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2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts

2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts

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The 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Canada's national women's curling championship, was held from January 27–February 4, 2018 at the South Okanagan Events Centre in Penticton, British Columbia. The winning team represented Canada at the 2018 Ford World Women's Curling Championship held from March 17–25 at the Memorial Gardens in North Bay, Ontario.

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The 2018 tournament was the first to use a new 16-team format, featuring representation by all fourteen member associations of Curling Canada, the second-place team from the 2017 tournament (as champion Rachel Homan declined to participate due to her qualification for the 2018 Winter Olympics), and a new wildcard team. As part of this new format, the Bronze medal game was removed from the schedule.[1]

Teams

Curling Canada introduced a new 16-team format for both the Tournament of Hearts and Brier for 2018, under which all 14 member associations of Curling Canada were represented in the main field, rather than being limited by a pre-qualifying tournament. The teams were divided into two pools for round robin play, after which the top four teams from each advanced to the Championship Pool. Defending champion Rachel Homan declined to participate as Team Canada in order to prepare for the 2018 Winter Olympics; Michelle Englot's team, who finished as runner-up in the 2017 tournament, participated in her place.[2] The final spot in the tournament was filled by a wildcard play-in game held on the Friday before the tournament.[3]

The rinks of Hollie Duncan (Ontario), Émilia Gagné (Quebec), and Casey Scheidegger (Alberta) made their Scotties debut; although members of Team Ontario had previous experience at the national women's championship, mostly as alternates. Scotties veteran skip Sherry Anderson (Saskatchewan) led a team of Tournament of Hearts rookies.

The teams are listed as follows:[4]

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Team Canada Provincial Winners Wild-Card Team

CTRS ranking

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Wildcard game

A wildcard play-in game was played on January 26; it was contested between the top two teams on the CTRS standings who did not win their respective provincial championships,[3] and was played between The Glencoe Club's Chelsea Carey rink from Calgary and the East St. Paul Curling Club's Kerri Einarson rink from the Winnipeg exurb of East St. Paul. With Einarson's victory, Manitoba was represented by three different teams in the tournament.[5]

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Wildcard Game

Friday, January 26, 18:30

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Round Robin standings

Final Round Robin Standings

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Round Robin results

All draw times are listed in Pacific Standard Time (UTC−8:00).[6]

Draw 1

Saturday, January 27, 14:00

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Draw 2

Saturday, January 27, 19:00

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Draw 3

Sunday, January 28, 09:00

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Draw 4

Sunday, January 28, 14:00

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Draw 5

Sunday, January 28, 19:00

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Draw 6

Monday, January 29, 09:00

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Draw 7

Monday, January 29, 14:00

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Draw 8

Monday, January 29, 19:00

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Draw 9

Tuesday, January 30, 09:00

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Draw 10

Tuesday, January 30, 14:00

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Draw 11

Tuesday, January 30, 19:00

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Draw 12

Wednesday, January 31, 09:00

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Draw 13

Wednesday, January 31, 14:00

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Draw 14

Wednesday, January 31, 19:00

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Tiebreakers

Thursday, February 1, 09:00

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Placement Round

Each team that finished fifth through eight in their pool played the team that finished in the same position in the opposite pool for the purpose of determining final tournament ranking. For example, the winner of the game between fifth place teams was ranked ninth place overall, the loser of that game was ranked tenth place, and so on.

Seeding Games

All game times are listed in Pacific Standard Time (UTC−8:00).

A5 vs. B5

Friday, February 02, 09:00

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A6 vs. B6

Friday, February 02, 09:00

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A7 vs. B7

Friday, February 02, 09:00

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A8 vs. B8

Friday, February 02, 09:00

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Championship Pool Standings

All wins and losses earned in the round robin (including results against teams that failed to advance) were carried forward into the Championship Pool. Wins in tiebreaker games were not carried forward.

Final Championship Pool Standings

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Championship Pool Results

All draw times are listed in Pacific Standard Time (UTC−8:00).

Draw 15

Thursday, February 01, 14:00

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Draw 16

Thursday, February 01, 19:00

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Draw 17

Friday, February 02, 14:00

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Draw 18

Friday, February 02, 19:00

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Playoffs

Page playoff systemSemifinalFinal
1Manitoba Wildcard72 Manitoba8
2 Manitoba91Manitoba Wildcard6
1Manitoba Wildcard12
3 Nova Scotia9
3 Nova Scotia6
4 Northern Ontario2

1 vs. 2

Saturday, February 03, 19:00

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3 vs. 4

Saturday, February 03, 14:00

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Semifinal

Sunday, February 04, 09:00

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Final

Sunday, February 04, 16:00

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Statistics

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Perfect games

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Awards

The awards and all-star teams were as follows:

All-Star Teams[7]

First Team

Second Team

Marj Mitchell Sportsmanship Award[8]
Joan Mead Builder Award[5]

Provincial and territorial playdowns

Notes

  1. Team Canada alternate Briane Meilleur played lead during Draw 7.
  2. Kaitlyn Lawes was officially listed as Team Manitoba's alternate, but did not attend the event.
  3. Team Northern Ontario used a 5-player rotation.
  4. Geneva Chislett skipped during Nunavut's final game in the placement round.

References

  1. "2018 Draw Schedule". Curling Canada. Retrieved February 3, 2018.
  2. "Format finalized for 16-team championships in 2018". Curling Canada. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  3. Granger, Grant (January 27, 2018). "Team Einarson scores historic Scotties wild-card win". Curling Canada. Archived from the original on January 28, 2018. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
  4. "Official Draw" (PDF). Curling Canada. Retrieved January 16, 2018.
  5. McCormick, Murray (February 4, 2018). "Jones back on top, capturing Scotties women's curling championship". Toronto Sun. Postmedia News. Retrieved February 5, 2018.
  6. Granger, Grant (February 3, 2018). "Nova Scotia advances to Scotties semifinal". Curling Canada. Retrieved February 3, 2018.

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