Masters 2021 Program Guide - Grand Slam of Curling

PROGRAM GUIDE

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OCT 19–24, 2021 SIXTEEN MILE SPORTS COMPLEX – OAKVILLE, ONTARIO

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WELCOME FROM

BART YABSLEY

ON BEHALF OF ALL OF US AT SPORTSNET, we warmly welcome you to the 2021 Masters — the opening event of the 2021–22 Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling season.

After all that has unfolded through the course of the pandemic, we are truly excited to be in Oakville for the Masters this week. For curling fans alike, this week represents more than chance to see the world’s best in action – it marks the chance for us to celebrate the sport of curling together once again under the same roof.

This week at the Sixteen Mile Sports Complex, we welcome the opportunity to host a Grand Slam event in Oakville for the first time.

Home to a warm and passionate curling community with an incredible enthusiasm for the Grand Slam series, we simply couldn’t pass up the opportunity to travel to Oakville, showcase the world’s best curlers and shine the national spotlight on this wonderful community.

Adding to the excitement of our first event in Oakville, the Masters also marks a major milestone for our network – the start of Sportsnet’s 10th season as the owner and operator of the Grand Slam series. Just like the loyal curling community of Oakville, we at Sportsnet are dedicated to growing the sport of curling across Canada in new and exciting ways. Building on Sportsnet’s long history of producing and televising curling in Canada, it remains our goal to deliver world-class curling action and support the elite athletes who compete in our events. As a proud supporter of curling development, we have been awarding equal purses to both men’s and women’s teams since 2015. We are excited to celebrate and

further our dedication to the sport of curling this week at the Masters and throughout the remainder of the Grand Slam season.

As we celebrate a new season of the world’s premier curling series this week in Oakville, it remains our goal to deliver the highest calibre of curling action combined with extensive health and safety protocols in place. It is our top priority to ensure the safety of all those at Grand Slam events, including players, fans, staff and volunteers. We appreciate your understanding and participation this week as we strive to host a safe and responsible curling event.

Additionally, we would like to express our gratitude to the Masters organizing committee, volunteers and staff for their endless dedication and commitment. An event of this scale doesn’t come together overnight, and we simply wouldn’t be able to make this happen without you. From all of us at Sportsnet, we thank you — along with all the curling fans across Canada — for your tremendous passion, enthusiasm and support.

We hope that you enjoy the event and we wish all competitors the best of luck heading into the Masters this week.

Bart Yabsley President, Sportsnet

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WELCOME FROM THE

MAYOR OF OAKVILLE

ON BEHALF OF TOWN COUNCIL AND THE RESIDENTS OF OAKVILLE, I am pleased to welcome all participants and visitors of Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling to Oakville.

Congratulations to the world’s top 16 women’s and men’s curling teams for earning a spot to participate in the Masters event, which will serve as this year’s first test for teams with Olympic aspirations on the road to the 2022 Beijing Winter Games.

We wish all competitors the best of luck as they compete at Sixteen Mile Sports Complex from October 19 to 24, 2021.

I hope you will enjoy your time in Oakville, keep well and stay safe.

Sincerely yours, Mayor Rob Burton Town of Oakville

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Curling is where you belong and the club is the place that you go to see your friends. It is an establishment in the community with a rich heritage. There are trophies in the front entrance display, banners in the rafters and pictures on the wall. Members are loyal and the bonspiels are legendary.

The Grand Slam of Curling logo is based off of the rich history that curling has in Canada. The logo embraces vintage crests and colours from Canada’s first coat of arms in 1868. The clean lines and typography provides a modern aesthetic to the crest. The interlocking “GSC” symbol is based off of four curling rocks which represent the four events. To reinforce that curling is Canada’s game, a stylized maple leaf is introduced to give the logo a patriotic feel. The colour coated bar on the top symbolizes each of the four events. The order of icons is also a representation of the sequence of how the game of curling is played. Each event logo is pulled out of the Grand Slam of Curling logo and colour coated in such a way to give the event its own personality, but still staying in the same family.

Facing page: Development sketches, inspriational imagery and progressive concepts of the Grand Slam of Curling logo.

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The “Five-Rock Free Guard Zone” is simply a variation of the previous standard “Four-Rock Free Guard Zone” rules.

The Grand Slam of Curling was the first significant organization to experiment with a five-rock free guard zone, in December 2011.

The World Curling Federation approved the five-rock rule for all events starting in 2018.

THE FREE GUARD ZONE

The whole “Free Guard Zone” concept is a relatively recent development in curling. Before then, in a careful, conservative game of curling, teams take out guard rocks as quickly as they are placed.

This led to a game free of clutter, but it also made the game predictable and not very interesting for spectators.

In the late 1980s, Glenn and Russ Howard came up with the “Howard Rule”, which eventually became the “Moncton Rule”, based on a practice drill his team used. It had the first four rocks in play unable to be removed no matter where they were at any time during the end.

