2020 Yukon Men's Curling Championship

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2020 Yukon Men's Curling Championship
Host city Whitehorse, Yukon
Arena Whitehorse Curling Club
DatesJanuary 24–26, 2020
Winner Team Scoffin
Skip Thomas Scoffin
Third Brett Winfield
Second Trygg Jensen
Lead Joe Wallingham
Coach Wade Scoffin
Finalist Pat Paslawski
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The 2020 Yukon Men's Curling Championship , the territorial men's curling championship for Yukon was held from January 24 to 26 at the Whitehorse Curling Club in Whitehorse, Yukon. [1] The winning Thomas Scoffin rink represented the Yukon at the 2020 Tim Hortons Brier in Kingston, Ontario and finished with a 0–7 record.

Contents

Teams

Three teams entered the event:

SkipThirdSecondLead
Pat Paslawski Terry MillerDoug HamiltonDon McPhee
Thomas Scoffin Brett Winfield Trygg Jensen Joe Wallingham
Darol Stuart Herb BalsamBob WalkerLee Malanchuk

Draw

The event is a double round robin. If any team goes undefeated, they would be declared the champions. If no team goes undefeated, a playoff will occur between each of the three teams. If one team has three or more losses, then there will be a playoff with the top two teams (with the first place team needing to be beaten twice). [2]

The first game of the event was scheduled for 9:00am on January 24, but was postponed to 7:00pm due to compressor issues. [3]

Round-robin standings

As of Draw 4

SkipWL
Scoffin40
Paslawski12
Stuart03

The Thomas Scoffin Rink went 4-0 in the round robin and will represent Yukon at the 2020 Brier. [4]

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