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2008 Continental Cup of Curling

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2008 Continental Cup of Curling
Host cityCamrose, Alberta
ArenaEnCana Arena
DatesDecember 18–21
WinnerTeam World
Score Breakdown
Discipline NA World
Women's Team Round 1 3 15
Mixed Doubles Round 1 3 15
Men's Team Round 1 12 6
Women's Team Round 2 0 18
Mixed Doubles Round 2 6 12
Men's Team Round 2 12 6
Singles 10 22
Women's Skins 43 62
Men's Skins 78 27
Mixed Skins 29 21
Total 192 208
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The 2008 Continental Cup of Curling was the 6th edition of this event and was held from December 18–21, 2008 at the EnCana Arena in Camrose, Alberta. It was the first edition of the Continental Cup in which teams outside of North America and Europe competed, due to the outstanding performance of the Chinese teams in the previous year's men's and women's world championships. To reflect the expanded participation, the team opposing North America was renamed from "Team Europe" to "Team World". The World Curling Federation named the six rinks representing Team World. The Canada Cup of Curling, Tournament of Hearts and Brier winners automatically qualify as the Canadian rinks in Team North America, while the American contingent in Team North America are represented by their men's and women's champions. The event was won by Team World by a score of 208-192, with the winning points scored in the fourth end in the men's featured skins game.

The prize purse was $88,400 (CAD);[1] each member of the winning team received $2000, while each member of the losing team received $1400.

The Continental Divide, the entertainment centre, was located at the adjacent Border Paving Arena.

The ice technician is Tim Yeo.

Scoring

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Each match is worth a different number of points, with a total of 400 available in the event.

Broadcast

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TSN televised every draw of the Continental Cup, with the men's team games and the women's feature skins games on tape-delay (while broadcast live on TSN2) and the remainder of the draws live.

Teams

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Team North America was coached by Canada Jim Waite and captained by Canada Russ Howard. Team World was coached by Sweden Peja Lindholm and captained by Norway Pål Trulsen.

Team Country Home Skip Third Second Lead
North America  United States Madison, Wisconsin Craig Brown Rich Ruohonen John Dunlop Peter Annis
North America  Canada Winnipeg, Manitoba Jennifer Jones Cathy Overton-Clapham Jill Officer Dawn Askin
North America  Canada Edmonton, Alberta Kevin Koe* Blake MacDonald Carter Rycroft Nolan Thiessen
North America  Canada Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Stefanie Lawton Marliese Kasner Teejay Surik Lana Vey
North America  Canada Edmonton, Alberta Kevin Martin John Morris Marc Kennedy Ben Hebert
North America  United States Madison, Wisconsin Debbie McCormick Allison Pottinger Nicole Joraanstad Tracy Sachtjen
World  Scotland/ Sweden Lockerbie David Murdoch Ewan MacDonald Niklas Edin Euan Byers
World  Sweden Härnösand Anette Norberg Kajsa Bergström Cathrine Lindahl Anna Svärd
World  Switzerland Davos Mirjam Ott Carmen Schäfer Valeria Spälty Janine Greiner
World  China Harbin Wang Bingyu Liu Yin Yue Qingshuang Zhou Yan
World  China Harbin Wang Fengchun Liu Rui Xu Xiaoming Zang Jialiang
World  Norway Oslo Thomas Ulsrud Torger Nergård Christoffer Svae Håvard Vad Petersson

* Throws third rocks

Results

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Women's team

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Draw 1 (December 18)

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Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (Wang) (has hammer) 0 1 0 1 0 3 1 2 8 6
North America (Lawton) 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 3 0
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (Norberg) (has hammer) 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 3
North America (Jones) 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 4 3
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (Ott) 3 2 0 4 0 1 0 X 10 6
North America (McCormick) (has hammer) 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 X 3 0

Draw 4 (December 19)

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Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (Wang) 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 5 6
North America (Jones) (has hammer) 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 4 0
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (Norberg) (has hammer) 0 2 0 1 2 0 0 0 5 6
North America (McCormick) 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (Ott) 0 2 0 2 0 3 1 0 8 6
North America (Lawton) (has hammer) 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 5 0

Men's team

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Draw 3 (December 18)

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Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (Ulsrud) (has hammer) 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 6 6
North America (Koe) 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 4 0
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (Wang) (has hammer) 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 X 1 0
North America (Martin) 2 2 0 3 1 1 1 X 10 6
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (Murdoch) 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 4 0
North America (Brown) (has hammer) 0 0 2 1 0 3 0 0 6 6

Draw 6 (December 19)

