The 2005

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(branded as 2005

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World Men's Curling Championship for sponsorship reasons) was held from April 2–10, 2005 at the new

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. The

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was the first since the

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event that was held separately from the 2005 World Women's Curling Championship (held in

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in March 2005). The winner was

Randy Ferbey Randy S. Ferbey (born May 30, 1959) is a Canadian retired curler from Sherwood Park, Alberta. Ferbey is a six-time Canadian champion and a four-time World Champion. He currently coaches the Rachel Homan women's team. Born in Edmonton, Albert ...

and his team from

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. Ferbey won his fourth world championship, the rest of his team won their third. As a country, it was Canada's 29th World Championship.

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won silver, and

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bronze. For the first time ever, the World championships used the

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where the top four teams with the best records at the end of round-robin play meet in the playoff rounds.

Teams

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but also including

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and even

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. Teams included 3 time World Champion

of Canada, 2002 Silver medalist

Pål Trulsen Pål Trulsen (born 19 April 1962 in Drøbak, Norway) is a Norwegian curler from Hosle in Bærum, and was the 2002 Olympic curling men's champion. Career Trulsen participated in both the and World Junior Championships, finishing both tourna ...

of Norway, 2001 Silver medalist

Andreas Schwaller Andreas "Andi" Schwaller (born 8 July 1970 in Recherswil) is a Swiss curler. Schwaller started playing curling in 1982. He plays in fourth position as a skip and is right-handed.Andy Kapp Andreas "Andy" Kapp (born 8 December 1967) is a German curler from Unterthingau. After a number of several tournaments at the Junior, Olympic and World Championship levels, Kapp surprised many by winning the 1992 European championship. The ...

of Germany, 2 time World bronze medalist

Markku Uusipaavalniemi Markku Uusipaavalniemi (born 23 November 1966 in Karkkila) is a Finnish curler and former politician. Curling career Uusipaavalniemi was the skip of Team Finland for the first time in the mid-1990s. Most (but not all) of Finland's curling med ...

of Finland, 1993 bronze medalist

Pete Fenson Peter Fenson (born February 29, 1968 in Bemidji, Minnesota) is an American curler. He was the skip of the men's rink that represented the United States at the 2006 Winter Olympics, where they won the bronze medal, the first Olympic medal for th ...

of the United States, 7 time World Championship participant

Hugh Millikin Hugh Ronald Alexander Millikin (born 4 July 1957 in North Vancouver (district municipality), North Vancouver, British Columbia) is an Australian curling, curler originally from Ottawa, Ontario. Career In 1986, while still residing in the Canadi ...

of Australia, 3 time participant

Sean Becker Sean Peter Becker (born 7 July 1975 in Ranfurly, New Zealand, Ranfurly) is a New Zealand curler. Career Becker was the skip for New Zealand teams which won three Pacific Curling Championships in 1998, 2003, and 2004. He has also played for the ...

of New Zealand, 2 time participant

Johnny Frederiksen Johnny Frederiksen (born 31 July 1975 in Hvidovre) is a Danish curler from Copenhagen. He is the skip of the men's Danish national team. Frederiksen skipped Denmark at three World Junior Curling Championships (1994, 1995, 1996), two European Cu ...

of Denmark and making their first appearances were

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's team from Italy,

David Murdoch David Matthew Murdoch (born 17 April 1978) is a retired Scottish curler from Stirling. As the Scotland skip, he and his former team of Ewan MacDonald, Warwick Smith, Euan Byers and Peter Smith are the 2006 and 2009 World Curling Champion ...

's team from Scotland and

Eric Carlsén Eric Carlsén (born 16 June 1982) is a Swedish curler from Sundsvall, Sweden. Curling career Playing for Härnösand Curling Club, Carlsén was the Swedish national Champion for 2005 and represented Sweden as skip at the 2005 Ford World M ...

's team from Sweden.

Round robin standings

''Final round robin standings'' To first break the massive 6-way tie at 8-3, the two teams with the best record against the other teams involved (Scotland and Germany) were given automatic playoff spots. The other teams were ranked based on their record against each other, or if that didn't break the tie, a draw to the button which occurred before the tournament began. These other four teams then played tie-breakers to determine the other 2 playoff spots. The winning teams of the tiebreakers should match up in a 3vs4 game to determine the other semi finalist

Round robin results

Draw 1

''April 2, 11:00''

Draw 2

''April 2, 18:30''

Draw 3

''April 3, 09:30''

Draw 4

''April 3, 14:00''

Draw 5

''April 3, 18:30''

Draw 6

''April 4, 09:00''

Draw 7

''April 4, 15:00''

Draw 8

''April 4, 19:30''

Draw 9

''April 5, 09:00''

Draw 10

''April 5, 15:00''

Draw 11

''April 5, 19:30''

Draw 12

''April 6, 09:00''

Draw 13

''April 6, 15:00''

Draw 14

''April 6, 19:30''

Draw 15

''April 7, 09:00''

Draw 16

''April 7, 15:00''

Draw 17

''April 7, 19:30''

Tiebreaker

''April 8, 12:00''

Playoffs

Brackets

3 vs. 4 game

''April 8, 18:00''

1 vs. 2 game

''April 8, 22:30''

Semi-final

''April 9, 14:00''

Final

''April 10, 12:30''

Round-robin player percentages

References

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