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THE USA’s Todd Birr (right) thrashed Brazil’s Celso Kossaka three games to none this weekend to secure the Americans their berth in April’s World Men’s Curling Championship in Moncton.
The Americans usually get that berth automatically, but for the first time ever they were challenged for it this year by a team that is nominally from Brazil, but is actually made up of university students from Quebec.
It proved to be not much of a challenge for the Americans. They beat the Brazilians in a best-of-five series by scores of 13-2, 13-2 and 11-5.
U.S. Trials offer face space on buttons
The Americans are attempting to do with this month’s U.S. Curling Trials what Canada did long ago — turn the competition that determines their Olympic curling representatives into a major event.
The Americans are sticking their Trials in a mid-sized venue in a major city — Denver. And now they’re trying to drum up some publicity for the event with the announcement that they are auctioning off some of the buttons at the event to the highest bidder on EBay.
The winning bidders will have a photo of themselves painted right on to the button, where it will stay for the duration of the event, which wraps up Feb. 28 with the men’s and women’s finals. The winners will also get 20 tickets to the finals.
Minimum bids are $1,150.