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 Suzhou, China, Omaha, United States, Jönköping, Sweden, and Beijing, China 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:
Qualification method Women Men Mixed doubles Hosting member association Highest ranked member association in the Americas zone Highest ranked member association in the European zone Highest ranked member association in the Pacific-Asia zone Selected by World Curling Federation
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:
Qualification method Women Men Mixed doubles Hosting member association First leg winner (Homan) (Koe) (Walker/Muyres) Second leg winner (Fujisawa) (Shuster) (Skaslien/Nedregotten) Third leg winner (Kim) (Dunstone) (Sahaidak/Lott)Highest ranked remainingmember associations World champions (Tirinzoni) (Edin) (Jäggi/Michel) Invited by World Curling Federation Notes Team Homan is being replaced by a team consisting of Jennifer Jones, Kaitlyn Lawes, Shannon Birchard and Jill Officer due to Homan and her second Joanne Courtney being due to give birth in the summer. The 2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Champions, Michèle Jäggi 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. KeyTeams to Grand Final (leg winner)Teams to Grand Final (ranking points) Women Country First Leg Second Leg Third Leg Total 20 9 20 49 3 17 25 45 9 25 8 42 25 12 0 37 9 6 11 26 9 6 9 24 6 12 4 22 6 0 10 16 Men Country First Leg Second Leg Third Leg Total 25 3 25 53 8 20 20 48 7 25 7 39 12 9 13 34 20 9 4 33 9 6 11 26 6 9 3 18 0 6 3 9 Mixed doubles Country First Leg Second Leg Third Leg Total 25 7 23 55 9 22 17 48 12 22 12 46 23 11 11 45 7 6 10 23 5 3 11 19 3 7 3 13 3 9 0 12
First leg
Women
Round-robin standings
Group A Country Skip W L Pts Anna Hasselborg 500115 Satsuki Fujisawa 30039 Liu Sijia 20046 Jennifer Dodds 20046
Group B Country Skip W L Pts Rachel Homan 500115 Anna Sidorova 30039 Nina Roth30039 Kim Min-ji 10053
Final Sunday, September 17, 12:00
Men
Round-robin standings
Group A Country Skip W L Pts Steffen Walstad 500115 Niklas Edin 21038 Rich Ruohonen 20137 Zang Jialiang 20046
Group B Country Skip W L Pts Kevin Koe 500115 Bruce Mouat 400212 Peter de Cruz 30039 Masaki Iwai 00060
Final Sunday, September 17, 16:00
Mixed doubles
Round-robin standings
Group A Country Athletes W L Pts Laura Walker / Kirk Muyres 500115 Kristin Skaslien / Sander Rølvåg 30039 Maria Komarova / Daniil Goriachev 20137 Therese Westman / Robin Ahlberg 11045
Group B Country Athletes W L Pts Sarah Anderson / Korey Dropkin 600018 Jenny Perret / Martin Rios 400212 Yu Jiaxin / Wang Xiangkun 10053 Jang Hye-ri / Choi Chi-won 10053
Final Sunday, September 16, 08:30
Second leg
Women
Round-robin standings
Group A Country Skip W L Pts Kim Min-ji 400212 Tracy Fleury 400212 Alina Kovaleva 20046 Jamie Sinclair 20046
Group B Country Skip W L Pts Satsuki Fujisawa 500115 Eve Muirhead 400212 Anna Hasselborg 30039 Yang Ying 00060
Final Sunday, December 9, 12:00
Men
Round-robin standings
Group A Country Skip W L Pts John Shuster 500115 Zou Qiang 30039 Bruce Mouat 30039 Jason Gunnlaugson 10053
Group B Country Skip W L Pts Niklas Edin 500115 Thomas Ulsrud 30039 Yuta Matsumura 20046 Yannick Schwaller 20046
Final Sunday, December 9, 16:00
Mixed doubles
Round-robin standings
Group A Country Athletes W L Pts Jenny Perret / Martin Rios 510017 Jang Hye-ri / Choe Chi-won 30039 Kalynn Park / John Morris 20137 Malin Wengdel / Fabian Wingfors 10053
Group B Country Athletes W L Pts Kristin Skaslien / Magnus Nedregotten 400212 Tabitha Peterson / Joe Polo 310211 Wang Rui / Ba Dexin 20137 Anastasia Moskaleva / Alexander Eremin 20046
Final Sunday, December 9, 08:30
Third leg
Women
Round-robin standings
Group A Country Skip W L Pts Anna Hasselborg 500115 Anna Sidorova 310211 Jiang Yilun 301210 Darcy Robertson 00060
Group B Country Skip W L Pts Kim Min-ji 500115 Cory Christensen 21129 Tori Koana 20228 Sophie Jackson 02044
Final Sunday, February 3, 16:00
Men
Round-robin standings
Group A Country Skip W L Pts Niklas Edin 411015 Yannick Schwaller 310211 Mark Fenner 20137 Masaki Iwai 10053
Group B Country Skip W L Pts Matt Dunstone 501016 Ross Paterson 320113 Steffen Walstad 10144 Ma Xiuyue 10053
Final Sunday, February 3, 12:00
Mixed doubles
Round-robin standings
Group A Country Athletes W L Pts Kadriana Sahaidak / Colton Lott 401113 Jenny Perret / Martin Rios 400212 Camilla Noreen / Per Noreen 310211 Jang Hye-ri / Choe Chi-won 00060
Group B Country Athletes W L Pts Kristin Skaslien / Thomas Ulsrud 400212 Becca Hamilton / Matt Hamilton 310211 Maria Komarova / Daniil Goriachev 301210 Chang Cao / Minjie Yuan 10053
Final Sunday, February 3, 08:30
Grand Final
Women
Round-robin standings
Group A Team W L Pts (Jones) 220210 (Fujisawa) 301210 (Jiang) 30039 (Roth) 20137
Group B Team W L Pts (Tirinzoni) 401113 (Sidorova) 400212 (Hasselborg) 20046 (Kim) 11045
Final Sunday, May 12, 16:00
Men
Round-robin standings
Group A Team W L Pts (Zou) 400212 (Edin) 30039 (Shuster) 21038 (Dunstone) 20137
Group B Team W L Pts (Koe) 400212 (Paterson) 400212 (Schwaller) 30039 (Ulsrud) 10053
Final Sunday, May 12, 09:00
Mixed doubles
Round-robin standings
Group A Team W L Pts (Walker/Muyres) 410114 (Anderson/Dropkin) 400212 (Jäggi/Michel) 20137 (Cao/Yuan) 10053
Group B Team W L Pts (Skaslien/Nedregotten) 501016 (Sahaidak/Lott) 310211 (Perret/Rios)20137 (Komarova/Goriachev) 01052
Final Sunday, May 12, 13:00
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