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2017 GSOC Tour Challenge

The 2017 GSOC Tour Challenge was held from September 5 to 10 at the Co-operators Centre at Evraz Place in Regina, Saskatchewan. This was the first Grand Slam of the 2017–18 curling season.

There were two tiers in each of the men's and women's events.

The winning tier 1 teams get a direct bye into the 2018 Humpty's Champions Cup, the last grand slam event of the season. The winning tier 2 teams get a bye into the 2017 Masters, the next grand slam event of the season.

On the men's side, the defending World Champion Brad Gushue rink from St. John's, Newfoundland defeated the defending Norwegian champion Steffen Walstad rink in the final. It would be Gushue's 8th career grand slam win. Team Gushue went undefeated in the tournament and took home $20,000 for the win.[1]

On the women's side, the defending Tour Challenge champion Val Sweeting from Edmonton, Alberta rink made it two in a row when they defeated the Swedish Anna Hasselborg rink in the final, also taking home $20,000.[2] It was Sweeting's third career Slam title.

Men

Tier 1

Teams

Round-robin standings

Playoffs

Quarterfinals

Saturday, Sept 9, 3:30pm [4]

Semifinals

Saturday, Sept 9, 8:00pm[5]

Final

Sunday, Sept 10, 10:30am

Tier 2

Round-robin standings

Playoffs

Women

Tier 1

Teams

Round-robin standings

Tiebreaker

Playoffs

Quarterfinals

Saturday, Sept 9, 11:30am [6]

Semifinals

Saturday, Sept. 9, 8:00pm[7]

Final

Sunday, Sept 10, 2:30pm

Tier 2

Round-robin standings

Tiebreakers

Playoffs

Notes

  1. ^ Muirhead replaced Richard Hart.
  2. ^ Schneider replaced Rick Sawatsky, who was injured.[3]
  3. ^ Holland replaced Penny Barker.

References

  1. ^ "Gushue wins 8th GSOC title at Tour Challenge". www.thegrandslamofcurling.com. Archived from the original on 2017-09-12.
  2. ^ "Sweeting steals to retain Tour Challenge title". www.thegrandslamofcurling.com. Archived from the original on 2017-09-12.
  3. ^ "Morris in Regina Tour Challenge". September 2017.
  4. ^ CurlingZone
  5. ^ CurlingZone
  6. ^ CurlingZone
  7. ^ CurlingZone

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