The 2024 HearingLife

Tour Challenge The Tour Challenge, known as the HearingLife Tour Challenge for sponsorship reasons, is a bonspiel, or curling tournament, which is one of the Grand Slam of Curling events. It was introduced into the Grand Slam lineup starting in the 2015–16 c ...

was held from October 1 to 6 at the Bell Aliant Centre in

Charlottetown Charlottetown is the capital and largest city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, and the county seat of Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Queens County. Named after Queen Charlotte, Charlott ...

Prince Edward Island Prince Edward Island is an island Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada. While it is the smallest province by land area and population, it is the most densely populated. The island has several nicknames: "Garden of the Gulf", ...

. It was the first Grand Slam event of the

2024–25 curling season The 2024–25 curling season began in May 2024 and ended in May 2025. World Curling Federation events Source: Championships Qualification events Other events Curling Canada events Source: Championships Invitationals Provincial ...

, and the first event following the series' acquisition by The Curling Group. One of the main changes brought in by the new ownership included streaming every single game on every sheet. Manitoba's Team

Kerri Einarson Kerri Einarson (; born Kerri Flett; October 3, 1987) is a Canadian Métis curler from Camp Morton, Manitoba, in the Rural Municipality of Gimli. Einarson is a four-time women's national champion in curling, skipping her team to victory in the , , ...

won the women's final, defeating Team

Rachel Homan Rachel Catherine Homan (born April 5, 1989) is a Canadian international curling, curler and the reigning women's world champion. Homan is a former 2010 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Canadian junior champion, a five-time Scotties Tourna ...

from Ottawa, 5–4. It was Einarson's sixth Grand Slam. The team featured a temporary front-end of

Dawn McEwen Dawn Kathleen McEwen ( Askin; born July 3, 1980) is a Canadian semi-retired curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She was the long-time lead for the Jennifer Jones rink, who became Olympic champions, winning gold for Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympic ...

who was filling in for regular second

Shannon Birchard Shannon Birchard (born May 11, 1994) is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She currently plays second on Team Kerri Einarson from Gimli, Manitoba. The Einarson team are four-time Scotties Tournament of Hearts champions, winning the titl ...

who was injured, and

Krysten Karwacki Krysten Karwacki (born April 30, 1991) is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is the former lead for the Cathy Overton-Clapham team and is currently the lead on Team Kerri Einarson. Career *Semifinalist at the 2011 Canadian Junior C ...

who was filling in for

Briane Harris Briane Harris (born March 11, 1992, as Briane Meilleur) is a Canadian curler from Petersfield, Manitoba. She currently plays third on Team Kate Cameron. Harris was a member of the Kerri Einarson rink from 2018 until being suspended from compet ...

who was waiting on an appeal for being barred for testing positive for a banned substance. On the men's side, Scotland's Team

Bruce Mouat Bruce Mouat (; born 27 August 1994 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish curler from Stirling. He currently skips his own team out of the Gogar Park Curling Club. Mouat has led his team to two world championship titles in and , four European championsh ...

defeated Newfoundland's

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 ...

10–3. The win gave Mouat his first Tour Challenge, and with it a championship in each of the tour's five slams in his career (Gushue being the only other skip with this distinction). It was Mouat's seventh career Slam title. In the tier two event, Saskatchewan's

Rylan Kleiter Rylan Kleiter (born July 4, 1998) is a Canadian curler from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He currently skips his own team. Team Kleiter is known for their brightly coloured paint splash pants. Curling career Juniors Kleiter and his rink of Trevor ...

beat Norway's Magnus Ramsfjell 6–5 in an extra end, while Nova Scotia's Christina Black defeated Japan's Team Sayaka Yoshimura 7–3. The wins qualified the rinks for the 2025 Masters, though Team Black will play at the 2024 National instead, as the Masters conflicts with the

2025 Ocean Contractors Women's Curling Championship The 2025 Nova Scotia Women's Curling Championship, Ocean Contractors Women's Curling Championship, the provincial women's curling championship for Nova Scotia, was held from January 14 to 19 at the Halifax Curling Club in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Ha ...

