2024 Brier Curling Pool Entry Form

March 1 to 10, 2024 (Friday to Sunday)

Entry Deadline: 6:00 PM Our Time, Friday, March 1 (Start of first Round Robin draw!)

Name:       Phone No.:          
Email Address:       Entry Fee: $5.00      
(email address where you would like to receive updates)            
                   
GAME DRAW DATE & TIME (CST) TEAM 1 TEAM 2 WINNER  RANK POINTS   AVAILABLE POINTS  
1 1 Fri. 6 PM Alberta - Koe Alb - Sluchinski       1  
2 2 Sat. 1 PM B.C. Ontario       2  
3 (March 2) Man - Carruthers Man - Dunstone       3  
4 3 6:00 PM Saskatchewan Canada       4  
5     P.E.I. Nova Scotia       5  
6 4 Sun. 9 AM Northern Ont. Nfld. and Lab.       6  
7 5 2:00 PM Saskatchewan Alberta - Koe       7  
8   (March 3) N.W.T. Nova Scotia       8  
9 6 7:00 PM Man - Carruthers Northern Ont.       9  
10 7 Mon. 9 AM Nunavut P.E.I.       10  
11 8 2:00 PM B.C. New Brunswick       11  
12 9 7:00 PM N.W.T. Nunavut       12  
13   (March 4) Canada Alberta - Koe       13  
14 10 Tues. 9 AM Nfld. and Lab. Yukon       14  
15   (March 5) B.C. Man - Carruthers       15  
16 11 2:00 PM Alb - Sluchinski Saskatchewan       16  
17 12 7:00 PM Man - Dunstone Alb - Bottcher       17  
18 13 Wed. 9 AM Alb - Sluchinski Quebec       18  
19 14 2:00 PM Man - Dunstone Ontario       19  
20 15 7:00 PM Quebec Nova Scotia       20  
21 16 Thu. 9 AM New Brunswick Nfld. and Lab.       21  
22 17 2:00 PM N.W.T. P.E.I.       22  
23 (March 7) Canada Alb - Sluchinski       23  
24 18 7:00 PM Yukon Northern Ont.       24  
25   (Big Finish!) Alb - Bottcher Man - Carruthers       25  
26     Ontario New Brunswick       26  
GAME DRAW TIME (CST) POOL A TEAM POOL B TEAM WINNER  POINTS   27  
12Q1 A1 v B2 Fri. 1:00 PM           28  
12Q2 A2 v B1 (March 8)           29  
Above: 1/2 Qualifiers: Pool A 1st place plays Pool B 2nd place;         30  
and Pool A 2nd place vs Pool B 1st place! Winners to 1/2 PO!           31  
GAME DRAW TIME (CST) #3 TEAM 1/2 Q LOSER WINNER  POINTS   32  
34Q1 A3 v L12Q1 Fri. 7:00 PM           35  
34Q2 B3 v L12Q2 (March 8)           40  
Above: 3/4 Qualifiers: Pool A 3rd place plays loser of 1/2 Qualifier 1;            
and Pool B 3rd place plays loser of 1/2 Qualifier 2! Winners to 3/4 PO!              
GAME DRAW TIME TEAM 1 TEAM 2 WINNER  POINTS      
31 3 vs 4 PO Sat. 1 PM CST              
32 1 vs 2 PO 7:00 PM              
33 Semifinal Sun. 1 PM CDT              
34 FINAL 7:00 PM              
                   
At the end of the Round Robin, the top 3 teams from Pool A and Pool B advance to the Playoffs.      
Page 1/2 Qualifier Games: 1st and 2nd place A teams vs 2nd and 1st place B teams! Winners advance to 1/2 Page Playoff!
Page 3/4 Qualifier Games: 3rd place A and B teams play losers of 1/2 Playoff Qualifier games! Winners go to 3 v 4 Playoff,
losers are OUT! And from here on we have a standard Page Playoff to end the tournament.        
(Full instructions on Page 2)              
                   
