The 2023
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Western Showdown was held from December 6 to 10 at the
Swift Current Curling Club in
Swift Current
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,
Saskatchewan
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. The total purse for the event was $50,000 on the men's and women's sides.
The event was sponsored by Curling Stadium, a streaming service provided by CurlingZone. All of the games were streamed on CurlingZone and the Swift Current Curling Club's YouTube page.
In the men's final,
Yannick Schwaller
Yannick Schwaller (born 31 March 1995 in Solothurn) is a Swiss curler from Recherswil. He currently skips his own team out of Geneva.
Career
Juniors
Schwaller skipped the Swiss junior men's team at three straight World Junior Curling Champi ...
and his team from
Geneva
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defeated
Michael Brunner of
Bern
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8–6 in an all-Swiss championship game. Trailing by one at the half, Schwaller counted a four spot in the fifth end that allowed his team of
Benoît Schwarz-van Berkel
Benoît François Dominique Schwarz-van Berkel ( Schwarz; born 19 August 1991) is a Swiss curler. He currently throws fourth stones for skip Yannick Schwaller. He is a World Junior Champion, won a gold medal with the Swiss team at the 2013 Euro ...
,
Sven Michel and
Pablo Lachat to control the rest of the match. Both Swiss contingents qualified through the C side of the draw before sweeping the playoff round. Schwaller defeated A qualifier
Sam Mooibroek
Samuel Vincent Mooibroek (born October 9, 1999) is a Canadian curler from Kitchener, Ontario. He currently skips his own team out of Whitby.
Career Youth
Mooibroek won his first provincial title in 2016 at the U18 Ontario Curling Championship ...
9–6 in the quarterfinals and then beat the United States'
Korey Dropkin
Korey Dropkin (born June 11, 1995) is an American curler originally from Southborough, Massachusetts. He currently skips his own team out of Duluth, Minnesota.
Curling career
Juniors
As a junior curler, Dropkin won three United States Juni ...
5–4 in the semifinals. For Brunner, they took down the number one qualifier
Catlin Schneider 5–3 in the quarters before eliminating
Mike McEwen 5–4 in the semis as well.
Niklas Edin
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and
Steve Laycock
Stephen Laycock (born October 29, 1982) is a Canadian curler from Saskatoon. He currently skips his own team out of Swift Current.
Career
In 2003, Laycock skipped Team Saskatchewan to a Canadian Junior Curling Championship and a World Junio ...
rounded out the men's playoff draw.
In the women's final, South Korea's
Kim Eun-jung took two in the seventh end and stole a single in the eighth to clip Winnipeg's
Jolene Campbell
Jolene Campbell (born Jolene McIvor on August 12, 1981) is a Canadian curler from Regina, Saskatchewan. She currently skips her own team out of Regina.
Curling career
Junior career
Born in Saskatoon, Campbell won a provincial junior title in ...
6–4 in a battle of previously undefeated teams. Kim's
Gangneung
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based squad of
Kim Kyeong-ae,
Kim Cho-hi,
Kim Seon-yeong and
Kim Yeong-mi qualified for the playoffs as the number one seeds. They then beat Korean rivals
Gim Eun-ji
Gim Eun-ji also known as Gim Un-chi (born January 23, 1990) is a Korean curler from Uijeongbu. She currently skips the Gyeonggi Province curling team.
Career
Gim played as lead in her first world championship at the 2011 Capital One World W ...
7–3 in the quarterfinals before knocking off
Isabella Wranå
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11–6 in the semifinals. Team Campbell finished third through the preliminary round with playoff victories over
Kayla Skrlik
Kayla Skrlik (born September 10, 1997) is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta. She currently skips her own team out of the Garrison Curling Club.
Career
Skrlik broke onto the junior scene when she skipped Team Alberta at the 2016 U18 Int ...
7–2 and
Satsuki Fujisawa
is a Japanese curler from Kitami, Hokkaido. As a skip, she has won the Japanese national championship six times. Fujisawa skipped the bronze medal-winning Japanese team at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games and the silver medal-winning team at the ...
8–2.
Silvana Tirinzoni
Silvana Petra Tirinzoni (born 25 June 1979) is a Swiss curler from Zurich. She is a four-time women's world champion skip (, , , ) and five-time Grand Slam champion. She is a former world junior champion and reigning European champion. Tirinzo ...
,
Corrie Hürlimann,
Xenia Schwaller and
Amber Holland
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all advanced to the playoffs before losing in the quarterfinals and qualification round respectively.
Many international teams competed in the event as it was held the weekend before the
2023 Masters Grand Slam
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event in
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.
Men
Teams
The teams are listed as follows:
Knockout Brackets
Source:
A Event
B Event
C Event
Knockout Results
All draw times are listed in
Central Time (
UTC−06:00).
Draw 2
''Thursday, December 7, 8:00 am''
Draw 3
''Thursday, December 7, 11:15 am''
Draw 4
''Thursday, December 7, 2:30 pm''
Draw 5
''Thursday, December 7, 5:45 pm''
Draw 6
''Thursday, December 7, 9:00 pm''
Draw 7
''Friday, December 8, 8:00 am''
Draw 9
''Friday, December 8, 2:30 pm''
Draw 11
''Friday, December 8, 9:00 pm''
Draw 13
''Saturday, December 9, 11:15 am''
Draw 15
''Saturday, December 9, 5:45 pm''
Playoffs
Quarterfinals
''Saturday, December 9, 9:00 pm''
Semifinals
''Sunday, December 10, 12:30 pm''
Final
''Sunday, December 10, 4:00 pm''
Women
Teams
The teams are listed as follows:
Round robin standings
''Final Round Robin Standings''
Round robin results
All draw times are listed in
Central Time (
UTC−06:00).
Draw 1
''Wednesday, December 6, 7:30 pm''
Draw 2
''Thursday, December 7, 8:00 am''
Draw 3
''Thursday, December 7, 11:15 am''
Draw 5
''Thursday, December 7, 5:45 pm''
Draw 6
''Thursday, December 7, 9:00 pm''
Draw 7
''Friday, December 8, 8:00 am''
Draw 8
''Friday, December 8, 11:15 am''
Draw 9
''Friday, December 8, 2:30 pm''
Draw 10
''Friday, December 8, 5:45 pm''
Draw 12
''Saturday, December 9, 8:00 am''
Draw 14
''Saturday, December 9, 2:30 pm''
Draw 15
''Saturday, December 9, 5:45 pm''
Playoffs
Qualification Games
''Saturday, December 9, 9:00 pm''
Quarterfinals
''Sunday, December 10, 9:00 am''
Semifinals
''Sunday, December 10, 12:30 pm''
Final
''Sunday, December 10, 4:00 pm''
Notes
References
External links
Men's EventWomen's Event
{{DEFAULTSORT:Western Showdown
2023 in Canadian curling
Curling competitions in Saskatchewan
December 2023 sports events in Canada
2023 in sports in Saskatchewan
Swift Current