Qualification

The Tour Challenge consists of two tiers of 16 teams. For Tier 1, the top 16 men's and top 16 women's teams from the

World Curling Federation World Curling, formerly the World Curling Federation (WCF) is the world governing body for curling accreditation, with offices in Perth, Scotland. It was formed out of the International Curling Federation (ICF), when the push for Olympic Winter ...

's world rankings based on the final standings of the

2023–24 curling season The 2023–24 curling Curling is a sport in which players slide #Curling stone, stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area that is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each w ...

will be invited to participate. In the event that a team declines their invitation, the next-ranked team on the world team ranking is invited until the field is complete. Once the Tier 1 field has been confirmed, Tier 2 invites will be sent out to the teams ranked 17–32. The Grand Slam of Curling reserves the right to implement a sponsor's exemption in both the Tier 2 men's and women's events in which one spot can be filled at their discretion.

Men

Tier 1

Top world team ranking men's teams: #

Joël Retornaz Joël Thierry Retornaz (born 30 September 1983 in Chêne-Bougeries, Genève, Switzerland) is an Italian curler from Cembra. He was the skip of the Italian men's Olympic curling team in 2006, 2018, and 2022. Retornaz gained sudden renown in It ...

Brad Jacobs Bradley Robert Jacobs (born June 11, 1985) is a Canadian curler from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. He currently skips his own team out of Calgary, Alberta. He is an Olympic champion skip, having led Canada to a gold medal at the 2014 Winter Oly ...

# Ross Whyte #

Niklas Edin Johan Niklas Edin (born 6 July 1985) is a Swedish curler. He holds several sport distinctions. He is the first and the only skip in World Curling Federation (WCF) history to win three Olympic medals – gold (2022), silver (2018), and bronze ( ...

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 ...

# Mike McEwen #

Matt Dunstone Matthew Dunstone, nicknamed "the Sheriff" (born June 25, 1995) is a Canadian curler originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Career Dunstone won the Canadian Junior Curling Championships in 2013. He represented Canada at the 2013 World Junior Curli ...

Kevin Koe Kevin Koe ( ; born January 11, 1975) is a Canadian curling, curler. Koe is a two-time World champion and four-time Canadian champion. He was the skip (curling), skip of the Canadian men's team at the Curling at the 2018 Winter Olympics - Men's to ...

Reid Carruthers Reid Carruthers (born December 30, 1984) is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Carruthers was the 2011 world champion—winning gold as a second on Jeff Stoughton's team—as well as an eight-time provincial champion, the 2003 junior p ...

James Craik James Craik (; 17276 February 1814) was Physician General (precursor of the Surgeon General of the United States Army, Surgeon General) of the United States Army, as well as George Washington's personal physician and close friend. Biography ...

John Shuster John “Shoostie” Shuster ( ; born November 3, 1982) is an American curler who lives in Superior, Wisconsin. He led Team USA to gold at the 2018 Winter Olympics, the first American team to ever win gold in curling. He also won a bronze medal a ...

# Michael Brunner # Cameron Bryce Sponsor's exemption: *

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 ...

Tier 2

Aaron Sluchinski Aaron Sluchinski (born March 24, 1987) is a Canadian curler from Airdrie, Alberta. He currently plays third on Team Kevin Koe. Career Juniors Sluchinski made his first national appearance at the 2008 Canadian Junior Curling Championships skippi ...

# Magnus Ramsfjell #

Yusuke Morozumi is a Japanese curler from Karuizawa. He skipped the Japanese men's team at the 2018 Winter Olympics. He currently coaches the Chubu Electric Power Curling Team. Curling career Yusuke Morozumi was the skip of the Japanese team at the 2004 Wor ...

Kyle Waddell Kyle Waddell (born 15 December 1993 in Bellshill) is a Scottish curler from Hamilton, Scotland. He currently skips his own team. In 2018, he competed for Great Britain at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, placing fifth. He ...

# Daniel Casper # Marco Hösli # Marc Muskatewitz # Yves Stocker #

Park Jong-duk Park Jong-duk (born December 8, 1985) is a South Korean male curler. At the international level, he is a . At the national level, he is a five-time Korean men's champion. Teams References External links * *Video: Living people 19 ...

