2018 Boston Pizza Cup | |
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Host city | Spruce Grove, Alberta |
Arena | Grant Fuhr Arena |
Dates | 31 January - 4 February |
Winner | Brendan Bottcher |
Curling club | Saville Sports Centre |
Skip | Brendan Bottcher |
Third | Darren Moulding |
Second | Bradley Thiessen |
Lead | Karrick Martin |
Finalist | Karsten Sturmay |
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The 2018 Boston Pizza Cup was held 31 January to 4 February at the Grant Fuhr Arena in Spruce Grove, Alberta. The winning Brendan Bottcher rink represented Alberta at the 2018 Tim Hortons Brier in Regina, Saskatchewan. [1]
The semifinal and final games were broadcast on Sportsnet One. [2]
Twelve teams qualified for the provincial tournament through several methods. The qualification process is as follows:
Qualification method | Berths | Qualifying team |
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Defending Champions | 1 1 | Brendan Bottcher [1] |
Highest-ranked team on CTRS | 1 | Aaron Sluchinski |
ACF bonspiel points | 2 1 | Karsten Sturmay Ted Appelman |
Peace Qualifier | 2 | Scott Webb Daylan Vavrek |
Northern Qualifier | 3 | Thomas Usselman Mike Hutchings Charley Thomas |
Southern Qualifier | 3 | Scott Garnett Kevin Park Jeremy Harty |
The teams are as follows: [3]
The draw is listed as follows: [4] [5]
First Knockout | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Qualifier 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Bottcher | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
Garnett | 4 | Vavrek | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
Vavrek | 8 | Bottcher | 10 | ||||||||||||||||
Usselman | 2 | Sturmay | 7 | ||||||||||||||||
Sturmay | 4 | Slushinski | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
Sturmay | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
Bottcher | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
Thomas | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
Appelman | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
Harty | 11 | Harty | 6 | ||||||||||||||||
Hutchings | 10 | Appelman | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
Park | 8 | Thomas | 7 | ||||||||||||||||
Webb | 5 | Thomas | 7 | ||||||||||||||||
Park | 6 |
Second Knockout | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Qualifier 2 | ||||||||||||||||
Garnett | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||
Sluchinski | 6 | Appelman | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
Garnett | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
Appelman | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
Harty | 9 | Sturmay | 8 | ||||||||||||||||
Webb | 6 | Sturmay | 9 | ||||||||||||||||
Harty | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
Sturmay | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
Hutchings | 3 | Thomas | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
Park | 11 | Vavrek | 8 | ||||||||||||||||
Usselman | 6 | Park | 6 | ||||||||||||||||
Vavrek | 7 | Vavrek | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
Thomas | 5 |
Third Knockout | Semifinals | Qualifier 3 | ||||||||||||
Webb | 0 | |||||||||||||
Webb | 9 | Vavrek | 7 | |||||||||||
Sluchninski | 4 | Vavrek | 9 | |||||||||||
Appelman | 7 | |||||||||||||
Appelman | 10 | |||||||||||||
Park | 6 |
Third Knockout | Semifinals | Qualifier 4 | ||||||||||||
Hutchings | 7 | |||||||||||||
Garnett | 9 | Garnett | 8 | |||||||||||
Harty | 5 | Usselman | 5 | |||||||||||
Usselman | 8 | Garnett | 5 | |||||||||||
Thomas | 6 |
Page playoff system | Semifinal | Final | |||||||||||
A | Brendan Bottcher | 7 | A | Brendan Bottcher | 9 | ||||||||
B | Karsten Sturmay | 6 | B | Karsten Sturmay | 3 | ||||||||
B | Karsten Sturmay | 7 | |||||||||||
C1 | Daylan Vavrek | 5 | |||||||||||
C1 | Daylan Vavrek | 7 | |||||||||||
C2 | Charley Thomas | 6 | |||||||||||
February 3, 6:30pm
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final |
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Brendan Bottcher | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
Karsten Sturmay | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
February 3, 6:30pm
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final |
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Daylan Vavrek | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
Charley Thomas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
February 4, 11:00am
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final |
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Karsten Sturmay | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | X | 7 |
Daylan Vavrek | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | X | 5 |
February 4, 5:00pm
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final |
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Brendan Bottcher | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | X | 9 |
Karsten Sturmay | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 3 |
2018 Boston Pizza Cup |
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Brendan Bottcher 2nd Alberta Provincial Championship title |
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