2018–19 Curling World Cup

2018–19 Curling World Cup
Dates	September 12, 2018 – May 12, 2019
Host cities	Suzhou, China (First Leg) Omaha, United States (Second Leg) Jönköping, Sweden (Third Leg) Beijing, China (Grand Final)
Women's winners	Canada (Homan) (First Leg)
Men's winners	Canada (Koe) (First Leg)
Mixed doubles winners	Canada (Walker/Muyres) (First Leg)

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

Format

Curling World Cup matches have eight ends, rather than the standard ten ends. Ties after eight ends will be 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 will earn a team 3 points, a shoot-out win 2 points, a shoot-out less 1 point, and 0 points for a loss in eight or fewer ends.^[2]

Each event will have eight teams in the men's, women's, and mixed doubles tournament. The teams will be split into two groups of four, based on the Curling World Cup rankings, whereby the 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 7th, ranked teams will be in one group and the 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 8th ranked teams in the other. The first place teams in each group will play against each other in the final. In the event of a tie for first place, a shoot-out will be 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 method	Women	Men	Mixed 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 teams on the Curling World Cup ranking list will qualify for the Grand Final. Two separate teams from the same member association may qualify for the Grand Final.^[3]

First Leg

Women

Round robin standings

Group A
Country	Skip	W	SOW	SOL	L	Pts
Sweden	Anna Hasselborg	5	0	0	1	15
Japan	Satsuki Fujisawa	3	0	0	3	9
China	Liu Sijia	2	0	0	4	6
Scotland	Jennifer Dodds	2	0	0	4	6

Group B
Country	Skip	W	SOW	SOL	L	Pts
Canada	Rachel Homan	5	0	0	1	15
Russia	Anna Sidorova	3	0	0	3	9
United States	Nina Roth	3	0	0	3	9
South Korea	Kim Min-ji	1	0	0	5	3

Final

Sunday, September 17, 12:00

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

Men

Round robin standings

Group A
Country	Skip	W	SOW	SOL	L	Pts
Norway	Steffen Walstad	5	0	0	1	15
Sweden	Niklas Edin	2	1	0	2	8
United States	Rich Ruohonen	2	0	1	3	7
China	Zang Jialiang	2	0	0	4	6

Group B
Country	Skip	W	SOW	SOL	L	Pts
Canada	Kevin Koe	5	0	0	1	15
Scotland	Bruce Mouat	4	0	0	2	12
Switzerland	Peter de Cruz	3	0	0	3	9
Japan	Masaki Iwai	0	0	0	5	0

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)	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	5

Mixed doubles

Round robin standings

Group A
Country	Athletes	W	SOW	SOL	L	Pts
Canada	Laura Walker / Kirk Muyres	5	0	0	1	15
Norway	Kristin Skaslien / Sander Rølvåg	3	0	0	3	9
Russia	Maria Komarova / Danill Goryachev	2	0	1	3	7
Sweden	Therese Westman / Robin Ahlberg	1	1	0	4	5

Group B
Country	Athletes	W	SOW	SOL	L	Pts
United States	Sarah Anderson / Korey Dropkin	6	0	0	0	18
Switzerland	Jenny Perret / Martin Rios	4	0	0	2	12
China	Yu Jiaxin / Wang Xiangkun	1	0	0	5	3
South Korea	Jang Hye-ri / Choi Chi-won	1	0	0	5	3

Final

Sunday, September 16, 08:30

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

Second Leg

Third Leg

Grand Final

References