The 2020

Scotties Tournament of Hearts The Scotties Tournament of Hearts (''french: Le Tournoi des Cœurs Scotties''; commonly referred to as the Scotties) is the annual Canadian women's curling championship, sanctioned by Curling Canada, formerly called the Canadian Curling Associat ...

, Canada's national women's

curling Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding ...

championship, was held from February 15 to 23 at

Mosaic Place Mosaic Place (also known as the Moose Jaw Multiplex) is a multi-purpose arena in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada. It hosts ice hockey and curling events and is home to the Moose Jaw Warriors of the Western Hockey League. It opened on August 19, 2 ...

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. The winning team was scheduled to represent Canada at the 2020 World Women's Curling Championship at the

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in Prince George,

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Kerri Einarson Kerri Einarson (; born October 3, 1987 as Kerri Flett) is a Canadian Métis curler from Camp Morton, Manitoba, in the Rural Municipality of Gimli. Einarson is the three-time reigning women's national champion in curling, skipping her team to vic ...

defeated

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Rachel Homan Rachel Catherine Homan (born April 5, 1989) is a Canadian international curler. Homan is a former Canadian junior champion, a three-time Canadian national champion, and the 2017 world champion, all as a skip. She was also the skip of the Can ...

8–7 in the final. On February 18,

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Andrea Crawford Andrea Kelly (born July 31, 1985), previously known as Andrea Crawford, is a Canadian curler from Fredericton, New Brunswick. She currently skips her own team out of the Capital Winter Club in Fredericton. She is a nine-time New Brunswick Scot ...

rink scored seven points in the seventh end to set a new Canadian women's national championship record for most points scored in a single end, going on to defeat Kerri Einarson's undefeated and top-ranked Manitoba rink 13–7 in Draw 10 of the tournament. In Draw 12 on February 19,

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skip

Krista McCarville Krista Lee McCarville (born Krista Lee Scharf on November 10, 1982) is a Canadian curling, curler from Thunder Bay, Ontario. McCarville is a four-time Northern Ontario junior champion, the Curling at the 2003 Winter Universiade, 2003 Winter Univ ...

curled a perfect 100% game in a 4–3 win over

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's Laura Walker. This Tournament of Hearts marked the second time that Moose Jaw has hosted the Scotties; the first time that the Scotties was hosted in Moose Jaw was in .

Teams

Source:

CTRS ranking

Wild card game

A wild card play-in game was played on February 14. It was contested between the top two teams on the Canadian Team Ranking System standings who did not win their provincial championship: the East St. Paul Curling Club's

Tracy Fleury Tracy Fleury (born June 13, 1986, as Tracy Horgan) is a Canadian curler from Sudbury, Ontario. She joined the Rachel Homan rink as skip for the 2022–23 season. In 2021, she led her team to a silver medal at the 2021 Canadian Olympic Curl ...

rink, and the St. Vital Curling Club's

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rink, both curling in the

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. Team Wild Card entered the Scotties as the number 3 seed. ;Wild card Game ''Friday, February 14, 7:30 pm''

Round robin standings

''Final Round Robin Standings''

Round robin results

All draw times are listed in Central Time ( UTC−06:00).

Draw 1

''Saturday, February 15, 1:30 pm''

Draw 2

''Saturday, February 15, 6:30 pm''

Draw 3

''Sunday, February 16, 8:30 am''

Draw 4

''Sunday, February 16, 1:30 pm''

Draw 5

''Sunday, February 16, 6:30 pm''

Draw 6

''Monday, February 17, 8:30 am''

Draw 7

''Monday, February 17, 1:30 pm''

Draw 8

''Monday, February 17, 6:30 pm''

Draw 9

''Tuesday, February 18, 8:30 am''

Draw 10

''Tuesday, February 18, 1:30 pm'' New Brunswick's seven-ender scored against Manitoba was the most points scored in a single end in Tournament of Hearts history.

Draw 11

''Tuesday, February 18, 6:30 pm''

Draw 12

''Wednesday, February 19, 8:30 am'' Northern Ontario skip

curled a perfect 100% game.

Draw 13

''Wednesday, February 19, 1:30 pm''

Draw 14

''Wednesday, February 19, 6:30 pm''

Tiebreakers

''Thursday, February 20, 8:00 am''

Championship pool standings

The top four teams from each pool advance to the championship pool. All wins and losses earned in the round robin will be carried forward into the championship Pool. Wins in tiebreaker games are not carried forward. ''Final Championship Pool Standings''

Championship pool results

Draw 16

''Thursday, February 20, 12:30 pm''

Draw 17

''Thursday, February 20, 6:30 pm''

Draw 18

''Friday, February 21, 12:30 pm''

Draw 19

''Friday, February 21, 6:30 pm''

Playoffs

1 vs. 2

''Saturday, February 22, 6:00 pm''

3 vs. 4

''Saturday, February 22, 1:00 pm''

Semifinal

''Sunday, February 23, 11:00 am''

Final

''Sunday, February 23, 6:00 pm''

Statistics

Top 5 player percentages

''After Championship Pool; minimum 5 games''

Perfect games

Awards

The awards and all-star teams were as follows: ;All-Star Teams ''First Team'' *Skip:

, Ontario *Third:

Val Sweeting Valerie Sweeting (born July 9, 1987 in Redvers, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian curler from Lottie Lake, Alberta She currently plays third for Team Kerri Einarson. Sweeting skipped Alberta to a silver medal at the and Scotties Tournament of H ...

, Manitoba *Second:

Shannon Birchard Shannon Birchard (born May 11, 1994) is a Canadian curling, curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She currently plays Second (curling), second on Team Kerri Einarson from Gimli, Manitoba. Currently, the Einarson team are the four-time reigning Scotties ...

, Manitoba *Lead:

Lisa Weagle Lisa Colleen Weagle (born March 24, 1985) is a Canadian curler from Ottawa, Ontario. Weagle was the lead on the Rachel Homan team from 2010 until March 12, 2020, when the team announced they would be parting ways with her. She then joined Team ...

, Ontario ''Second Team'' *Skip:

, Manitoba *Third:

Emma Miskew Emma Kathryn Miskew (born February 14, 1989) is a Canadian curler. She was the long-time third of the three-time Canadian champion and 2017 world champion Rachel Homan rink until 2022 when she moved to second. The Homan team represented Canada ...

, Ontario *Second:

Joanne Courtney Joanne M. Courtney (born March 7, 1989 as Joanne Taylor) is a Canadian curler from Edmonton, Alberta. From 2014 to 2022, she was a member of the Rachel Homan rink which won the 2017 World Women's Curling Championship and represented Canada at ...

, Ontario *Lead:

Rachelle Brown Rachel "Rachelle" Brown (born July 9, 1986 as Rachel Pidherny) is a Canadian curler from Edmonton, Alberta. Career Born in Smithers, British Columbia, Brown moved to Edmonton c. 2006. As a university curler, she represented the University of ...

, Team Canada ;

Marj Mitchell Sportsmanship Award The Marj Mitchell Sportsmanship Award is the sportsmanship award at the annual Scotties Tournament of Hearts, held to crown the Canadian women's curling championship. When Scott Paper took over sponsorship of the Canadian Women's Curling Champio ...

, Team Canada ;Joan Mead Builder Award * Deanna Rindal, long-time curling umpire based in the Prince Albert area.

Final standings

Notes

References

External links

* {{2019–20 curling season

Curling in Saskatchewan

Sport in Moose Jaw