The 2023

Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts The Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts is the Ontario provincial curling championship for women's curling. The tournament is run by CurlON, the curling association for Southern Ontario. The winning team represents Team Ontario at the national S ...

, the provincial women's

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championship for

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, was held from January 23 to 29 at

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in Port Elgin,

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. The winning

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rink represented Ontario at the

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, Canada's national women's curling championship in

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where they made the Championship round losing to

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7–6 in an extra end. The event was held in conjunction with the

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, the provincial men's curling championship. Both events are held together in non-Olympic years.

Qualification process

Twelve teams qualified for the 2023 Ontario Scotties. As defending champions, Team

earned the first qualification spot (due to COVID-19 the 2022 Ontario Hearts were postponed until after the national Tournament of Hearts). One team qualified via their results in the "

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" series events ( 2022 PointsBet Invitational, 2022 National, 2022 Tour Challenge, 2022 Masters). Two teams qualified via their results in the Trillium Tour '1000' series events (

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). Three teams qualified via their results in the Trillium Tour '500' series events (

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, CurlON Women's Open, Home Again Women's Classic, plus the aforementioned 1000 events). One team (restricted to curlers under the age of 25) qualified via their results in the aforementioned Trillium Tour events, plus the CurlON 250 Event #1. The remaining four teams qualified via an open qualifier.

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:

Round-robin standings

''Final round-robin standings''

Round-robin results

All draws are listed in

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( UTC−05:00).

Draw 1

''Monday, January 23, 7:30 pm''

Draw 2

''Tuesday, January 24, 9:30 am''

Draw 3

''Tuesday, January 24, 2:30 pm''

Draw 4

''Tuesday, January 24, 7:30 pm''

Draw 5

''Wednesday, January 25, 9:30 am''

Draw 6

''Wednesday, January 25, 2:30 pm''

Draw 8

''Thursday, January 26, 9:30 am''

Draw 9

''Thursday, January 26, 2:30 pm''

Draw 10

''Thursday, January 26, 7:30 pm''

Draw 11

''Friday, January 27, 9:30 am''

Tiebreaker

''Friday, January 27, 7:30 pm''

Championship round

''Records from Round Robin carry over to the Championship Round''

Championship round results

Draw 13

''Friday, January 27, 7:30 pm''

Draw 14

''Saturday, January 28, 9:30 am''

Draw 15

''Saturday, January 28, 2:30 pm''

Tiebreaker

''Saturday, January 28, 8:00 pm''

Playoffs

Source:

Semifinal

''Sunday, January 29, 10:30 am''

Final

''Sunday, January 29, 3:00 pm''

Qualification

Open Qualifier

''January 7–8, Midland Curling Club, Midland''

Notes

References

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Ontario Tankard The Ontario Tankard is the Southern Ontario provincial championship for men's curling. The winner represents Team Ontario at the Tim Hortons Brier. The tournament is overseen by CurlON (formerly the Ontario Curling Association). Northern Ontario ...

2023 Scotties Tournament of Hearts