2008 Continental Cup of Curling

The 2008 Continental Cup of Curling was the 6th edition of this event and was held from December 18–21, 2008 at the EnCana Arena in Camrose, Alberta. It was the first edition of the Continental Cup in which teams outside of North America and Europe competed, due to the outstanding performance of the Chinese teams in the previous year's men's and women's world championships. To reflect the expanded participation, the team opposing North America was renamed from "Team Europe" to "Team World". The World Curling Federation named the six rinks representing Team World. The Canada Cup of Curling, Tournament of Hearts and Brier winners automatically qualify as the Canadian rinks in Team North America, while the American contingent in Team North America are represented by their men's and women's champions. The event was won by Team World by a score of 208-192, with the winning points scored in the fourth end in the men's featured skins game.

2008 Continental Cup of Curling
Host city	Camrose, Alberta
Arena	EnCana Arena
Dates	December 18–21
Winner	Team World
Score Breakdown Discipline NA World Women's Team Round 1 3 15 Mixed Doubles Round 1 3 15 Men's Team Round 1 12 6 Women's Team Round 2 0 18 Mixed Doubles Round 2 6 12 Men's Team Round 2 12 6 Singles 10 22 Women's Skins 43 62 Men's Skins 78 27 Mixed Skins 29 21 Total 192 208
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The prize purse was $88,400 (CAD); each member of the winning team received $2000, while each member of the losing team received $1400.

The Continental Divide, the entertainment centre, was located at the adjacent Border Paving Arena.

The ice technician is Tim Yeo.

Scoring

Each match is worth a different number of points, with a total of 400 available in the event.

Broadcast

TSN televised every draw of the Continental Cup, with the men's team games and the women's feature skins games on tape-delay (while broadcast live on TSN2) and the remainder of the draws live.

Teams

Team North America was coached by Jim Waite and captained by Russ Howard. Team World was coached by Peja Lindholm and captained by Pål Trulsen.

Team	Country	Home	Skip	Third	Second	Lead
North America	United States	Madison, Wisconsin	Craig Brown	Rich Ruohonen	John Dunlop	Peter Annis
North America	Canada	Winnipeg, Manitoba	Jennifer Jones	Cathy Overton-Clapham	Jill Officer	Dawn Askin
North America	Canada	Edmonton, Alberta	Kevin Koe*	Blake MacDonald	Carter Rycroft	Nolan Thiessen
North America	Canada	Saskatoon, Saskatchewan	Stefanie Lawton	Marliese Kasner	Teejay Surik	Lana Vey
North America	Canada	Edmonton, Alberta	Kevin Martin	John Morris	Marc Kennedy	Ben Hebert
North America	United States	Madison, Wisconsin	Debbie McCormick	Allison Pottinger	Nicole Joraanstad	Tracy Sachtjen
World	Scotland/Sweden	Lockerbie	David Murdoch	Ewan MacDonald	Niklas Edin	Euan Byers
World	Sweden	Härnösand	Anette Norberg	Kajsa Bergström	Cathrine Lindahl	Anna Svärd
World	Switzerland	Davos	Mirjam Ott	Carmen Schäfer	Valeria Spälty	Janine Greiner
World	China	Harbin	Wang Bingyu	Liu Yin	Yue Qingshuang	Zhou Yan
World	China	Harbin	Wang Fengchun	Liu Rui	Xu Xiaoming	Zang Jialiang
World	Norway	Oslo	Thomas Ulsrud	Torger Nergård	Christoffer Svae	Håvard Vad Petersson

* Throws third rocks

Results

Women's team

Draw 1 (December 18)

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final	Points
World (Wang)	0	1	0	1	0	3	1	2	8	6
North America (Lawton)	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	3	0

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final	Points
World (Norberg)	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	3
North America (Jones)	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	4	3

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final	Points
World (Ott)	3	2	0	4	0	1	0	X	10	6
North America (McCormick)	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	X	3	0

Draw 4 (December 19)

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final	Points
World (Wang)	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	5	6
North America (Jones)	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	4	0

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final	Points
World (Norberg)	0	2	0	1	2	0	0	0	5	6
North America (McCormick)	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	3	0

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final	Points
World (Ott)	0	2	0	2	0	3	1	0	8	6
North America (Lawton)	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	5	0

Men's team

Draw 3 (December 18)

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final	Points
World (Ulsrud)	2	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	6	6
North America (Koe)	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	1	4	0

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final	Points
World (Wang)	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	X	1	0
North America (Martin)	2	2	0	3	1	1	1	X	10	6

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final	Points
World (Murdoch)	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	4	0
North America (Brown)	0	0	2	1	0	3	0	0	6	6

