The 2023
WFG Masters was held from December 12 to 17 at the
Merlis Belsher Place
Merlis Belsher Place is an arena located at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. It is the current home of the University of Saskatchewan Huskies men and women's hockey teams, as well as the Saskatoon Contacts and ...
in
Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan. It was the third
Grand Slam event and second major of the
2023–24 curling season
The 2023–24 curling season began in June 2023 and will end in May 2024.
''Note: In events with two genders, the men's tournament winners will be listed before the women's tournament winners.''
World Curling Federation events
Source:
Champion ...
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Qualification and Format
The top 16 ranked men's and women's teams on the
World Curling Federation's world team rankings as of November 13, 2023 qualified for the event. The Grand Slam of Curling may fill one spot in each division as a sponsor's exemption. 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.
Then men's and women's teams were split into four pools of four, with teams crossing over to play four games against teams in an opposing pool. Pool A teams play Pool D teams, Pool B teams play Pool C teams, and vice versa. The top eight teams overall advanced to the playoffs. The event also saw the return of tiebreaker games, after a number of curlers complained about their removal from previous grand slam events that season.
Men
Top world team ranking men's teams:
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Joël Retornaz
Joël Thierry Retornaz (born 30 September 1983 in Chêne-Bougeries, Genève, Switzerland) is an Italian curler from Cembra. He was the skip of the Italian men's Olympic curling team in 2006, 2018, and 2022.
Retornaz gained sudden renown in Ital ...
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Brendan Bottcher
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Brad Gushue
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Niklas Edin
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Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat (; born 27 August 1994 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish curler. He is an Olympic silver medallist, having skipped Great Britain to a second place finish in the men's team event at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Career
Mouat had a very succ ...
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Yannick Schwaller
Yannick Schwaller (born 31 March 1995 in Solothurn) is a Swiss curler from Recherswil. He currently skips his own team out of Geneva.
Career
Juniors
Schwaller skipped the Swiss junior men's team at three straight World Junior Curling Champi ...
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Ross Whyte
Ross Whyte (born 31 August 1998) is a Scottish curler. He is a two-time European champion and an Olympic silver medallist. He lives in Stirling, Scotland.
Personal life
Whyte is currently studying Sports Studies at the University of Stirling. ...
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Matt Dunstone
Matthew Dunstone, nicknamed "the Sheriff" (born June 25, 1995) is a Canadian curler from Kamloops, British Columbia.
Career
Dunstone won the Canadian Junior Curling Championships in 2013. He represented Canada at the 2013 World Junior Curling C ...
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Kevin Koe
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Korey Dropkin
Korey Dropkin (born June 11, 1995) is an American curler originally from Southborough, Massachusetts.
Curling career
Juniors
As a junior curler, Dropkin won three United States Junior Curling Championships, playing third for brother Stephen ...
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Magnus Ramsfjell
Magnus Ramsfjell (born 17 July 1997 in Tønsberg) is a Norwegian curler from Trondheim.
Career Juniors
Ramsfjell was the skip of the Norwegian junior men's team in four straight World Junior Curling Championships from 2016 to 2019. At the 201 ...
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James Craik
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Reid Carruthers
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Aaron Sluchinski
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Mike McEwen
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Cameron Bryce
Cameron Bryce (born 20 July 1995) is a Scottish curler from Kelso. He currently skips his own team out of Stirling.
Career
Bryce has twice skipped Scotland at the World Mixed Curling Championship. He and teammates Katie Murray, Bobby Lammie ...
Women
Top world team ranking women's teams:
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Silvana Tirinzoni
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Gim Eun-ji
Gim Eun-ji also known as Gim Un-chi (born January 23, 1990) is a Korean curler from Gyeonggi-do. She currently skips the Gyeonggi Province curling team.
Career
Gim played as lead in her first world championship at the 2011 Capital One World ...
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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 ...
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Rachel Homan
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Anna Hasselborg
Anna Ellinor Hasselborg (born 5 May 1989) is a Swedish curler who is the 2018 Olympic Champion in women's curling, and a former World Junior Champion skip. In November 2019, she became the first curler in history to reign as the simultaneous ho ...
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Jennifer Jones
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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 the ...
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Isabella Wranå
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Kaitlyn Lawes
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Stefania Constantini
Stefania Constantini (born April 15, 1999) is an Italian curler from Cortina d'Ampezzo. She currently skips the Italian National Women's Curling Team. She has played in three World Championships (2018, 2021, and 2022), five European Championshi ...
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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 ...
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Kim Eun-jung
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Rebecca Morrison
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Kate Cameron
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Ha Seung-youn
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Delaney Strouse
Delaney Strouse (born July 12, 2000) is an American curler from Midland, Michigan. She currently skips her own team out of Traverse City. She is a two-time champion of the United States Junior Curling Championships, going on to win the bronze ...
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Christina Black
Christina Black (born October 21, 1987) is a Canadian curler from Halifax, Nova Scotia. She currently skips her own team out of the Dartmouth Curling Club in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
Career
Black joined Team Mary-Anne Arsenault for the 2014â ...
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Clancy Grandy
Clancy Grandy (born December 27, 1990 in Burlington, Ontario) is a Canadian curler originally from Ontario. She currently skips her own team out of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Career
Juniors
Grandy's junior career was highlighted by winning ...
Men
Teams
The teams are listed as follows:
Round robin standings
''Final Round Robin Standings''
Round robin results
All draw times are listed in
Central Time Central Time may refer to:
* Central Time Zone, a time zone in North America
* Central European Time, a time zone in Europe
*Australian Central Time, a time zone in Australia (see Time in Australia)
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UTC−06:00).
Draw 2
''Tuesday, December 12, 11:30 am''
Draw 4
''Tuesday, December 12, 6:30 pm''
Draw 5
''Wednesday, December 13, 8:30 am''
Draw 7
''Wednesday, December 13, 4:00 pm''
Draw 9
''Thursday, December 14, 8:30 am''
Draw 11
''Thursday, December 14, 4:00 pm''
Draw 14
''Friday, December 15, 11:30 am''
Draw 16
''Friday, December 15, 7:30 pm''
Tiebreaker
''Saturday, December 16, 7:00 am''
Playoffs
Quarterfinals
''Saturday, December 16, 2:30 pm''
Semifinals
''Saturday, December 16, 6:30 pm''
Final
''Sunday, December 17, 3:00 pm''
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 Time Central Time may refer to:
* Central Time Zone, a time zone in North America
* Central European Time, a time zone in Europe
*Australian Central Time, a time zone in Australia (see Time in Australia)
{{disambiguation ...
(
UTC−06:00).
Draw 1
''Tuesday, December 12, 8:00 am''
Draw 3
''Tuesday, December 12, 3:00 pm''
Draw 6
''Wednesday, December 13, 12:00 pm''
Draw 8
''Wednesday, December 13, 8:00 pm''
Draw 10
''Thursday, December 14, 12:00 pm''
Draw 12
''Thursday, December 14, 8:00 pm''
Draw 13
''Friday, December 15, 8:00 am''
Draw 15
''Friday, December 15, 3:30 pm''
Tiebreakers
''Saturday, December 16, 7:00 am''
Playoffs
Quarterfinals
''Saturday, December 16, 10:30 am''
Semifinals
''Saturday, December 16, 6:30 pm''
Final
''Sunday, December 17, 10:30 am''
Notes
References
External links
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2023
Events
Predicted and scheduled events
* January 1
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