This kept more rocks in play and made for a more interesting game. This led to the adoption of the FourRock Free Guard Zone rule adopted for the 1992 Olympics and by the World Curling Federation. In this rule, a takeout cannot be played on any stone sitting outside the house between the tee line and the hog line (the “free guard zone”) until the fifth stone of the end. Every member country of the WCF adopted this rule except for Canada.

The Five-Rock Free Guard Zone increases offence in the game. The new rule favours teams who play more offence, as the rule allows for a fifth guard to be placed in the free guard zone.

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The Masters is the first opportunity for teams to collect points in the chase for the Pinty’s Cup — awarded to the season champions in the series.

The top four teams in the points following the conclusion of the Players’ Championship receive bonus payouts with the winners also earning the coveted Pinty’s Cup trophy and championship rings.

Team Jacobs and Team Hasselborg are the reigning champions after both clubs won three consecutive titles through the Tour Challenge, Boost National and Meridian Open during the 2019–20 campaign. The Pinty’s Cup was not awarded last season.

Below is a list of points at the Masters plus how much cash the top four teams bank at the end of the year.

MASTERS POINTS BREAKDOWN

Winners

12 points

Runners-up

9 points

Semifinalists

7 points

Quarterfinalists

5 points

Non-playoff teams

1 point per win

PINTY’S CUP PRIZE BREAKDOWN

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1st place

$75,000

2nd place

$40,000

3rd place

$25,000

4th place

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EMMA MISKEW EXCITED FOR RETURN OF PINTY'S GRAND SLAM OF CURLING AND FANS IN THE STANDS EMMA MISKEW can’t wait for the Masters.

Not only is it the first Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling event of the season, it’s also the first time fans will be allowed in the stands for a major tournament since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. A bubble concept was held in Calgary in April featuring two GSOC events although it was closed to the general public with cardboard cutouts filling the seats.

Miskew, who throws third stones for skip Rachel Homan’s Ottawa-based team, said everyone is looking forward to playing in front of a crowd and interacting and engaging with fans again during the Masters, Oct. 19–24 at Oakville’s Sixteen Mile Sports Complex.

“It was so strange in the Calgary bubble to have nobody there and unfortunately the cutouts are a little quiet,” said Miskew, who has won a record 11 GSOC women’s titles with Homan.

“It was nice to have those there but it’s going to be really nice for people to be back in the stands and have some semblance of normalcy and be able to have friends and family there again. I think everyone really missed that and it’s a big part of our game.”

Although curlers are used to playing without large crowds during tour events in curling clubs, they expect to hear something, anything, in arenas from the applause when they make a big shot to the “whoa” of a miss.

“Having complete silence was strange,” Miskew reiterated. “You could hear when there were multiple sheets going. You didn’t have that moment where the crowd erupts for

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another sheet and then you can’t hear anything but I’d say that was about the only good thing about it.

“It’ll be really nice to have people back in there and I think it really adds to the energy and the excitement of playing in those events. It’s such an honour to be there to begin with, so the fans definitely make the energy feel really positive and exciting regardless of who they’re cheering for.”

Team Homan will surely feel extra crowd support as the reigning Ontario women’s champions playing in their home province. Miskew is hoping to have friends and family in the stands but said it’ll be nice regardless of who the fans are cheering for.

“We’re really excited just to get back to what feels like a normal Grand Slam,” she said. “I think it’ll give everyone a nice boost after the past year and a half. I think we’re all itching for human interaction at this point.”

The Masters features 16 of the top men’s teams and 16 of the top women’s teams from around the world. Preliminary play consists of a triple knockout format where teams must win three games before they lose three in order to qualify for the playoffs with eight teams in both divisions advancing to the quarter-finals.

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MEN'S TEAM PROFILES Sixteen men's teams step onto the ice at the Masters.

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BRENDAN BOTTCHER

DARREN MOULDING

BRADLEY THIESSEN

KARRICK MARTIN

NIKLAS EDIN

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OSKAR ERIKSSON

RASMUS WRANÅ

CHRISTOFFER SUNDGREN

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BOTTCHER

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EDMONTON, ALBERTA

Coach Don Bartlett | Team Bottcher are the reigning Canadian men’s

champions capturing the Brier last season in the Calgary bubble after finishing runners-up during the previous three years. They have won three Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling men’s titles capturing the Open, Players’ Championship and Champions Cup consecutively in 2019.

KARLSTAD, SWEDEN

Coach Fredrik Lindberg | Team Edin have won three men’s titles in the

Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling with their first at the 2016 Masters in Okotoks, Alberta. They became the first non-Canadian men’s team to win a title in the series. Edin will represent Sweden at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing with Eriksson pulling double duty competing in the mixed doubles tournament as well with Almida de Val.