INSTRUCTIONS: Select the winner for every round robin game by putting each winning team name in the "WINNER" column.  
Pick the 1st and 2nd place A and B pool teams to play in the 1/2 Qualifier games above, and choose the winners.  
Pick the 3rd place A & B pool teams to play the losers of the 1/2 Qualifier games above, and choose those winners.  
And pick the teams you think you will play in the two Page playoff, Semifinal, and Final games, and choose those winners.  
At the end of the Round Robin, the top 3 teams from Pool A and Pool B advance to the Playoffs. Same as last year.  BUT:  
1/2 Qualifier Games: 1st and 2nd place A teams play the 2nd and 1st place B teams! Winners advance to 1/2 Page Playoff!  
3/4 Qualifier Games: 3rd place A and B teams play the LOSERS of the 1/2 Qualifier games! Winners of these go to 3 v 4 Playoff;
losers are OUT! And from here, the rest play a standard Page Playoff to end the tournament: First, the 1 vs 2 and 3 vs 4 playoffs.
Winner of 1vs2 goes to final; loser meets winner of 3vs4 in semifinal. Semi winner goes to final; Losers of 3vs4 and semi are OUT!
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 32, then 35 and 40. Just a bit of a bonus for your top 2 games!        
Hand in your printed entry form to me, or email your saved copy to me at glenmoor@shaw.ca! Or text me a pic!  
Pool Scoring:                
1. You of course get full points for correctly picking any round robin, qualifier, page playoff, and final winners.    
2. 1/2 Page Qualifier games: Your picks here are interchangeable. If you pick any winners in any order, you get your full points.
And if you place any team in either qualifier game, and they don't win, you still get half points for that.      
3. 3/4 Page Qualifier games: Same as 1/2 qualifiers, full or half points, interchangeable.        
4. Page Playoff games: These are different. You must place a team in the exact page playoff game to get full or half points.  
But if you place a team in a wrong page playoff game, you still get 1/4 points for that.        
5. Semifinal and final games: These are strictly full points for correct game, half points for teams in correct game.  
No quarter points, no interchangeable.            
                   
This year’s Brier site is: https://www.curling.ca/2024brier/
Info is also available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Montana's_Brier
2024 PARTICIPATING TEAMS:
POOL A POOL B
Alberta Team 2 - Brendan Bottcher Canada - Brad Gushue (NL)
Manitoba Team 2 - Matt Dunstone Alberta Team 3 - Kevin Koe
Manitoba Champion - Reid Carruthers Saskatchewan - Mike McEwen
Ontario - Glenn Howard Alberta Champion - Aaron Sluchinski
British Columbia - Catlin Schneider Quebec - Jean-Michel Arsenault
New Brunswick - James Grattan Nova Scotia - Matthew Manuel
Northern Ontario - Trevor Bonot Prince Edward Island - Tyler Smith
Newfoundland - Andrew Symonds Northwest Territories - Jamie Koe
Yukon - Thomas Scoffin Nunavut - Shane Latimer
(Last year's Wild Card teams are replaced by multiple Provincial teams, see Wiki link for full details.)
PARTICIPATING TEAMS 2023-2024 SEASON
Rank CTRS TEAM RANKINGS AS OF FEB 20, 2024 Points
1 Brendan Bottcher (Alberta)   351.8
2 Brad Gushue (Team Canada, NL) 238.4
3 Kevin Koe (Alberta) 209.5
4 Matt Dunstone (Manitoba) 198.8
5 Reid Carruthers (Manitoba Champion) 187.2
6 Mike McEwen (Saskatchewan) 183.1
7 Aaron Sluchinski (Alberta Champion)   162.8
12 Glenn Howard (Ontario) 105.6
15 Catlin Schneider (British Columbia) 90.8
26 Jean-Michel Arsenault (Quebec) 59.4
30 Matthew Manuel (Nova Scotia) 49.1
31 James Grattan (New Brunswick)   48.8
60 Trevor Bonot (Northern Ontario)   23.8
76 Tyler Smith (Prince Edward Island) 13.9
94 Jamie Koe (Northwest Territories) 9.6
96 Andrew Symonds (Newfoundland & Labrador) 9.3
220 Thomas Scoffin (Yukon) 0.0
- Shane Latimer (Nunavut)   not on list
  (Teams earn CTRS points for participating in national and world events.)
CTRS Rankings can be found at:  https://www.curling.ca/team-canada/canadian-team-ranking-system/
This form, and any other Glen Pool forms, can be found at:
http://glenmoor.ca/Pools/GlenPools.htm