Brandon to host curling’s 2016 Canada Cup
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The top curlers in Canada are set to convene on Brandon next year, as one of the nation’s most high-stakes curling events comes to Manitoba for the first time.
On Wednesday, Curling Canada announced that the 2016 Canada Cup will roar into Brandon on Nov. 30 to Dec. 4 of next year, sliding into the Westman Communications Group Place at Keystone Centre.
It will be the 13th edition of the annual tournament, and there will be $140,000 cash on the line, split between the men’s and women’s competition. More importantly, the winning teams will get a pass to the 2017 Roar of the Rings Olympic curling trials in Ottawa. The winners will also get a berth in the 2017 Continental Cup.
Those stakes mean that Brandonites can count on seeing virtually all of the country’s elite teams at work. This year, the Canada Cup is set for Grande Prairie, Alta., also the site of the 2015-16 Scotties Tournament of Hearts.
Brandon has hosted many top-flight curling events, including two Briers, two Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the 1989 Canadian mixed championship and the ‘95 men’s and women’s worlds. In 1997, it hosted the first Olympic curling trials.
