, 8:00 am''
=Draw 7
=
''Thursday, November 7, 12:00 pm''
=Draw 8
=
''Thursday, November 7, 4:00 pm''
=Draw 9
=
''Thursday, November 7, 8:00 pm''
=Draw 10
=
''Friday, November 8, 8:00 am''
=Draw 11
=
''Friday, November 8, 12:00 pm''
=Draw 12
=
''Friday, November 8, 4:00 pm''
=Tiebreakers
=
''Friday, November 8, 8:00 pm''
Playoffs
=Quarterfinals
=
''Saturday, November 9, 12:30 pm''
=Semifinals
=
''Saturday, November 9, 8:30 pm''
=Final
=
''Sunday, November 10, 12:30 pm''
Tier 2
Teams
The teams are listed as follows:
Round-robin standings
''Final round-robin standings''
Round-robin results
All draw times are listed in
Atlantic Time (
UTC−04:00).
=Draw 1
=
''Tuesday, November 5, 7:00 pm''
=Draw 2
=
''Wednesday, November 6, 8:00 am''
=Draw 3
=
''Wednesday, November 6, 12:00 pm''
=Draw 4
=
''Wednesday, November 6, 4:00 pm''
=Draw 5
=
''Wednesday, November 6, 8:00 pm''
=Draw 6
=
''Thursday, November 7, 8:00 am''
=Draw 7
=
''Thursday, November 7, 12:00 pm''
=Draw 8
=
''Thursday, November 7, 4:00 pm''
=Draw 9
=
''Thursday, November 7, 8:00 pm''
=Draw 10
=
''Friday, November 8, 8:00 am''
=Draw 11
=
''Friday, November 8, 12:00 pm''
=Draw 12
=
''Friday, November 8, 4:00 pm''
=Draw 13
=
''Friday, November 8, 8:00 pm''
=Tiebreakers
=
''Saturday, November 9, 8:30 am''
Playoffs
=Quarterfinals
=
''Saturday, November 9, 12:30 pm''
=Semifinals
=
''Saturday, November 9, 8:30 pm''
=Final
=
''Sunday, November 10, 12:30 pm''
Notes
References
External links
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