The 2019 Ontario Men's Curling Championship, better known as the

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, the 2019 provincial men's

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championship for

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, was held from January 27 to February 3 at the

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. The winning

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team would represent

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at the

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. The event is being held in conjunction with the

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, the provincial women's curling championship. Unlike the 2018 event, the 2019 Tankard returned to having a round-robin format.

Qualification Process

The original qualification process called for 10 teams to qualify from three cash spiels (two each), an open qualifier (two teams), plus the top two southern Ontario teams in the

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(as of December 9, 2018). However,

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announced on December 5, 2018 that a third CTRS team (Team

) would be allowed to directly qualify for the Tankard, as the team was in the top 10 in the CTRS standings at the time, and had a scheduling conflict preventing them from participating in the first round of cash spiel qualifiers (they were playing in the

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). McDonald's direct entry took a qualifying spot away from Cash Spiel #2. This change in qualification was not without controversy.

Teams

The team lineups are as follows:

Standings

Round-robin results

Draw 1

''January 27, 7:00pm''

Draw 2

''January 28, 9:00am''

Draw 3

''January 28, 4:00pm''

Draw 6

''January 29, 2:30pm''

Draw 7

''January 29, 7:30pm''

Draw 8

''January 30, 9:30am''

Draw 9

''January 30, 2:30pm''

Draw 10

''January 30, 7:30pm''

Draw 11

''January 31, 9:30am''

Draw 12

''January 31, 2:30pm''

Draw 13

''January 31, 7:30pm''

Draw 14

''February 1, 9:30am''

Draw 15

''February 1, 2:30pm''

Draw 16

''February 1, 7:30pm''

Playoffs

1 vs. 2

''February 2, 2:00pm''

3 vs. 4

''February 2, 2:00pm''

Semifinal

''February 3, 9:30am''

Final

''February 3, 2:30pm''

Qualification

Cash Spiel #1

''December 14–16, Acton Curling Club,

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'' ;Tiebreakers *Lobel 6, Krell 3 *Richard 6, Willsey 4

Cash Spiel #2

''December 14–16, RCMP Curling Club,

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Cash Spiel #3

''January 4–6,

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Open Qualifier

''January 11–13,

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References

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