The 2020

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was held from February 27 to March 1 at the

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. The twelve teams were divided into two pools of six teams each. Each pool played a full

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with the top three from each pool proceeding to the playoffs. The winning team of

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and

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was supposed to represent the United States at the

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in Kelowna, Canada but the event got cancelled due to the

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. They will instead compete at the

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as the 2021 U.S. Mixed Doubles National Championship was postponed due to the pandemic.

and

won the event with a 7–4 win over defending champions

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and

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in the final. Peterson and Polo made the final in the 2017 championship but lost to siblings

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and Matt Hamilton 7–6. Two-time champions Sarah Anderson and

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won the bronze medal with a 7–6 extra end win over

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and Alex Leichter. Anderson and Dropkin won the championship in

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and had a quarterfinal finish in

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. The local

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(PBS) member, Lakeland PBS, covered the tournament. This included streaming the entire tournament and broadcasting the semifinals and finals live on the television channel.

Qualification

There were five ways teams qualified for the championship: * 2019 USMDCC finalists **

and

(champions) **

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and

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(runners-up) * Highest finishing American teams at Colorado Curling Cup and Madtown DoubleDown (mixed doubles bonspiels in

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and

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, respectively) ** Sarah Anderson and

(2019 Colorado Curling Cup champions) **

and Matt Hamilton (2019 Madtown DoubleDown) * Four American teams, not already qualified, with highest year-to-date points in WCF World Team Ranking System **

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and

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** Alex Agre and Derrick McLean ** Christine McMakin and Riley Fenson **

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and Chris Bond * Wild-card berth awarded by selection committee **

and

* Top three teams from 2020 United States Mixed Doubles Challenge Round **

and Alex Leichter ** Katherine Gourianova and Eli Clawson ** Kim Rhyme and Jason Smith

Challenge round

Sixteen teams played at the 2020 United States Mixed Doubles Challenge Round, held in

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from December 19 to 22, 2019. Through a triple knockout competition the top three teams secured the final team spots at the Mixed Doubles Championship. Monica Walker and Alex Leichter were the first to clinch a championship berth when they defeated Katherine Gourianova and Eli Clawson in the 'A' bracket final. Gourianova and Clawson then dropped down to the 'B' bracket final where they had another opportunity to earn one of the final two berths, which they did when they defeated Becca Wood and Sean Franey. Wood and Franey then faced Kim Rhyme and Jason Smith in the 'C' bracket final for the third and final championship berth, which Rhyme and Smith secured with a 9-4 win.

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:

Round-robin standings

''Final round robin Standings''

Round-robin results

All draw times are listed in

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( UTC−06:00).

Draw 1

''Thursday, February 27, 2:30 pm''

Draw 2

''Thursday, February 27, 7:00 pm''

Draw 3

''Friday, February 28, 2:30 pm''

Draw 4

''Friday, February 28, 7:00 pm''

Draw 5

''Saturday, February 29, 10:00 am''

Tiebreaker

''Saturday, February 29, 2:30 pm''

Playoffs

Quarterfinals

''Saturday, February 29, 7:00 pm''

Semifinals

''Sunday, March 1, 11:00 am''

Bronze medal game

''Sunday, March 1, 3:30 pm''

Final

''Sunday, March 1, 3:30 pm''

References

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