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DE CRUZ BENOIT SCHWARZ GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

SVEN MICHEL

PETER DE CRUZ

VALENTIN TANNER

Coach Thomas Lips | De Cruz, who skips while throwing second stones,

claimed his fourth bronze medal at the world championship last season in the Calgary bubble. He captured his first Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling men’s title at the 2018 Open. They will represent Switzerland at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing.

JOHN EPPING TORONTO, ONTARIO

RYAN FRY

MAT CAMM

BRENT LAING

Epping has won four men’s titles in the Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling including three as a skip. He earned the 2018 Masters in Truro, Nova Scotia. Laing has captured the Masters more times than anyone else with seven in total including six with Team Howard.

REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN

BRAEDEN MOSKOWY

KIRK MUYRES

DUSTIN KIDBY

Dunstone is the defending men’s champion capturing the 2019 Masters in North Bay, Ontario. Moskowy also won the inaugural Champions Cup in 2016 with Reid Carruthers’ team. They secured a spot in the Olympic Trials last month going 5–1 through the direct entry event.

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JASON GUNNLAUGSON WINNIPEG, MANITOBA

ADAM CASEY

MATT WOZNIAK

CONNOR NJEGOVAN

GUNNLAUGSON

DUNSTONE MATT DUNSTONE

Team Gunnlaugson has represented Manitoba at the past two Brier tournaments. Wozniak, who joined the team last season, won seven Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling men’s titles with Team McEwen including two Masters championships (2010 and 2015).

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BRAD GUSHUE

MARK NICHOLS

BRETT GALLANT

GEOFF WALKER

YUTA MATSUMURA

TETSURO SHIMIZU

YASUMASA TANIDA

SHINYA ABE

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GUSHUE

SKIP

Gushue has won Olympic and world championship gold medals, three Brier titles and 11 Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling men’s championships. The team has captured the Masters twice taking the title in 2014 in Selkirk, Manitoba, and again in 2017 in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan. They are the only team to have won all six events in the series.

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KITAMI, JAPAN

Coach Bob Ursel | Matsumura captured gold at the 2018 Pacific-Asia

championships to earn a spot in the 2019 Champions Cup in Saskatoon where he made his Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling debut. They represented Japan at the past two world championships and just missed the podium in 2019 losing to Switzerland’s Team de Cruz in the bronze-medal game.

MCEWEN

JACOBS BRAD JACOBS SAULT STE. MARIE, ONTARIO

MARC KENNEDY

E.J. HARNDEN

RYAN HARNDEN

Jacobs has won seven Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling men’s titles and is just missing the Masters from completing the list. Kennedy joined the team in 2019 and they won three consecutive championships in the series that season taking the Tour Challenge, National and Open. Jacobs and the Harnden brothers won the Olympic title in 2014 with Kennedy also capturing gold in 2010.

MIKE MCEWEN WINNIPEG, MANITOBA

REID CARRUTHERS

DEREK SAMAGALSKI

COLIN HODGSON

McEwen has won seven Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling men’s titles with his first coming at the Masters (then known as the World Cup of Curling) in 2010. He also captured the Masters again in 2015. They secured a spot in the Olympic Trials last month going 5–1 through the direct entry event.

MOUAT

KOE KEVIN KOE CALGARY, ALBERTA

BJ NEUFELD

JOHN MORRIS

BEN HEBERT

Koe has captured five Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling men’s titles including four as a skip. His first in charge came at the 2012 Masters and followed five runner-up results including three in that event. Koe is also a two-time world and four-time Brier champion.

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BRUCE MOUAT STIRLING, SCOTLAND

GRANT HARDIE

BOBBY LAMMIE

HAMMY MCMILLAN JR.

Coach Alan Hannah | The team swept through the Calgary bubble capturing

both Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling men’s titles in the Champions Cup and Princess Auto Players’ Championship. Mouat also earned silver at the world championship and gold at the world mixed doubles championship last season.

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ROSS PATERSON

KYLE WADDELL

DUNCAN MENZIES

CRAIG WADDELL

ROSS WHYTE

ROBIN BRYDONE

DUNCAN MCFADZEAN

EUAN KYLE

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STIRLING, SCOTLAND

Coach Tom Brewster | Paterson won his first Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling

men’s title in his first season skipping the squad. They defeated compatriots Team Mouat for the 2018 BOOST National men’s title. Craig Waddell, who is the younger brother of Kyle, joined at lead this season after Michael Goodfellow retired.

STIRLING, SCOTLAND

Coach Greg Drummond | Team Whyte are making their Pinty’s Grand Slam

of Curling debut here at the Masters. Whyte has served as the alternate for Team Mouat in the past picking up gold at the 2019 European Championships and silver at the 2021 world championship.

RUOHONEN RICH RUOHONEN MINNEAPOLIS, USA

ANDREW STOPERA

COLIN HUFMAN

PHIL TILKER

Ruohonen is a two-time USA Curling national championships gold medallist. He skipped the home side at the 2018 world championship in Las Vegas. Stopera, who is a three-time junior national champion, joined the team last season.

