2018–19 Curling World Cup – Second Leg Explained

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Above:	2018–19 Curling World Cup Second Leg
Label1:	Host city
Data1:	Omaha, United States
Label2:	Arena
Data2:	Ralston Arena
Label3:	Dates
Data3:	December 5–9, 2018
Label4:	Women's winner
Label5:	Curling club
Label6:	Skip
Data6:	Satsuki Fujisawa
Label7:	Third
Data7:	Chinami Yoshida
Label8:	Second
Data8:	Yumi Suzuki
Label9:	Lead
Data9:	Yurika Yoshida
Label10:	Alternate
Data10:	Mari Motohashi
Label11:	Coach
Data11:	J. D. Lind
Label12:	Finalist
Data12:	(Kim)
Label13:	Men's winner
Label14:	Curling club
Label15:	Skip
Data15:	John Shuster
Label16:	Third
Data16:	Chris Plys
Label17:	Second
Data17:	Matt Hamilton
Label18:	Lead
Data18:	John Landsteiner
Label19:	Alternate
Label20:	Coach
Data20:	Don Bartlett
Label21:	Finalist
Data21:	(Edin)
Label22:	Mixed doubles winner
Label23:	Curling club
Label24:	Female
Data24:	Kristin Skaslien
Label25:	Male
Data25:	Magnus Nedregotten
Label26:	Coach
Data26:	Thomas Leovold
Label27:	Finalist
Data27:	(Perret/Rios)
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The Second Leg of the 2018–19 Curling World Cup took place from December 5 to 9, 2018 at the Ralston Arena in Omaha, United States.^[1] Satsuki Fujisawa and her rink won the women's competition. John Shuster and his rink won the men's competition. Kristin Skaslien and Magnus Nedregotten won the mixed doubles competition.

Format

Curling World Cup matches have eight ends, rather than the standard ten ends. Ties after eight ends will be decided by a shoot-out, with each team throwing a stone and the one closest to the button winning. A win in eight or fewer ends will earn a team 3 points, a shoot-out win 2 points, a shoot-out less 1 point, and 0 points for a loss in eight or fewer ends.^[2]

Each event will have eight teams in the men's, women's, and mixed doubles tournament. The teams will be split into two groups of four, based on the Curling World Cup rankings, whereby the 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 7th, ranked teams will be in one group and the 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 8th ranked teams in the other. The first place teams in each group will play against each other in the final. In the event of a tie for first place, a shoot-out will be used, with the same format used to decide matches tied after eight ends.^[2]

Qualification

For the first three legs of the Curling World Cup, the eight spots in the tournament are allocated to each of the hosting member associations, the highest-ranked member association in each zone (the Americas, European, and Pacific-Asia), and two teams chosen by the World Curling Federation. Member associations may choose to send the same teams to all three legs or have different teams.^[3]

The following countries qualified for each discipline:^[3]

Qualification method	Women	Men	Mixed doubles
Hosting member association


Highest-ranked member association in the Americas zone
Highest-ranked member association in the European zone
Highest-ranked member association in the Pacific-Asia zone
Selected by World Curling Federation

Women

Teams

Canada	China	Japan	Russian Federation
Skip: Tracy Fleury Third: Selena Njegovan Second: Liz Fyfe Lead: Kristin MacCuish	Skip: Yang Ying Third: He Ying Second: Meng Xu Lead: Sun Chengyu	Skip: Satsuki Fujisawa Third: Chinami Yoshida Second: Yumi Suzuki Lead: Yurika Yoshida	Skip: Alina Kovaleva Third: Anastasia Bryzgalova Second: Uliana Vasilyeva Lead: Ekaterina Kuzmina
	Korea, Republic of	Sweden	United States
Skip: Eve Muirhead Third: Jennifer Dodds Second: Victoria Chalmers Lead: Lauren Gray	Skip: Kim Min-ji Third: Kim Hye-rin Second: Yang Tae-i Lead: Kim Su-jin	Skip: Anna Hasselborg Third: Sara McManus Second: Agnes Knochenhauer Lead: Sofia Mabergs	Skip: Jamie Sinclair Third: Sarah Anderson Second: Taylor Anderson Lead: Monica Walker

^[4]

Round-robin standings

Group A
width=125	Country !	width=125	Skip !	width=40	W !	width=40	!	width=40	!	width=40	L !	width=40	Pts
		4	0	0	2	12
		4	0	0	2	12
		2	0	0	4	6
		2	0	0	4	6

Group B
width=125	Country !	width=125	Skip !	width=40	W !	width=40	!	width=40	!	width=40	L !	width=40	Pts
		5	0	0	1	15
		4	0	0	2	12
		3	0	0	3	9
		0	0	0	6	0

Round-robin results

Draw 1

Wednesday, December 5, 15:00

Draw 4

Thursday, December 6, 08:30

Draw 5

Thursday, December 6, 12:00

Draw 6

Thursday, December 6, 16:00

Draw 7

Thursday, December 6, 19:30

Draw 8

Friday, December 7, 08:30

Draw 9

Friday, December 7, 12:00

Draw 10

Friday, December 7, 16:00

Draw 11

Friday, December 7, 19:30

Draw 12

Saturday, December 8, 08:30

Draw 13

Saturday, December 8, 12:30

Draw 15

Saturday, December 8, 19:30

Final

Sunday, December 9, 12:00