Registered: Dec 2014
Location: Alberta
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3-0
NO - playoff lock
NL - this might finally be Gushue's year

2-1
ON - nice start but they'll likely fade
PE - see above
SK - can you be the sleeper if everyone thinks you're the sleeper?

1-2
TC - these guys haven't been great all year
BC - Cotter is a shooter, but they'll fall short of playoffs
MB - could be in the mix, but have to beat some good teams
QC - that loss to ON might stifle any playoff push this year
AB - if the skip starts shooting like the other 3...
NB - surprisingly competent

0-3
NT - usually is good for a couple upsets, but relegation is a possibility

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Location: Ottawa
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The Asian / Pacific region play a �relegation�.

5 Countries: China, Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand

play for 2 spots. Juniors, Men, Women.

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The one thing that may change all this ...The Title Sponsor.
Tim Hortons is not about elite athletes and success at high levels of sports. They don't own the Montreal Canadians or the Toronto Blue Jays.....they sponsor Tim Bits Hockey and Tim Bits soccer. They encourage little kids to get out there and play,to participate and they do it from Coast to Coast. When they see what exclusion does to a sport they sponsor....things may change ...give it some time.

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3-0
NO - playoff lock
NL - this might finally be Gushue's year

2-1
ON - nice start but they'll likely fade
PE - see above
SK - can you be the sleeper if everyone thinks you're the sleeper?

1-2
TC - these guys haven't been great all year
BC - Cotter is a shooter, but they'll fall short of playoffs
MB - could be in the mix, but have to beat some good teams
QC - that loss to ON might stifle any playoff push this year
AB - if the skip starts shooting like the other 3...
NB - surprisingly competent

0-3
NT - usually is good for a couple upsets, but relegation is a possibility

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The Best teams play four times a year in the Slams and here's a news flash....no crowds...no TV Viewership....people who don't curl make up the TV Audience and they tune in to watch their province.
We don't need to go back to corn brooms and smokes ...we just need a draw with 14 teams.

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Originally posted by Island Roger
CCA should pay attention to the crowds. WTC events are empty. Brier is packed.

There is a reason for that.

IF the CCA wants to use the Canada Cup to decide the World Championship Rep I dont think anyone (Curlers / Provinces / CCA) would have a problem with that. It would give them time to prepare, schedule time from work etc etc.

But by changing the format of the Brier / Scotties they are playing with fire.

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Brier is certainly not packed. Attendance at 50% of what it was last time the event was held in Calgary in 2009. Numbers have been trending downward and the Brier needs to evolve to be more relevant.

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Adding Team Canada to an already popular event may not have been necessary but I do feel it adds to the Brier. And it guarantees a spot to the defending champion which is also great. But to do this to sacrifice another province seems silly. Because the tradition of the Brier is just that a tradition. All provinces are represented. If you want to piss on tradition then take out the obvious second team in Ontario. The reason in the past that you could never get rid of Norther Ontario was because they have always been there and it would mess with tradition. So now we have a brier with 2 teams from Alberta and 2 team from Ontario. That doesn't exactly scream National Championship.
And to speak to another note. The smaller provinces need an event like this to continue to grow the sport in their province. It seems many of these smaller provincial teams to muster up enough cash to make 1 or 2 trips to bigger events throughout the year. This is the best they can do for now. Going to the brier may be their 3rd big event. They are getting more exposure each year on bigger stages but like most things in this country the smaller provinces take a little more time to catch up. Making a smaller province sit out each year will significantly hurt curling development in that province. This does not grow the game.

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Originally posted by Gerry


Brier is certainly not packed. Attendance at 50% of what it was last time the event was held in Calgary in 2009. Numbers have been trending downward and the Brier needs to evolve to be more relevant.

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Same thing with attendance last year in Kamloops. Not a healthy trend. I would think if you are from a relegation province very risky to commit a week when your team might not qualify( and there used to be a lot of Nova Scotians at the Brier).