SCHWALLER YANNICK SCHWALLER BERN, SWITZERLAND

MICHAEL BRUNNER

ROMANO MEIER

MARCEL KÄUFELER

Coach Bernhard Werthemann | Schwaller skipped Switzerland to a

silver medal at the 2019 European Championships. They made their Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling debut at the 2018 Masters in Truro, Nova Scotia, and qualified for the playoffs for the first time at the 2020 Meridian Open in Yorkton, Saskatchewan.

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WOMEN'S TEAM PROFILES Sixteen women's teams step onto the ice at the Masters.

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LEAD

KERRI EINARSON

VAL SWEETING

SHANNON BIRCHARD

BRIANE MEILLEUR

UNCHI GIM

YEJI SEOL

SUJI KIM

YEEUN SEOL

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GIMLI, MANITOBA

Team Einarson successfully defended the Princess Auto Players’ Championship last season in the Calgary bubble. They are also back-to-back Scotties Tournament of Hearts champions. Sweeting also won three Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling women’s titles as a skip and captured her first at the 2014 Masters in Selkirk, Manitoba.

UIJEONGBU, KOREA

Coach Dong Ho Shin | Gim made her Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling debut at the 2013 Masters in Abbotsford, B.C., playing third for Ji-Sun Kim although this is her first top-tier event in the series as a skip. The team competed in the Tier 2 division of the 2018 Tour Challenge in Thunder Bay, Ontario, and went 4–0 through pool play but lost to Team Streifel in the quarter-finals.

HASSELBORG

FLEURY TRACY FLEURY EAST ST. PAUL, MANITOBA

SELENA NJEGOVAN

LIZ FYFE

KRISTIN MACCUISH

Coach Sherry Middaugh | Team Fleury are the defending women’s

champions winning the 2019 Masters in North Bay, Ontario. It was the first Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling women’s title for Fleury. Njegovan, Fyfe and MacCuish also won the National and two Tour Challenge Tier 2 titles during their time on Team Einarson.

ANNA HASSELBORG SUNDBYBERG, SWEDEN

SARA MCMANUS

AGNES KNOCHENHAUER

SOFIA MABERGS

Coach Wayne Middaugh | The reigning Olympic gold medallists have won

five Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling women’s titles including three in a row during the 2019–20 season. Team Hasselborg captured the 2018 Masters in Truro, Nova Scotia, defeating Team Homan in the women’s final.

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FUJISAWA SATSUKI FUJISAWA KITAMI, JAPAN

CHINAMI YOSHIDA

YUMI SUZUKI

YURIKA YOSHIDA

Coach J.D. Lind | Team Fujisawa became the first Japanese club to win medals

at the world championship and Winter Olympics. They earned silver at the 2016 world championship and bronze at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Fujisawa will represent Japan once again at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

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RACHEL HOMAN OTTAWA, ONTARIO

EMMA MISKEW

SARAH WILKES

JOANNE COURTNEY

Homan won her record-extending 11th Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling women’s title last season at the Champions Cup in the Calgary bubble. Homan captured her first at the inaugural Masters women’s tournament in 2012 in Brantford, Ontario, and successfully defended the title the following year in Abbotsford, B.C. She won a third Masters title in 2015 in Truro, Nova Scotia.

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JENNIFER JONES

KAITLYN LAWES

JOCELYN PETERMAN

DAWN MCEWEN

TORI KOANA

YUNA KOTANI

MAO ISHIGAKI

ARISA KOTANI

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SKIP

WINNIPEG, MANITOBA

Coach Viktor Kjell | Jones is an Olympic gold medallist, two-time world

champion and six-time Scotties Tournament of Hearts champion. She has won nine women’s titles in the Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling including the 2017 Masters in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan. Lisa Weagle, who won 10 GSOC titles with Team Homan, joined Team Jones as an alternate in 2020.

FUJIYOSHIDA, JAPAN

Coach Jim Cotter | Team Koana are making their Pinty’s Grand Slam of

Curling debut. They won the Japanese women’s curling championship in 2018 to represent Japan at the 2018 world championship in North Bay, Ontario.

KOVALEVA

E. KIM EUNJUNG KIM GANGNEUNG, KOREA

KYEONGAE KIM

CHOHI KIM

SEONYEONG KIM

Coach Myungsup Lim / Peter Gallant | Team Kim earned the silver medal

at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games on home ice in Pyeongchang, South Korea. They captured back-to-back Pacific-Asia championships gold medals in 2016 and 2017. This is Team Kim’s first Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling event since the 2018 Players’ Championship.

ALINA KOVALEVA ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA

IULIIA PORTUNOVA

GALINA ARSENKINA

EKATERINA KUZMINA

Coach Sergei Belanov | Team Kovaleva captured silver for the Russian

Curling Federation at the world championship last season in the Calgary bubble. Kovaleva also earned bronze in 2016 and silver in 2017 at the worlds with Team Sidorova.

