2018 Newfoundland and Labrador Tankard | |
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Host city | St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador |
Arena | St. John's Curling Club |
Dates | January 29 – February 4 |
Winner | Greg Smith |
Curling club | St. John's Curling Club |
Skip | Greg Smith |
Third | Matthew Hunt |
Second | Andrew Taylor |
Lead | Ian Withycombe |
Finalist | Andrew Symonds |
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The 2018 Newfoundland and Labrador Men's Curling Championship (also known as the Tankard), the men's provincial curling championship for Newfoundland and Labrador, was held from January 29 to February 4 [1] at the St. John's Curling Club in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. The winning Greg Smith team represented Newfoundland and Labrador at the 2018 Tim Hortons Brier at the Brandt Centre in Regina.
It was the first time since 2006 that the event was not won by Brad Gushue, as his team represented Team Canada at the 2018 Brier as defending champions.
Teams are as follows: [2]
Final round-robin standings
Key | |
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Teams to Playoffs |
Skip | W | L |
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Smith | 8 | 0 |
Boland | 6 | 2 |
Symonds | 6 | 2 |
O'Driscoll | 4 | 4 |
Harvey | 4 | 4 |
C. Thomas | 3 | 5 |
Skanes | 3 | 5 |
Lockyer | 2 | 6 |
D. Thomas | 0 | 8 |
Due to finishing the round robin undefeated, Smith must be defeated twice.
Semifinal | Final | Final 2 | ||||||||||||
2 | Adam Boland | 4 | ||||||||||||
3 | Andrew Symonds | 6 | 1 | Greg Smith | 4 | |||||||||
3 | Andrew Symonds | 9 | ||||||||||||
1 | Greg Smith | 9 | ||||||||||||
3 | Andrew Symonds | 6 |
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final |
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Adam Boland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Andrew Symonds | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final |
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Greg Smith | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 4 |
Andrew Symonds | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | X | 9 |
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Final |
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Greg Smith | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 9 |
Andrew Symonds | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | X | 6 |
2018 Newfoundland and Labrador Tankard |
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Greg Smith 1st Newfoundland and Labrador Provincial Championship title |
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