2011 Safeway Championship

The 2011 Safeway Championship, Manitoba men's provincial curling championship was held February 9 to 13 at the Sun Gro Centre in Beausejour. The winning Jeff Stoughton rink represented Manitoba at the 2011 Tim Hortons Brier in London, Ontario where they captured the Brier tankard. As of 2024, this is the last time that a Manitoba provincial champion won a Brier.

Teams

Thirty-two teams qualify for the men's provincial championship in Manitoba. Berths 1Ã¢ÂÂ14 represent the rural zones, berths 15Ã¢ÂÂ21 represent the Winnipeg zones. There are two separate bonspiels played earlier in the year representing the north and south called the Northern and Southern Bonspiels; these represent berths 22 and 23. Berth 24 is the winner of the Brandon Bonspiel played around the same time of fall as the Northern and Southern floating bonspiels. Number 25 is the prior Manitoba Champion assuming the team meets the requirements to represent themselves. The same goes for berths 26 and 27, which are the Manitoba Curling Tour champion and top Manitoba team on the Canadian Team Ranking System respectively, number 27 must be declared by November 1, 2010. Numbers 28Ã¢ÂÂ32 are qualifiers from the MCA Bonspiel, also subject to subset rules and requirements.

Once all 32 teams have been qualified, they will be seeded respectively and slotted into the draw format of 1 vs 32, 2 vs 31, and so on.

Knockout Brackets

32 team double knockout with playoff round<br /> Four teams qualify each from A Event and B Event

A Event

B Event

Knockout Results

All draw times are listed in Central Standard Time ().

Draw 1

Wednesday, February 9, 8:30 am

Draw 2

Wednesday, February 9, 12:15 pm

Draw 3

Wednesday, February 9, 4:00 pm

Draw 4

Wednesday, February 9, 8:15 pm

Draw 5

Thursday, February 10, 8:30 am

Draw 6

Thursday, February 10, 12:15 pm

Draw 7

Thursday, February 10, 4:00 pm

Draw 8

Thursday, February 10, 7:45 pm

Draw 9

Friday, February 11, 8:30 am

Draw 10

Friday, February 11, 12:15 pm

Draw 11

Friday, February 11, 4:00 pm

Playoff Brackets

8 team double knockout<br /> Four teams qualify into Championship Round

A event

B event

Playoff Results

Draw 12

Friday, February 11, 7:45 pm

Draw 13

Saturday, February 12, 8:30 am

Draw 14

Saturday, February 12, 1:30 pm

Championship Round

1 vs. 2

Saturday, February 12, 6:30 pm

3 vs. 4