The 2018

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, Canada's national women's

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championship, was held from January 27–February 4, 2018 at the

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. The winning team represented Canada at the 2018 Ford World Women's Curling Championship held from March 17–25 at the Memorial Gardens in North Bay,

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. The 2018 tournament was the first to use a new 16-team format, featuring representation by all fourteen member associations of

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, the second-place team from the 2017 tournament (as champion Rachel Homan declined to participate due to her qualification for the 2018 Winter Olympics), and a new

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team. As part of this new format, the Bronze medal game was removed from the schedule.

Teams

Curling Canada introduced a new 16-team format for both the Tournament of Hearts and Brier for 2018, under which all 14 member associations of Curling Canada were represented in the main field, rather than being limited by a pre-qualifying tournament. The teams were divided into two pools for round robin play, after which the top four teams from each advanced to the Championship Pool. Defending champion Rachel Homan declined to participate as Team Canada in order to prepare for the 2018 Winter Olympics; Michelle Englot's team, who finished as runner-up in the 2017 tournament, participated in her place. The final spot in the tournament was filled by a

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held on the Friday before the tournament. The rinks of Hollie Duncan (

), Émilia Gagné (

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), and Casey Scheidegger (

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) made their Scotties debut; although members of Team Ontario had previous experience at the national women's championship, mostly as alternates. Scotties veteran skip Sherry Anderson ( Saskatchewan) led a team of Tournament of Hearts rookies. The teams are listed as follows:

CTRS ranking

Wildcard game

A wildcard play-in game was played on January 26; it was contested between the top two teams on the

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who did not win their respective provincial championships, and was played between

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's Chelsea Carey rink from Calgary and the East St. Paul Curling Club's Kerri Einarson rink from the

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of East St. Paul. With Einarson's victory, Manitoba was represented by three different teams in the tournament. ;CTRS standings for wildcard game: ;Wildcard Game ''Friday, January 26, 18:30''

Round Robin standings

''Final Round Robin Standings''

Round Robin results

All draw times are listed in Pacific Standard Time ( UTC−8:00).

Draw 1

''Saturday, January 27, 14:00''

Draw 2

''Saturday, January 27, 19:00''

Draw 3

''Sunday, January 28, 09:00''

Draw 4

''Sunday, January 28, 14:00''

Draw 5

''Sunday, January 28, 19:00''

Draw 6

''Monday, January 29, 09:00''

Draw 7

''Monday, January 29, 14:00''

Draw 8

''Monday, January 29, 19:00''

Draw 9

''Tuesday, January 30, 09:00''

Draw 10

''Tuesday, January 30, 14:00''

Draw 11

''Tuesday, January 30, 19:00''

Draw 12

''Wednesday, January 31, 09:00''

Draw 13

''Wednesday, January 31, 14:00''

Draw 14

''Wednesday, January 31, 19:00''

Tiebreakers

''Thursday, February 1, 09:00''

Placement Round

Each team that finished fifth through eight in their pool played the team that finished in the same position in the opposite pool for the purpose of determining final tournament ranking. For example, the winner of the game between fifth place teams was ranked ninth place overall, the loser of that game was ranked tenth place, and so on.

Seeding Games

All game times are listed in Pacific Standard Time ( UTC−8:00).

A5 vs. B5

''Friday, February 02, 09:00''

A6 vs. B6

''Friday, February 02, 09:00''

A7 vs. B7

''Friday, February 02, 09:00''

A8 vs. B8

''Friday, February 02, 09:00''

Championship Pool Standings

All wins and losses earned in the round robin (including results against teams that failed to advance) were carried forward into the Championship Pool. Wins in tiebreaker games were not carried forward. ''Final Championship Pool Standings''

Championship Pool Results

All draw times are listed in Pacific Standard Time ( UTC−8:00).

Draw 15

''Thursday, February 01, 14:00''

Draw 16

''Thursday, February 01, 19:00''

Draw 17

''Friday, February 02, 14:00''

Draw 18

''Friday, February 02, 19:00''

Playoffs

1 vs. 2

''Saturday, February 03, 19:00''

3 vs. 4

''Saturday, February 03, 14:00''

Semifinal

''Sunday, February 04, 09:00''

Final

''Sunday, February 04, 16:00''

Statistics

Top 5 player percentages

''Final Round Robin Percentages; minimum 6 games''

Perfect games

Awards

The awards and all-star teams were as follows: ;All-Star Teams ''First Team'' *Skip: Jennifer Jones, Manitoba *Third: Cary-Anne McTaggart, Alberta *Second:

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, Manitoba *Lead: Dawn McEwen, Manitoba ''Second Team'' *Skip: Tracy Fleury, Northern Ontario *Third: Shannon Birchard, Manitoba *Second: Jessie Scheidegger, Alberta *Lead:

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, Team Canada ; Marj Mitchell Sportsmanship Award * Sherry Anderson, Saskatchewan ;Joan Mead Builder Award * Melissa Soligo, Director of the High-Performance Program at Curl BC, national and international coach. Played second on the 1991 Scott champion Team British Columbia, earned a silver medal at the 1991 Worlds, and was a demonstration sport bronze medalist with Team Canada at the

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Notes

References

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