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Curling Canada (formerly the Canadian Curling Association (CCA)) is a sanctioning body for the sport of curling in Canada. It is associated with more than a dozen provincial and territorial curling associations across the country, and organizes Canada's national championships in the sport.
The Women's Canadian national curling team have also achieved historic success, amassing 18 gold medals and 37 total medals in World Curling Championships, making them the most decorated in women's curling. [11] [9] The team has earned two Olympic gold medals, placing them second in the overall rankings, just behind Sweden with three gold medals.
A standard round-robin tournament is used, in which all teams play each other once. Because the number of total games increases quadratically with respect to the number of teams, scheduling too many teams will result in an unwieldy number of games, particularly when there are a limited number of playing surfaces (championship curling arenas usually only have four or five sheets).
The playing surface or curling sheet is defined by the World Curling Federation Rules of Curling. [31] It is a rectangular area of ice, carefully prepared to be as flat and level as possible, 146 to 150 feet (45 to 46 m) in length by 14.5 to 16.5 feet (4.4 to 5.0 m) in width. The shorter borders of the sheet are called the backboards.
The Canadian Curling Club Championships (branded as the Everest Curling Club Championships for sponsorship reasons) is an annual curling tournament held in Canada. The tournament features the top "club level" curlers from every province and territory in Canada, plus Northern Ontario. The first event was held in 2009.
It is the biggest comeback at a national championship since the 1970 Canadian Ladies Curling Association Championship. [9] Team Ontario–Homan second Emma Miskew recorded her one hundredth win at the Scotties following the team's 7–5 victory over Manitoba's Jennifer Jones in Draw 12. [10]
The Canadian Team Ranking System (CTRS) is a point system used by Curling Canada to rank men's and women's curling teams across Canada.They are determined through points earned in various curling bonspiels held worldwide throughout the season.
Conceived as a joint collaboration between Curling Canada, World Curling Federation, and United States Curling Association, it has been operated solely by Curling Canada since 2015. [2] As of 2020, Team North America/Team Canada has won the Continental Cup ten times. Team World/Europe has won the Cup six times.