The 2023 Ontario Tankard, (known as the Port Elgin Chrysler 2023 Ontario Tankard Presented by

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for sponsorship reasons), the provincial men's

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championship for

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, was held from January 24 to 29 at

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in Port Elgin,

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. The winning Mike McEwen rink represented Ontario at the 2023 Tim Hortons Brier on home soil in

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where they finished fourth place losing in the 3 vs. 4 Page Playoff game to Wild Card #1 6–3. It was the second straight year that the event was held in Port Elgin. The 2022 event had been subject to COVID-19 restrictions, capping attendance at 500 people per draw, so the organizers requested that CurlON hold the event in Port Elgin again. The event was held in conjunction with the 2023 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the provincial women's curling championship, which were held in Thornhill in 2022 (both events are held together in non-Olympic years).

Qualification process

Twelve teams qualified for the 2023 Ontario Tankard. Two teams qualified via their results in the " Grand Slam" series events ( 2022 PointsBet Invitational, 2022 National, 2022 Tour Challenge, 2022 Masters). Two teams qualified via their results in the Trillium Tour '1000' series events ( Stu Sells Toronto Tankard, Capital Curling Classic, Stroud Sleeman Cash Spiel, Tour Challenge Tier 2, Stu Sells Brantford Nissan Classic). Three teams qualified via their results in the Trillium Tour '500' series events ( Gord Carroll Curling Classic,

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, Capital Curling Fall Open, St. Thomas Curling Classic, Comco Cash Spiel,

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, Capital Curling Rideau Open, Stu Sells Cookstown Classic, plus the aforementioned 1000 events). One team (restricted to curlers under the age of 25) qualified via their results in the aforementioned Trillium Tour events, plus the CurlON 250 Event #1. The remaining four teams qualified via an open qualifier.

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:

Round-robin standings

''Final round-robin standings''

Round-robin results

All draws are listed in

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( UTC−05:00).

Draw 2

''Tuesday, January 24, 9:30 am''

Draw 3

''Tuesday, January 24, 2:30 pm''

Draw 4

''Tuesday, January 24, 7:30 pm''

Draw 5

''Wednesday, January 25, 9:30 am''

Draw 7

''Wednesday, January 25, 7:30 pm''

Draw 8

''Thursday, January 26, 9:30 am''

Draw 9

''Thursday, January 26, 2:30 pm''

Draw 10

''Thursday, January 26, 7:30 pm''

Draw 11

''Friday, January 27, 9:30 am''

Draw 12

''Friday, January 27, 2:30 pm''

Championship round

''Records from Round Robin carry over to the Championship Round''

Championship round results

Draw 13

''Friday, January 27, 7:30 pm''

Draw 15

''Saturday, January 28, 2:30 pm''

Playoffs

Source:

Semifinal

''Saturday, January 28, 7:30 pm''

Final

''Sunday, January 29, 3:00 pm''

Qualification

Open Qualifier

''January 6–8, Welland Curling Club,

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References

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