The 2025 AMJ Players' Championship was held from April 8 to 13 at the

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. It was the fifth and final

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event of the

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. For the first time in the history of the event, the finals for both the men's and women's were rematches of their respective 2025 World Championships. In the men's event, World Champion

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and his Scottish rink took on

Yannick Schwaller Yannick Schwaller (born 31 March 1995 in Solothurn) is a Swiss curler from Recherswil. He currently skips his own team out of Geneva. Career Juniors Schwaller skipped the Swiss junior men's team at three straight World Junior Curling Champi ...

from Switzerland, while World women's champion

Rachel Homan Rachel Catherine Homan (born April 5, 1989) is a Canadian international curling, curler and the reigning women's world champion. Homan is a former 2010 Canadian Junior Curling Championships, Canadian junior champion, a five-time Scotties Tourna ...

of Canada faced

Silvana Tirinzoni Silvana Petra Tirinzoni (born 25 June 1979) is a Swiss curler from Zurich. She is a four-time women's world champion skip (, , , ) and five-time Grand Slam champion. She is a former world junior champion and reigning European champion. Tirinzo ...

and her team from Switzerland. In the women's final, Tirinzoni took her revenge against Homan, beating the

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-based rink 5–4, winning her fifth career Slam title in the process. In the game, Tirinzoni got on the board first in the third when they were forced to a single after last-thrower

Alina Pätz Alina Pätz (born 8 March 1990 in Urdorf, Switzerland) is a Swiss Curling, curler. She currently throws fourth stones on Team Silvana Tirinzoni, which represented Switzerland at the Curling at the 2022 Winter Olympics, 2022 Winter Olympics. She ...

over-threw a difficult raise attempt to get a second point. Pätz made a perfect freeze in the fourth, which Homan tried to dislodge on an angle-raise of her own, but missed to give up the steal of one. In the fifth, Homan was facing four on her last, a hit which she made to score a single, to go down 2–1. Pätz drew to the eight-foot on her last in the sixth to score two, which was confirmed after a measurement. Homan drew for three in the seventh to tie the game going into the last end. On her last Pätz faced two staggered Homan stones, but was able to take them both out and stick to win the game. It was Tirinzoni's first win over Homan in the season. In the men's final, Team Mouat beat Team Schwaller 6–5, and became the first team to win four slams in a single season. It was also their 10th career Slam title. In the match, Schwaller was forced to a single in the first after Mouat bailed out his team by making two double takeouts. Schwaller took a 2–0 lead in the second after Mouat came up short on his draw attempt. Mouat tied the game in the fourth after making a draw for two. Mouat forced Schwaller to a single in the fifth when Schwaller's last rock thrower

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made a tap against three Scottish counters. In the sixth, Mouat made a tap for two, which was confirmed by a measurement, with his second stone barely biting the rings. Schwarz-van Berkel missed a double takeout in the seventh, giving up a steal of one to go down 5–3 heading into the last end. In the eighth, Team Schwaller had a chance for three and the win, but Mouat made a double on his last, foricing Schwarz-van Berkel to make a tap for two to send the game into an extra frame. In the extra, Mouat came up short on a draw to the button attempt on his first, but was successful on his last, making a raise takeout to score the winning point.

Battle of the Sexes

On April 7, a day prior to the event beginning, the world number one ranked women's team,

and the number one men's team,

(who both won their respective

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in 2025) played in the " Rio Mare Battle of the Sexes" Skins game. The match featured celebrity coaches ( Matt Bonner,

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and Team

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), guest appearances and unique scoring rules. It was the first time a game has been held prior to the start of a Slam with both teams raising money for their charity of choice. The first six ends were worth $1,000 with the final two ends worth $3,000. Homan's winnings went towards the

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Foundation, and Mouat's to Charlie Boy's Cancer Fundraiser for a friend who is battling stage four skin cancer. To equalize the playing field, the Mouat rink were required to use 'soft foam' brush heads, and Team Homan were allowed to force Team Mouat to use Brownie Brooms twice in the game (one in the first half, once in the second). ;Scoreboard ''Monday, April 7, 7:00 pm''

Qualification

The top 12 ranked men's and women's teams on

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's Year-to-Date rankings as of March 11, 2025, qualified for the event. In the event that a team declines their invitation, the next-ranked team on the world team ranking is invited until the field is complete.

Men

Top Year-to-Date men's teams: #

Matt Dunstone Matthew Dunstone, nicknamed "the Sheriff" (born June 25, 1995) is a Canadian curler originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Career Dunstone won the Canadian Junior Curling Championships in 2013. He represented Canada at the 2013 World Junior Curli ...

Brad Jacobs Bradley Robert Jacobs (born June 11, 1985) is a Canadian curler from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. He currently skips his own team out of Calgary, Alberta. He is an Olympic champion skip, having led Canada to a gold medal at the 2014 Winter Oly ...

