2008 Continental Cup of Curling

2008 Continental Cup of Curling
Host city Camrose, Alberta
Arena EnCana Arena
Dates December 18–21
Winner World
Runner-up North America
Score 208–192, World
Score Breakdown
Discipline NA World
Women's Team Round 1 3 15
Mixed Doubles Round 1 3 15
Men's Team Round 1 12 6
Women's Team Round 2 0 18
Mixed Doubles Round 2 6 12
Men's Team Round 2 12 6
Singles 10 22
Women's Skins 43 62
Men's Skins 78 27
Mixed Skins 29 21
Total 192 208

The 2008 Continental Cup of Curling was the 6th edition of this event and was held from December 18–21, 2008 at the EnCana Arena in Camrose, Alberta. It was the first edition of the Continental Cup in which teams outside of North America and Europe competed, due to the outstanding performance of the Chinese teams in the previous year's men's and women's world championships. To reflect the expanded participation, the team opposing North America was renamed from "Team Europe" to "Team World". The World Curling Federation named the six rinks representing Team World. The Canada Cup of Curling, Tournament of Hearts and Brier winners automatically qualify as the Canadian rinks in Team North America, while the American contingent in Team North America are represented by their men's and women's champions. The event was won by Team World by a score of 208-192, with the winning points scored in the fourth end in the men's featured skins game.

The prize purse was $88,400 (CAD);[1] each member of the winning team received $2000, while each member of the losing team received $1400.

The Continental Divide, the entertainment centre, was located at the adjacent Border Paving Arena.

The ice technician is Tim Yeo.

Contents

Scoring

Each match is worth a different number of points, with a total of 400 available in the event.

Broadcast

TSN televised every draw of the Continental Cup, with the men's team games and the women's feature skins games on tape-delay (while broadcast live on TSN2) and the remainder of the draws live.

Teams

Team North America was coached by Jim Waite and captained by Russ Howard. Team World was coached by Peja Lindholm and captained by Pål Trulsen.

Team Country Home Skip Third Second Lead
North America  United States Madison, Wisconsin Craig Brown Rich Ruohonen John Dunlop Peter Annis
North America  Canada Winnipeg, Manitoba Jennifer Jones Cathy Overton-Clapham Jill Officer Dawn Askin
North America  Canada Edmonton, Alberta Kevin Koe* Blake MacDonald Carter Rycroft Nolan Thiessen
North America  Canada Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Stefanie Lawton Marliese Kasner Teejay Surik Lana Vey
North America  Canada Edmonton, Alberta Kevin Martin John Morris Marc Kennedy Ben Hebert
North America  United States Madison, Wisconsin Debbie McCormick Allison Pottinger Nicole Joraanstad Tracy Sachtjen
World  Scotland/ Sweden Lockerbie David Murdoch Ewan MacDonald Niklas Edin Euan Byers
World  Sweden Härnösand Anette Norberg Kajsa Bergström Cathrine Lindahl Anna Svärd
World  Switzerland Davos Mirjam Ott Carmen Schäfer Valeria Spälty Janine Greiner
World  China Harbin Wang Bingyu Liu Yin Yue Qingshuang Zhou Yan
World  China Harbin Wang Fengchun Liu Rui Xu Xiaoming Zang Jialiang
World  Norway Oslo Thomas Ulsrud Torger Nergård Christoffer Svae Håvard Vad Petersson

* Throws third rocks

Results

Women's Team

Draw 1 (December 18)

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (Wang) 0 1 0 1 0 3 1 2 8 6
North America (Lawton) 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 3 0
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (Norberg) 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 3
North America (Jones) 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 4 3
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (Ott) 3 2 0 4 0 1 0 X 10 6
North America (McCormick) 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 X 3 0

Draw 4 (December 19)

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (Wang) 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 5 6
North America (Jones) 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 4 0
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (Norberg) 0 2 0 1 2 0 0 0 5 6
North America (McCormick) 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (Ott) 0 2 0 2 0 3 1 0 8 6
North America (Lawton) 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 5 0

Men's Team

Draw 3 (December 18)

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (Ulsrud) 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 6 6
North America (Koe) 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 4 0
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (Wang) 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 X 1 0
North America (Martin) 2 2 0 3 1 1 1 X 10 6
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (Murdoch) 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 4 0
North America (Brown) 0 0 2 1 0 3 0 0 6 6

Draw 6 (December 19)