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M. KIM HYE RIN KIM CHUNCHEON, KOREA

SEUNGYOUN HA

TAE I YANG

SUJIN KIM

Team Kim captured the 2019 KIOTI Tractor Tour Challenge Tier 2 women’s title and put their promotion to good use reaching the final of the 2020 Meridian Canadian Open. They won the Pacific-Asia championship in 2018 and bronze at the world championship in 2019.

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TABITHA PETERSON ST. PAUL, USA

NINA ROTH

BECCA HAMILTON

TARA PETERSON

Coach Laine Peters | The 2020 USA Curling women’s champions earned

bronze at the world championship last season in the Calgary bubble. They represented the United States at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, with Roth at skip.

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DANIELLE SCHMIEMANN

DANA FERGUSON

RACHEL BROWN

SAYAKA YOSHIMURA

KAHO ONODERA

ANNA OHMIYA

YUMIE FUNAYAMA

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KELSEY ROCQUE EDMONTON, ALBERTA

Rocque won back-to-back world junior championships in 2014 and 2015 and captured the Winter Universiade in 2017. Ferguson and Brown, who joined Team Rocque in 2020, captured three Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling women’s titles with Team Sweeting including their first at the 2014 Masters in Selkirk, Manitoba. The pair also won the Scotties Tournament of Hearts in 2019 with Team Carey.

SAPPORO, JAPAN

Yoshimura won the Japanese women’s championship last season and represented Japan at the world championship in the Calgary bubble.

They became the first Asian women’s team to reach a Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling women’s final at the 2019 Masters in North Bay, Ontario, and finished runners-up to Team Fleury.

TIRINZONI ALINA PAETZ AARAU, SWITZERLAND

SILVANA TIRINZONI

ESTHER NEUENSCHWANDER

MELANIE BARBEZAT

Team Tirinzoni are double defending world champions winning in 2019 and repeating in 2021 in the Calgary bubble. They also finished runners-up to Team Homan in the Champions Cup last season. Tirinzoni has captured two Pinty’s Grand Slam of Curling women’s titles winning the inaugural Tour Challenge in 2015 and taking the Champions Cup in 2019.

WRANA ISABELLA WRANA STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN

ALMIDA DE VAL

JENNIE WAHLIN

MARIA LARSSON

Coach Margaretha Sigfridsson | Wrana won the 2017 world junior

championship gold medal and the 2019 Winter Universiade. She captured the Swedish women’s championship in 2018. De Val will compete for Sweden at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing in the mixed doubles tournament with Oskar Eriksson.

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WED OCT 20

THURS OCT 21

SHEET A

8:00 AM

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W1

11:30 AM

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W3

3:00 PM

3

M1

6:30 PM

4

M2

8:00 AM

5

12:00 PM

6

4:00 PM

7

8:00 PM

8

7:30 AM

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11:00 AM

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7:00 PM

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SHEET B W2

W4

M3

M4

JONES PETERSON FLEURY YOSHIMURA BOTTCHER PATERSON EDIN GUNNLAUGSON

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MEN'S GAMES

NB: SHEET ASSIGNMENT MAY CHANGE

SHEET C W5

W7

M5

M7

EINARSON WRANA TIRINZONI GIM GUSHUE WHYTE JACOBS MATSUMURA

SHEET D W6

W8

M6

M8

KOVALEVA EUN J KIM FUJISAWA MINJI KIM EPPING SCHWALLER KOE MCEWEN

W18

W12

W16

W10

W17

W11

W15

W9

M18

M12

M16

M10

M17

M11

M15

M9

W22

W20

W21

W19

M22

M20

M21

M19

W14

W27

W13

W26

M14

M27

M13

M26

1

8:00 AM

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11:30 AM

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3:00 PM

4

6:30 PM

5

8:00 AM

6

12:00 PM

7

4:00 PM

8

8:00 PM

9

7:30 AM

10

11:00 AM

11

3:00 PM

12

7:00 PM

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SAT OCT 23

SUN OCT 24

SHEET A

• Visit www.thegrandslamofcurling.com for up-to-date scores and info.

• Tune into our FM station for live commentary from Sportsnet broadcasters (during TV broadcasted draws only)

SHEET C

SHEET D

W28

M28

M29

W29

M23

M25

M30

M24

W23

W25

W30

W24

M33

M31

M32

W33

W31

7:30 AM

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11:00 AM

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3:00 PM

15

7:00 PM

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8:00 AM

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12:00 PM

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MEN'S QUARTERFINALS

4:00 PM

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WOMEN'S QUARTERFINALS

8:00 PM

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12:00 PM

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4:00 PM

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W32

13

7:30 AM

14

11:00 AM

15

3:00 PM

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7:00 PM

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8:00 AM

MEN'S QUARTERFINALS

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12:00 PM

WOMEN'S QUARTERFINALS

19

4:00 PM

20

8:00 PM

21

12:00 PM

22

4:00 PM

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WOMEN'S

MEN'S

WOMEN'S

SEMIFINALS

SEMIFINALS

SEMIFINALS

SEMIFINALS

( A ) QUALIFIERS, WILL GET PRACTICE TIME ON SHEET A. TIME ALLOCATION TBD.

