The 2015

Elite 10 The Elite 10, known as the Princess Auto Elite 10 for sponsorship reasons, was a curling bonspiel, held as part of the Grand Slam of Curling series. First held in the 2014–15 curling season, it was played between ten top-ranked teams, and util ...

was held from March 19 to 22 at the Suncor Community Leisure Centre at

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in Fort McMurray,

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. It was the fourth men's Grand Slam event held in the

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. The Mike McEwen rink from

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won their fifth career Grand Slam title, defeating the Niklas Edin rink from Sweden in the final.

Competition format

The Elite 10 event features what is called a "match-play" format, in which the winning team of a particular game is the team that has won the most ends in that game. In match play, an end is won by stealing or scoring two with the hammer, similar to skins curling. Unlike skins, however, there are no carry-overs. Tied games will have a draw to the button competition to determine the winner. In the standings, wins are worth three points, draw to the button wins are worth two points, and draw to the button losses are worth one point.

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:

Round-robin standings

''Final round-robin standings''

Round-robin results

All draw times are listed in Mountain Standard Time ( UTC−7).

Draw 1

''Thursday, March 19, 1:30 pm''

Draw 2

''Thursday, March 19, 5:00 pm''

Draw 3

''Thursday, March 19, 8:30 pm''

Draw 4

''Friday, March 20, 10:00 am''

Draw 5

''Friday, March 20, 1:30 pm''

Draw 6

''Friday, March 20, 5:00 pm''

Draw 7

''Friday, March 20, 8:30 pm''

Tiebreaker

''Saturday, March 21, 9:30 am''

Playoffs

Quarterfinals

''Saturday, March 21, 1:00 pm''

Semifinals

''Saturday, March 21, 8:00 pm''

Final

''Sunday, March 22, 11:00 am''

References

External links

* {{2014–15 curling season 2015 in Canadian curling Curling competitions in Alberta Fort McMurray