The 2021 Korean Mixed Doubles Curling Championships, Korea's national

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championships, was held July 27 to August 9, 2021 at the Jincheon National Training Centre in

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. The winning team will be the Korean National Mixed Doubles Team for the

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. They will represent South Korea at the Olympic Qualification Event in hopes of reaching the

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and the 2021 World Mixed Doubles Qualification Event, attempting to reach the 2022 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship. The championship was held in two rounds.

Summary

Due to a rule change in eligibility that allowed men's and women's teams to compete in the mixed doubles discipline, over fifty teams registered in this years championship, a huge increase from the five that competed in 2020. After the qualifiers, the field was narrowed down to just thirty-one teams, and thirty once one team had to drop out. Like the men's and women's championships, the event was scheduled to be held in three rounds. The first round was held in a triple-knockout bracket, which qualified eight teams for the playoffs and the second round. Kim Min-ji and

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(Gangwon A) won the first round, qualifying through the A Event and going undefeated en route to winning the round. They defeated Jang Yeong-seo and

Jeong Byeong-jin Jeong Byeong-jin (born October 25, 1996, in Chuncheon) is a South Korean male curler from Namyangju-si Namyangju () is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. To the east is Gapyeong County, to the west is Guri City, and to the north is P ...

(Seoul Federation), who had also qualified through the A-side 10–0 in the final. Two C Event qualifiers made up the third place game, with Shin Ga-yeong and Park Jun-ha (Jeonbuk B) winning the game 10–3 over reigning mixed doubles champions

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and Moon Si-woo (Gyeonggi D). Kim Su-ji and Kim Jeong-min (Gyeonggi C), Yang Tae-i and

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(Gangwon C),

Um Min-ji Um Min-ji (born February 1, 1991 in Seoul, South Korea) is a South Korean curler from Uijeongbu.WCF ...

and

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(Jeonbuk A) and

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and Seong Yu-jin (Gangwon B) all advanced to the second round as well. Round 2 was held in a round robin between the eight qualifying teams. Through the second round, Kim Min-ji and Lee Ki-jeong dominated the field, winning all seven of their games. This meant that no third round was needed as Kim and Lee had won both the first and second round, scoring all ten available points. Yang Tae-i and Lee Ki-bok finished second through the round with a 5–2 record, earning themselves four points. As they had gotten one point from the first round, they finished the tournament with five points, which was tied with Seoul Federation and Gyeonggi D in second place. However, due to Kim and Moon having the worst Draw Shot Challenge of the three teams, they finished in fourth. Gangwon C and Seoul Federation then played a second place game to determine the national team backup, with the team from Seoul coming away as 6–5 winners. Shin Ga-yeong and Park Jun-ha finished in fifth place with four points, followed by Um Min-ji and Nam Yoon-ho in sixth with three points and Kim Hye-rin and Seong Yu-jin tied with Kim Su-ji and Kim Jeong-min in seventh with eight points.

Medalists

Format

Due to a rule change in eligibility, everyone who competed at the

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was also eligible to compete in the mixed doubles national championship. A series of qualifiers from different regions of Korea were held to narrow the field down from over fifty teams to just thirty teams. The first round is open to all teams that qualified through their regional qualifiers and the second round is open to the eight teams that made the playoffs from the first round. If one team wins both the first and second rounds, then no third round is needed. The third and final round is a best-of-seven series between the winners of rounds one and two to determine the national champion and Olympic representative. Teams receive points based on their placement in each round. The winner receives five points, the runner-up gets four, third place earns three, fourth place picks up two and the rest of the teams receive one point.

Qualification process

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:

Round 1

The first round of the championship was held from July 27 to August 6. The eight teams that qualified for the playoffs advanced to the second round.

Knockout brackets

Source:

A event

B event

C event

Knockout results

All draw times are listed in

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( UTC+09:00).

Draw 1

''Tuesday, July 27, 9:00 am''

Draw 2

''Tuesday, July 27, 2:00 pm''

Draw 3

''Tuesday, July 27, 7:00 pm''

Draw 4

''Wednesday, July 28, 9:00 am''

Draw 5

''Wednesday, July 28, 2:00 pm''

Draw 6

''Wednesday, July 28, 7:00 pm''

Draw 7

''Thursday, July 29, 9:00 am''

Draw 8

''Thursday, July 29, 2:00 pm''

Draw 9

''Thursday, July 29, 7:00 pm''

Draw 10

''Friday, July 30, 9:00 am''

Draw 11

''Friday, July 30, 2:00 pm''

Draw 12

''Friday, July 30, 7:00 pm''

Draw 13

''Saturday, July 31, 9:00 am''

Draw 14

''Saturday, July 31, 2:00 pm''

Draw 15

''Saturday, July 31, 7:00 pm''

Draw 16

''Sunday, August 1, 9:00 am''

Draw 17

''Sunday, August 1, 2:00 pm''

Draw 18

''Sunday, August 1, 7:00 pm''

Draw 19

''Monday, August 2, 9:00 am''

Draw 20

''Monday, August 2, 2:00 pm''

Draw 21

''Monday, August 2, 7:00 pm''

Draw 22

''Tuesday, August 3, 9:00 am''

Draw 23

''Tuesday, August 3, 2:00 pm''

Draw 24

''Tuesday, August 3, 7:00 pm''

Draw 25

''Wednesday, August 4, 9:00 am''

Draw 26

''Wednesday, August 4, 7:00 pm''

Playoffs

Quarterfinals

''Thursday, August 5, 9:00 am''

Semifinals

''Thursday, August 5, 5:00 pm''

Bronze medal game

''Friday, August 6, 10:00 am''

Gold medal game

''Friday, August 6, 10:00 am''

Points standings

Round 2

The second round of the championship is currently being held from August 6 to 9. As Round 1 champions Kim Min-ji and

won the round, no third round was needed.

