The 2023
PointsBet Invitational
The PointsBet Invitational is an annual curling tournament put on by Curling Canada as one of its four "Season of Champions" events (along with the Scotties, the Brier and either the men's or women's World Curling Championships). The tourname ...
curling tournament was held from September 27 to October 1 at the
Sixteen Mile Sports Complex
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in
Oakville,
Ontario. The event featured thirty-two Canadian teams and was the first major event of the
2023–24 season. It was played in a
single-elimination tournament with the winning team on both the men's and women's sides receiving $50,000 each.
Qualification
The top 10 ranked men's and women's
2022–23
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CTRS standings qualified for the event first. The 2023 Ontario men's and women's champions also qualified. Additionally, the reigning men's and women's champions of the
2023 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, the
2023 CCAA/Curling Canada College Curling Championships, the
2023 U Sports/Curling Canada University Curling Championships, the
2023 U25 NextGen Classic and the
2022 Canadian Curling Club Championships received a berth to round out the field.
Men
Top CTRS men's teams:
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Brad Gushue
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Brendan Bottcher
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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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Reid Carruthers
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Karsten Sturmay
Karsten Sturmay (born November 7, 1996 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian curler originally from Leduc, Alberta. He is formerly the skip of the Alberta Golden Bears men's curling team in university curling and on the World Curling Tour.
C ...
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Aaron Sluchinski
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Mike McEwen
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John Epping
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Tanner Horgan
Tanner Horgan (born February 12, 1998 in Sudbury, Ontario) is a Canadian curler. He currently skips his own team.
Career Juniors
As a bantam aged curler, Horgan won three Northern Ontario titles (2010, 2013 and 2015). In 2012, he won a provin ...
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Ryan Wiebe
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Colton Flasch
Colton Flasch (born February 27, 1991) is a Canadian curler from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He currently plays third on Team Mike McEwen.
Career Juniors
After having curled with the Mike Armstrong junior rink, Flasch joined the Braeden Moskowy ...
Ontario champions:
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Mike McEwen
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Glenn Howard
Junior champions:
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Johnson Tao
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CCAA champions:
* Jacob Dobson
U Sport champions:
* Sam Mooibroek
U25 NextGen champions:
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Rylan Kleiter
Rylan Kleiter (born July 4, 1998) is a Canadian curler from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He currently skips his own team. Team Kleiter is known for their brightly coloured paint splash pants.
Career
Kleiter and his rink of Trevor Johnson, Joshua ...
Club champions:
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Greg Balsdon
Women
Top CTRS women's teams:
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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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Jennifer Jones
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Kaitlyn Lawes
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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 ...
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Casey Scheidegger
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Meghan Walter
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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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Isabelle Ladouceur
Isabelle Ladouceur (born c. 2000) is a Canadian curler. She is a former Canadian U18 champion, and skipped the Canadian junior team at the 2021 World Junior Curling Championships.
Career Junior
Ladouceur played in the 2016 Nova Scotia Junior ...
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Kayla Skrlik
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Danielle Inglis
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Andrea Kelly
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Andrea Danyell Lee was born in ...
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Serena Gray-Withers
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Nancy Martin
Ontario champions:
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Rachel Homan
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Hollie Duncan
Junior champions:
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Myla Plett
CCAA champions:
* Josie Zimmerman
U Sport champions:
* Serena Gray-Withers
U25 NextGen champions:
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Serena Gray-Withers
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Abby Marks
Club champions:
* Shaelyn Park
Men
Teams
The teams are listed as follows:
Knockout Brackets
Knockout Results
All draw times listed in
Eastern Time (
UTC-04:00).
Sweep 16
''Wednesday, September 27, 7:00 pm''
''Thursday, September 28, 7:00 pm''
Elite 8
''Friday, September 29, 4:30 pm''
Final 4
''Saturday, September 30, 5:00 pm''
Final
''Sunday, October 1, 5:00 pm''
Women
Teams
The teams are listed as follows:
Knockout Brackets
Knockout Results
All draw times listed in
Eastern Time (
UTC-04:00).
Sweep 16
''Wednesday, September 27, 2:00 pm''
''Thursday, September 28, 2:00 pm''
Elite 8
''Friday, September 29, 11:30 am''
Final 4
''Saturday, September 30, 12:00 pm''
Final
''Sunday, October 1, 12:00 pm''
Notelist
References
External links
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