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WOMEN'S GAMES

MEN'S GAMES

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MATCH BRACKETS MEN’S MATCHES A

A

M2 DE CRUZ vs DUNSTONE

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M3 BOTTCHER vs PATERSON

B

M4 EDIN vs GUNNLAUGSON

B

M5 GUSHUE vs WHYTE

C

M6 EPPING vs SCHWALLER

D

M7 JACOBS vs MATSUMURA

C

M8 KOE vs MCEWEN

B

L1 L2

C

L5 L6

M17/A

L17 L18

D

M9/D

M13/C

A QUALIFIER

B

M10/D

M11/B

ADVANCE TO PLAYOFFS M14/A

A QUALIFIER

M12/B

W1 HASSELBORG vs KOANA

A

W2 JONES vs PETERSON

B

W3 HOMAN vs ROCQUE

A

W4 FLEURY vs YOSHIMURA

B

W5 EINARSON vs WRANA

C

W6 KOVALEVA vs E. KIM

D

W7 TIRINZONI vs GIM

C

W8 FUJISAWA vs M. KIM

D

L1 L2

W15/C

L3 L4

W16/C

L5 L6

W17/A

L7 L8

W18/A

M23/A

B QUALIFIER

M24/D

B QUALIFIER

M18/A

L13 L9 L10

M21/C

L11 L12

M22/A

M25/B

ADVANCE TO PLAYOFFS

B QUALIFIER

C

L24

M27/B L22 L19 L20

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M29/C L23

M31/C

C QUALIFIER

M32/D

C QUALIFIER

M30/C L25

M33/B

C QUALIFIER

A QUALIFIER

W10/D

W11/B

ADVANCE TO PLAYOFFS W14/A

A QUALIFIER

W23/A

B QUALIFIER

W24/D

B QUALIFIER

W25/B

B QUALIFIER

W31/C

C QUALIFIER

W32/A

C QUALIFIER

W33/B

C QUALIFIER

W12/B

L15 L16

W26/D

L17 L18

W27/B

L13 L9 L10

W21/C

L11 L12

W22/A

L21

L22

W28/A L24 W29/D L23 W30/C L25

M26/D M28/B

W13/C

W20/B

L19 L20

L21

W9/D

L14

L14 M20/B

MATCH/SHEET

W19/D

M19/D M16/C

L15 L16

A

M15/C

L3 L4

L7 L8

WOMEN’S MATCHES

MATCH/SHEET

M1 MOUAT vs RUOHONEN

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ADVANCE TO PLAYOFFS

MEN'S & WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIPS ADVANCE TO PLAYOFFS

A–1 C–3

QF

B–2 B–3

QF

A–2 C–2

QF

B–1 C–1

QF

SF

FINAL

CHAMPIONS

SF

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4-FOOT The 4-foot-diameter (1.2 m) circle in the house. It surrounds the centre area called the button. It is used as a visual aid only - there is no extra score for placing a stone within it.

8-FOOT The 8-foot-diameter (2.4 m) circle in the house. It is used as a visual aid only there is no extra score for placing a stone within it; generally not actually painted - it appears as the empty space between the 12-foot and 4-foot rings.

GLOSSARY OF TERMS An alphabetized list of almost everything you ever wanted to know about Canada's favourite pastime!

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12-FOOT The 12-foot-diameter (3.7 m) circle outermost in the house; stone completely outside this circle cannot score.

ACROSS THE FACE On a hit, refers to the shooter hitting the object stone on the opposite side from where the broom was placed.

BLANK END An end in which no stones are touching the house, and thus no points are scored; in regular play the team that has the hammer retains it for the next end.

In a rare situation where two opposing stones are tied for shot, a blank end would also be marked.

BOARD WEIGHT Throwing a stone with enough speed that it will come to rest in an area just behind the hacks—about 6 feet behind the house.

Synonymous with barrier/ bumper weight.

BROOM / BRUSH An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel farther and curl less.

BURIED (COVERED) A rock that is hidden behind another rock, making it difficult for a curler to hit with a delivered rock.

BACK-HOUSE / BACK-LINE WEIGHT Delivery speed required for a stone to come to rest in the back half of the house.

BURN To accidentally touch a moving stone; occurring inside the hog line, the opposing skip has the option to remove the burned stone, or leave it where it comes to rest, while before the hog line; the rock is simply removed from play.

BITER A stone that barely touches the outside of the house, i.e. the 12-foot ring.

BUTTON The centre (bullseye) of the house; sometimes called the 1-foot circle, hole in

BACK END A team’s third and skip, considered as a unit.

centre of button is called the Pin. CENTRE GUARD A guard that is placed directly on the centre line, in front of the house; usually played by the team that does not have the hammer.

