Perth, Scotland It will be a star-studded Team World entry that takes to the ice at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas for the 2014 World Financial Group Continental Cup, it was announced on Tuesday.
The reigning mens and womens world curling champions will headline the World squad, which will be attempting to take back the title of Continental Cup champions from the host Team North Americans in curlings version of the Ryder Cup, scheduled for Jan. 16-19, 2014.
Scotlands Eve Muirhead, who won the Titlis Glacier Mountain World Womens Championship last March in Riga, Latvia, and Swedens Niklas Edin, who captured the Ford World Mens Championship last April in Victoria, Canada, are the big names on Team World. Both teams will represent their countries (Muirhead will wear Great Britain colours) at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
We are thrilled that the world champions have decided to play in the first WFG Continental Cup ever staged outside of Canada, said Nevada Lieutenant Governor Brian Krolicki. We look forward to welcoming some of the worlds elite curlers representing Asia, Europe and North America to our iconic entertainment capital. We will do everything we can to ensure that the athletes and fans have an exciting and memorable experience of a lifetime.
Muirhead and Edin are not the only stars on Team World, which will be looking to even the score in the 10th edition of the WFG Continental Cup. Team North America has won five times, including in the 2013 event at Penticton, B.C. The sides have alternated victories since the inaugural Continental Cup, in 2002 at Regina.
The two other mens teams are skipped by two-time world champion David Murdoch of Scotland and three-time world bronze-medallist and 2010 Olympic silver-medallist Thomas Ulsrud of Norway.
The Team World womens contingent will be rounded out by four-time world silver-medallist Margaretha Sigfridsson from Sweden and rising 22-year-old Japanese star Satsuki Fujisawa, who just missed making the playoff tiebreaker at the 2013 World Womens Championship in Latvia.
Former world champion David Hay of Scotland and three-time world champion Peja Lindholm of Sweden will return to as Team Captain and Coach respectively.
The Team North America line-ups wont be known until later this year. The mens and womens champions from the 2014 United States Olympic Curling Trials, Nov. 10-17 in Fargo, N.D., will qualify, while the four Canadian teams (two of each gender) wont be known until following the Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings Canadian Curling Trials Dec. 1 to 8 in Winnipeg.
The Continental Cup features six teams from North America competing against six teams representing the rest of the world in various disciplines of curling during four days of competition traditional team games, mixed doubles, singles, mixed skins and standard skins games. Each segment awards points for wins (or ties).
A total of 60 points are available, meaning the side that earns more than 30 points will be declared the champion.
For the six mixed Doubles and six singles matches, one point will be awarded for each victory, one-half point if tied). There will be 18 team games (nine mens and nine womens) played, each worth one point for a win and a half-point for a tie. All games are eight ends and there are no extra ends. There will also be six skins games, with each game worth a total of five points to the winner.
The winning side receives $52,000 Cdn ($2,000 per member, including captain and coach), while the losing side gets $26,000 ($1,000 per member, including captain and coach). As well, the side which generates the highest points total from the six Skins games will receive an additional $13,000 ($500 per player, plus captain and coach).
For ticket and other event information, visit http://www.curling.ca/2014continentalcup-en/
The Canadian Sports broadcaster, TSN, will provide coverage of the Cup inside Canada and coverage will be available to curling fans outside Canada to enjoy via the World Curling Federation website www.worldcurling.org
The WFG Continental Cup is a joint venture of the Canadian Curling Association, World Curling Federation and United States Curling Association.
Team World Lineups
Men
Niklas Edin (Sweden)
Sebastian Kraupp
Fredrik Lindberg
Viktor Kjäll
David Murdoch (Scotland)
Tom Brewster
Scott Andrews
Michael Goodfellow
Thomas Ulsrud (Norway)
Torger Nergård
Christoffer Svae
Håvard Vad Petersson
Women
Eve Muirhead (Scotland)
Anna Sloan
Vicki Adams
Claire Hamilton
Margaretha Sigfridsson (Sweden)
Maria Prytz
Christina Bertrup
Maria Wennerström
Satsuki Fujisawa (Japan)
Miyo Ichikawa
Emi Shimizu
Chiaki Matsumura
Captain: David Hay
Coach: Peja Lindholm
For more information contact:Joanna Kelly & Danny Parker
Media Relations - World Curling Federation
Tel: +372 592 442 35
media@worldcurling.org
Greg Stremlaw
Chief Executive Officer
Canadian Curling Association
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Cell: +1 613-799-9993
gstremlaw@curling.ca
www.curling.ca
Al Cameron
Director, Communication & Media Relations
Canadian Curling Association
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acameron@curling.ca
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Terry Kolesar
Director of Communications, USA Curling
Office: +1 715-344-1199, Ext. 202
Cell: +1 608-338-9900
terry.kolesar@usacurl.org
Jon Killoran
Chief Executive Officer
Reno Tahoe Winter Games Coalition
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