Round-robin standings

''Final round-robin standings''

Round-robin results

All draw times are listed in

( UTC+09:00).

Draw 1

''Friday, August 6, 5:00 pm''

Draw 2

''Saturday, August 7, 9:00 am''

Draw 3

''Saturday, August 7, 2:30 pm''

Draw 4

''Saturday, August 7, 8:00 pm''

Draw 5

''Sunday, August 8, 9:00 am''

Draw 6

''Sunday, August 8, 2:30 am''

Draw 7

''Monday, August 9, 9:00 am''

Points standings

Playoff

Second place game

''Monday, August 9, 2:30 pm''

Qualification

Gyeonggi Qualifier

''July 10–19, Uijeongbu Curling Stadium,

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Teams

The teams are listed as follows:

Round-robin standings

''Final round-robin standings''

Round-robin results

All draw times are listed in

( UTC+09:00).

=Draw 1

= ''Saturday, July 10, 9:00 am''

=Draw 2

= ''Saturday, July 10, 1:00 pm''

=Draw 3

= ''Saturday, July 10, 4:30 pm''

=Draw 4

= ''Monday, July 12, 1:00 pm''

=Draw 5

= ''Monday, July 12, 8:00 pm''

=Draw 6

= ''Tuesday, July 13, 1:00 pm''

=Draw 7

= ''Tuesday, July 13, 8:00 pm''

=Draw 8

= ''Wednesday, July 14, 8:00 pm''

=Draw 9

= ''Thursday, July 15, 4:00 pm''

=Draw 10

= ''Thursday, July 15, 7:30 pm''

=Draw 11

= ''Friday, July 16, 4:30 pm''

=Draw 12

= ''Friday, July 16, 7:30 pm''

=Draw 13

= ''Saturday, July 17, 9:00 am''

=Draw 14

= ''Saturday, July 17, 1:00 pm''

=Draw 15

= ''Saturday, July 17, 4:30 pm''

=Tiebreakers

= ''Monday, July 19, 4:30 pm''

Cheongju Qualifier

''July 10–11, Cheongju Curling Stadium,

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Teams

The teams are listed as follows:

Qualifier results

All draw times are listed in

( UTC+09:00).

=Game 1

= ''Saturday, July 10, 10:00 am''

=Game 2

= ''Saturday, July 10, 3:00 pm''

=Game 3

= ''Saturday, July 10, 3:00 pm''

=Game 4

= ''Sunday, July 11, 3:00 pm''

Gangwon Qualifier

''July 12–15,

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Teams

The teams are listed as follows:

Round-robin standings

''Final round-robin standings''

Round-robin results

All draw times are listed in

( UTC+09:00).

=Draw 1

= ''Tuesday, July 13, 10:00 am''

=Draw 2

= ''Tuesday, July 13, 5:00 pm''

=Draw 3

= ''Wednesday, July 14, 10:00 am''

=Draw 4

= ''Wednesday, July 14, 5:00 pm''

=Draw 5

= ''Thursday, July 15, 10:00 am''

Gyeongbuk Qualifier

''July 13–16, Uiseong Curling Centre,

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Teams

The teams are listed as follows:

Round-robin standings

''Final round-robin standings''

Round-robin results

All draw times are listed in

( UTC+09:00).

=Draw 1

= ''Tuesday, July 13, 2:00 pm''

=Draw 2

= ''Tuesday, July 13, 5:30 pm''

=Draw 3

= ''Wednesday, July 14, 9:30 am''

=Draw 4

= ''Wednesday, July 14, 2:00 pm''

=Draw 5

= ''Wednesday, July 14, 5:30 pm''

=Draw 6

= ''Thursday, July 15, 9:30 am''

=Draw 7

= ''Thursday, July 15, 2:00 pm''

=Draw 8

= ''Thursday, July 15, 5:30 pm''

=Draw 9

= ''Friday, July 16, 9:30 am''

=Draw 10

= ''Friday, July 16, 2:00 pm''

Jeonbuk Qualifier

''July 16–17, Uiseong Curling Centre,

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:

Round-robin standings

''After Draw 3''

Round-robin results

All draw times are listed in

( UTC+09:00).

=Draw 1

= ''Friday, July 16, 5:30 pm''

=Draw 2

= ''Saturday, July 17, 9:30 am''

=Draw 3

= ''Saturday, July 17, 2:30 pm''

Notes

References

External links

Korean Curling Media (@curling1spoon) on Instagram
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