# Wouter Gösgens # Sam Mooibroek # Scott Howard #

Riku Yanagisawa is a Japanese curler. He is a three-time Japanese men's champion skip. Career Yanagisawa played second on the Karuizawa SC team skipped by Yoshiro Shimizu 2018 Japan Curling Championships. The team finished the round robin portion of the tour ...

# ~~Lukas Høstmælingen~~ # Owen Purcell Host allocation: * Tyler Smith

Women

Tier 1

Top world team ranking women's teams: #

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 ...

# Gim Eun-ji #

Chelsea Carey Chelsea Danielle Carey (born September 12, 1984 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian curler from Calgary, Alberta. She currently skips her own team out of Manitoba. She is the and Canadian and Alberta women's champion skip and 2014 Manitoba p ...

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 hol ...

# Isabella Wranå # Kim Eun-jung #

Stefania Constantini Stefania Constantini (born 15 April 1999) is an Italian curler from Cortina d'Ampezzo. She currently skips the Italian National Women's Curling Team. She has played in five World Women's Championships, four World Mixed Doubles Championships an ...

Kaitlyn Lawes Lesley Kaitlyn Lawes (born December 16, 1988) is a Canadian curler. Lawes was the long time third for the Jennifer Jones team that represented Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics where they won the gold medal. They were the first women's team to ...

# Xenia Schwaller #

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 ...

Tabitha Peterson Tabitha Skelly Peterson (born March 6, 1989) is an American curler from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She was a bronze medalist at the 2010 World Junior Championships and is a three-time women's national champion. She currently is skip of her own t ...

Selena Sturmay Selena Sturmay (born June 21, 1998) is a Canadian curler from Edmonton, Alberta. She currently skips her own team out of the Saville Community Sports Centre. Career Sturmay made her first appearance at the Canadian Junior Curling Championships ...

# Rebecca Morrison Sponsor's exemption: # Delaney Strouse

Tier 2

# Kate Cameron # ~~Marianne Rørvik~~ #

Ikue Kitazawa is a Japanese curler from Saku, Nagano. She is the skip of 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 ...

Danielle Inglis Danielle Inglis (born February 26, 1988) is a Canadian curler from Whitby, Ontario. She currently skips her own team. Career Juniors As a junior curler, Inglis and her Burlington Curling Club rink of Chantal Lalonde, Tracy O'Leary and Pam ...

# Sayaka Yoshimura #

Corryn Brown Corryn Cecile Brown (born July 19, 1995) is a Canadian curler from British Columbia. She currently skips her own team out of Kamloops. Career She was the skip of the winning team at the 2013 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, and represen ...

Ha Seung-youn Ha Seung-youn (born May 19, 2000) is a South Korean curler from Uijeongbu. She is the skip of the Chuncheon City Hall curling team. While playing with Kim Min-ji, she won a silver medal at the 2020 World Junior Curling Championships. Career ...

# Serena Gray-Withers #

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 ...

Madeleine Dupont Madeleine Kanstrup Dupont (born 26 May 1987 in Glostrup, Denmark) is a Danish curler from Copenhagen. She won the Frances Brodie Award in 2004. She currently skips her own team with teammates Mathilde Halse, Jasmin Holtermann, My Larsen, a ...

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 ...

Ashley Thevenot Ashley Thevenot (born December 8, 1998, in Saskatoon) is a Canadian curler from Warman, Saskatchewan. She currently skips her own team out of the Nutana Curling Club. Career Thevenot skipped her own team throughout the entirety of her junior ...

# Miyu Ueno #

Miku Nihira is a Japanese curler from Sapporo. She currently skips and throws third rocks on Team Momoha Tabata, known in Japan as the Hokkaido Bank curling team. Career Nihira began curling in 2014 after being selected as one of the first group of stud ...

# Kayla MacMillan # Christina Black # Beth Peterson

Men

Tier 1

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:

Knockout Brackets

Source:

=A Event

=B Event

=C Event

Knockout Results

All draw times are listed in

Atlantic Time The Atlantic Time Zone is a geographical region that keeps standard time—called Atlantic Standard Time (AST)—by subtracting four hours from Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC), resulting in UTC−04:00. AST is observed in parts of North America ...

( UTC−03:00).