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (Murdoch) 4 0 5 0 0 X X X 9 6
North America (Koe) 0 2 0 0 2 X X X 4 0
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (Ulsrud) 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 3 0
North America (Martin) 0 2 1 1 0 2 0 1 7 6
Sheet X 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (Wang) 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 3 0
North America (Brown) 0 1 0 2 0 0 2 1 6 6

Mixed Doubles

Draw 2 (December 18)

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (Nergård/Norberg) 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 7 6
North America (Brown/Pottinger) 0 0 3 0 2 0 0 0 5 0
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (Lindahl/Ulsrud) 0 1 0 3 0 1 1 1 7 3
North America (Jones/Kennedy) 5 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 7 3
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (MacDonald/Ott) 1 0 5 0 3 2 0 1 12 6
North America (Koe/Overton-Clapham) 0 2 0 1 0 0 3 0 6 0

Draw 5 (December 19)

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (Murdoch/Schafer) 3 0 3 0 3 2 2 X 13 6
North America (McCormick/Ruohonen) 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 X 2 0
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (Wang F./Liu Y.) 2 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 8 6
North America (Lawton/Rycroft) 0 2 0 3 0 1 0 1 7 0
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (Wang B./Liu R.) 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 0 5 0
North America (Kasner/Morris) 2 0 4 0 1 0 2 3 12 6

Singles

Team World wins the eight points for the greater aggregate score for singles play, 96-93.

Draw 8 - December 20

Sheet A Runthrough Button Port Raise Hit-and-Roll Double Total Points
World (Wang) 0 4 5 3 5 3 20 4
North America (Koe) 0 5 5 4 1 0 15 0
Sheet B Runthrough Button Port Raise Hit-and-Roll Double Total Points
World (Murdoch) 0 5 3 2 1 5 16 0
North America (Martin) 0 5 5 3 1 5 19 4
Sheet C Runthrough Button Port Raise Hit-and-Roll Double Total Points
World (Ulsrud) 0 4 5 5 4 0 18 4
North America (Brown) 0 5 4 5 3 0 17 0
Sheet A Runthrough Button Port Raise Hit-and-Roll Double Total Points
World (Ott) 1 3 2 4 1 0 11 2
North America (McCormick) 0 5 2 2 2 2 11 2
Sheet B Runthrough Button Port Raise Hit-and-Roll Double Total Points
World (Wang) 5 3 5 2 3 0 18 4
North America (Jones) 0 5 4 5 1 1 16 0
Sheet C Runthrough Button Port Raise Hit-and-Roll Double Total Points
World (Norberg) 0 5 4 1 1 1 12 0
North America (Lawton) 0 5 5 1 4 0 15 4

Women's Skins

Draw 7 contains the 20-point game, Draw 9 is the 30-point game, and Draw 10 is the feature game.

Draw 7 - December 20

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Points
World (Wang) 0 0 X 10
North America (McCormick) 0 X X X X 10

Draw 9 - December 20

Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Points
World (Ott) 0 X 0 0 X 11
North America (Lawton) 0 0 X 19

Draw 10 - December 21

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Points
World (Norberg) 0 X 0 X X 41
North America (Jones) X X X 14

Men's Skins

Draw 7 is the 20-point game, Draw 9 is the 30-point game, and Draw 10 is the feature game.

Draw 7 - December 20

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Points
World (Wang) X X X X 10
North America (Brown) 0 0 0 X 10

Draw 9 - December 20

Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Points
World (Murdoch) X X 0 0 2
North America (Koe) 0 X X X 28

Draw 10 - December 21

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Points
World (Ulsrud) X X 0 15
North America (Martin) X 0 X X X 40

Mixed Skins

Draw 7 is the 20-point game, while Draw 9 is the 30-point game.

Draw 7 - December 20

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Points
World (Murdoch/Schafer/Svae/Svard) X 0 X 0 5
North America (Morris/Kasner/MacDonald/Vey) X 0 X X 15

Draw 9 - December 20

Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Points
World (Ulsrud/Norberg/Wang B./Wang F.) X X X 16
North America (Martin/Jones/Kennedy/Askin) X 0 0 X X 14

Sources

Official Site

  1. ^ "World and Olympic champions headline 2008 Continental Cup". Canadian Curling Association. 2008-07-09. http://www.seasonofchampions.ca/2008continentalcup/news282.asp. Retrieved 2008-07-15. 
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