2018–19 Curling World Cup

The 2018–19 Curling World Cup was the first edition of the Curling World Cup, held between men's, women's, and mixed doubles teams. It had three legs and a Grand Final, taking place in Suzhou, China, Omaha, United States, Jönköping, Sweden, and Beijing, China respectively.[1]

2018–19 Curling World Cup
DatesSeptember 12, 2018 – May 12, 2019
Host citiesSuzhou, China (First Leg)
Omaha, United States (Second Leg)
Jönköping, Sweden (Third Leg)
Beijing, China (Grand Final)
Women's winners Canada (Homan) (First Leg)
 Japan (Fujisawa) (Second Leg)
 South Korea (Kim) (Third Leg)
 Canada (Jones) (Grand Final)
Men's winners Canada (Koe) (First Leg)
 United States (Shuster) (Second Leg)
 Canada (Dunstone) (Third Leg)
 Canada (Koe) (Grand Final)
Mixed doubles winners Canada (Walker/Muyres) (First Leg)
 Norway (Skaslien/Nedregotten) (Second Leg)
 Canada (Sahaidak/Lott) (Third Leg)
 Norway (Skaslien/Nedregotten) (Grand Final)

Format

Curling World Cup matches have eight ends, rather than the standard ten ends. Ties after eight ends are decided by a shoot-out, with each team throwing a stone and the one closest to the button winning. A win in eight or fewer ends earns a team 3 points, a shoot-out win 2 points, a shoot-out loss 1 point, and 0 points for a loss in eight or fewer ends.[2]

Each event has eight teams in the men's, women's, and mixed doubles tournament. The teams are split into two groups of four, based on the Curling World Cup rankings, whereby the 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 7th, ranked teams are in one group and the 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 8th ranked teams in the other. The first place teams in each group plays against each other in the final. In the event of a tie for first place, a shoot-out is used, with the same format used to decide matches tied after eight ends.[2]

Qualification

For the first three legs of the Curling World Cup, the eight spots in the tournament are allocated to each of the hosting member associations, the highest ranked member association in each zone (the Americas, European, and Pacific-Asia), and two teams chosen by the World Curling Federation. Member associations may choose to send the same teams to all three legs or have different teams.[3]

The following countries qualified for each discipline:[3]

Qualification methodWomenMenMixed doubles
Hosting member association China China China
 United States United States United States
 Sweden Sweden Sweden
Highest ranked member association in the Americas zone Canada Canada Canada
Highest ranked member association in the European zone Scotland  Switzerland  Switzerland
Highest ranked member association in the Pacific-Asia zone South Korea Japan South Korea
Selected by World Curling Federation Japan Norway Russia
 Russia Scotland Norway

The host (China), the winners of each leg, the current world champions, a team specifically invited, and the two highest remaining member associations on the Curling World Cup ranking list qualified for the Grand Final. Two separate teams from the same member association may qualify for the Grand Final.[3]

The following countries qualified for each discipline:[3]

Qualification methodWomenMenMixed doubles
Hosting member association China China China
First leg winner Canada (Homan)1 Canada (Koe) Canada (Walker/Muyres)
Second leg winner Japan (Fujisawa) United States (Shuster) Norway (Skaslien/Nedregotten)
Third leg winner South Korea (Kim)  Canada (Dunstone)  Canada (Sahaidak/Lott)
Highest ranked remaining
member associations
 Sweden Sweden  Switzerland
 Russia Scotland United States
World champions  Switzerland (Tirinzoni) Sweden (Edin)3  Switzerland (Jäggi/Michel)2
Invited by World Curling Federation4 United States Norway Russia
Notes
  1. ^ Team Homan is being replaced by a team consisting of Jennifer Jones, Kaitlyn Lawes, Shannon Birchard and Jill Officer due to Homan and her second Joanne Courtney being due to give birth in the summer.[4]
  2. ^ The 2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Champions, Michèle Jäggi and Sven Michel, were selected to compete due to the short time between the 2019 Championship and the Grand Final.[5]
  3. ^ With Team Edin already qualified for the Grand Final, Switzerland, the highest-ranked country not yet qualified, was invited.[6]
  4. ^ In each discipline, the WCF chose to invite the highest-ranked country not yet qualified.

