2021 Brier Curling Pool Entry Form

March 5 to 14, 2021 (Friday to Sunday)

Entry Deadline: 7:30 PM Our Time, Friday, March 5 (start of Round Robin play)

Name:       Phone No.:          
Email Address:       Entry Fee: $5.00      
(email address where you would like to receive updates)          
                   
GAME DRAW DATE & TIME (Mostly CST) TEAM 1 TEAM 2 WINNER  RANK POINTS   AVAILABLE POINTS  
1 1 Fri. 7:30 PM Quebec Nfld. and Lab.       1  
2   (March 5) Ontario Canada       2  
3 2 Sat. 9:30 AM Alberta Manitoba       3  
4 3 2:30 PM Saskatchewan Ontario       4  
5 4 7:30 PM Wild Card 1 Northern Ontario       5  
6   (March 6) New Brunswick British Columbia       6  
7 5 Sun. 9:30 AM Nunavut Quebec       7  
8 6 2:30 PM Wild Card 1 British Columbia       8  
9 7 7:30 PM Canada Wild Card 2       9  
10 8 Mon. 2:30 PM Manitoba Wild Card 1       10  
11 9 7:30 PM Nova Scotia Quebec       11  
12   (March 8) Prince Edward Is. Nfld. and Lab.       12  
13 11 Tues. 2:30 PM Nunavut Prince Edward Is.       13  
14     Nova Scotia Canada       14  
15 12 7:30 PM Northern Ontario Alberta       15  
16   (March 9) Wild Card 3 British Columbia       16  
17     Yukon Northwest Terr.       17  
18 13 Wed. 9:30 AM Saskatchewan Wild Card 2       18  
19 (March 10) Nfld. and Lab. Nunavut       19  
20 14 2:30 PM New Brunswick Wild Card 3       20  
21   Wild Card 1 Alberta       21  
22 15 7:30 PM Wild Card 2 Ontario       22  
23 16 Thu. 9:30 AM Manitoba British Columbia       23  
24 17 2:30 PM Saskatchewan Nova Scotia       24  
25 18 7:30 PM Manitoba Wild Card 3       25  
26   (March 11) Northwest Terr. New Brunswick       26  
RANK POOL A TOP 4 POOL A RANKING TEAM RANK POINTS   27  
1   Pick the 4 teams you think will top the   1st Place:       28  
2   standings in Pool A, qualifying for the   2nd Place:       29  
3   Championship round. Your teams must   3rd Place:       30  
4   qualify for you to score points!   4th Place:       31  
RANK POOL B TOP 4 POOL B RANKING TEAM RANK POINTS   32  
1   Pick the 4 teams you think will top the   1st Place:       33  
2   standings in Pool B, qualifying for the   2nd Place:       34  
3   Championship round. Your teams must   3rd Place:       40  
4   qualify for you to score points!   4th Place:       45  
GAME DRAW TIME (CDT) TEAM 1 TEAM 2 WINNER  POINTS      
27 Semifinal Sun. 1:30 CDT              
28 FINAL 7:30 PM CDT              
(no Monday morning draw; and no games from Tuesday morning Draw 10 on the pool.)        
Note: no "play-in" games this year, the 3 Wild Card teams all play in the full tournament! 18 teams in all!      
Another difference, there's no Page playoff games! Just a Semifinal and a Final!        
And same as last year, a Championship Round, where we have to pick the top 4 finishers in Pool A and Pool B.  
(Full instructions au verso)              
                   
INSTRUCTIONS: Select the winner for every round robin game by putting each winning team name in the "WINNER" column.
Select the 8 teams you think will advance to the Championship round. These are the top 4 teams in the A and B pools  
after the initial round robins (DRAWS 1 to 18). Your selected teams must qualify for this round for you to score points!  
Pick the teams you think you will play in the Semifinal and Final games, and choose the winners.      
No Page Playoffs this year! Just a Semifinal and Final game! So 2nd vs 3rd place after Champ round meet in the Semi,   
and the winner of the Semifinal goes to the Final to meet the 1st place team for Gold!        
Finally, apply the "Available Points" to every one of your picks, including team rankings, using each number only once.  
Points this time go from 1 to 34, then 40 and 45 for your top two games!          
Hand in your printed entry form to me, or email your saved copy to me at glenmoor@shaw.ca!        
Pool Scoring:                
1. You will get full points for any of your correct round robin, team ranking, and playoff winners. 2. As a slight bonus, to keep
us interested, a point for every win for any of your teams in the Championship round, to a max 4 points per team.  
3. Placing a team in the semifinal or final game, but not winning, still gets you 1/2 points per team.      
4. No Page playoff games so no 1/4 points this year.            
5. Partial points for team rankings. If you rank a team correctly in their group, you get full points as mentioned above.  
If your ranking is 1 place off where they end up, you still score 3/4 of your points. If you're 2 places off, you get 1/2 points;  
and finally, if you are 3 places off, you get 1/4 points. NO POINTS FOR TEAMS THAT DO NOT QUALIFY for the Champ Round.
                   
This year’s Official Brier site is https://www.curling.ca/2021brier/
Info is also available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Tim_Hortons_Brier
PARTICIPATING TEAMS:
POOL A POOL B
Northern Ontario - Brad Jacobs Ontario - John Epping
Alberta - Brendan Bottcher Canada - Brad Gushue (NL)
Wild Card 1 - Mike McEwen (MB) Wild Card 2 - Kevin Koe (AB)
Manitoba - Jason Gunnlaugson Saskatchewan - Matt Dunstone
Wild Card 3 - Glenn Howard (ON) Nova Scotia - Scott McDonald
British Columbia - Steve Laycock Quebec - Michael Fournier
New Brunswick - James Grattan Newfoundland and Labrador - Greg Smith
Northwest Territories - Greg Skauge Prince Edward Island - Eddie MacKenzie
Yukon - Dustin Mikkelsen Nunavut - Peter Mackey
PARTICIPATING TEAMS 2019-2020 SEASON
Rank CTRS TEAM RANKINGS AS OF FEB 22, 2021 Points
1 Brad Jacobs (Northern Ontario)   483.8
2 John Epping (Ontario) 445.3
3 Brad Gushue (NL - Team Canada) 395.7
4 Brendan Bottcher (Alberta) 348.0
5 Mike McEwen (MB - Wild Card 1) 317.7
6 Kevin Koe (AB - Wild Card 2)   277.6
7 Matt Dunstone (Saskatchewan) 254.7
8 Jason Gunnlaugson (Manitoba) 236.9
9 Glenn Howard (ON - Wild Card 3) 184.5
11 Scott McDonald (Ontario --> Nova Scotia) 173.2
19 Michael Fournier (Quebec) 118.3
22 Steve Laycock (Jim Cotter - British Columbia) 102.0
39 James Grattan (New Brunswick)   68.6
162 Greg Smith (Newfoundland and Labrador) 7.5
- Dustin Mikkelsen (Yukon) not on list
- Eddie MacKenzie (Prince Edward Island) not on list
- Greg Skauge (Northwest Territories) not on list
- Peter Mackey (Nunavut)   not on list
(Yes these are the latest stats, from last year. That's all that is available.)
https://www.curling.ca/team-canada/canadian-team-ranking-system/2019-2020-ctrs-standings-men/
Good luck, all!