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2025 Tour Challenge

The 2025 Co-op Tour Challenge was held from October 14 to 19 with the Tier 1 event taking place at the Silent Ice Arena in Nisku, Alberta, and the U25 event taking place at the Beaumont Curling Club in Beaumont, Alberta. It was the second Grand Slam event of the 2025–26 curling season. This season, Grand Slam of Curling decided to host both a U25 Jr. GSOC Tour Challenge men's and women's event, instead of a Tier 2 event as in previous seasons, to showcase the future of the sport and support the transition of teams from juniors to men's/women's play. The finals of the U25 event were also held at the Silent Ice Arena simultaneously with the men's and women's finals of the Tier 1 event.

Qualification

For the Tier 1 event, the top 16 ranked men's and women's teams on the World Curling Federation's world team rankings as of September 15, 2025, qualified for the event. In the event that a team declines their invitation, the next-ranked team on the world team ranking is invited until the field is complete. However, for this year's Tour Challenge, the last remaining spot in the men's event was filled by a sponsor's exemption which was chosen by the Grand Slam of Curling. For the U25 event, teams were also selected by the Grand Slam of Curling.

Men

Tier 1

Top world team ranking men's teams:

  1. Bruce Mouat
  2. Yannick Schwaller
  3. <s>Brad Jacobs</s>
  4. Matt Dunstone
  5. Ross Whyte
  6. Mike McEwen
  7. Marco Hösli
  8. Marc Muskatewitz
  9. John Epping
  10. Brad Gushue
  11. Korey Dropkin
  12. Joël Retornaz
  13. Niklas Edin
  14. Rylan Kleiter
  15. <s>Xu Xiaoming</s>
  16. <s>Magnus Ramsfjell</s>
  17. Reid Carruthers
  18. <s>John Shuster</s>
  19. Kyle Waddell

Sponsor's Exemption:

U25

Teams selected to compete were as follows:

Women

Tier 1

Top world team ranking women's teams:

  1. Rachel Homan
  2. Silvana Tirinzoni
  3. Kerri Einarson
  4. Anna Hasselborg
  5. Kim Eun-jung
  6. Gim Eun-ji
  7. Satsuki Fujisawa
  8. Sayaka Yoshimura
  9. Ha Seung-youn
  10. Xenia Schwaller
  11. Momoha Tabata
  12. Isabella Wranå
  13. <s>Wang Rui</s>
  14. Kayla Skrlik
  15. Christina Black
  16. Kaitlyn Lawes
  17. Stefania Constantini

U25

Teams selected to compete were as follows:

Format

The format remained the same as the first Grand Slam event of the season, the Masters, where teams were put into four pots based on their rankings, with teams then drafted into four pools of four teams. Each team plays the three other teams in their pool, with the Tier 1 teams also playing a cross over game. Crossover games were pre-determined based on the world rankings as of Sept. 29. Teams ranked No. 1–4 will play their crossover game against teams ranked No. 9–12 in the opposite pool. Teams ranked No. 5–8 will play their crossover game against teams ranked No. 13–16 in the opposite pool.

  • Thinking time has been tightened to 30 minutes per team per game
  • Games tied after eight ends go to a draw-to-the-button shootout rather than extra ends.
  • Games will be worth three points in the standings, with three points being awarded to "regulation wins", two points for a shootout win, and one point for a shootout loss.
  • For Tier 1 Games, teams are allowed to blank only one end per game. If a team blanks a second time at any point of the game, they will lose the hammer for the following end. This rule was set in order to "discourage teams from blanking multiple ends...and generate offence".

Following pool play, for Tier 1, the top 8 teams with the most points overall qualify for the playoffs. In the U25 event, the top two teams with the most points in each pool advance to the playoffs. If two teams are tied for a playoff spot in points, placement will be decided by head-to-head results.

Men

Tier 1

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:

Round robin standings

Final Round Robin Standings

Round robin results

All draw times are listed in Mountain Time ().