Ranking points

Ranking points were assigned in each of the first three legs to determine the final member associations qualified for the Grand Final. Member associations were awarded their points from round robin play as well as 5 points for the runner-up and 10 for the champion.[7]

Key
Teams to Grand Final (leg winner)
Teams to Grand Final (ranking points)
Women
CountryFirst LegSecond LegThird LegTotal
 Sweden2092049
 South Korea3172545
 Japan925842
 Canada2512037
 Russia961126
 United States96924
 Scotland612422
 China601016
Men
CountryFirst LegSecond LegThird LegTotal
 Canada2532553
 Sweden8202048
 United States725739
 Scotland1291334
 Norway209433
  Switzerland961126
 China69318
 Japan0639
Mixed doubles
CountryFirst LegSecond LegThird LegTotal
 Canada2572355
 Norway9221748
  Switzerland12221246
 United States23111145
 Russia761023
 Sweden531119
 China37313
 South Korea39012

First leg

Round-robin standings

Group A
CountrySkipWSOWSOLLPts
 SwedenAnna Hasselborg500115
 JapanSatsuki Fujisawa30039
 ChinaLiu Sijia20046
 ScotlandJennifer Dodds20046
Group B
CountrySkipWSOWSOLLPts
 CanadaRachel Homan500115
 RussiaAnna Sidorova30039
 United StatesNina Roth30039
 South KoreaKim Min-ji10053

Final

Sunday, September 17, 12:00

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Canada (Homan) (has hammer) 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 3 7
 Sweden (Hasselborg) 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 3

Round-robin standings

Group A
CountrySkipWSOWSOLLPts
 NorwaySteffen Walstad500115
 SwedenNiklas Edin21038
 United StatesRich Ruohonen20137
 ChinaZang Jialiang20046
Group B
CountrySkipWSOWSOLLPts
 CanadaKevin Koe500115
 ScotlandBruce Mouat400212
  SwitzerlandPeter de Cruz30039
 JapanMasaki Iwai00060

Final

Sunday, September 17, 16:00

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Canada (Koe) 0 3 0 2 0 1 0 0 6
 Norway (Walstad) (has hammer) 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 5

Round-robin standings

Group A
CountryAthletesWSOWSOLLPts
 CanadaLaura Walker / Kirk Muyres500115
 NorwayKristin Skaslien / Sander Rølvåg30039
 RussiaMaria Komarova / Daniil Goriachev20137
 SwedenTherese Westman / Robin Ahlberg11045
Group B
CountryAthletesWSOWSOLLPts
 United StatesSarah Anderson / Korey Dropkin600018
  SwitzerlandJenny Perret / Martin Rios400212
 ChinaYu Jiaxin / Wang Xiangkun10053
 South KoreaJang Hye-ri / Choi Chi-won10053

Final

Sunday, September 16, 08:30

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 United States (Anderson/Dropkin) (has hammer) 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 X 3
 Canada (Walker/Muyres) 0 1 0 1 3 1 1 X 7

Second leg

Round-robin standings

Group A
CountrySkipWSOWSOLLPts
 South KoreaKim Min-ji400212
 CanadaTracy Fleury400212
 RussiaAlina Kovaleva20046
 United StatesJamie Sinclair20046
Group B
CountrySkipWSOWSOLLPts
 JapanSatsuki Fujisawa500115
 ScotlandEve Muirhead400212
 SwedenAnna Hasselborg30039
 ChinaYang Ying00060

Final

Sunday, December 9, 12:00

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 South Korea (Kim) 0 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 6
 Japan (Fujisawa) (has hammer) 2 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 7

Round-robin standings

Group A
CountrySkipWSOWSOLLPts
 United StatesJohn Shuster500115
 ChinaZou Qiang30039
 ScotlandBruce Mouat30039
 CanadaJason Gunnlaugson10053
Group B
CountrySkipWSOWSOLLPts
 SwedenNiklas Edin500115
 NorwayThomas Ulsrud30039
 JapanYuta Matsumura20046
  SwitzerlandYannick Schwaller20046

Final

Sunday, December 9, 16:00

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 United States (Shuster) 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 X 3
 Sweden (Edin) (has hammer) 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 X 1

