Curling World Cup
The Curling World Cup is a curling tournament series organized by the World Curling Federation . It consists of four tournaments and will be played for the first time in the 2018/19 season.
history
In September 2017, the World Curling Federation announced that it would organize a World Series of Curling in cooperation with Kingdomway Sports in the 2018/2019 season in order to further develop the sport of curling in the run-up to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing . In January 2018 it was announced that the tournament series was renamed the Curling World Cup. In July 2018, further details on the venues, the format and the rules were published. The sporting manager of the World Cup is the German curler Uli Kapp .
format
The World Cup consists of four tournaments. The first will be held in China in September / October , followed by a tournament in November / December on the American continent. The series will be continued in Europe in January / February of the following year . The qualified nations will finally take part in the Grand Final in Beijing in May .
There are competitions for men and women as well as mixed doubles . For this purpose, two groups with four teams each are formed; the assignment is based on the placement in the world curling ranking list . The teams play a double round robin in their group ; the best placed then play the winner in the playoffs.
qualification
In the first three tournaments, the three host countries, the highest-placed nations in the World Curling Ranking List from Europe, America and Pacific Asia and two teams nominated by the World Curling Federation are qualified.
The host country, the three winners of the first three tournaments and the current curling world champion take part in the final tournament. There is also an invitation team (e.g. the current Olympic champion ) and the two best-placed nations in the World Cup rankings that have not yet qualified.
regulate
Each game has eight ends. In the event of a tie after eight ends, no additional end is played, but a shootout. The winner is the team that puts its stone closer to the target. For a regular win after eight ends, the winner receives three points. If you win by shootout you get two points; in addition, the loser gets one point. Between the ends, the teams are allowed to communicate with their coaches. In the first four ends, the thinking time is four minutes each, in the last four ends 4:15 minutes. In the mixed double the time to consider is 2:50 minutes and in the last four ends 3 minutes.
winner
| season | competition | 1st tournament winner | Winner 2nd tournament | Winner 3rd tournament | Winner Grand Final |
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| 2018/19 | Women |
 Canada ( Rachel Homan , Emma Miskew , Joanne Courtney , Lisa Weagle ) |
 Japan ( Satsuki Fujisawa , Chinami Yoshida , Yūmi Suzuki , Yurika Yoshida ) |
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| Men |
Canada ( Kevin Koe , BJ Neufeld , Colton Flasch , Ben Hebert ) |
 United States ( John Shuster , Chris Plys , Matt Hamilton , John Landsteiner ) |
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| Mixed double |
Canada ( Laura Walker , Kirk Muyres ) |
 Norway ( Kristin Skaslien , Magnus Nedregotten ) |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ World Series of Curling given major boost towards implementation. In: World Curling Federation. September 16, 2017, accessed on July 23, 2018 .
- ^ New four-stage curling competition to be named Curling World Cup. In: World Curling Federation. January 16, 2018, accessed on July 23, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c d e f Everything you need to know about the Curling World Cup. In: World Curling Federation. July 19, 2018, accessed July 23, 2018 .
- ^ Olympian and former European champion Kapp appointed as Sport Manager for World Cup. In: Curling World Cup. June 1, 2018, accessed on July 23, 2018 .