The 2020

Tim Hortons Brier The Brier ('), known since 2024 as the Montana's Brier for sponsorship reasons, is the annual Canadian men's curling championship, sanctioned by Curling Canada. The Brier has been held since 1927, traditionally during the month of March. The wi ...

, Canada's national men's

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championship, was held from February 29 to March 8 at the

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. The winning

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 ...

rink was scheduled to represent Canada at the

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at the Commonwealth Arena in

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's Brad Gushue rink won their third Brier Tankard by defeating

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rink 7–3 in the final. Gushue won the Tankard in and . Bottcher finished runner-up in the past two Briers as well, losing to Gushue in 2018 and

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in . On Tuesday, March 3, Saskatchewan skip

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curled two perfect games in the same day (Draws 10 and 11) against higher ranked teams

(

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) and

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(

). It was the first time a curler curled two perfect games in the same day in Canadian Men's Curling Championship history. At the end of the Championship pool round on Friday March 6, four teams were tied for the fourth place berth in the playoffs, requiring three tiebreaker games to determine the final team eligible for the playoff round.

Teams

Source:

CTRS ranking

Wild card game

A wild card play-in game was played on February 28. It was contested between the top two teams on the Canadian Team Ranking System standings who did not win their respective provincial championships: the West St. Paul Curling Club's Mike McEwen rink from West St. Paul,

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; and the Penetanguishene Curling Club's

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rink from

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. Team Wild Card entered the Brier as the number 3 seed. ;CTRS standings for wild card game: ;Wild card Game ''Friday, February 28, 7:00 pm''

Map of teams

Round-robin standings

''Final round-robin standings''

Round-robin results

All draw times are listed in

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( UTC−05:00).

Draw 1

''Saturday, February 29, 2:00 pm''

Draw 2

''Saturday, February 29, 7:00 pm''

Draw 3

''Sunday, March 1, 9:00 am''

Draw 4

''Sunday, March 1, 2:00 pm''

Draw 5

''Sunday, March 1, 7:00 pm''

Draw 6

''Monday, March 2, 9:00 am''

Draw 7

''Monday, March 2, 2:00 pm''

Draw 8

''Monday, March 2, 7:00 pm''

Draw 9

''Tuesday, March 3, 9:00 am''

Draw 10

''Tuesday, March 3, 2:00 pm''

Draw 11

''Tuesday, March 3, 7:00 pm''

Draw 12

''Wednesday, March 4, 9:00 am''

Draw 13

''Wednesday, March 4, 2:00 pm''

Draw 14

''Wednesday, March 4, 7:00 pm''

Championship pool standings

The top four teams from each pool advance to the Championship pool. All wins and losses earned in the round robin will be carried forward into the Championship Pool. Wins in tiebreaker games are not carried forward. ''Final Championship pool standings''

Championship pool results

Draw 16

''Thursday, March 5, 1:00 pm''

Draw 17

''Thursday, March 5, 7:00 pm''

Draw 18

''Friday, March 6, 1:00 pm''

Draw 19

''Friday, March 6, 7:00 pm''

Tiebreakers

''Saturday, March 7, 9:00 am'' ''Saturday, March 7, 2:00 pm''

Playoffs

1 vs. 2

''Saturday, March 7, 2:00 pm''

3 vs. 4

''Saturday, March 7, 7:00 pm''

Semifinal

''Sunday, March 8, 12:00 pm''

Final

''Sunday, March 8, 7:00 pm''

Statistics

Top 5 player percentages

''After Championship Pool; minimum 5 games''

Perfect games

''Round robin and championship pool only''

Awards

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

, Alberta *Third:

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, Team Wild Card *Second: E.J. Harnden, Northern Ontario *Lead:

Colin Hodgson Colin Sterling-Wyatt Hodgson (born June 8, 1990) is a Canadian curler originally from Lacombe, Alberta. He is the former lead for Team Mike McEwen and currently plays mixed doubles with Chelsea Carey. He also coaches the Julia Weagle rink. C ...

, Team Wild Card ''Second Team'' *Skip: Mike McEwen, Team Wild Card *Third:

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, Northern Ontario *Second:

Derek Samagalski Derek Samagalski (born September 9, 1984) is a Canadian curler who currently resides in Carberry, Manitoba. Career Samagalski gained notoriety when he won the 2012 Safeway Championship again as a lead on the Rob Fowler team to represent Mani ...

, Team Wild Card *Lead:

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, Team Canada ;Ross Harstone Sportsmanship Award *

, Team Wild Card Lead ;Paul McLean Award *Geoff Kamada and Shayne Dilling, TSN

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s ;Hec Gervais Most Valuable Player Award *

, Newfoundland and Labrador Skip

Final standings

Notes

References

External links

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