Round-robin standings

Group A
CountryAthletesWSOWSOLLPts
  SwitzerlandJenny Perret / Martin Rios510017
 South KoreaJang Hye-ri / Choe Chi-won30039
 CanadaKalynn Park / John Morris20137
 SwedenMalin Wengdel / Fabian Wingfors10053
Group B
CountryAthletesWSOWSOLLPts
 NorwayKristin Skaslien / Magnus Nedregotten400212
 United StatesTabitha Peterson / Joe Polo310211
 ChinaWang Rui / Ba Dexin20137
 RussiaAnastasia Moskaleva / Alexander Eremin20046

Final

Sunday, December 9, 08:30

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
  Switzerland (Perret/Rios) (has hammer) 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 X 5
 Norway (Skaslien/Nedregotten) 0 2 1 2 1 0 4 X 10

Third leg

Round-robin standings

Group A
CountrySkipWSOWSOLLPts
 SwedenAnna Hasselborg500115
 RussiaAnna Sidorova310211
 ChinaJiang Yilun301210
 CanadaDarcy Robertson00060
Group B
CountrySkipWSOWSOLLPts
 South KoreaKim Min-ji500115
 United StatesCory Christensen21129
 JapanTori Koana20228
 ScotlandSophie Jackson02044

Final

Sunday, February 3, 16:00

Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Sweden (Hasselborg) 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 X 4
 South Korea (Kim) (has hammer) 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 X 6

Round-robin standings

Group A
CountrySkipWSOWSOLLPts
 SwedenNiklas Edin411015
  SwitzerlandYannick Schwaller310211
 United StatesMark Fenner20137
 JapanMasaki Iwai10053
Group B
CountrySkipWSOWSOLLPts
 CanadaMatt Dunstone501016
 ScotlandRoss Paterson320113
 NorwaySteffen Walstad10144
 ChinaMa Xiuyue10053

Final

Sunday, February 3, 12:00

Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Sweden (Edin) 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 4
 Canada (Dunstone) (has hammer) 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 1 5

Round-robin standings

Group A
CountryAthletesWSOWSOLLPts
 CanadaKadriana Sahaidak / Colton Lott401113
  SwitzerlandJenny Perret / Martin Rios400212
 SwedenCamilla Noreen / Per Noreen310211
 South KoreaJang Hye-ri / Choe Chi-won00060
Group B
CountryAthletesWSOWSOLLPts
 NorwayKristin Skaslien / Thomas Ulsrud400212
 United StatesBecca Hamilton / Matt Hamilton310211
 RussiaMaria Komarova / Daniil Goriachev301210
 ChinaChang Cao / Minjie Yuan10053

Final

Sunday, February 3, 08:30

Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Canada (Sahaidak/Lott) (has hammer) 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 2 7
 Norway (Skaslien/Ulsrud) 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 0 5

Grand Final

Round-robin standings

Group A
TeamWSOWSOLLPts
 Canada (Jones)220210
 Japan (Fujisawa)301210
 China (Jiang)30039
 United States (Roth)20137
Group B
TeamWSOWSOLLPts
  Switzerland (Tirinzoni)401113
 Russia (Sidorova)400212
 Sweden (Hasselborg)20046
 South Korea (Kim)11045

Final

Sunday, May 12, 16:00

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Canada (Jones) 1 2 0 1 1 0 2 2 9
  Switzerland (Tirinzoni) (has hammer) 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 6

Round-robin standings

Group A
TeamWSOWSOLLPts
 China (Zou)400212
 Sweden (Edin)30039
 United States (Shuster)21038
 Canada (Dunstone)20137
Group B
TeamWSOWSOLLPts
 Canada (Koe)400212
 Scotland (Paterson)400212
  Switzerland (Schwaller)30039
 Norway (Ulsrud)10053

Final

Sunday, May 12, 09:00

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 China (Zou) (has hammer) 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 3
 Canada (Koe) 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 5

Round-robin standings

Group A
TeamWSOWSOLLPts
 Canada (Walker/Muyres)410114
 United States (Anderson/Dropkin)400212
  Switzerland (Jäggi/Michel)20137
 China (Cao/Yuan)10053
Group B
TeamWSOWSOLLPts
 Norway (Skaslien/Nedregotten)501016
 Canada (Sahaidak/Lott)310211
  Switzerland (Perret/Rios) 20137
 Russia (Komarova/Goriachev)01052

Final

Sunday, May 12, 13:00

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final
 Canada (Walker/Muyres) 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 X 3
 Norway (Skaslien/Nedregotten) (has hammer) 0 3 1 0 2 0 2 X 8

References

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