We now know who Team Canada will play at the 2020 World Women’s Curling Championship in Prince George.
The tournament, scheduled for Mar. 14-22 at the CN Centre, includes the following 13 countries:
- Canada (Host)
- Switzerland (Defending champions)
- China
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Germany
- Russia
- Scotland
- Sweden
- United States
- Italy (Last one in)
- South Korea (Last one in)
Canada's team will be the winner of the Scotties Tournament of Hearts on Feb. 23.
Here is Team Canada's full schedule for pool play:
- Saturday, March 14 vs. Scotland = 7 p.m. - Draw 2
- Monday, March 16 vs. Russia = 2 p.m. - Draw 7
- Monday, March 16 vs. China = 7 p.m. - Draw 8
- Tuesday, March 17 vs. USA = 2 p.m. - Draw 10
- Tuesday, March 17 vs. Italy = 7 p.m. - Draw 11
- Wednesday, March 18 vs. Germany = 2 p.m. - Draw 13
- Thursday, March 19 vs. Sweden = 2 p.m. - Draw 16
- Friday, March 20 vs. Denmark = 9 a.m. - Draw 18
- Friday, March 20 vs. Switzerland = 7 p.m. - Draw 20
Glen Mikkelsen, CN Centre Manager and Vice-Chair for the championships, says there will be lots of volunteers to help make the tournament as successful as it can be.
“We’re super-pleased that we have our full contingent of almost 400 volunteers and we’ve got people coming from all over the country,” he said following the official line-up announcement on Jan. 21.
“We’ve got people coming from Ontario to volunteer for us, we’ve got people coming from all over Alberta, throughout British Columbia; they’ve committed the time and expense to come to Prince George to be involved with the event.”
They've even had a ticket-buyer from Switzerland contact the box office to come to the tournament.
“We were taking an inquiry from a ticket buyer who was over in Switzerland and worked with our box office. It took about an hour-and-a-half to get everything sorted out as far as communicating and getting things figured out, but sure enough, already we’re having people buying tickets from around the globe to come here in two months.”
New tickets were also announced today (Jan. 28) and include the following:
- $19.50 – Friday morning (Canada vs. Denmark)
- $35.00 – Friday evening (Canada vs. Switzerland), playoff qualification, semifinals and bronze-medal games
- $45.00 – Gold-medal game
All remaining tickets will go on sale this Thursday (Jan. 30) at 10 a.m.
Youth tickets (ages 18 and under) are available for just $15 (fees and taxes included).
If you want to catch more of the tournament, you can purchase an Opening Day Special package for $45, a Sunday-through-Thursday package for $59, Opening Weekend packages for $99 and the Championship Weekend package for $199.
You can grab your tickets at the CN Centre box office, curling.ca/tickets or 1-888-293-6613.
- with files from Kyle Balzer, PrinceGeorgeMatters
