The 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Canada's national women's curling championship, was held from January 27âÂÂFebruary 4, 2018 at the South Okanagan Events Centre in Penticton, British Columbia. The winning team represented Canada at the 2018 Ford World Women's Curling Championship held from March 17âÂÂ25 at the Memorial Gardens in North Bay, Ontario.
The 2018 tournament was the first to use a new 16-team format, featuring representation by all fourteen member associations of Curling Canada, the second-place team from the 2017 tournament (as champion Rachel Homan declined to participate due to her qualification for the 2018 Winter Olympics), and a new wildcard team. As part of this new format, the Bronze medal game was removed from the schedule.
Curling Canada introduced a new 16-team format for both the Tournament of Hearts and Brier for 2018, under which all 14 member associations of Curling Canada were represented in the main field, rather than being limited by a pre-qualifying tournament. The teams were divided into two pools for round robin play, after which the top four teams from each advanced to the Championship Pool. Defending champion Rachel Homan declined to participate as Team Canada in order to prepare for the 2018 Winter Olympics; Michelle Englot's team, who finished as runner-up in the 2017 tournament, participated in her place. The final spot in the tournament was filled by a wildcard play-in game held on the Friday before the tournament.
The rinks of Hollie Duncan (Ontario), ÃÂmilia Gagné (Quebec), and Casey Scheidegger (Alberta) made their Scotties debut; although members of Team Ontario had previous experience at the national women's championship, mostly as alternates. Scotties veteran skip Sherry Anderson (Saskatchewan) led a team of Tournament of Hearts rookies.
The teams are listed as follows:
A wildcard play-in game was played on January 26; it was contested between the top two teams on the CTRS standings who did not win their respective provincial championships, and was played between The Glencoe Club's Chelsea Carey rink from Calgary and the East St. Paul Curling Club's Kerri Einarson rink from the Winnipeg exurb of East St. Paul. With Einarson's victory, Manitoba was represented by three different teams in the tournament.
Friday, January 26, 18:30
Final Round Robin Standings
All draw times are listed in Pacific Standard Time ().
Saturday, January 27, 14:00
Saturday, January 27, 19:00
Sunday, January 28, 09:00
Sunday, January 28, 14:00
Sunday, January 28, 19:00
Monday, January 29, 09:00
Monday, January 29, 14:00
Monday, January 29, 19:00
Tuesday, January 30, 09:00
Tuesday, January 30, 14:00
Tuesday, January 30, 19:00
Wednesday, January 31, 09:00
Wednesday, January 31, 14:00
Wednesday, January 31, 19:00
Thursday, February 1, 09:00
Each team that finished fifth through eight in their pool played the team that finished in the same position in the opposite pool for the purpose of determining final tournament ranking. For example, the winner of the game between fifth place teams was ranked ninth place overall, the loser of that game was ranked tenth place, and so on.
All game times are listed in Pacific Standard Time ().
Friday, February 02, 09:00
Friday, February 02, 09:00
Friday, February 02, 09:00
Friday, February 02, 09:00
All wins and losses earned in the round robin (including results against teams that failed to advance) were carried forward into the Championship Pool. Wins in tiebreaker games were not carried forward.
Final Championship Pool Standings
All draw times are listed in Pacific Standard Time ().
Thursday, February 01, 14:00
Thursday, February 01, 19:00
Friday, February 02, 14:00
Friday, February 02, 19:00
Saturday, February 03, 19:00
Saturday, February 03, 14:00
Sunday, February 04, 09:00
Sunday, February 04, 16:00
Final Round Robin Percentages; minimum 6 games
The awards and all-star teams were as follows:
First Team
Second Team