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in Calgary,

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. Due to the

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, it was announced that both the Players' Championship and the Champions Cup

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events would still be held in the 2020–21 curling season but would move to a centralized "

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" (similar to that of the NHL as in

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) at Canada Olympic Park alongside

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's national championships. All events will be held behind closed doors with no spectators. In the men's final, Team

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of Scotland won their second consecutive slam in the bubble, defeating Team

Brad Gushue Bradley Raymond Gushue, ONL ( ; born June 16, 1980) is a Canadian curler from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Gushue, along with teammates Russ Howard, Mark Nichols, Jamie Korab and Mike Adam, represented Canada in curling at the 2006 W ...

of St. John's 6–5. Team Mouat won the 2021 Champions Cup just six days prior to their win at the Players' Championship. In the women's final, Team

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 ...

of Gimli topped Team

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of Ottawa 5–2 to win their second consecutive

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title.

Qualification

The top 12 ranked men's and women's teams on the

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's world team rankings qualified for the event. In the event that a team declines their invitation, the next-ranked team on the world team ranking is invited until the field is complete.

Men

Top world team ranking men's teams: #

Brad Jacobs Bradley Robert Jacobs (born June 11, 1985) is a Canadian curler from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. He is an Olympic champion skip, having led Canada to a gold medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Jacobs is also the 2013 Tim Hortons Brier champions ...

John Epping John Allan Epping (born March 20, 1983) is a Canadian curler from Toronto, Ontario. He currently skips his own team out of the Leaside Curling Club in East York, Toronto. Career Born in Peterborough, Ontario, Epping was a top junior curler, h ...

Brendan Bottcher Brendan Michael Bottcher (born December 19, 1991) is a Canadian curler from Sherwood Park, Alberta. Bottcher is a three-time provincial men's champion, and was the skip of the 2021 Canadian men's championship team, having led Alberta to victory ...

# Yannick Schwaller # Mike McEwen #

Niklas Edin Johan Niklas Edin (born 6 July 1985) is a Swedish curler. He currently resides in Karlstad, which has been his curling home base since 2008. He holds several sport distinctions. He is the first and the only skip in World Curling Federation (WCF ...

Peter de Cruz Peter Vincent de Cruz (born 4 January 1990) is a Swiss curler. He is an Olympic bronze medallist for Switzerland, having skipped his Swiss rink to a third place finish at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. While de Cruz is the skip of his ...

Kevin Koe Kevin Koe ( ; born January 11, 1975) is a Canadian curler. Koe is a two-time World champion and four-time Canadian champion. He was the skip of the Canadian men's team at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang. Originally from Yellowknife ...

# Matt Dunstone # ~~Ross Paterson~~ #

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Women

Top world team ranking women's teams: # Anna Hasselborg #

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 ...

Satsuki Fujisawa is a Japanese curler from Kitami, Hokkaido. As a skip, she has won the Japanese national championship six times. Fujisawa skipped the bronze medal-winning Japanese team at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games and the silver medal-winning team at t ...

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# Elena Stern #

Silvana Tirinzoni Silvana Petra Tirinzoni (born 25 June 1979) is a Swiss curler from Zurich. She is currently the reigning women's world champion skip having won the last three championships, in 2019, 2021 and . Tirinzoni also represented Switzerland at the 2022 ...

Eve Muirhead Eve Muirhead (born 22 April 1990) is a Scottish former curler from Perth and the skip of the British Olympic Curling team. Muirhead and the GB team became Olympic champions at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, having previously won the br ...

Tabitha Peterson Tabitha Skelly Peterson (born March 6, 1989) is an American curler from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She was a bronze medalist at the 2010 World Junior Championships and is a two-time women's national champion. She currently is skip of her own team ...

# Kim Min-ji #

Alina Kovaleva Alina Romanovna Kovaleva (russian: Алина Романовна Ковалёва; born 18 February 1993) is a Russian curler from Saint Petersburg. Her major achievement to date was winning the 2015 European Curling Championships as alternate ...

Men

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

''Tuesday, April 20, 1:00 pm''

Draw 2

''Tuesday, April 20, 4:30 pm''

Draw 3

''Tuesday, April 20, 8:00 pm''

Draw 4

''Wednesday, April 21, 8:00 am''

Draw 6

''Wednesday, April 21, 4:00 pm''

Draw 7

''Wednesday, April 21, 8:00 pm''

Draw 8

''Thursday, April 22, 8:00 am''

Draw 9

''Thursday, April 22, 12:00 pm''

Draw 10

''Thursday, April 22, 4:00 pm''

Draw 11

''Thursday, April 22, 8:00 pm''

Draw 12

''Friday, April 23, 8:00 am''

Draw 13

''Friday, April 23, 12:00 pm''

Draw 15

''Friday, April 23, 8:00 pm''

Tiebreaker

''Saturday, April 24, 12:00 pm''

Playoffs

Quarterfinals

''Saturday, April 24, 4:00 pm''

Semifinals

''Saturday, April 24, 8:00 pm''

Final

''Sunday, April 25, 2:00 pm''