The 2018–19 Curling World Cup was the first and only edition of the Curling World Cup, held between men's, women's, and mixed doubles teams. It had three legs and a Grand Final, taking place in

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, Omaha, United States, Jönköping, Sweden, and

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respectively.

Format

Curling World Cup matches have eight ends, rather than the standard ten ends. Ties after eight ends are decided by a shoot-out, with each team throwing a stone and the one closest to the button winning. A win in eight or fewer ends earns a team 3 points, a shoot-out win 2 points, a shoot-out loss 1 point, and 0 points for a loss in eight or fewer ends. Each event has eight teams in the men's, women's, and mixed doubles tournament. The teams are split into two groups of four, based on the Curling World Cup rankings, whereby the 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 7th, ranked teams are in one group and the 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 8th ranked teams in the other. The first place teams in each group plays against each other in the final. In the event of a tie for first place, a shoot-out is used, with the same format used to decide matches tied after eight ends.

Qualification

For the first three legs of the Curling World Cup, the eight spots in the tournament are allocated to each of the hosting member associations, the highest ranked member association in each zone (the Americas, European, and Pacific-Asia), and two teams chosen by the World Curling Federation. Member associations may choose to send the same teams to all three legs or have different teams. The following countries qualified for each discipline: The host (China), the winners of each leg, the current world champions, a team specifically invited, and the two highest remaining member associations on the Curling World Cup ranking list qualified for the Grand Final. Two separate teams from the same member association may qualify for the Grand Final. The following countries qualified for each discipline: ;Notes # Team Homan is being replaced by a team consisting of

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Kaitlyn Lawes Lesley Kaitlyn Lawes (born December 16, 1988) is a Canadian curler. Lawes was the long time third for the Jennifer Jones team that represented Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics where they won the gold medal. They were the first women's team to ...

Shannon Birchard Shannon Birchard (born May 11, 1994) is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She currently plays second on Team Kerri Einarson from Gimli, Manitoba. The Einarson team are four-time Scotties Tournament of Hearts champions, winning the titl ...

and

Jill Officer Jill Officer (born June 2, 1975) is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Officer played second for the teams skipped by Jennifer Jones from 2003 to 2018 and while they were juniors. The team won a gold medal while representing Canada at t ...

due to Homan and her second

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being due to give birth in the summer. # The 2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Champions,

Michèle Jäggi Michèle Jäggi (born 22 September 1987) is a Swiss curler from Bern. She won gold at the 2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship and won two bronze medals at the Winter Universiade. Career Jäggi is a former Swiss junior champion. She fi ...

and Sven Michel, were selected to compete due to the short time between the 2019 Championship and the Grand Final. # With Team Edin already qualified for the Grand Final, Switzerland, the highest-ranked country not yet qualified, was invited. # In each discipline, the WCF chose to invite the highest-ranked country not yet qualified.

Ranking points

Ranking points were assigned in each of the first three legs to determine the final member associations qualified for the Grand Final. Member associations were awarded their points from round robin play as well as 5 points for the runner-up and 10 for the champion. ;Women ;Men ;Mixed doubles

First leg

Women

Round-robin standings

Final

''Sunday, September 17, 12:00''

Men

Round-robin standings

Final

''Sunday, September 17, 16:00''

Mixed doubles

Round-robin standings

Final

''Sunday, September 16, 08:30''

Second leg

Women

Round-robin standings

Final

''Sunday, December 9, 12:00''

Men

Round-robin standings

Final

''Sunday, December 9, 16:00''

Mixed doubles

Round-robin standings

Final

''Sunday, December 9, 08:30''

Third leg

Women

Round-robin standings

Final

''Sunday, February 3, 16:00''

Men

Round-robin standings

Final

''Sunday, February 3, 12:00''

Mixed doubles

Round-robin standings

Final

''Sunday, February 3, 08:30''

Grand Final

Women

Round-robin standings

Final

''Sunday, May 12, 16:00''

Men

Round-robin standings

Final

''Sunday, May 12, 09:00''

Mixed doubles

Round-robin standings

Final

''Sunday, May 12, 13:00''

References

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