=Draw 1

= ''Tuesday, October 1, 8:00 am''

=Draw 2

= ''Tuesday, October 1, 11:30 am''

=Draw 4

= ''Tuesday, October 1, 6:30 pm''

=Draw 5

= ''Wednesday, October 2, 8:30 am''

=Draw 7

= ''Wednesday, October 2, 4:00 pm''

=Draw 9

= ''Thursday, October 3, 8:30 am''

=Draw 11

= ''Thursday, October 3, 4:00 pm''

=Draw 13

= ''Friday, October 4, 8:30 am''

=Draw 15

= ''Friday, October 4, 4:00 pm''

=Draw 17

= ''Saturday, October 5, 8:30 am''

Playoffs

=Quarterfinals

= ''Saturday, October 4, 4:00 pm''

=Semifinals

= ''Saturday, October 4, 8:00 pm''

=Final

= ''Sunday, October 6, 11:00 am''

Tier 2

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:

Knockout Brackets

Source:

=A Event

=B Event

=C Event

Knockout Results

All draw times are listed in

( UTC−04:00).

=Draw 1

= ''Tuesday, October 1, 8:30 am''

=Draw 2

= ''Tuesday, October 1, 12:00 pm''

=Draw 5

= ''Wednesday, October 2, 9:00 am''

=Draw 7

= ''Wednesday, October 2, 4:30 pm''

=Draw 9

= ''Thursday, October 3, 9:00 am''

=Draw 11

= ''Thursday, October 3, 4:30 pm''

=Draw 13

= ''Friday, October 4, 9:00 am''

=Draw 15

= ''Friday, October 4, 4:30 pm''

=Draw 17

= ''Saturday, October 5, 9:00 am''

Playoffs

=Quarterfinals

= ''Saturday, October 4, 4:30 pm''

=Semifinals

= ''Saturday, October 4, 8:30 pm''

=Final

= ''Sunday, October 6, 11:00 am''

Women

Tier 1

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:

Knockout Brackets

Source:

=A Event

=B Event

=C Event

Knockout Results

All draw times are listed in

( UTC−03:00).

=Draw 1

= ''Tuesday, October 1, 8:00 am''

=Draw 2

= ''Tuesday, October 1, 11:30 am''

=Draw 3

= ''Tuesday, October 1, 3:00 pm''

=Draw 4

= ''Tuesday, October 1, 6:30 pm''

=Draw 6

= ''Wednesday, October 2, 12:00 pm''

=Draw 8

= ''Wednesday, October 2, 8:00 pm''

=Draw 10

= ''Thursday, October 3, 12:00 pm''

=Draw 12

= ''Thursday, October 3, 8:00 pm''

=Draw 13

= ''Friday, October 4, 8:30 am''

=Draw 14

= ''Friday, October 4, 12:00 pm''

=Draw 16

= ''Friday, October 4, 8:00 pm''

Playoffs

=Quarterfinals

= ''Saturday, October 4, 12:00 pm''

=Semifinals

= ''Saturday, October 4, 8:00 pm''

=Final

= ''Sunday, October 6, 3:30 pm''

Tier 2

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:

Knockout Brackets

Source:

=A Event

=B Event

=C Event

Knockout Results

All draw times are listed in

( UTC−03:00).

=Draw 3

= ''Tuesday, October 1, 3:30 pm''

=Draw 4

= ''Tuesday, October 1, 7:00 pm''

=Draw 6

= ''Wednesday, October 2, 12:30 pm''

=Draw 8

= ''Wednesday, October 2, 8:30 pm''

=Draw 10

= ''Thursday, October 3, 12:30 pm''

=Draw 12

= ''Thursday, October 3, 8:30 pm''

=Draw 13

= ''Friday, October 4, 9:00 am''

=Draw 14

= ''Friday, October 4, 12:30 pm''

=Draw 16

= ''Friday, October 4, 8:30 pm''

Playoffs

=Quarterfinals

= ''Saturday, October 4, 12:30 pm''

=Semifinals

= ''Saturday, October 4, 8:30 pm''

=Final

= ''Sunday, October 6, 3:30 pm''

Notes

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tour Challenge, 2024 October 2024 sports events in Canada 2024 in Canadian curling Curling competitions in Charlottetown

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

2024 in Prince Edward Island