Draw 1

Tuesday, October 14, 8:00 am

Draw 2

Tuesday, October 14, 11:30 am

Draw 3

Tuesday, October 14, 3:00 pm

Draw 4

Tuesday, October 14, 6:30 pm

Draw 5

Wednesday, October 15, 8:30 am

Draw 6

Wednesday, October 15, 12:00 pm

Draw 7

Wednesday, October 15, 4:00 pm

Draw 8

Wednesday, October 15, 8:00 pm

Draw 9

Thursday, October 16, 8:30 am

Draw 10

Thursday, October 16, 12:00 pm

Draw 11

Thursday, October 16, 4:00 pm

Draw 12

Thursday, October 16, 8:00 pm

Draw 13

Friday, October 17, 8:30 am

Draw 14

Friday, October 17, 12:00 pm

Draw 15

Friday, October 17, 4:00 pm

Draw 16

Friday, October 17, 8:00 pm

Tiebreakers

Saturday, October 18, 8:30 am

Playoffs

Quarterfinals

Saturday, October 18, 4:00 pm

Semifinals

Saturday, October 18, 8:00 pm

Final

Sunday, October 19, 2:30 pm

Player percentages

Final Round Robin Percentages

U25 Jr. GSOC Tour Challenge

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:

Round robin standings

Final Round Robin Standings

Round robin results

All draw times are listed in Mountain Time ().

Draw 1

Thursday, October 16, 8:00 am

Draw 2

Thursday, October 16, 12:00 pm

Draw 3

Thursday, October 16, 4:00 pm

Draw 4

Thursday, October 16, 8:00 pm

Draw 5

Friday, October 17, 8:00 am

Draw 6

Friday, October 17, 12:00 pm

Draw 8

Friday, October 17, 8:00 pm

Draw 9

Saturday, October 18, 8:00 am

Playoffs

Quarterfinals

Saturday, October 18, 4:00 pm

Saturday, October 18, 8:00 pm

Semifinals

Sunday, October 19, 8:00 am

Final

Sunday, October 19, 2:30 pm

Women

Tier 1

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:

Round robin standings

Final Round Robin Standings

Round robin results

All draw times are listed in Mountain Time ().

Draw 1

Tuesday, October 14, 8:00 am

Draw 2

Tuesday, October 14, 11:30 am

Draw 3

Tuesday, October 14, 3:00 pm

Draw 4

Tuesday, October 14, 6:30 pm

Draw 5

Wednesday, October 15, 8:30 am

Draw 6

Wednesday, October 15, 12:00 pm

Draw 7

Wednesday, October 15, 4:00 pm

Draw 8

Wednesday, October 15, 8:00 pm

Draw 9

Thursday, October 16, 8:30 am

Draw 10

Thursday, October 16, 12:00 pm

Draw 11

Thursday, October 16, 4:00 pm

Draw 12

Thursday, October 16, 8:00 pm

Draw 13

Friday, October 17, 8:30 am

Draw 14

Friday, October 17, 12:00 pm

Draw 15

Friday, October 17, 4:00 pm

Draw 16

Friday, October 17, 8:00 pm

Tiebreakers

Saturday, October 18, 8:30 am

Playoffs

Quarterfinals

Saturday, October 18, 12:00 pm

Semifinals

Saturday, October 18, 8:00 pm

Final

Sunday, October 19, 10:00 am

Player percentages

Final Round Robin Percentages

U25 Jr. GSOC Tour Challenge

Teams

The teams are listed as follows:

Round robin standings

Final Round Robin Standings

Round robin results

All draw times are listed in Mountain Time ().

Draw 2

Thursday, October 16, 12:00 pm

Draw 3

Thursday, October 16, 4:00 pm

Draw 4

Thursday, October 16, 8:00 pm

Draw 5

Friday, October 17, 8:00 am

Draw 6

Friday, October 17, 12:00 pm

Draw 7

Friday, October 17, 4:00 pm

Draw 8

Friday, October 17, 8:00 pm

Playoffs

Quarterfinals

Saturday, October 18, 12:00 pm

Semifinals

Saturday, October 18, 8:00 pm

Final

Sunday, October 19, 10:00 am

Notes

References

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