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Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (Murdoch) (has hammer) 4 0 5 0 0 X X X 9 6
North America (Koe) 0 2 0 0 2 X X X 4 0
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (Ulsrud) (has hammer) 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 3 0
North America (Martin) 0 2 1 1 0 2 0 1 7 6
Sheet X 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (Wang) (has hammer) 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 3 0
North America (Brown) 0 1 0 2 0 0 2 1 6 6

Mixed doubles

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Draw 2 (December 18)

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Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (Nergård/Norberg) (has hammer) 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 7 6
North America (Brown/Pottinger) 0 0 3 0 2 0 0 0 5 0
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (Lindahl/Ulsrud) (has hammer) 0 1 0 3 0 1 1 1 7 3
North America (Jones/Kennedy) 5 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 7 3
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (MacDonald/Ott) 1 0 5 0 3 2 0 1 12 6
North America (Koe/Overton-Clapham)(has hammer) 0 2 0 1 0 0 3 0 6 0

Draw 5 (December 19)

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Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (Murdoch/Schafer) (has hammer) 3 0 3 0 3 2 2 X 13 6
North America (McCormick/Ruohonen) 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 X 2 0
Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (Wang F./Liu Y.) (has hammer) 2 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 8 6
North America (Lawton/Rycroft) 0 2 0 3 0 1 0 1 7 0
Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final Points
World (Wang B./Liu R.) (has hammer) 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 0 5 0
North America (Kasner/Morris) 2 0 4 0 1 0 2 3 12 6

Singles

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Team World wins the eight points for the greater aggregate score for singles play, 96-93.

Draw 8 - December 20

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Sheet A Runthrough Button Port Raise Hit-and-Roll Double Total Points
World (Wang) 0 4 5 3 5 3 20 4
North America (Koe) 0 5 5 4 1 0 15 0
Sheet B Runthrough Button Port Raise Hit-and-Roll Double Total Points
World (Murdoch) 0 5 3 2 1 5 16 0
North America (Martin) 0 5 5 3 1 5 19 4
Sheet C Runthrough Button Port Raise Hit-and-Roll Double Total Points
World (Ulsrud) 0 4 5 5 4 0 18 4
North America (Brown) 0 5 4 5 3 0 17 0
Sheet A Runthrough Button Port Raise Hit-and-Roll Double Total Points
World (Ott) 1 3 2 4 1 0 11 2
North America (McCormick) 0 5 2 2 2 2 11 2
Sheet B Runthrough Button Port Raise Hit-and-Roll Double Total Points
World (Wang) 5 3 5 2 3 0 18 4
North America (Jones) 0 5 4 5 1 1 16 0
Sheet C Runthrough Button Port Raise Hit-and-Roll Double Total Points
World (Norberg) 0 5 4 1 1 1 12 0
North America (Lawton) 0 5 5 1 4 0 15 4

Women's Skins

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Draw 7 contains the 20-point game, Draw 9 is the 30-point game, and Draw 10 is the feature game.

Draw 7 - December 20

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Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Points
World (Wang) (has hammer) 0 0 X 10
North America (McCormick) 0 X X X X 10

Draw 9 - December 20

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Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Points
World (Ott) (has hammer) 0 X 0 0 X 11
North America (Lawton) 0 0 X 19

Draw 10 - December 21

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Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Points
World (Norberg) 0 X 0 X X 41
North America (Jones) (has hammer) X X X 14

Men's Skins

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Draw 7 is the 20-point game, Draw 9 is the 30-point game, and Draw 10 is the feature game.

Draw 7 - December 20

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Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Points
World (Wang) X X X X 10
North America (Brown) (has hammer) 0 0 0 X 10

Draw 9 - December 20

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Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Points
World (Murdoch) (has hammer) X X 0 0 2
North America (Koe) 0 X X X 28

Draw 10 - December 21

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Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Points
World (Ulsrud) (has hammer) X X 0 15
North America (Martin) X 0 X X X 40

Mixed Skins

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Draw 7 is the 20-point game, while Draw 9 is the 30-point game.

Draw 7 - December 20

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Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Points
World (Murdoch/Schafer/Svae/Svard) X 0 X 0 5
North America (Morris/Kasner/MacDonald/Vey) (has hammer) X 0 X X 15

Draw 9 - December 20

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Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Points
World (Ulsrud/Norberg/Wang B./Wang F.) (has hammer) X X X 16
North America (Martin/Jones/Kennedy/Askin) X 0 0 X X 14

Sources

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  1. ^ "World and Olympic champions headline 2008 Continental Cup". Canadian Curling Association. 2008-07-09. Archived from the original on 14 July 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-15.

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