Ross Whyte Ross Whyte (born 31 August 1998 in York, England) is a Scottish curler from Stirling. Skipping his own team, Whyte has won silver at the 2018 World Junior Curling Championships and won bronze at the 2019 World Junior Curling Championships and ...

# Mike McEwen #

Brad Gushue Bradley Raymond Gushue, ONL ( ; born June 16, 1980) is a Canadian curler from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Gushue, along with teammates Russ Howard, Mark Nichols, Jamie Korab and Mike Adam, represented Canada in curling at the 2006 ...

Marc Muskatewitz Marc Muskatewitz (born 28 January 1996) is a German curler from Kempten. Career Juniors Muskatewitz started playing curling in 2003, where he had a successful junior career, where he skipped the German junior men's curling team at two European ...

# Marco Hösli #

John Epping John Allan Epping (born March 20, 1983) is a Canadian curler from Toronto, Ontario. He currently skips his own team out of the Leaside Curling Club in East York, Toronto. Career Junior Men's Born in Peterborough, Ontario, Epping was a top ...

Joël Retornaz Joël Thierry Retornaz (born 30 September 1983 in Chêne-Bougeries, Genève, Switzerland) is an Italian curler from Cembra. He was the skip of the Italian men's Olympic curling team in 2006, 2018, and 2022. Retornaz gained sudden renown in It ...

Korey Dropkin Korey Dropkin (born June 11, 1995) is an American curler originally from Southborough, Massachusetts. He currently skips his own team out of Duluth, Minnesota. Curling career Juniors As a junior curler, Dropkin won three United States Juni ...

Women

Top Year-to-Date women's teams: #

Anna Hasselborg Anna Ellinor Hasselborg (born 5 May 1989) is a Swedish curler who is the 2018 Olympic Champion in women's curling and a former World Junior Champion skip. In November 2019, she became the first curler in history to reign as the simultaneous hol ...

Kerri Einarson Kerri Einarson (; born Kerri Flett; October 3, 1987) is a Canadian Métis curler from Camp Morton, Manitoba, in the Rural Municipality of Gimli. Einarson is a four-time women's national champion in curling, skipping her team to victory in the , , ...

# Kim Eun-jung #

Satsuki Fujisawa is a Japanese curler from Kitami, Hokkaido. As a skip, she has won the Japanese national championship six times. Fujisawa skipped the bronze medal-winning Japanese team at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games and the silver medal-winning team at the ...

Momoha Tabata is a Japanese curler. She currently throws fourth stones on the Hokkaido Bank curling team. At the international level, Tabata medaled silver at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics as the third on the Japanese mixed team. Early life and education T ...

Sayaka Yoshimura is a Japanese curler from Sapporo, Hokkaido. She is the skip of the FORTIUS curling team, which won the Japan Curling Championships in 2015, 2021 and 2025. At the international level, she has represented Japan three times at the World Women's C ...

# Xenia Schwaller #

Gim Eun-ji Gim Eun-ji also known as Gim Un-chi (born January 23, 1990) is a Korean curler from Uijeongbu. She currently skips the Gyeonggi Province curling team. Career Gim played as lead in her first world championship at the 2011 Capital One World W ...

Ha Seung-youn Ha Seung-youn (born May 19, 2000) is a South Korean curler from Uijeongbu. She is the skip of the Chuncheon City Hall curling team. While playing with Kim Min-ji, she won a silver medal at the 2020 World Junior Curling Championships. Career ...

Men

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:

Round robin standings

''Final Round Robin Standings''

Round robin results

All draw times are listed in

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( UTC−04:00).

Draw 1

''Tuesday, April 8, 11:30 am''

Draw 2

''Tuesday, April 8, 3:00 pm''

Draw 3

''Tuesday, April 8, 6:30 pm''

Draw 4

''Wednesday, April 9, 8:00 am''

Draw 5

''Wednesday, April 9, 11:30 am''

Draw 6

''Wednesday, April 9, 3:30 pm''

Draw 7

''Wednesday, April 9, 7:30 pm''

Draw 8

''Thursday, April 10, 8:30 am''

Draw 9

''Thursday, April 10, 11:30 am''

Draw 10

''Thursday, April 10, 3:30 pm''

Draw 11

''Thursday, April 10, 7:30 pm''

Draw 12

''Friday, April 11, 8:00 am''

Draw 13

''Friday, April 11, 11:30 am''

Draw 14

''Friday, April 11, 3:30 pm''

Draw 15

''Friday, April 11, 7:30 pm''

Playoffs

Quarterfinals

''Saturday, April 12, 3:30 pm''

Semifinals

''Saturday, April 12, 7:30 pm''

Final

''Sunday, April 13, 4:30 pm''