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While Slams don't get TV numbers like the Brier, they're not "no TV Viewership". The numbers they get beat many NHL hockey games, are higher than Raptors games and get more than most things on TV in Canada.

This is why they've expanded to 5 events this year, 7 next year and 8 events the year after.

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Originally posted by CaptMorgan
My point exactly! Why is your opinion so special?

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Why are you so obtuse. Is it heredity? Or demographic, since you reside in Ottawa.

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So, prove to us that you are more than insults and inane babble.

Tell us all why you think I am obtuse?
Try to use more than single word replies.
Also, try not to insult everyone in Ottawa.

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I love how people here defend the inclusion of mediocre teams to the Brier because of tradition.

Let�s go back even further to more tradition and make everyone own their own stones and play 12 end games.
No more push brooms, everyone must use corn brooms whilst smoking!

Tradition, phffft!

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So, prove to us that you are more than insults and inane babble.

Tell us all why you think I am obtuse?

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Lot's written on all of this

Here's my bottom line.......

Let the curlers from coast to coast to coast vote on this format and a format that includes 14 teams or how ever # of teams required to eliminate relegation but includes Team Canada.
Anyone who is a member of a league or a club...any age,male and female
Have a vote....
Don't let the Back Room Boys and Girls of the CCA decide. Let the chips fall where they will.

What could be fairer than that.

Having the experience of winning more than one Canadian Championship and having played in 5 Briers and paying Club dues for 30 years I want a vote and so should all players.

End of story

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While Slams don't get TV numbers like the Brier, they're not "no TV Viewership". The numbers they get beat many NHL hockey games, are higher than Raptors games and get more than most things on TV in Canada.

This is why they've expanded to 5 events this year, 7 next year and 8 events the year after.

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Yeah what's wrong with Ottawa or ontario for that matter? The whole time I lived in Halifax I always heard "oh you upper Canadians" and then insert reason to cry about ontario. Maybe NS should produce better curlers, the junior
women look good, next work on the men's side.

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If I may interject for a moment-this is a forum for people who care about curling. Too often on forums like these a disagreement on an issue degenerates into a "pissing" contest of insults. Let's keep this civil-after all, it's curling not WWE.

Back to the issue of attendance-from the looks of things, Brier/Scotties attendance will continue to decline if for no other reason, the TV coverage gives far more insight, a better view (especially with 2 games now) and most importantly, it's FREE. Something else to remember (from somebody's who's been there), a lot of fans (who have bought tickets) can often be found in the Brier Patch-especially when their team isn't on the ice.

Staging the Brier in (no disrespect to B.C.) a "remote" location didn't help either.

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Draw 7 Monday at 6:30MT, 8:30ET 10:00NL.

TSN will show:

CAN v. SK (TSN 1 & 3)
NO v. ON (TSN 4 & 5)

CurlingGeek has:

QC v AB
MB v NL

https://games.curlinggeek.com

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Huge loss for PEI to quebec today that probably cost them their playoff hopes. they have the top 4 favorites consecutively in the next 2 days. they need to find a way to get at least 2 wins out of those games to have a hope of staying in playoff contention but to be honest its more likely for me they drop to 2-6 after this block of 4 games or 3-5 at best.

IF they can get out at 4-4 though they are in great shape to make playoffs with manitoba, northwest territories and new brunswick their last 3 games

i hope they can pull it off. id love to see them get there. even a tiebreaker would be huge

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Well, Canada's most eligible bachelor is getting quite the beating from Laycock! He's going to need more cougars coming out of their seats to comfort him with a few smooches and dips :D

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only 9700 hits the first 6 draws ... lets try 6 draws without tho goo and fawn crap and see if we can get some of the intelligent posters and viewers back

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Northern Ontario giving Ontario a curling lesson...SK giving TC a curling lesson. Maybe big daddy Howard can help his son's team out. And TC's coach needs to shake up his team. I highly doubt TC will make the playoffs.

I liked it when TSN left the blowout games to show the more interesting ones, but with multiple games being shown, it's difficult.

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