Draw 6 (December 19)

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final	Points
World (Murdoch)	4	0	5	0	0	X	X	X	9	6
North America (Koe)	0	2	0	0	2	X	X	X	4	0

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final	Points
World (Ulsrud)	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	3	0
North America (Martin)	0	2	1	1	0	2	0	1	7	6

Sheet X	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final	Points
World (Wang)	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	3	0
North America (Brown)	0	1	0	2	0	0	2	1	6	6

Mixed doubles

Draw 2 (December 18)

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final	Points
World (Nergård/Norberg)	2	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	7	6
North America (Brown/Pottinger)	0	0	3	0	2	0	0	0	5	0

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final	Points
World (Lindahl/Ulsrud)	0	1	0	3	0	1	1	1	7	3
North America (Jones/Kennedy)	5	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	7	3

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final	Points
World (MacDonald/Ott)	1	0	5	0	3	2	0	1	12	6
North America (Koe/Overton-Clapham)	0	2	0	1	0	0	3	0	6	0

Draw 5 (December 19)

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final	Points
World (Murdoch/Schafer)	3	0	3	0	3	2	2	X	13	6
North America (McCormick/Ruohonen)	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	X	2	0

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final	Points
World (Wang F./Liu Y.)	2	0	2	0	2	0	2	0	8	6
North America (Lawton/Rycroft)	0	2	0	3	0	1	0	1	7	0

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final	Points
World (Wang B./Liu R.)	0	2	0	1	0	2	0	0	5	0
North America (Kasner/Morris)	2	0	4	0	1	0	2	3	12	6

Singles

Team World wins the eight points for the greater aggregate score for singles play, 96-93.

Draw 8 - December 20

Sheet A	Runthrough	Button	Port	Raise	Hit-and-Roll	Double	Total	Points
World (Wang)	0	4	5	3	5	3	20	4
North America (Koe)	0	5	5	4	1	0	15	0

Sheet B	Runthrough	Button	Port	Raise	Hit-and-Roll	Double	Total	Points
World (Murdoch)	0	5	3	2	1	5	16	0
North America (Martin)	0	5	5	3	1	5	19	4

Sheet C	Runthrough	Button	Port	Raise	Hit-and-Roll	Double	Total	Points
World (Ulsrud)	0	4	5	5	4	0	18	4
North America (Brown)	0	5	4	5	3	0	17	0

Sheet A	Runthrough	Button	Port	Raise	Hit-and-Roll	Double	Total	Points
World (Ott)	1	3	2	4	1	0	11	2
North America (McCormick)	0	5	2	2	2	2	11	2

Sheet B	Runthrough	Button	Port	Raise	Hit-and-Roll	Double	Total	Points
World (Wang)	5	3	5	2	3	0	18	4
North America (Jones)	0	5	4	5	1	1	16	0

Sheet C	Runthrough	Button	Port	Raise	Hit-and-Roll	Double	Total	Points
World (Norberg)	0	5	4	1	1	1	12	0
North America (Lawton)	0	5	5	1	4	0	15	4

Women's Skins

Draw 7 contains the 20-point game, Draw 9 is the 30-point game, and Draw 10 is the feature game.

Draw 7 - December 20

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Points
World (Wang)					0		0	X	10
North America (McCormick)	0	X	X	X		X			10

Draw 9 - December 20

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Points
World (Ott)	0	X		0		0		X	11
North America (Lawton)			0		0		X		19

Draw 10 - December 21

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Points
World (Norberg)			0	X		0	X	X	41
North America (Jones)	X	X			X				14

Men's Skins

Draw 7 is the 20-point game, Draw 9 is the 30-point game, and Draw 10 is the feature game.

Draw 7 - December 20

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Points
World (Wang)	X	X		X		X			10
North America (Brown)			0		0		0	X	10

Draw 9 - December 20

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Points
World (Murdoch)	X	X		0		0			2
North America (Koe)			0		X		X	X	28

Draw 10 - December 21

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Points
World (Ulsrud)		X		X			0		15
North America (Martin)	X		0		X	X		X	40

Mixed Skins

Draw 7 is the 20-point game, while Draw 9 is the 30-point game.

Draw 7 - December 20

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Points
World (Murdoch/Schafer/Svae/Svard)	X		0	X		0			5
North America (Morris/Kasner/MacDonald/Vey)		X			0		X	X	15

Draw 9 - December 20

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Points
World (Ulsrud/Norberg/Wang B./Wang F.)			X	X				X	16
North America (Martin/Jones/Kennedy/Askin)	X	0			0	X	X		14

Sources

• Official Site