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M: Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Championship
Fredericton, NB
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Draw: 6 -- Mon, Mar 18 -- 7:00pm AT
Gagn/Mori Final
Rees/Ches (EE)
Sand/Crai Final
Gamb/Kalt (8)
Arms/Grif Final
Pete/Gall (7) Watch Live Curling!
Zhen/Piet Final
Gion/Desj (7)
Wasy/Koni Final
Jone/Lain (EE)
Wise/Smit 12  Final
Weag/Eppi (6)
Lott/Lott 12  Final
Bouc/Char (7)
Krev/Math Final
Whit/Whit (6)
M: Aberdeen International Curling Championship
Aberdeen, SCO
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Draw: CF -- Sun, Mar 17 -- 2:45pm GMT
Mouat Final
Shuster (7)
W: Biktrix Saskatchewan Senior Women's Curling Championship
Martensville, SK
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Draw: CF -- Sun, Mar 17 -- 3:00pm MT
Foster Final
Streifel (8) Watch Live Curling!
W: CCAA / Curling Canada College Championships
Sudbury, ON
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Draw: CF -- Sat, Mar 16 -- 2:30pm AT
Southern Alberta IoT Final
Concordia U (10)
UofA - Augustana Final
Humber College (10)
D: WCT Slovakia Mixed Doubles Cup II
Bratislava, SVK
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Draw: CF -- Sun, Mar 17 -- 12:00pm CET
Han/Zou Final
Paul/Paul (7)
Cihl/Mace Final
Yang/Tian 10  (6)
: NWTCA Mixed
Yellowknife, NT
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Draw: 4 -- Sun, Mar 17 -- 10:00am MT
Delorey Final
Koe (5)
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01-11-18 12:02AM
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Northern Ontario Scotties

Anybody else notice there's ONLY 3 TEAMS of which 1 is kids.
Thoughts, comments?

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Yes I did. Makes me wonder why they get to send a team. Granted 2 of the teams are very good, but seems a little ridiculous.

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Not a good sign for women's curling in NO. Is it because how widespread it is. But with only 3 teams, not sure it's worth letting them have their own entry.

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Angry Come on

As a former Northern Ontarian curler, I get sick of this "should they have a team" argument repeating itself every year, so let me thoughtfully shut it down for those of you inclined to such knee-jerk rationality, before anyone else piles on.

First - be careful what you wish for, Ontario. The two skips in the Women's final have both actually won the Ontario Scotties when the province was combined. McCarville did it four times, in fact! I think it's also fair to say that Brad Jacobs would be the favourite if he played out of Ontario this year.

Second - Demographics. The region is three quarters of a million people, roughly the same as New Brunswick, and higher than Newfoundland and Labrador, PEI, and any of the territories. More importantly, geographically it is HUGE, and very separate from the rest of Ontario. The region is populated enough and distinct enough to deserve a place. Worse, lumping them back in with Ontario only further discourages participation in the region, which goes completely against the spirit of the Brier/Scotties (that any team from anywhere can get there, and maybe even win it). This is without mentioning the region's strong cultural identity, distinct in comparison to the rest of Ontario.

Third - Historically Northern Ontario is a strong performer at the Brier, and are only behind Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario and Saskatchewan in terms of Brier wins and Top Three Finishes (all modern era, I might add). Since they've been introduced at the Scotties, they've finished 5th, 2nd, and 4th - hard to dismiss as undeserving performances (and the five combined appearances by McCarville/Fleury as Team Ontario were no less relevant).

Fourth - Participation. This is a tough one because it's notable that only three women's teams played this year. The men might only get 10 teams out as well, but that's actually on par with Maritime provinces (and proportionately higher than Ontario/Quebec if you look at teams per capita, but I digress). I compare NONT right now to Newfoundland. With Brad Gushue around, not many teams find it worthwhile to even show up to try (in fact, none of the teams from the island of Newfoundland ever travel to Labrador, nor vice versa, because of him). This doesn't happen in geographically smaller provinces because travel is comparatively much cheaper, and front-runners often less obvious or invincible seeming. You ask yourself - would you drive 10-11 hrs from Thunder Bay to Sudbury (or as far as 17 hrs from Kenora to North Bay, as another possible example) just to get whacked by Fleury and McCarville?

[As an aside to the fourth point, it's both a blessing and a curse for the region to have such successful teams. Having teams like Olympic Champion Brad Jacobs, Grand Slam regular (and usually, playoff qualifier) Tracy Fleury, and perennial Scotties contender Krista McCarville, makes for huge role models who help drive aspirational youth curlers as well as generate club interest from those otherwise unaware of our sport. I myself looked up to the team skipped by the late Scott Patterson (two time Brier participant, original WCT team, and former member of Russ Howard rink) - if he could do it, maybe I could too, one day. But these teams also drive down mid-level interest in competitive play. It's a difficult conundrum, but again, as illustrated by the case of Newfoundland this is not a problem isolated to Northern Ontario, and there's no way to say if they are a net benefit or deficit to participation as a whole (nor is it as significant as societal factors pushing down participation everywhere across Canada - and we need to keep curlers wherever they are!)]

Finally - It hurts exactly zero people for Northern Ontario to have a team at the Brier/Scotties, and it means a heck of a lot to the players that live and grow up there. Some of them even go on to win the Olympics, solely because team Northern Ontario existed in the first place to inspire them. So long as we have a provincial/regional format to determine our National Champion, I can't imagine any good argument that Northern Ontario shouldn't be there as a distinct region.

So, get off your high horse, have a look at the facts, and stop it already with this argument! How do some of you not get it yet? I thought we were done with this already!

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If it’s going to be provincial and regional an argument could be had that the maritime Nfld should be one region, same with the territories.
Yes, the teams from NO have been successful at the scotties and brier, so there should be NO reason they shouldn’t compete with the rest of the province. The brier and scotties will NEVER be a true national championship without ALL the top 10 teams in Canada competing. The Olympic trials would be a good example of this.

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i've debated this so many times im just tired of it so i'll say that about the discussion above and leave it.

congrats to team fleury.

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M: Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Championship
Fredericton, NB
Teams | Scores | Standings | Playoffs
Draw: 6 -- Mon, Mar 18 -- 7:00pm AT
Gagn/Mori Final
Rees/Ches (EE)
Sand/Crai Final
Gamb/Kalt (8)
Arms/Grif Final
Pete/Gall (7) Watch Live Curling!
Zhen/Piet Final
Gion/Desj (7)
Wasy/Koni Final
Jone/Lain (EE)
Wise/Smit 12  Final
Weag/Eppi (6)
Lott/Lott 12  Final
Bouc/Char (7)
Krev/Math Final
Whit/Whit (6)
M: Aberdeen International Curling Championship
Aberdeen, SCO
Teams | Scores | Standings | Playoffs
Draw: CF -- Sun, Mar 17 -- 2:45pm GMT
Mouat Final
Shuster (7)
D: WCT Slovakia Mixed Doubles Cup II
Bratislava, SVK
Teams | Scores | Standings | Playoffs
Draw: CF -- Sun, Mar 17 -- 12:00pm CET
Han/Zou Final
Paul/Paul (7)
Cihl/Mace Final
Yang/Tian 10  (6)
: NWTCA Mixed
Yellowknife, NT
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Draw: 4 -- Sun, Mar 17 -- 10:00am MT
Delorey Final
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