CENTRE LINE A line running lengthwise down the centre of the ice, used as a visual aid; some sheets do not have a centre line, or do not have one between the hog lines.

CLEAN To brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure a correct line; less vigorous than a sweep.

COME-AROUND Any shot that curls around another rock.

CONTROL WEIGHT A takeout shot that is slow enough that the sweepers have relative control over its curl; faster than board weight, but slower than normal takeout weight.

CORNER GUARD A type of guard that is off to the side of the house; usually employed when a team has the hammer and needs to score multiple points.

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GLOSSARY OF TERMS stones. Each counter scores one point at the completion of an end.

DELIVERY/SLIDE Process of throwing a stone.

DOUBLE TAKEOUT / DOUBLE A takeout shot in which two other stones are removed from play; a shot in which the delivered stone and one other stone are removed is not a double takeout.

DRAG When two rocks are frozen, hitting the top rock at an angle creates a drag effect that affects the direction of the second rock; the friction between the two frozen rocks makes the first rock “drag” the second rock slightly towards the same direction.

DRAW A shot that lands in play without hitting another stone out, as opposed to a takeout shot. A shot that is delivered with draw weight.

Also refers to a game, e.g., “We have a draw at 7:00 p.m. tonight.”

DRAW WEIGHT Delivery speed required for a stone to come to rest in the house.

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with their turning motion; often the result of using the arm to shove the stone, and usually causes a missed shot.

EIGHT-ENDER An end where all eight stones score for one team a very rare occurrence.

END Similar to an inning in baseball; in an end, each team throws 8 rocks, 2 per player in alternating fashion; Games can be 8 or 10 ends in length.

EXTRA END In the event of a tie after the prescribed number of ends, extra ends are played until the tie is broken.

FALL A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown in that area to curl negatively.

FLASH To completely miss an attempted takeout; the rock passes through the house without touching any rocks at all.

FOURTH The player throwing the last two rocks for a team. For the majority of teams, the Skip also throws the fourth stones.

FREE-GUARD ZONE RULE The rule that states that an opponent’s rock resting in the free-guard zone, the area between the hog line

and the tee line, excluding the house, which cannot be removed from play until the first four rocks of an end have been played.

FREEZE A precise draw weight shot where a delivered stone comes to rest against a stationary stone, making it nearly impossible to knock out.

FRONT END A team’s lead and second, considered as a unit.

FROST Buildup that can occur on ice surfaces when there is excessive humidity in the air; tends to makes stones stop faster and curl less.

GUARD A rock that is placed in front of another rock to protect it from being knocked out by the opposing team, or placed with the intent to later curl another rock around it and thus be protected; typically placed between the hog line and the very front of the house.

GRIPPER Rubber or other material attached to a curling shoe to improve traction on the ice; also known as an anti-slider.

HACK Similar to a starting block in track and field, the foothold device where the

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GLOSSARY OF TERMS person who throws the rock pushes off from.

HACK WEIGHT The weight required to deliver a stone in order that it travels to the hack at the far end.

HAMMER The last shot in an end - a huge advantage; the team with the last rock is said to “have the hammer”.

HANDSHAKE Each team traditionally shakes hands with each member of the opposing team at the before and at the end of a match as a sign of goodwill. To signal an early concession, the losing team shakes the hands of the other team.

HEAVY A stone that is thrown harder than required and will probably slide too far.

HIT Any shot where the aim is to move another stone; the opposite of a draw.

HIT AND ROLL A takeout rock that, after making contact with another rock, slides (rolls) into a designated area.

HOG LINE (FAR) The line which the stone must completely cross to be considered in play.

HOG LINE (NEAR) The line by which the stone must be clearly and fully released by the thrower.

HOG LINE VIOLATION Failure to release a stone before crossing the near hog line.

HOGGED ROCK A shot that comes to rest short of or on the far hog line and is removed from play.

across the body (the elbow is rotated “in” to the body; for a right-handed thrower, an in-turn is clockwise and the opposite for a lefty.

INSIDE (TIGHT) A stone delivered off the broom, tight of the target and therefore likely to curl past it.

KEEN ICE When the ice is faster than normal.

HOUSE (RINGS) The three concentric circles where points are scored.

LEAD The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.

ICE (MORE, LESS, TOO MUCH, NOT ENOUGH) Adjustment to the crosswise distance between the skip’s broom and the desired target area; for example, a player who feels that the skip’s broom is too close to the target might request “more ice”.

LIE / LIES / LYING When a team “lies X” or “is lying X”, that number of its stones are closer to the button than any opposition stone; were the end to finish then, the team would score that number of points.

ICEMAKER Person who is responsible for maintaining the ice, duties include pebbling, scraping the ice and more.

IN-OFF A shot where the delivered stone hits another stone near the outer edge of the sheet at an angle, making the shooter roll into the house.

