| 2019 Deloitte Tankard | |
|---|---|
| Host city | Dartmouth, Nova Scotia |
| Arena | Dartmouth Curling Club |
| Dates | January 21–27 |
| Winner | Team Thompson |
| Curling club | Dartmouth Curling Club |
| Skip | Stuart Thompson |
| Third | Colten Steele |
| Second | Travis Colter |
| Lead | Taylor Ardiel |
| Finalist | Jamie Murphy |
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The 2019 Deloitte Tankard , the provincial men's curling championship of Nova Scotia, was held from January 21 to 27 at the Dartmouth Curling Club in Dartmouth. [1] [2] The winning Stuart Thompson team represented Nova Scotia at the 2019 Tim Hortons Brier in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada's national men's curling championship. It was held in conjunction with the 2019 Nova Scotia Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the provincial women's curling championship.
The Deloitte Tankard is the Nova Scotia provincial championship for men's curling. The tournament is run by the Nova Scotia Curling Association. The winner represents Team Nova Scotia at the Tim Hortons Brier.
Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice towards a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called rocks, across the ice curling sheet towards the house, a circular target marked on the ice. Each team has eight stones, with each player throwing two. The purpose is to accumulate the highest score for a game; points are scored for the stones resting closest to the centre of the house at the conclusion of each end, which is completed when both teams have thrown all of their stones. A game usually consists of eight or ten ends.
Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime Provinces, and one of the four provinces that form Atlantic Canada. Its provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the second-smallest of Canada's ten provinces, with an area of 55,284 square kilometres (21,300 sq mi), including Cape Breton and another 3,800 coastal islands. As of 2016, the population was 923,598. Nova Scotia is Canada's second-most-densely populated province, after Prince Edward Island, with 17.4 inhabitants per square kilometre (45/sq mi).
