2023 Champions Cup (curling)
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The 2023 KIOTI Tractor Champions Cup was held from May 2 to 7 at
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in Regina,
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. It was the sixth and final
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event of the
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. This was the last edition of the Champions Cup before the event was put on hiatus for the 2023–24 season. The total combined purse of the event was $210,000. Both the men's and women's events featured an all-Canadian final, the first time this has happened since the
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. The men's final featured 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 ...
from Newfoundland and Labrador against Team
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 ...
from Alberta, while the women's final pitted 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 ...
from Manitoba against Ontario's
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 Cana ...
. In the men's final, Team Bottcher defeated Team Gushue 5–3, giving Bottcher his fifth career Slam title. The game started off with a miss by Bottcher though, as he hit-and-stuck on a blank attempt, taking a 1–0 lead after the first. Down 2–1 after four, Gushue got the game's first deuce in the fifth following a successful draw attempt. Bottcher scored two right back in the sixth with an open hit. Gushue blanked the seventh to keep hammer in the last end. On his last shot, he opted for a difficult "around the horn" takeout to score two for the win, but he couldn't quite make it, giving Bottcher a steal of one and losing the game. In the women's final, Team Homan downed Team Einarson 6–5 in an extra end, giving Homan her 13th Slam title. Einarson started off with a steal of one in the first thanks to a successful angle raise take out, followed by a missed double takeout attempt by Homan. Homan missed a double takeout on her last shot again in the second, giving up another steal of one. Homan came up short on a draw attempt in the third to go down 4–0 after three. Homan finally got on the board in the fourth with a draw to the button against five or six Einarson counters. Homan continued to claw back with steals in the next two ends when Einarson came up light in the fifth and jammed a double takeout attempt in the sixth. Einarson finally scored with the hammer in the seventh when she missed a blank attempt, with her shooter rock not able to roll out of the rings. Homan was able to score two in the eighth to tie the game, forcing an extra end. In the extra, Einarson attempted to bump her own rock onto the button on her last, but wasn't able to beat out a Homan counter that was covering the pin, giving the win to Homan.


Qualification

Twelve teams qualified for the Champions Cup through winning different events over the course of the 2022–23 season.


Men


Women


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, May 2, 11:30 am''


Draw 2

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


Draw 3

''Tuesday, May 2, 6:30 pm''


Draw 4

''Wednesday, May 3, 8:30 am''


Draw 5

''Wednesday, May 3, 12:00 pm''


Draw 6

''Wednesday, May 3, 4:00 pm''


Draw 7

''Wednesday, May 3, 8:00 pm''


Draw 8

''Thursday, May 4, 8:30 am''


Draw 9

''Thursday, May 4, 12:00 pm''


Draw 10

''Thursday, May 4, 4:00 pm''


Draw 11

''Thursday, May 4, 8:00 pm''


Draw 12

''Friday, May 5, 8:30 am''


Draw 13

''Friday, May 5, 12:00 pm''


Draw 14

''Friday, May 5, 4:00 pm''


Draw 15

''Friday, May 5, 8:00 pm''


Tiebreakers

''Saturday, May 6, 12:00 pm''


Playoffs


Quarterfinals

''Saturday, May 6, 4:00 pm''


Semifinals

''Saturday, May 6, 8:00 pm''


Final

''Sunday, May 7, 11:00 am''


Player percentages

''Final Round Robin Percentages''


Women


Teams

The teams are listed as follows:


Round robin standings

''Final Round Robin Standings''


Round robin results

All draw times are listed in
Central Standard Time The North American Central Time Zone (CT) is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, some Caribbean Islands, and part of the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Central Standard Time (CST) is six hours behind Coordinate ...
( UTC−06:00).


Draw 1

''Tuesday, May 2, 11:30 am''


Draw 2

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


Draw 3

''Tuesday, May 2, 6:30 pm''


Draw 4

''Wednesday, May 3, 8:30 am''


Draw 5

''Wednesday, May 3, 12:00 pm''


Draw 6

''Wednesday, May 3, 4:00 pm''


Draw 7

''Wednesday, May 3, 8:00 pm''


Draw 8

''Thursday, May 4, 8:30 am''


Draw 9

''Thursday, May 4, 12:00 pm''


Draw 10

''Thursday, May 4, 4:00 pm''


Draw 11

''Thursday, May 4, 8:00 pm''


Draw 12

''Friday, May 5, 8:30 am''


Draw 13

''Friday, May 5, 12:00 pm''


Draw 14

''Friday, May 5, 4:00 pm''


Draw 15

''Friday, May 5, 8:00 pm''


Tiebreakers

''Saturday, May 6, 12:00 pm''


Playoffs


Quarterfinals

''Saturday, May 6, 4:00 pm''


Semifinals

''Saturday, May 6, 8:00 pm''


Final

''Sunday, May 7, 3:00 pm''


Player percentages

''Final Round Robin Percentages''


Notes


References


External links

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