IN-TURN A shot in which the handle of the stone is rotated

LINE The path of a moving stone; a ‘good’ line indicates it is headed where it was intended to go; a ‘bad’ line has deviated.

LIGHT A stone that is not thrown hard enough.

LITTLE ROCKS Many clubs offer a Little Rocks program for children, with rocks that are half the weight of regular rocks.

Curlers generally move onto full-sized rocks around the ages of 10 to 12.

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GLOSSARY OF TERMS LOSING THE HANDLE A rock that is “losing the handle” refers to a rock which loses its rotation or which reverses its rotation while moving.

LSFE Last Stone in the First End; determined by a coin toss, draw contest, or record comparison.

MEASURE STICK Equipment used to determine which of two or more stones is closest to the centre when they are too similar to know with visual inspection.

NORMAL WEIGHT Normal takeout weight; faster than control weight, but slower than peel.

OFF THE BROOM An incorrectly aimed shot; opposite of on the broom.

OPEN A rock that is not obscured by another rock from the shooter’s perspective.

ON THE BROOM A correctly aimed shot that starts out directly at the broom held by the skip.

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OUT OF STONES A situation in which a team that is behind in the score no longer has enough stones between those in play and those yet to be played to make up the deficit.

OUTSIDE (WIDE) Another term for wide.

OUT-TURN A shot in which the handle of the stone is rotated away from the body – the elbow is rotated “out” from the body; for a right-handed thrower, an out-turn is counter-clockwise, and the opposite for a lefty.

PEBBLE Small droplets of water intentionally sprayed on the ice that cause irregularities on the surface, allowing the rocks to curl. Also a verb; the action of depositing water droplets on the ice, as “to pebble the ice between games”.

PEEL A takeout with up weight that removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone. These are usually intentional, such as for blanking an end.

PICK Occasionally, a foreign particle such as a hair will be picked up by the running surface, or the rock will hit a melted spot on the ice, causing the rock to deviate from its expected path.

PLAY DOWNS Competitive play towards club, state/provincial, national, and world championships.

PORT A space between two stones just wide enough for a delivered stone to pass through.

READING THE ICE When a curler considers how the condition of a sheet of ice will influence the path of a thrown stone, similar to how a golfer reads the undulations and texture of a green before determining where and how hard to hit a putt.

ROCK (STONE) The device thrown by curlers during the game. It is made of granite and has a standard weight of 19.6 kg (44 lb).

ROTATION Description of a spinning rock.

RUB/WICK When a moving stone touches another stationary stone, changing its direction.

RUN A section of the curling sheet that does not curl as expected, usually with less curl then the rest of the sheet.

RUNBACK A takeout hitting a front stone, that hits another rock and removes it from play.

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GLOSSARY OF TERMS SECOND The player who throws the third and fourth rocks for a team; generally they also sweep for all other players on their team.

SHEET The area of ice that on which one game is played.

SHOOTER Refers to the rock thrown when a shot is made.

SHOT ROCK / SHOT STONE The rock in the house closest to the button; the next closest rocks are second shot and third shot.

To “be shot” means to have shot rock.

SKIP The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.

SLIDER A piece of Teflon or similar material attached to a curling shoe that allows the player to slide along the ice.

SOFT RELEASE A type of release that makes the rock curl more, usually by imparting less rotation to the handle.

SPINNER A stone traveling with a rapid rotation. Stones thrown in this manner will tend to curl less than a rock travelling with normal rotation.

SPLIT A draw shot in which the played stone hits on the side of a stationary stone and both move sideways and stay in play. Not to be confused with split the house.

SPLIT THE HOUSE A strategy of drawing to a different area of the house to prevent your opponent from taking out both stones.

STRAIGHT ICE Ice on which stones curl less than usual.

SWEEP To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, which causes it to travel farther and curl less.

SWINGY ICE Ice on which stones curl more than usual.

TAKEOUT A rock that hits another rock and removes it from play.

TAP BACK/RAISE Use of the delivery stone to tap another rock, usually thrown with draw weight to manoeuvre rocks in play.

TEE LINE The line that goes across the house intersecting with the middle of the button, splitting it in half.

THIRD The player who throws the fifth and sixth rocks for a team; usually also serves as vice-skip.

TICK A shot that bumps a guard out of the way without removing it from play, to avoid violating the Free Guard Zone Rule.

TIME Sweepers use a timer to measure the time between the start of the delivery and the rock hitting the hog line, as an indicator of the shot’s weight. “Time” can also refer to the amount of time left on the game clock.

TRIPLE A takeout shot in which three other stones are removed from play.

VICE-SKIP OR VICE The player who discusses strategy with the skip behind the house and holds the broom while the skip throws his rocks; usually plays third stones; also known as mate.

WEIGHT The amount of speed with which a rock is delivered; more weight corresponds to a harder throw.

WRECKED SHOT A missed shot caused by a chip or wick off of another stationary stone.

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